Fallout: New Vegas Best Steam Deck Settings

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Traverse the dusty wastelands of New Vegas anytime and anywhere on your Steam Deck. We’ve spent hours playing Fallout’s best 3D installment to find the settings that will give you the perfect balance of graphics quality and battery life. Read on for the best Steam Deck settings for Fallout: New Vegas.

Fallout: New Vegas Best Steam Deck Settings

Compatibility Settings
Proton Version Proton Experimental

The default Proton version causes microstutters and frame drops. They can be reduced by switching to Proton Experimental. Those familiar with the 3D Fallout games already know that they take some tweaking to get feeling right, and crashes are typical, so don’t expect much different on the Steam Deck.

The bigger issue is the lack of support for simultaneous mouse/keyboard and controller input. This means you can’t use mouse look with your trackpad, which we’ve found to be the ideal setup for first-person shooters on the Steam Deck. Luckily, the amazing Fallout modder StewieAI has a fix that makes it possible, though you’ll have to do a bit of research on how to install mods on Linux.

Recommended — Quality Settings (800p@40fps | ~4h30m)

New Vegas has optimization problems leading to inconsistent performance and crashing. So, despite being an older game, the Steam Deck still has problems managing a consistent 60 frames per second on anything higher than the Low quality preset. Luckily, the Low preset doesn’t look much worse than the game at max settings, so we aren’t losing out on much visually.

Launcher Options
Aspect Ratio 16:10 Widescreen
Resolutions 960×600
Antialiasing TAA (Best quality)
Anisotropic Filtering 16 Samples
Advanced Launcher Options
Detail
Texture Quality High
Shadow Quality Low
Shadow Distance Medium
Decal Quantity High
Lighting Quality High
Godrays Quality Low
Depth of Field Standard (Low)
Ambient Occlusion SSAO (High)
Screen Space Reflections On
Wetness On
Rain Occlusion On
Motion Blur Off*
Lens Flare Off*
View Distance
Object Fade ~15%
Actor Fade ~20%
Grass Fade ~15%
Item Fade ~25%
Distant Object Detail Medium
Object Detail Fade Medium
*Set to personal preference.

Steam Deck Performance Menu Settings
Refresh Rate 40
Framerate Limit 40
Allow Tearing On
Half Rate Shading Off
Thermal Power (TDP) Limit On
Watts 11
Manual GPU Clock Control Off
Scaling Filter Linear

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