Steam Deck

ELDEN RING Best Steam Deck Settings

Take your journey through The Lands Between with you wherever you go with these optimized settings.

This expansive, award-winning fantasy adventure game is a surprisingly great fit for the Steam Deck's handheld form factor, especially with the right settings. We've experimented and put together the best configuration for immersive visuals and precise combat to give you a console-quality experience on Valve's portable gaming machine. Face colossal foes and uncover the mysteries of a shattered world with the best Steam Deck settings for ELDEN RING.

ELDEN RING Best Steam Deck Settings

Compatibility Settings
Proton VersionDefault
BIOS Settings
UMA Frame Buffer Size4G

ELDEN RING runs perfectly out of the box. Once in awhile, you may run into issues with the game's anti-cheat when playing online. Don't worry; you won't get banned. Just restart the game, and you're good to go.

As with any other graphics-intensive game, we recommend going into your BIOS and increasing the UMA Frame Buffer Size to 4G. This allocates up to 4GB of the Deck's shared memory to its GPU, which can help with texture streaming.

Recommended — Quality Settings (Native@30fps | ~2h)

The goal with these settings is to set the graphics settings as high as the Steam Deck will allow while maintaining a stable 30 frames per second throughout the game. With these settings on the Steam Deck's 7-inch screen, we'd say ELDEN RING both looks and runs better than the PlayStation 4 version of the game (which runs at 1080p at 30 frames per second). That's really impressive considering the price and size of the Steam Deck.

In-game Graphics Options
Terrain Quality High
Antialiasing Quality High
SSAO Medium
Depth of Field Off*
Motion Blur Low
Shadow Quality Medium
Lighting Quality Medium
Effects Quality Medium
Volumetric Quality Low
Reflection Quality Low
Water Surface Quality Medium
Shader Quality Medium
Global Illumination Quality Medium
Grass Quality Medium
*Set to personal preference.
Steam Deck Performance Menu Settings
Refresh Rate60
Framerate Limit30
Allow TearingOn
Half Rate ShadingOff
Thermal Power (TDP) LimitOn
Watts11
Manual GPU Clock ControlOff
Scaling FilterLinear

Performance Settings (720p@40fps | ~2h30m)

If 30 fps feels too low for you, these settings sacrifice a bit of the graphics fidelity in exchange for a few more frames per second. This configuration gets you exactly that.

In-game Graphics Options
Terrain Quality High
Antialiasing Quality Medium
SSAO Off
Depth of Field Of
Motion Blur Off
Shadow Quality Low
Lighting Quality Medium
Effects Quality Medium
Volumetric Quality Low
Reflection Quality Low
Water Surface Quality Medium
Shader Quality Low
Global Illumination Quality Low
Grass Quality Medium
*Set to personal preference.
Steam Deck Performance Menu Settings
Refresh Rate40
Framerate Limit40
Allow TearingOn
Half Rate ShadingOff
Thermal Power (TDP) LimitOn
Watts8
Manual GPU Clock ControlOff
Scaling FilterLinear