One of the most anticipated looter-shooter games was released recently on various platforms. It is also available on Windows, which means that it can be played on the Steam Deck. As with other highly demanding games, the ARC Raiders also has some requirements for optimum performance and gameplay. Naturally, players are interested in optimizing the in-game settings to achieve a high FPS on their device, which is balanced with good performance. Therefore, this article details the settings and tweaks to get a high FPS and performance on the Steam Deck. The visual settings mentioned below affect the quality of your gameplay and can give you an advantage while scavenging resources or hunting opponents. Therefore, prioritize FPS only to the point that it does not affect your visual performance.
Best ARC Raiders Steam Deck settings for high FPS and performance
The list of in-game settings that you should look into is given below:
- Window mode- Borderless Fullscreen
- AMD FSR 3 frame generation- While it does give a fps boost, it increases the input latency. Therefore, the best option is to disable it.
- Vsynx- Disabled
- NVIDIA Reflex low latency- For NVIDIA GPU users, enabling this can improve input latency.
- Frame rate limit- Unlimited
- Resolution scaling- Can be set to AMD FSR 3/ INTEL XESS/ NVIDIA DLSS set to quality.
- Motion blur- Disabled
- Ray tracing- Static
- View distance- Medium
- Anti-aliasing- Epic
- Shadows- Medium
- Post processing- Medium
- Texture- Medium
- Effects- Medium
- Reflections- High
- Foliage- Low
- Global illumination resolution- Low
- In-game performance overlay- Disabled
Keeping all the options in Quality settings at low will definitely give a higher FPS. However, most of these options don’t affect the FPS much. A particular option for Shadows affects FPS the most. Therefore, using the above-mentioned settings ensures that you get a reasonable FPS along with suitable performance. For more such guides, fixes, updates, or any other game-related topics, visit Digistatement.
