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Trying to play Elden Ring on the deck and not enjoying it. Anyone have tips on how to improve the experience, it’s my only platform and I want to like the game?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Are you not liking how it runs/performance, or are you not liking the game itself?

We can make suggestions on how to get better performance, but if the gameplay doesn't appeal to you there's not much we can do about that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry everyone, the problems are: I can’t really read the messages as they’re super small and battles are really difficult, I think because the frame rate is slow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For frame rate, I would recommend the settings presented in this video. The video has chapters, so you can jump straight to the recommended setting section. They include battery saver, recommended (40fps), or prettiest (30fps). The higher fps setting may help with combat, but the game is meant to be hard and very punishing. A lot of the game comes from trial and error, and steadily improving your playing and pattern recognition.

For messages, it's possible a graphical setting might help, but otherwise the deck has a built in magnification tool that may help you. Normally you hold down either the steam button or the ". . ." Button and then press L1 to turn on the magnifier, but if you're using it frequently you can also bind one of the back buttons to magnify. I would also recommend setting some of the back buttons to toggle between potions and drink them, I found that to be very helpful when playing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks a ton! I’ll give all these a go.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Try using mangohud to cap it, I set it at 35fps cap running on high/med settings with something like MANGOHUD=1 MAHGOHUD_OPTIONS=fps_limit=35,nodisplay=0

Make sure to disable the steam frame limiter and allow tearing (helps with input).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I will teach myself to do this. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

MANGOHUD comes with steamOS so you just pass those flags to launcher options, it should work, if you want to see the HUD just remove ,nodisplay=0

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Well, we could tell them how to git gud.