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No Man’s Sky: Best Settings for Steam Deck

By / Tech / September 2, 2025

Here are the optimal settings for playing No Man’s Sky on the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED, at uncapped FPS.

No Man's Sky: Best Settings for Steam Deck
Screenshot from the game: No Man’s Sky (Image via Hello Games)

With the recent update on September 1, No Man’s Sky has seen massive performance updates on multiple hardware combinations. As for the Steam Deck, the performance has also drastically increased. Sadly, as for upscaling, the game only features FSR 2.0, which is a lot inferior to XeSS. Below are the settings, tuned for optimal performance and visuals, which will deliver an exceptional gaming experience.

Note: Lossless Scaling is optional over here. It’s required to fulfill your higher FPS requirements. On the Steam Decks, it’s best set up via Decky. If you are going this route, watch a few tutorials on how to do it correctly, then utilize lossless scaling as per our guide instructions.

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No Man’s Sky: Best Settings for Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED

Settings Page from the game: No Man’s Sky
Settings Page from the game: No Man’s Sky (Image via Hello Games)

Unfortunately, on the Steam Deck with Steam OS, the Vulkan API serves as the core rendering engine. While it’s more efficient than DX12, it restricts the use cases of Intel XeSS, an upscaling algorithm that is much superior to FSR 2.0. That said, the settings below should be used as a starting point and customized accordingly. You can implement FPS lock over these.

For Lossless Scaling, once you have fully set it up via Decky, set the Flow Scale to 100%, set the base FPS cap parameter to 30, and then set FPS at 2x, meaning 30 FPS will become 60 FPS. You can change that base value to 45, then the output becomes 90. Sometimes, depending on what you are doing on screen, linear scaling of FPS will not be apparent, but the numbers will be very close.

Best Settings Explored

SettingValue
Window ModeBorderless
MonitorPrimary
Resolution1280 x 800
Resolution Scaling100%
V-SyncOff
Max FPS240
Texture QualityEnhanced
Animation QualityEnhanced
Shadow QualityStandard
Post ProcessingEnhanced
ReflectionsEnhanced
Volumetric EffectsEnhanced
Terrain TessellationStandard
Planet QualityEnhanced
Water QualityEnhanced
Base ComplexityStandard
Anisotropic Filtering16
GTAOMedium
NVIDIA Reflex Low LatencyOn
Anti AliasingFSR 2.0
XeSS QualityBalanced
HDROff
Motion Blur Amount180

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