Dying Light The Beast: Best Settings for Steam Deck

Here are the best Dying Light The Beast settings for Steam Deck. These settings will allow the Deck to deliver a stable 30 FPS consistently.

Picture of Zombies in Dying Light The Beast
Zombies in Dying Light The Beast (Image via Techland)

The higher system requirements of Dying Light The Beast make it difficult to run on the Steam Deck without the right settings. That’s because the tiny chip inside this handheld is quite underpowered. Therefore, you must apply our optimized settings to make the game run decently on the Steam Deck. You will find these settings below.

Note: Parts of this article are subjective and reflect the writer’s opinions.

Best Dying Light The Beast Settings for Steam Deck

Picture of Dying Light The Beast Advanced Graphics Settings page
Dying Light The Beast Advanced Graphics Settings page (Image via Techland)

Steam Deck is powered by AMD’s custom APU, which is decent but not as powerful as the chips inside ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, or MSI Claw. Therefore, you must apply the following settings to run Dying Light The Beast smoothly at 30 FPS:

Note: The settings provided below are based on the game’s recommended specs and shouldn’t be used for other handhelds.

SettingsValues
MonitorYour primary display
Window ModeFullscreen
Resolution1280 x 800
HDROff (Unless you have a Steam Deck OLED)
Gamma20
Vertical SynchronizationOff
Dynamic Resolution ScalingOff
FPS Limiter30
Target FPSOFF
Upscaler TypeFSR
Upscaling ModePerformance
Sharpness50 (As per preference)
Frame GenerationOff
Field of View70 (As per preference)
GlowOn
Light StreaksOn
Lens FlareOff
Chromatic AberrationOff
Film Grain EffectOff
Motion Blur Intensity0 (As per preference)
Renderer ModeD3D12
Asynchronous ComputeOn
Texture QualityMedium
LOD QualityLow
Draw Distance Multiplier100
Motion Blur QualityLow
Particles QualityLow
Shadows QualityLow
Screen Space ShadowsOn
Ambient Occlusion QualityMedium
Global Illumination QualityLow
Reflections QualityLow
Fog QualityLow
Postprocess QualityLow

Conclusion

We optimized the above settings specifically for the Steam Deck. With the above settings, this tiny handheld can run Dying Light The Beast decently without any frame drops. You can also use frame generation to boost performance to 60 FPS, but keep in mind that latency will increase a bit.


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