Baldur's Gate 3 is here, and it's able to be played portably thanks to the Steam Deck. The invention of the portable handheld PC has led to a lot of new ways to play games, and now we can play a brand new CRPG on the go.
Of course, the big issue when it comes to the Steam Deck, in general, is that you really have to mess around with a lot of different settings just to get it to work, let alone in order to get it to run at the best possible frame rate for the hardware it's running on. After messing around for a while, these are the best settings we've got for a solid 30FPS.
Best Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck Settings
Frame Rate Cap: On
Maximum Frame Rate: 30FPS
Aspect Ratio: 16:10
Resolution: 1280*800
VSync: Disabled
Model Quality: Medium
Detail Distance: Medium
Instance Distance: Medium
Texture Quality: Medium
Texture Filtering: Anisotropic x2
Animation Level of Detail: Medium
Dynamic Crowds: On
Shadow Quality: Low
Cloud Quality: Medium
Fog Quality: Low
AMD FSR 1.0: Off
FidelityFX Sharpening: Off
Anti-Aliasing: SMAA
It's worth noting that your experience will likely differ from person to person, and you'll need to mess around as much as you can to get the perfect experience for a portable CRPG, especially considering how reliant this will be on being able to react to your opponent's movements.