The hardware on the OG Steam Deck is not bad but it is not the best for sure. As per 2025 standards, where games are more demanding than ever, the Deck struggles to keep up. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. In most games, the default setting that gets applied when running on the Deck often leads to choppy gameplay and Eternal Strands is not an exception. Given that it is an action-adventure and full of chaos, you will eventually feel the need for some extra FPS in exchange for visuals. That said, if you are playing the game on your Steam Deck and are wondering which settings to change to get the best performance out of the Deck in-game, this is just the guide for you. We have shared a list of all the in-game settings you need to apply to get the perfect balance between performance and graphics.
With the default settings, you can barely get playable FPS in Eternal Strands on your Steam Deck. Given the game’s huge and intricate world, it needs some serious juice to render all of it and dish out playable FPS. One look at the game’s system requirements will give you an idea of how demanding this game can be. But of course, you are trying to run on the Deck, and that is what we will be focusing on.
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Best Eternal Strands Steam Deck Settings for High FPS & Performance
When you load up Eternal Strands for the first time on your Deck, you will find that the game is hardly hitting the 30 FPS mark. That’s because the settings are not optimized to give you the best performance possible. So, head over to the Options menu in-game and then go to the Graphics tab. Here, apply these changes:
Display
- Window Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- Display Monitor: Monitor 1
- Resolution: 1280×800
- Frame Rate: 60
- VSync: Off
Graphics Presets
- Auto Set Quality: Manual
- Quality Preset: Custom
Camera
- Post Processing: Low
- Depth of Field (In-Game): Off
- Brightness: Default/Preference
- Field of View: Preference (Note that higher FOV can result in low FPS as the game has to render more of its world at one instance.)
Rendering
- Nvidia DLSS: Off
- Anti-Aliasing Method: XeSS
- XeSS Quality: Quality
- Global Illumination Quality: Low
- Model Quality: Near
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Reflection Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low/Medium
- Material Quality: Low
- Foliage Quality: Low
- Volumetric Effects Quality: Low
- Particle Effects Quality: Low
With these settings, you should be getting close to 40-45 FPS in most of the in-game areas. But if you want more FPS, you can switch to FSR by changing the Anti-Aliasing Method setting. After this, set the FSR Quality setting to Balanced or Performance.
So, that is all we have to share in this guide. We hope that you find it informative. If you want more such content on all things gaming, consider visiting Android Gram daily.
