Dragon Age Inquisition is an RPG title in the Dragon Age saga. It is one of the most critically acclaimed RPGs of all time and is known for its remarkable storytelling and overall game design. Dragon Age: Inquisition is an open-world adventure for you to enjoy and partake in while grounding you in the mechanics of the game. It is also very pretty and has held up over time very well. Despite its relatively unsupported nature on the Steam Deck, you can still install and play this game on the handheld. Why would you want to? Well, it’s one of those games that runs very well on the Deck, if you can sort out some control issues, of course. But to get the best experience of the game on your Deck, you will need to adjust the in-game settings. And, this guide is here to share details on the same.
The Steam Deck is not the best platform to play this game on. We are going to be very candid about that and point it out. There are controller mapping issues in the game that present themselves when you play it on the Steam Deck. Apart from this, however, the game runs well. Luckily, you can max out the settings as well. Being an older game really does do it a huge favor in this regard since the system requirements are not that much. Not only this, it can also use the advancements of technology to upscale, which is far less noticeable in older titles.
Dragon Age Inquisition Steam Deck Settings for High FPS & Performance?
Well, you can run this game on your Steam Deck and get a stable 60 FPS gameplay experience with the right settings. Despite the game being able to run the game at a relatively stable 60 fps even at the highest settings, you might encounter some background artifacting and frame drops during battles. For this, we recommend you play the game at close to ultra or high settings for the best gameplay. Here are the settings you can apply:
Graphics Settings:
- Resolution Scale: 100%
- Graphics Quality: Custom
- Mesh Quality: High
- Tesselation Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Terrain Quality: High
- Vegetation Quality: High
- Water Quality: High
- Post–Process Quality: High
- Ambient Occlusion: HBAO
- Effects Quality: High
- Post–Process Antialiasing: High
- Multisample Antialiasing: Off
- Shader Quality: High
Display Settings
For display settings, you have a little more room for customization because of the full resolution scale in the Graphics Settings. This means you can leave the FPS uncapped, run the game on native resolution, and enjoy it to the fullest.
What else do you need to keep in mind?
You are going to run into controller issues while playing Dragon Age Inquisition on the Steam Deck. This is because the Linux version of the game (the one on the Steam Deck) does not have proper controller support. For this, you are going to need to download a community-created controller layout. There are a lot of options for you to choose from. Once you install and apply them, this issue won’t bother you again.
We also recommend you use the latest Proton Version to run this game from the compatibility settings (Steam>Library>Dragon Age Inquisition>Properties>Compatibility>Proton Version) for the best results in-game. Since this is not officially supported on the Steam Deck, you are going to have to use these few workarounds. Apart from this, the game runs well with these settings and you should be able to enjoy it on the Steam Deck.
Anyway, that is all we have on the best settings for Dragon Age: Inquisition on the Steam Deck. If you find this guide helpful and want to read more such content, make sure to visit Android Gram daily.
