You can get a really stable 30 FPS that rivals last-gen console performance by using Cry Utilities 2.0 @ recommended settings, 4 GB VRAM, and Proton-GE. Set in-game FSR 2 to Quality and the sharpness at 1 (max). Enable HDR and calibrate the white point to 1000, black point to 0, and HDR brightness to 24. This is one of the very rare instance where I do recommend enabling V-Sync and motion blur--I hate motion blur, personally, but it does help here. All other effects (DoF, Chromatic Abberation, and Film Grain) can be turned off. In the graphics settings, most settings will be Medium. Turn Material Quality on High. Then drop Fog Quality, Sky Quality, and Population Quality to Low. Please note that you *can* get away with turning the Low settings up to Medium and even setting Texture Quality to High, but you will get little dips below 30 FPS and more stuttering. In GameScope, cap the game at 30fps/90hz. Please note that sometimes doors in the castle will take a second to open and the game will stutter a bit when loading in new assets as you move around Hogwarts. The game should sit at a steady 30 FPS, though, and with V-Sync and Motion Blur enabled, it will feel smoother. For added stability, go into desktop mode and navigate to "<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/990080/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Hogwarts Legacy/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor" and open "Engine.ini", then paste in the following at the bottom and save it: [SystemSettings] r.bForceCPUAccessToGPUSkinVerts=True r.GTSyncType=1 r.OneFrameThreadLag=1 r.FinishCurrentFrame=0 r.TextureStreaming=0 r.Streaming.PoolSize=2048 r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1 [ConsoleVariables] AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdates=1 AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdatesDuringGamethreadUpdates=1 AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdatesEditor=1

All medium presets

XESS/FSR=Quality, Everything to low, effects to medium. Use mod „Ascendio” version dedicated to Steam Deck. Alternative use mod to replace DLSS with FSR 3.1.