Perfect NEXT GEN settings for THE WITCHER 3 on Steam Deck!

[@deckverse]

The Steam guide covering both presets is also now available, which ensures the settings are easy to access on Deck! If you want to support the project, I would really appreciate any likes and shares as this helps with visibility! 🫶 -> steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947208825

[@cook1e0]

This channel deserves way more subs, the effort and time that goes into these videos is unbelievable. Production quality is top notch, very pleasing to watch. Channels like these are what makes the Steam Deck awesome!

[@acdnan]

This just warms my heart watching collaboration between such important people in the steam deck community. Thank you for all the work and time you put in to give people like myself a better experience.

[@soiltek2015]

Totally agree

[@Drone453]

Just about to open my 512gb OLED and Witcher 3 will be my first game. This is exactly the video I needed. 👌

[@Javr175]

what setting did you end up running? since oled can get a bit more fps

[@natyo3100]

I am a big fan of both of your work. The golden 40 for cyberpunk was amazingly helpful and the cryoutilities have really helped increase performance too. Look forward to putting these settings into practice and excited to see more from you both in the future ❤️

[@zSWiFTz]

Hey man. Just thought I'd say hi and shout you out. I just came across your channel from your link in the Proton DB page of The Witcher 3. I've had this game for years and have never played it for more than 80 minutes. Excited to DL and try out your settings. 🤙🏼💪🏼

[@Ludecan]

This is awesome. Works perfectly. Thanks for sharing!

[@DammitJeff]

Totally forgot I bought Witcher 3 on a whim over 2 years ago in preparation for the free update. This is gonna be a lovely experience now that the settings are dialed down. Thanks for the video! :)

[@GuyManley]

Really hope we can see more collaborations like this. Great video

[@YouthInAsia1]

Amazing production value. This channel really is the Digital Foundry of Steam Deck. Now give us Deckverse Direct Weekly you cowards!

[@deckverse]

Wow, that's by all means a massive compliment - thank you! Gotta think about that idea. Is this something you would watch? Even if it's not purely Deck-focused?

[@YouthInAsia1]

I would absolutely watch this. Would love to have a weekly panel discussion show with 3 or so members of the Deck Gang talking about the latest Steam Deck and Steam Deck adjacent news plus highlights of recent or upcoming content pieces.

[@AEZ78]

This was pure gold. Keep rocking!

[@deckverse]

Glad you liked it!

[@demirtabakovic7743]

Since I've had the steam deck, it's my most used device for gaming I know very little technically with all the settings and resolutions Thanks to you, the deck gives me much more pleasure and I support you for that

[@deckverse]

Thanks so much for the kind words and your support! 🫶

[@dantematsie6682]

Thank you so much guys, it works perfectly

[@Javr175]

what setting would you use for the steam oled? considering teh better performance and 90hz

[@grantmcleod6922]

Guys thank you so so much for this video. It's so much appreciated ❤

[@deckverse]

Thanks for watching!

[@JamesTechJackin]

This is just the type of videos we need. Keep em coming!!! Great job fellas.

[@DeckWizard]

Epic video! Love your editing, knowledge and the collab between Deckverse and Cryobyte33, keep em coming! 😍

[@moazamqureshi]

Excellent video. Great production quality. You deserve more subs.

[@deckverse]

Thanks a ton!

[@scottballard5575]

Thanks for this!

[@theone4629]

Grat job guys! Awesome video thanks 🙏 very much

[@paulguzzi5236]

Fantastic guide on oled deck is wonderful as well! You should make a video about ratchet and clank and forbidden west as well

[@mystertom100]

Amazing production bro keep it up

[@JimmyCheng]

golden! More ppl should watch this

[@nogovannut9386]

Great video, guys!

[@alcastello235]

Very nice video! Thanks for the hard work!

[@Rizhyman]

El cambio es increíble! Gracias

[@DJ_AntennA]

On windows 11 with PCI power management disabled it can do even better, you can move the "low" and "medium" settings to high.

[@cqllel5186]

Thanks! I've been wondering if I should do DX12 and bother with HDR (on Steam Deck OLED), or if DX11 runs and/or maybe even looks better I always wondered why some games I capped at 30fps had RLY bad input lag while others didn't. Glad to know that "Allow Tearing" wasn't to just allow screen tearing or something

[@deckverse]

Depends on how the game's engine interacts with the Deck’s compositor. Either cap through the quick action menu or via the game's V-Sync, which might need to disable the unified framerate control slider.

[@cqllel5186]

@@deckverse I had to use the in game frame rate cap just so my inputs didn't take like 1 whole second to register. Allowing screen tear did help, but had very little improvement. This is on both DX11 and 12 I just removed frame rate cap in 'quick access'. I also kept vsync off in game. It seems to work well enough. May not have a perfectly flat frame time, but it's still fairly flat. HDR effects input lag, as well, but it sure does look rly good. I wish DX11 had Steam Decc preset and FSR and HDR :c

[@koonop90]

You guys are genious! Your work is very valuable and you deserve bow down from Valve

[@deckverse]

Haha thanks a ton! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Hugokrs]

This is awesome, thanks !

[@urbanmadafuka]

While messing around with the graphics settings I came across something really interesting. Choosing TAA basically kills the rain. I observed this issue on the PS5 version of the game as well. So even though TAA overall looks a bit better, I recommend trying FXAA. I wouldn't bother, but half the time it's raining in this game, and the lack of raindrops is really off putting.

[@MiFonito]

Very well made! I really like your presets, as I always try to aim to get 40fps and best quality possible. I hope you will do Golden 40 as well for No Man Sky and maybe CK3! Also please do more of such coop videos in the future with Cryo - funny and great video. Cudos to both of you.

[@FlashyArt]

Hey Timo, lovely video as always! Loved the feature as well. I thought you might need some new overlay graphics (notifications animation, logo etc.). To adapt it to your professionally created videos. Please don't take it the wrong way! Hit me up, if you're interested :) Greetz Josy

[@EyeotPhoenix]

Does the Proton Hotfix Valve released change the Pristine 30 settings or should I continue to use DirectX 11?

[@ZeroChoices]

Edit: This is important, Allow Tearing actually only works when your fps limiter is off on the steam deck. (It actually had screen tearing when I set the limiter off from my experience) What I hate about Witcher 3 is that for some reason the in game fps limiter has really bad frame times compared to other games But using the SD's frame limiter offers better frametimes but worse input latency The thing about this game is that the fps just goes from solid 45 fps to instantly 30 in some locations (Fyke Isle, that one bar in skellige isle that gets 20 fps no matter what, when its raining while in forests, the great escape mission) Yeah Im fine with 30 when it's responsive and smooth but this game avoids both of that.

[@deckverse]

For starters, the way in-engine frame rate limiters work, you unfortunately always end up with less reliable frame pacing than through V-Sync or Wayland's FPS limit in the Deck's quick menu. While "Allow Tearing" indeed the system-side vertical sync disables, it gets rid of the forced triple buffering. The latter ultimately leads to the added input latency while leveraging the quick menu's limiter...

[@NerdNest]

Great job guys! Reinstalling the game now.

[@deckverse]

Thanks for the kind words and watching Bill!

[@garethboon84]

Thanks for the work

[@deckverse]

Thanks for watching!

[@Seb00lean]

More views! More views! More views! Great video, pristine quality.

[@deckverse]

Thanks! Yeah, I wish this would've gone live a few months ago ...

[@mrbrookeyoung]

Great video guys, one question: Are you not getting noticeable horizontal tearing with Vsync off and Allow Tearing on?

[@deckverse]

Screen tearing rarely ever happens on Steam Deck when leveraging solid frame pacing. :)

[@mrbrookeyoung]

@@deckverse thank you for the reply! I'll be sure to give it a try as that 30fps cap latency is brutal!

[@MrAttentionHorse]

How about the battery use on those settings?

[@jinniu]

Wow, I changed the settings and saw an immediate jump in performance and looks nearly the same.

[@kamranramsdenmusic]

Does the degree of TAAU sharpening affect the performance? Would like to go for pristine 30 but I really dislike how the low sharpening setting looks.

[@deckverse]

Not really! Although I’d recommend trying lowering the res just one step further and add the QAM FSR on top of it to have more control over the amount of added sharpening.

[@kamranramsdenmusic]

@@deckverse awesome, tried it with the high sharpening and it looks absolutely beautiful so I’ll stick with that. Thanks for the response and the amazing work you do!

[@Ubeogesh]

so why not DX12? it has FSR2. Because of that 1 face?

[@dakotahmay6746]

So I should be using Directx11 over the Direct X 12 correct?

[@beebop7039]

Would love to see Far Cry 6 next

[@lukataggert8616]

Interested to see how the latest update CDPR released yesterday affects DX12 performance as apparently it is much improved

[@deckverse]

Will try to follow up to Patch 4.02 shortly!

[@ragabash2077]

Your ‘pristine’ setting looks very much the setting I’ve been using for months… but with a 40 fps lock. There are only a few areas where the performance drops below 40, and in this case lowering the resolution and using FSR helps to keep the 40 fps (rarely drops to 38-39).

[@deckverse]

Lowering the Res and FSR (You didn't state which level) is not what I'd personally consider "Pristine" - especially since DX12 comes with a performance tradeoff which is not worth it on Deck.

[@ragabash2077]

@@deckverse Sorry I was unclear: is still use DX11 and use the Steam Deck’s FSR. The impact on graphics are bearely noticable (the text are a little less sharp but still readable), but with less GPU load. So it helps to get better battery life, but also to better avoid framerate drops when the GPU becomes the bottleneck. I’ve played for month this way, so I can really tell you that with this trick (and maybe also lowering the texture quality to High - anyway you won’t see the difference on this screen), your Pristine settings can achieve 40 fps pretty easily.

[@deckverse]

@@ragabash2077 Interesting - at which res are you playing then? I'd love to have a look for the quick follow-up video.

[@ragabash2077]

@@deckverse 1156*768 (there is not much choice with the same aspect ratio) with FSR sharpness to 0. I suggest to test on Fyke Island in Velen, by wandering in the forest next to the fast-travel (you should be able to get there quite early in the game with a quest for Keira Metz). This place is one of those inexplicabily heavy spot. With the pristine setting uncapped, you should get around 29-33 fps. With the lower resolution, you should get above 36 fps. By lowering the foliage visibility range, you should even get 39-40 fps.

[@dakotahmay6746]

@@deckverse Did we ever get a follow up if this is a good option?

[@kenyamagami6669]

The golden 40 drops a bit when inside the city is that normal?

[@drcfa]

any plan for RDR2 settings?

[@deckverse]

Something you’d want to see? I’ve been working on a RDR2 video since last year but it felt like it might be too late.

[@jerryb232]

Using 40hz/40fps introduces an absurd amount of input delay on SteamOS 3.5, to the point it's borderline unplayable for me. Surely this isn't the case on earlier OS versions?

[@deckverse]

Interesting. Tried enabling 'allow tearing'? Not an issue on my end at least so far...

[@jerryb232]

@@deckverse Yep, doesn't help.

[@Kennosuke88]

I thought the allow tearing was for docked mode only not handheld mode ?

[@deckverse]

No, "Allow Tearing" simply disables SteamOS' otherwise forced v-sync. :)

[@vita1999]

I want to change steam deck resolution to 1152*720 to balance high cpu usage.We might get performance boosts in terms of FPS or graphical prowess. Am I going in right direction.... kindly help guys !!!

[@deckverse]

Are you playing on DX11 or DX12? Aside from that you may want to join our Discord Server so that we can take a proper look on your questions :)

[@vita1999]

@@deckverse I'm playing on DX 11...for DX 12...I'm counting on you guys. I will gladly join your discord server.

[@igonatangi]

Pro tip: Get the classic version and play at 60 fps.

[@deckverse]

Meh.

[@igonatangi]

@@deckverse idk, i like the colors better. Abd grass somehow looks....grassier?

[@jonathonshirley4169]

Good settings but this video felt like a conversation between two oblivion npc’s like yall couldn’t have gotten any more scripted

[@rlstrength]

This feels insanely scripted and is unpleasant to watch. I understand why you do it but with the robotic voice I actually stopped watching. This should be text with images I think

[@deckverse]

Well, for starters, we're no actors. Aside from that that's not my native language. But I agree - many parts are scripted indeed.

[@rlstrength]

@@deckverse oh absolutely I also appreciate the fact that you're both very knowledgeable and it's much better that you're focusing on content rather than looks. But medium feels weird especially the artificial question/response. Maybe something to work towards

[@deckverse]

​@@rlstrength Thanks - I really appreciate your feedback, as this is something I'm fairly new to. Didn't help that we both were kinda nervous back then - but the sky is the limit if we make sure to improve over time!