Comment on Getting Star Citizen Running on a SteamDeck - Complete Guide
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 days ago
I wonder if there is upscaling used and at what resolutions this is played on.
You’ll need to increase the swapfile on the Steam deck to use a small portion of the built-in SSD as some slower RAM.
Usually the swapfile is only used when no RAM is left, so the PC does not crash and can continue working. Using this as the base for the game to run is impressive! Shows how fast SSDs have become.
Radar@piefed.social 4 days ago
The game would definitely run a lot better if it didn’t use up all of the RAM. In the current version of SC, I usually see it using about 5-6GB of the swapfile. I’m curious to know what the results would be if someone ran this on a modded SteamDeck with 32GB of RAM.
I haven’t messed around with the upscaling a whole lot. Star Citizen offers DLSS, FSR, and their own personal upscaling technique. I’ve usually left it on the “CIG TSR” technique that’s available.
I’m still fairly new to the SteamDeck, so I’ll need to play around with this a bit more to see what works best. Let me know if you have any tips!
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 days ago
I don’t have any tips, because I do not play the game. I assume its heavily CPU limited. So settings that affect CPU should be lowered and for the graphics side, lowering resolution with FSR would help too. DLSS is not available on the Steam Deck and I wonder which FSR is supported. I’m just curious, more than anything else.