Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon was released on May 23, 2025 and can be best described as a dark fantasy role playing title. The game is surprisingly lenient in terms of its PC system requirements, and as such can somewhat run decently well on handheld gaming PCs, such as the Steam Deck.
More on these best Steam Deck settings, of the expected performance below.
Optimized Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Steam Deck settings
In-game settings
Display
- Fullscreen: Borderless
- Resolution: 1280×800; deck native resolution
- VSync: Off; always keep disabled
- Target FPS: 60
- Brightness: User preference – stick to defaults if not sure
- Field of View: 90
- Field of View Modifier Strength: 100%; keep at default value
Video
- Graphics Preset: Custom; we will be using our own settings here
- Dynamic Resolution: STP
- Quality: Performance or Ultra Performance
- General: Low
- View Distance: 30%; can be increased on higher end systems
- Texture Quality: Low
- Vegetation: Low
- VFX Quality: Low
- Fog Quality: Low
- SSAO: Off
- Motion Blur: Off; user preference
- Chromatic Aberration: Off; user preference
- DOF: On (depth of field)
- Shadows: On
- Shadow Distance: 50%
- Contact Shadows: Off
- Reflections: Off
- Subsurface Scattering: Off
- Subsurface Scattering Quality: N/A
Steam Deck specific settings
- Frame Rate Limit: 30/40
- TDP: 15 W
- Battery Drain: 25-20 W
Expect somewhere in the range of 30 to 40 frames per second on the Steam Deck with the presets above. The Steam Deck is starting to show its age, and the fact that the game runs on it is nothing short of a small miracle.
Try capping the frame rate to 30 FPS to ensure a smoother experience.
As far as battery life is concerned, do not expect more than 1 to 1.5 hours on the original LCD Steam Deck. Those with the Steam Deck OLED can expect roughly double the battery life using the same preset and TDP (2-3 hours).
