Throne and Liberty has had quite the surge in popularity, with players eager to try out the game on PC – across a wide variety of hardware configurations. The Steam Deck is the most popular handheld gaming PC currently, and gamers may question if Throne and Liberty runs well on the machine, if at all.
Thankfully, developer NCSOFT has not chosen to lock out Linux users, which means that Throne and Liberty boots up fine on the Deck. The game is definitely performant, but changing a few settings here and there can help greatly enhance the overall experience.
Optimized Throne and Liberty Steam Deck settings
In-game settings
Screen
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280×800; native Steam Deck resolution
- Frame Rate Limit: 60 FPS
- Vertical Sync: Disabled
- Apply HDR: Off; can be enabled if you possess a Steam Deck OLED
- Nvidia DLSS: Disabled by default
- AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2: Off
- Intel Xe Super Sampling: Quality
Quality
- Anti-Aliasing: Medium
- Ambient Occlusion: Low
- Screen Space Reflections: Low
- View Distance: Low
- Character Count: Low
- Post-Processing: Medium
- Character Quality: Medium
- Shading Quality: Medium
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Distant Shadow Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Anisotropic Filtering: 8x
- Vegetation Quality: Low
- Depth of Field: Disabled
- Motion Blur: Disabled
- Chromatic Aberration: Enabled
- Lens Flare: Enabled
- Character Shadow Quality: Low
- Lighting Quality: Low
- Terrain Quality: Low
- Volumetric Clouds: Low
- Volumetric Fog: Low
- Shader Preloading: Low
- Hair Strands: Disabled
- Optimize Large Scale Combat: On
- Use DirectX 12: Enabled
Steam Deck specific settings
- Frame Rate Limit: 60 FPS; best to leave at 60 default
- TDP: 15 W
- Battery Drain: 25-30W ; expect 2 hours of battery life on the LCD Steam Deck – with OLED Deck users gaining an additional hour (for a total of 3 hours)
It also recommended adjusting your HUD size from the settings for more legible text. The game should just run out of the box with the Proton Experimental branch.
