Here is a guide on how to play Resident Evil 4 at 30 or 40 fps on Steam Deck!
Prerequisites
- Update to the latest Stable Version and Proton Experimental / Proton Hotfix as Valve has put fixes for RE4 remake in those
- Use Cryoutilities 2 with all recommended tweaks and at least a 12gb swapfile
- Set your deck’s Vram to 4gb (shown in video above)
- It is recommended that you install the game to an SSD if you have it on your deck.
Settings for 30 FPS (Prettier)
Put this in the launch command options
MANGOHUD_CONFIG=fps_limit=30,no_display mangohud %command%
this will lock the framerate with better input latency, locking RE4 at 30 with any other method will cause playability issues.
In Game
1280*800
60Hz
Variable Framerate (remember Mangohud limits it, leave this alone in-game)
Fullscreen
Vsync OFF
Cinematics Full HD
FidelityFX SR2 (FSR 2) Quality
FSR 1 NONE
Image 100%
Rendering Mode: Normal
AA Off
Textures: High 2GB
Filtering: Aniso x4
Mesh Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Medium
Shadow Cache: On
Contact Shadows: On
AO: SSAO
Volumetric Lighting: Medium
Particle Lighting: High
Bloom: On
SSR: On
SS Scattering: On
Hair Strands: Off
Dismemberment: On
Persistent Corpses: up to you
Corpse Physics: Low
Diverse Animations: On
Motion Blur: Off
Rain: High
Terrain Tesselation: Off
Destrutctible Enviroments: On
Lens Flare: On
Lens Distortion: OFF
DOF: On
RI Lights: High
RI Effects: Low
On Display Settings:
Turn off Chromatic Aberration
Set FOV as high as it will go.
Steam Overlay:
60Hz
Leave the cap at 60 as it comes by default, since it’s not capped from here.
Do not enable Allow Tearing
Cap TDP at 11w or 12/13 if you have drops.
Settings for 40 FPS (More Responsive)
Set to 40hz
Set to 40 Fps
DO NOT ALLOW TEARING
You can also try mangohud cap by using this command instead of capping from the steam overlay
MANGOHUD_CONFIG=fps_limit=30,no_display mangohud %command%
YMMV. On 30 you MUST use mangohud. You can choose a limiter for 40.
In Game
Select Preset and Choose the LOWEST PRESET.
Now we change these values:
1280*800
60Hz
Variable Framerate
Fullscreen
Vsync OFF
Cinematics Full HD
FidelityFX SR2 (FSR 2) Balanced
AA: TAA
Rendering: Normal
Textures High 2GB
Filtering: Anisotropic x2
Contact Shadows: On
Destructible Enviroments: ON
Diverse Animations: ON
On Display Settings:
Turn off Chromatic Aberration
Set FOV as high as it will go.
Thanks to ffrasisti [ARG] for his excellent guide, all credits belong to his effort. if this guide helps you, please support and rate it via Steam Community. enjoy the game.
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