Marvel's Midnight Suns best settings for Steam Deck

Marvel's Midnight Suns Steam Deck - how to play
Credit: Marvel/2K/Firaxis Games

Marvel's Midnight Suns Steam Deck - how to play
Credit: Marvel/2K/Firaxis Games

If you are looking for the Marvel's Midnight Suns best settings for Steam Deck, you are in the right place.

Although Marvel's Midnight Suns is Steam Deck Verified, you need to fiddle with the graphics and SteamOS settings to run the game as optimally as possible and conserve your Steam Deck's battery life.

So in this article, we will show you the best Marvel's Midnight Suns settings to get the best results on Valve's handheld PC. Let's get started.

Marvel's Midnight Suns best settings for Steam Deck

In combat, the game can actually run quite well on Steam Deck. However, at The Abbey, the hub for the heroes when you aren't carrying out missions, you will experience stutter and lag.

With graphics settings set to low, you can get a pretty stable 60 FPS out of the game, and with all settings set to medium, you can get 30 FPS, which is recommended.

SDHQ played around with the graphics settings, and according to their findings, here are the best settings for Marvel's Midnight Suns on Steam Deck:

  • Frame Rate: 30 FPS
  • Refresh Rate: 60
  • HRS: No
  • TDP Limit: 9
  • Scaling Filter: Linear
  • GPU Clock: Disabled
  • World Detail: Medium
  • Draw Distance: Medium
  • Textures: Medium
  • Effects: Medium
  • Foilage: Medium
  • Post Processing: Medium
  • Anti-Aliasing: Fast TXAA
  • Screen Space Reflections: Off
  • Depth of Field: Off
  • Motion Blur: Off
  • Number of Shadows: Low
  • Shadows: Medium
  • Volumetric Fog: Medium

These settings will help you have a much better, more stable experience with Marvel's Midnight Suns on Steam Deck. Until 2K and Firaxis release the patch to optimize the game for Steam Deck, you should use the above settings for the best experience.

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How to play Marvel's Midnight Suns on Steam Deck

While the Steam Deck cannot run Marvel's Midnight Suns straight out of the box, there are some workarounds to achieve this feat. You can play the game on Steam Deck with the help of Proton GE 7-41 or by installing Windows on your handheld PC.

Since the latter is quite a bit of work, we will use Proton GE 7-41. Here is how to play Marvel's Midnight Suns on Steam Deck:

  • Open Steam and select Marvel's Midnight Suns.
  • Go to Properties > Compatibility and check Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool.
  • From the drop box, select Proton GE 7-41.
  • Put the following launch command in the preferences for optimisation: DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%
  • Launch the game and enjoy!

There you have it, Marvel's Midnight Suns on Steam Deck. It goes without saying that you will experience some performance issues while playing since the game isn't optimised for Steam Deck.

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