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ARC Raiders, a brand new PvPvE third-person extraction shooter, is out. The sport has been extremely anticipated throughout its beta checks, not least in our Discord Server. So now that the total sport is lastly out, we rapidly dove in to take a look at how the sport performs on the Steam Deck. We’ll have precise gameplay impressions obtainable at a later date.
ARC Raiders – Steam Deck Efficiency
I went into ARC Raiders dreading the way it may run on the Steam Deck, if I am trustworthy. However I got here away pleasantly stunned. You will want to pressure using both Proton GE or the Proton 10 Beta within the Steam sport settings, although.
Controller assist within the sport is superb, and it feels good to play. The sport additionally helps 16:10 resolutions, so we do not get any black borders across the display.
ARC Raiders defaulted to Low settings for me, and I like to recommend you retain them there. I swapped out the upscaling methodology from TAAU to FSR 3, and set it on “Balanced”, which nonetheless resolved an honest picture for me, then I locked the sport to 40 FPS within the SteamOS settings.
In the end, this supplied a comparatively steady, decently easy, and general crisp sufficient picture to be playable. There have been some stutters now and again, which might show deadly, however they weren’t too widespread.
Energy draw was round 18W-21W, so battery life wasn’t one of the best, nevertheless it was nonetheless sufficient for a couple of rounds of enjoying, round 2.5 hours on a Steam Deck OLED, and possibly round 1.5 hours for a Steam Deck LCD.
I did expertise lag spikes right here and there, which I feel was on the sport server facet, fairly than my facet, which was egregious at occasions, leading to a number of seconds passing the place the sport appeared frozen.
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