Since SteamOS 3.5 finally released into stable, I’ve been looking forward to try out PS3 emulation on the Steam Deck, especially the Uncharted series & MGS4.
Long story short, performance was rather subpar, with frequent FPS drops.
Looking around, I came across this post on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/16ydaoz/mgs4_on_rpcs3_with_full_visual_effects_on_the/
After applying the tweaks referenced there, I really did saw a boost of a few more additional frames, but the real improvement is that the frametimes become more even, resulting in noticeably less stuttering.
With a 50 % resolution render scale, Uncharted 1 can be considered playable on the Steam Deck, IMHO.
Hope these tweaks help you guys out, too!
Somebody reommended to enable Max SPURS threads to 3 in advanced… It works! :D
I’m in chapter 2 now, and its a noticeable difference :O
Oooooh I’ll try that now as well. It’s already running so smoothly but I still get random hangups during cutscenes so I wonder if this’ll fix that.
I tried dropping the resolution scale to 50% and doing 100% FSR but it was too noticeably bad quality so I upped the resolution scale to 75% and it’s pristine