Resident Evil 4 – Guide to Steam Deck Settings

With this settings you can play at 30 or 40 FPS.

Steam Deck Settings

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 below).
• It is recommended that you install the game to an SSD if you have it on your deck.

Settings for 30 FPS (Prettier)

• Use the MANGO 30FPSLOCK.
• 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.

Settings

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)

• Use the Steam Overlay 40fps lock
• 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.

Settings

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
• Lens Distortion: OFF
• DOF: On
• Destructible Enviroments: ON
• Diverse Animations: ON

On Display Settings

• Turn off Chromatic Aberration
• Set FOV as high as it will go.