While working on our reviews Torment: the dark period Last week, I was unable to test the game on Steam Deck because A bug who stopped it from launching On Stamus I did not consider this much loss at this time, since I found out that Deck’s 3 -year -old portable hardware has been ranked down the Lord Minimum pc sugar for the gameWho demand at least ray tracing graphics cards.
At the end of the week, though, Valve released the preview of the new version of Stamus It allows Torment: the dark period Actually launch on steam deck. And after a little testing, I found that the game was surprisingly able to run on the valve portable hardware, provided you were ready to reject graphics settings.
With all graphical quality sliders setting on “low” (and FSR upsclawing “performances”, I was able to drive Torment: the dark period The system’s ancestral 1280 × 800 resolution and reasonably stable 30 to 40 FPS.
This screenshot (and all the other in this piece) was caught on the steam deck running in “low” graphics settings and 1280 × 800 resolution.
Bethesda Game Studios
This screenshot (and all the other in this piece) was caught on the steam deck running in “low” graphics settings and 1280 × 800 resolution.
Bethesda Game Studios
Some impressive fire lighting, even on the steam deck.
Bethesda Game Studios
Some impressive fire lighting, even on the steam deck.
Bethesda Game Studios
This screenshot (and all the other in this piece) was caught on the steam deck running in “low” graphics settings and 1280 × 800 resolution.
Bethesda Game Studios
Some impressive fire lighting, even on the steam deck.
Bethesda Game Studios
Certainly, last week, the lack of fancy lighting effects was definitely one step down last week after enjoying “high” graphical settings on the 2080 TI -powered PC rig. And we would prefer to run a maximum of 60 Hz frame rate of steam deck (or even more timely reflex -based shooter Steam deck OLED,
Nevertheless, the fact is that such a ray tracing forward game is relatively indicated on the low -power steam deck hardware that feels like a miracle these days. We can only imagine the “Ultra Lo” graphics setting that is specifically designed for steam deck, if Bethesda decides to give priority, even out of the system can squeeze the frame rate even better.