With the launch of Steam Deck this year, players can comfortably play a variety of games on their handheld console. Several deck owners are excited to play GTA 5 on their handheld consoles. That being said, getting more fps and fewer frames can be a bit of a problem with a smaller console. But by changing some settings, you will be able to play GTA 5 smoothly on your console. So, check out our guide to the best GTA V settings for Steam Deck.
Best GTA V Settings on Steam Deck
Then try changing these settings for a smoother gaming experience:
- DirectX version: DirectX11 (lower if needed)
- Screen Type: Fullscreen (alternatively, you can choose borderless windowed for maximum FPS)
- Resolution/Aspect Ratio: Set the native resolution.
- FXAA: off
- MSAA: off
- NVIDIA TXAA: Off
- Vertical Sync: On
- Population Density: 50%
- Population Diversity: 100%
- Distance scaling: maximum
- Texture Quality: High
- Shader Quality: Normal Shadow Quality: Normal
- Reflection quality: normal
- MSAA Reflection: Off
- Water quality: normal
- Particle Quality: Normal
- grass quality: normal
- Soft shadows: soft
- PostFX: High
- Motion Blur/Depth of Field: As per your preference.
- Anisotropic filtering: x2
- Ambient occlusion: normal
- Tessellation: normal
As mentioned earlier, you can also run GTA V with higher settings. But this can lead to lower FPS. Despite this, we suggest that you choose the graphics settings according to your preferences.
That’s it for the best GTA V settings for Steam Deck.