Dirge of Cerberus on steam deck massive frame rate drops

[Burninater69]

I’m trying to play dirge of Cerberus on the steam deck and I get massive frame rate drops. Does anyone know of optimized settings to reduce frame drops?

Edit: changing renderer to automatic in graphics settings seems to improve the frame stuttering immensely. I also set frame rate control to 99hz under advanced settings but I have not tested this extensively to confirm that this helped or not. I enabled vsync as well but again have not extensively tested wether or not this improved frame rate or not.

[jesalvein]

native res, i guess. it's a quite demanding game, and a steamdeck is a bit limited in terms of raw power.

[Burninater69]

native res, i guess. it's a quite demanding game, and a steamdeck is a bit limited in terms of raw power.

I tried changing to native resolution but it didn’t seem to make a difference. It’s surprising to me that the steam deck can handle ps3 and Xbox 360 emulation but struggle with dirge of Cerberus which I would think is more demanding. Is it possible that it’s an issue with pcsx2?

[jesalvein]

PS3, x360 and PS2 are different consoles, with different architectures, handled by different emulatore. The comparison is nonsensical.
It could be a problem with pcsx2, but many had 0 pro mem running it in decent hardware. So...

[Burninater69]

PS3, x360 and PS2 are different consoles, with different architectures, handled by different emulatore. The comparison is nonsensical.
It could be a problem with pcsx2, but many had 0 pro mem running it in decent hardware. So...

So it sounds more like a software optimization issue rather than an issue with the steam deck not having enough raw power.

[jesalvein]

Not really. As I said, it runs fine on decent hardware.
Maybe you should keep playing on your real PS2 for now, until you can get better hardware.

[Burninater69]

Not really. As I said, it runs fine on decent hardware.
Maybe you should keep playing on your real PS2 for now, until you can get better hardware.

I’m having trouble believing it’s a hardware issue with the steam deck as it plays much more demanding games but ok.

[jesalvein]

I’m having trouble believing it’s a hardware issue with the steam deck as it plays much more demanding games but ok.

depends on what you call "much more demanding"

[Burninater69]

For anyone trying to play Dirge of Cerberus on the steam deck, I have found some specific settings which vastly improves performance and runs almost perfectly. See my attached screenshots for the settings.