Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection best settings for the Steam Deck The Steam Deck’s native res is only 1280x800, so upscaling needs a light touch, but Quality or Balanced deliver good speed gains without too much of a sharpness loss.Īs you can see from these four presets, Low and Medium aren’t exactly hideous, but with a quick trip into the Display and Graphics menus, we can add a few High-quality fidelity boosters while keeping the FPS drain of less visually important settings down. The Performance and Ultra Performance modes aren’t enough for a consistent 60fps, even on the Low preset, but I think both of these take the rendering resolution down too low anyway. In its Quality and especially Balanced modes, this upscaler visibly smooths out performance to the point that you can usually stay well clear of the 30fps threshold without making wholesale quality cuts to the visuals. Luckily, because it’s an AMD APU, you’ve got a saviour in FSR 2. The result: both games look stellar, but are rather punishing on the Steam Deck’s humble APU. Maybe if this was just a port of the PS4 originals, that wouldn’t be the case, but it’s all based on the Legacy of Thieves Collection that Naughty Dog remastered for the vastly more powerful PS5 earlier this year. In fact, the first bit of bad news here is that a solid 60fps is an impossible dream on the Deck, and even staying above 30fps can be tricky on Medium settings and above. Not that the Steam Deck would have been able to cope with RT effects, anyhow. That’s all on top of PC essentials like rebindable controls and graphics customisation, making for a good haul of features even if there’s no ray tracing like in Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered.
This particular version has been handled by Iron Galaxy, rather than original developers Naughty Dog, but on a desktop you can expect extra touches like ultrawide resolution support, Nvidia DLSS, and AMD FSR 2, which is AMD's new name for FSR 2.0. As a PC port in general, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection ain’t half bad.