Wayfinder Echoes: Best Steam Deck Settings

Wayfinder just had its new Echoes update, which made it Verified for the Steam Deck. But considering the capabilities of the deck, there are some tweaks one must make to get it to run decently. Here is a simple and easy setup for the game on the Deck.

Best Steam Deck Settings for Wayfinder 

For starters, go to display, and enable FSR, and set it to quality. Balanced and below will make the game look pretty bad. Here are the other settings I went for:

• Textures, Anti-Aliasing, Post Processing and Foliage settings set to High.
• Shadow Quality and View Distance can be set to mid.
• Set FX Quality to low, but if you want, swap view distance and FX quality settings.
• Resolution Quality set to 100.

Wayfinder should look like this visually:

Be forewarned here that the game is only going to run at a set 60fps in dungeons, and hunts. When moving around Skylight, and the open world areas, performance will fluctuate a lot. I only recommend playing Wayfinder on the Steam Deck for just these types of activities. I was able to get at least nearly two hours of playtime without using the half-rate shading in the Steam Deck settings. Word of warning for using bluetooth earbuds, I did notice some audio desync when certain things triggered in the game. Like the Gloom Dungeons platform spawning, and certain event triggers. So, to avoid this problem, if you have a wired headset to not disturb others, I’d recommend using those instead.

However, the game does look well, and there were no micro-stutters of any kind to report. So, it should be a relatively good experience!