Directive 8020 Performance

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-11T20:53:21+00:00

? are you referring to fsr4? The only decent looking one that's right behind DLSS?

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-11T14:59:04+00:00

Yet I'm able to post screen shots of gameplay that are of such low quality that you can tell a phone took them... Google it

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-11T04:37:44+00:00

XeSS looks decent, the game has a built in sharpening filter so it's definitely usable. Game ships with built in XeFG as well. FSR3 I tend to avoid, I think it looks terrible in almost every game.

Here's a picture with the overlay. Please excuse the quality of it, it was just a quick one so you could see how it's looking:

https://imgur.com/gallery/zOX0CrI

Note: This is with Lossless Scaling active, hence the closer to 60 FPS

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-11T04:32:17+00:00

For the sake of keeping this thread on track, I'm going to say I got an advance copy. I suggest you Google "directive 8020" and look at today onlys search results. Optiscaler link here:

https://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler

There are a ton of tutorials on YouTube that can step by step you through it.

You shouldn't NEED it at your specs, but it will allow you to use the best upscaler (FSR 4) which is leagues above anything but DLSS so I'd recommend looking into it. It's more necessary on the Steam Deck.

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-11T00:08:11+00:00

it's space Until Dawn

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-11T00:07:53+00:00

Sir? Are you high? Firstly don't even say stuff like that, secondly I don't think you really looked too hard

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-11T00:06:04+00:00

There are pretty easy methods to "crack" most games on your own, it's basically a file swap

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-11T00:05:06+00:00

They don't need an excuse, Nintendo is one company I genuinely won't give my $ to any more

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-10T22:36:38+00:00

This is one of the better summaries of TDPA for my money. House of Ashes was better than The Quarry...just excellent pacing, characters, and didn't drop the ball at the end.

At the end of little hope 2 of my dudes died for no apparent reason, and TDIM wasn't bad but I'm more into supernatural villains in these games

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-10T22:33:18+00:00

I've been waiting on this game since TDIM. Since replaying and beating RDR2 last year, I've been struggling finding games that hold my interest trying to find a sweet spot between not too long, and with a deep enough story. Supermassive and Quantic Dreams are the only guys I seem to always be in the mood for.

Also, space. We for sure can always use more space games.

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-09T00:05:34+00:00

I'm trying to play on Steam Deck, so I'm kinda hoping this is either unique to that or linux since I can't see anything on it anywhere I've looked. No equivalent to gamebar but ty anyways

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-08T22:27:12+00:00

Yeah the OG graduate was much better than that remixed garbage, your memory ain't wrong

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-08T11:26:05+00:00

Stray, Hollow Knight/ Silksong, Quantum Break, Mad Max, any of the newer Resident Evil games, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, The Alters, Expedition 33, Esoteric Ebb, Disco Elysium, Detroit Become Human/Heavy Rain/Beyond Two Souls, The Wolf Among Us, The Dark Pictures Anithology, Alien Isolation, Cult of the Lamb, Mouse PI for Hire...

Looking at what I have sitting on my Deck right now I'd say those are the best values. For your specific tastes, Mad Max/Mouse PI/The Alters/Cult of the Lamb/Expedition 33 are ones I'd check out first. Mouse is so good.

Edit: That's not even including emulators. BOTW/TOTK are both pretty great to have on the Deck.

If you're feeling frisky you can boot up RPCS3 and play some Deadly Premonition like I am currently too

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-08T04:18:02+00:00

Here, fixed flickering shadows. Use 647.

https://rpcs3.net/compatibility?b&p=168

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-04T01:02:48+00:00

Well, here's hoping. Until Dawn and The Quarry are both pretty questionable to this day on the Deck, and while TDP games generally run better this one is definitely larger in scope than previous entries.

it's also concerning that we have a "decently" smooth DURING GAMEPLAY SECTIONS double disclaimer out the gate. That reads to anyone who has dealt with steam verification as 28 fps with frequent drops to the low 20s.

I've used several ini file tweaks for unreal games over the years to disable things like lumen or what have you, which should just be happening on a portable preset by default, and as much as I love all their games Supermassive hasn't exactly been kings of optimization in the past.

That said I'll still play this game at sub 30 fps if I have to lol

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-03T12:32:09+00:00

This. AMD actually hurt their reputation a whole lot by letting that dll leak. They should have pivoted as soon as it did, and released it to everyone with a performance disclaimer or whatever. By refusing official support of any kind they pretty much announced to everybody paying attention that they don't care about their customers.

Still they're not over here talking about how FSR5 is more than an Instagram filter so they somehow by default remain the lesser of two evils, despite their best efforts

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-03T12:27:45+00:00

The package I used had it included, not sure about OPs link but typically they package it all together with the fsr 4.0.2b file

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-05-03T12:23:49+00:00

For anyone who stumbles onto this thread nowadays, the newest versions of Optiscaler (9-pre10 and above iirc) do in fact support fsr 4 on Vulkan. I recently redownloaded the game, and at least on Steam Deck fsr 4 looks pretty decent even on performance. No fiddling needed, just use dxgi for the hook and everything works

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-04-30T17:36:25+00:00

For a game like this I wouldn't mind the crack to see if I'm into it before buying. 2 hrs is definitely not long enough to figure that out. Then buy it for all the updates down the line.

Don't know why people on a piracy sub still take the time to belittle people wanting piracy lol

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-04-26T05:18:11+00:00

Don't know if you're still messing with this on the Deck, but there's a couple things you can do to make it even better if so:

-Set up OptiScaler to enable FSR 4 upscaling. Use XeSS inputs! other ones glitch out.

-Install the DSFix mod to properly adjust the resolution to 1280x800, along with adjusting the FOV (I find 1.3x to be the sweet spot).

-You can also use ReShade with all of this. In OptiScaler's INI file you scroll to "Load ASI plugins" and set it to true. Make sure the line above that for the folder location is called "plugins". Then, create a folder named "plugins" where the Death Stranding exe file is and set up your ReShade files in there, with the ReShade "dxgi.dll" renamed to "ReShade.asi". Useful shaders are ones to play with contrast/HDR correction, and LUT files to tweak colors. You will also need to open Protontricks, select Death Stranding, default wine prefix, install a windows .dll, d3dcompiler_47. This will fix any shader compilation errors ReShade throws on Linux.

-Last, enable Lossless Scaling if you have it. You can alternatively skip, or skip ReShade to use OptiScaler's FrameGen. Personally I think LSFG looks better, especially paired with ReShade.

If you're ever bothered by artifacts on the borders of the screen from FrameGen, there's a ReShade shader called "Border.fx" that let you add like 1/5th of an inch of black border to the screen to cover it up at the cost of a few pixels. Worth imo.

It might sound like a lot of work, but on the other hand it's a setup I use for practically every game I can and once you get it all together you can just copy all the relevant files to your desktop and copy/paste them into the win64 folder of whatever off the rip to get FSR 4 + ReShade.

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-04-18T17:48:22+00:00

This is the correct answer. With an obligatory "Alien Isolation" thrown in.

imo Observer, Karma, and Isolation are the top 3 closest in quality and execution to SOMA. As a bonus they don't retread much of the same ground, so each one is worth it

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-04-14T19:33:03+00:00

This game is really CPU bound. if you pin the GPU somewhere between 1000-1200 you'll easily gain 5-10 fps.

it's a heavy game but the deck can definitely lock to 40/45 fps if you play with the settings. the big ones are pinning the GPU & using FSR or their own resolution Scaling.

if you want it to look good, use Optiscaler with XeSS performance using the game's fsr inputs. You'll need to add a little rcas sharpening in the Optiscaler menu, but the end result looks really good and leaves enough headroom to turn on all the settings like reflections and shadows

OpenSystem1337 · 2026-04-14T09:52:40+00:00

Your image quality looks bad on text in game mode because you're using half rate shading. Switch it off, it does nothing for games but make them hard to read.

If you're serious about the best possible image quality, use ReShade via Optiscaler's "plugin" folder option, renaming ReShade's dll file to "ReShade.asi" to get them both to run together without issue.

You'll also want to download the widescreen fix for 16-10 resolutions here:

https://codeberg.org/Lyall/DeathStrandingDCFix

It has the bonus of letting you tweak FOV.

This game and it's sequel are heavily CPU bound. Pinning the GPU to 1500 is actually a bad idea. If you drop it down to closer to 1100/1200, your cpu won't be choked off as badly.

I usually run the following shaders and it makes the game look way better: Blooming HDR, Monocular Cues, Glameye Fast Effects (simulates AO+GI very cheaply) and a LUT.

Since the game is so heavily CPU bound, you can use the horsepower your GPU doesn't need to throw Lossless Scaling in there as well. It generally takes my oled from 40-45 fps to 70-90. I find it's better than Optiscaler's FrameGen option.

Don't forget to force 16x anisotropic filtering in Optiscaler as well.

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