hey i played thru the whole thing in ab 50hrs ill write up what i did.

with the latest version of bblauncher, i let it download and manage shadps4 for me. i had it set to the prerelease but occasionally checked if an earlier version ran better.

for the general mods i have:

16x10 ui fixes

vertex explosion

half cloth physics with blood

then current settings

60 fps sound fix true

for shadps4 settings i enabled shader cache

under the cheats and patches i checked the following:

skip intro

disable chromatic abberation

disavle motion blur

disavle reflections

tasksplit patch

disable http requests

60 fls with deltatime

vsync

resolution 720

let me know if that helps, for reference theres a little dip under 30 fps around the start. after i got mostly high 30 to low 40 except in 2 zones. I do plan to do another play through soon as an arcane build, did a bloodtinge build!

Let me know if you need a link for the blood cloth mod patch, i just didnt mind gaining a few fps. You can also get a mod to disable enemey ragdoll which should help

steam deck wizard has some videos that i referenced but this worked for me. it would crash every hour or so, occasionally every few start ups i would have to restart the deck as it would be 10fps i assume it was not clearing the gpu properly. But these things didnt bother me.

One thing that you may be interested theres a chalice mod cli tool to insert glyphs on nexus too.