How to play Genshin Impact on Steam Deck & best settings Genshin Impact runs great on the Steam Deck, as long as you don\u2019t mind 45FPS. The open-world nature of the game means that it\u2019s a little harder to run. However, it does run smoothly once you\u2019ve got it set correctly. It used to be a bit of a headache to install it on the Steam Deck. Thankfully, Non-Steam Launchers is here to save the day. With this, it handles installs and integrates it smoothly into the Deck\u2019s gaming mode. What is Non-Steam Launchers? Non-Steam Launchers is an additional piece of software that handles installing non-Steam launchers. This includes Epic Games, EA, and Ubisoft. More interestingly, it now supports HoyoPlayer, MiHoYo\u2019s own launcher. This means you don\u2019t need to install Epic Games to access the title \u2013 which just installs a version of the HoyoPlayer anyway. If you have Decky, the store has a Non-Steam Launchers plugin for you to download. This works the same, but handles everything in Gaming Mode, rather than on desktop. How to install Genshin Impact on Steam Deck Here\u2019s a very quick rundown of installing NSL on your Steam Deck and using either the HoyoPlayer or Epic Games: In gaming mode go to the desktop by pressing the Steam button – Choose Power and choose \u201cSwitch to Desktop\u201d – Navigate to NonSteamLauncher\u2019s GitHub page – Hit the big colorful download button – Save the file to the desktop for safekeeping – Double click and hit execute – When the menu appears, update or install Proton-GE – Let it restart – When presented with a list of options, you can go with the HoyoPlayer, or through Epic Games – Head back to gaming mode via the icon on the desktop or by restarting the device – Everything will be listed under \u201cNon-Steam games\u201d in your library – Best Steam Deck settings for Genshin Impact Genshin Impact differs a little from the smaller Zenless Zone Zero. As such, you\u2019ll need to set the game to low graphical settings and use AMD\u2019s supersampling, FSR 2. The game\u2019s open world will mean that you\u2019ll need to limit the frame rate to get a smooth experience. We recommend 45FPS, but you can put it down to 30 for additional battery life. Graphics Quality: Custom – FPS: 45 – V-Sync: On – Render Resolution: 0.8-1.0 Lowering will make the game uglier, but will help performance – – Anti-Aliasing: FSR 2 – Everything else you can turn off, and set to Low. Will you get banned from Genshin Impact for playing on Linux & Steam Deck? It\u2019s highly unlikely that you\u2019ll be banned from Genshin Impact if you play on Linux or the Steam Deck. There\u2019s been a few reports of bans happening to Linux players. More often than not, it\u2019ll be because they\u2019ve cheated in some capacity. We\u2019ve been playing both Zenless Zone Zero and Genshin Impact on the Steam Deck for a while now. So far, no bans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How to play Genshin Impact on Steam Deck & best settings Genshin Impact runs great on the Steam Deck, as long as you don\u2019t mind 45FPS. The open-world nature of the game means that it\u2019s a little harder to run. However, it does run smoothly once you\u2019ve got it set correctly. It used to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}