Steam Deck Performance Overview - RuneScape: Dragonwilds

Want to experience the fun of dragon hunting anytime, anywhere? Although RuneScape: Dragonwilds can run on Steam Deck, the experience is a bit rough. This article will analyze in detail its actual performance, expected experience, and whether it is worth playing.

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Can Steam Deck play RuneScape: Dragonwilds?

Can. But should you play? This is another question.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds can run on OLED and LCD versions of Steam Deck, but the performance of Early Access is worrying when it is released. The game places you in a cruel world of survival full of production, base building and angry dragons, but it is also accompanied by lags, blurry graphics and UI failures on Steam Deck.

performance

• Best FPS: At the lowest setting, about 30-40fps.
• Worst FPS: Down to 22-23fps when looking around.
• FSR: enabled by default, but not much help. Image quality is still blurry, and lowering the settings won't lead to a significant improvement.
• Frame generation: exists, but don't enable it as it will make the situation worse.

In short, it runs very jammed. Even with the basic graphics, the game is struggling to run on Steam Deck, which is a pity because we personally love this game very much.

Battery life

• Steam Deck OLED: About 3 hours.
• Steam Deck LCD: About 2 hours.

Changing settings doesn't really improve this. The gaming consumes a lot of power and the battery will run out quickly anyway.

Handle support

• There is handle support, but there is a bug.
• The menu part is damaged. You can scroll to the right when making it, but not to the left.
• Unless you use the trackpad, some UI projects are not available to select, which completely breaks the handle mode.
• On the handheld machine? This can be boring very quickly.

Archive synchronization? No.

• Your offline archive is only stored locally.
• If you play games on Steam Deck and want to switch to your PC afterwards, you must manually move the archive file.

This is obviously not ideal for a game designed to play for a short time on the road.

Should you play on Deck?

If you are very curious, very patient and really like the Early Access version, you can try it. But the performance is poor and the UI is incomplete, so it is difficult to recommend under the current state. It even stumbled slightly on the RTX 3070 PC (I need to upgrade soon).

Unless you are determined to be the first to build a crumbling hut and stomped by a dragon while fighting the handle bug, it's best and so on. Dragonwilds might develop into a great game, but now on Steam Deck? It's more frustrating than fun.

Summarize

It's not just the dragon that needs to be tamed—the performance of this game also needs improvement. We hope that this will improve as the game life cycle develops and we will update this article if/when things get better. However, for now, you can enjoy the game on your PC.

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