Funcom’s survival game, Dune Awakening, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for Dune Awakening on PC, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Dune Awakening Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
DISPLAY
- Vertical Sync: Off on a VRR/G-sync display, On otherwise
- Frame Rate Cap: Unlimited on a VRR/G-sync display, otherwise set according to preferred target frame rate
GRAPHICS
- Window Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Upscaling Quality: Ultra
- Upscaling Method: NVIDIA DLSS on supported NVIDIA GPUs, Intel XeSS on Intel GPUs, else AMD FSR
- Override Upscaling Preset: Off
- Shadows: Medium
- Virtual Shadow Maps: Off
- GI Quality: Medium (or High if GPU headroom is available)
- Reflections Quality: Medium
- Low End Laptop Mode: Off
- Limit Process CPU Usage: Off
- View Distance: High
- Post Processing: Medium
- Effects Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: Ultra (or lower on GPUs with less than 8 GB VRAM)
- Foliage Quality: Medium
How Does Dune Awakening Run On Steam Deck?
DISPLAY
- Vertical Sync: Off on a VRR/G-sync display, On otherwise
- Frame Rate Cap: Unlimited on a VRR/G-sync display, otherwise set according to preferred target frame rate
GRAPHICS
- Window Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Upscaling Quality: Low
- Upscaling Method: Intel XeSS
- Override Upscaling Preset: On
- Resolution Scale: 44
- XeSS Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Shadows: Low
- Virtual Shadow Maps: Off
- GI Quality: Low
- Reflections Quality: Low
- Low End Laptop Mode: On
- Limit Process CPU Usage: Off
- View Distance: Low
- Post Processing: Low
- Effects Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- Foliage Quality: Low
As seen in the video above, Dune Awakening runs at a frame rate in the 30 to 45 fps range on the Steam Deck on Low settings. Given that the frame rate mostly stays above 30 fps, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
