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It is getting tougher and tougher to play the newest AAA games on the Steam Deck. They are becoming more demanding, and with the Deck already having some slightly dated hardware, it is getting tough to run some of them. To combat this, some awesome members of the Steam Deck community have created mods aimed at helping find ways to optimize or add features like FSR upscaling to a game that d, but there has always been a process to do this. However, a new plugin is on the way, which seems to make this much easier.

Over on the Steam Deck subreddit, user supershredderdan posted about a Decky Loader plugin he is working on that will make it easier to install a mod that can add FSR 3 and Frame Generation to any game that doesn't support it. This will be great for any game that supports DLSS but doesn't actually support FSR. Since we can't use DLSS on the Steam Deck, FSR is our next best bet, and it should allow us to improve the visual quality of some games without sacrificing framerate.

FSR3FrameGenerationPluginForSteamDeck

This should be a great way to improve the performance and battery life of some games that don't support FSR. However, there are some caveats when using Frame Generation. Frame Generation is a technology that duplicates frames and can make a game running at 30 FPS feel like 60. When it works, it's fantastic, but it needs a constant 30 FPS, or the framerate can drop, causing more stutters and input lag.

It seems that this won't work with games that already have FSR implemented, and while there are other mods that can replace FSR 2 with FSR 3, like LukeFZ's mod, there's no indication that this one replicates it. However, installing the mod this way is much easier, and all you have to do is press a button to add the mod to the game and then type in a specific launch option. Hopefully, there's a way to automatically put in the launch option or copy it when the plugin is launched because it is long.

There's no word on when the plugin will launch, but it should hopefully make installing this kind of mod to improve performance or visual quality much easier.

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Noah Kupetsky
A lover of gaming since 4, Noah has grown up with a love and passion for the industry. From there, he started to travel a lot and develop a joy for handheld and PC gaming. When the Steam Deck released, it just all clicked.
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