Dragon Ball Sparking Zero just got a huge discount on PC, and plays great on Steam Deck

Not adjacent 100x gravity could support maine distant from this deal.

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If you've been adjacent a small funny astir Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, now's the clip to drawback it. It's presently down to $46.19 / £39.59 connected PC, truthful here's however to get the deal.

Fanatical has the Standard, Deluxe, and Ultimate editions for acold little than Steam, and yes, these are inactive authoritative Steam codes.

It's the aforesaid download, conscionable cheaper — particularly the Standard edition, which is Fanatical's Level Up Sale: Star Deal for the adjacent 24 hours. But enactment fast, lone 46% of keys are left.

This is besides a coagulated pickup if you're readying to play connected Steam Deck. Sparking Zero is rated "Playable" connected Steam and "Gold" connected ProtonDB. It's not afloat Steam Deck Verified—mainly owed to tiny substance and the request to tweak graphics settings for amended performance.

Speaking of optimization: there's a elemental hole for the framerate contented that makes a large difference. The crippled struggles beneath 60 FPS, but with a speedy tweak, you tin fastener it to 40 FPS for a overmuch smoother acquisition connected Deck. Steps are conscionable below.

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero: Best Steam Deck Settings

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero does tally connected Steam Deck, but you'll privation to marque 1 speedy tweak. Out of the box, thing nether 60 FPS slows the crippled down—a occupation easy fixed by editing the Engine.ini file.

To bash this, power to Desktop Mode and caput to:

/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1790600/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/SparkingZERO/Saved/Config/Windows/

Open Engine.ini, scroll to the bottom, and adhd the pursuing lines:

[/script/engine.engine] FixedFrameRate=40 [SystemSettings] bUseFixedFrameRate=True bSmoothFrameRate=False FixedFrameRate=40 FrameRateLimit=40

Save the file, instrumentality to Game Mode, and lucifer your SteamOS framerate bounds to 40 FPS. Running astatine 75% solution with mostly Medium settings, it stays locked astatine 40 FPS without dips. Text is inactive a spot tiny and visuals occasionally rough, but show is coagulated erstwhile configured.

Alternative Settings for 50–60 FPS

I've besides tested a setup that pushes person to 60 FPS portion keeping the crippled visually solid. This configuration drops frames occasionally during loading screens but holds beardown during existent battles:

• Resolution Scale: 100
• V-Sync: Off
• Anti-Aliasing Quality: High
• Shadow Quality: Off
• Texture Quality: High
• Post-Processing Quality: Low
• Effect Quality: Medium
• Depth of Field: Off
• LOD Quality: Medium
• Grass Quality: Low
• Motion Blur Quality: Off
• Camera Shake: Low
• Destruction Effect Quality: Low

This physique offers a bully equilibrium of show and visuals, particularly if you similar a smoother framework complaint without diving into config files.