Since SteamOS 3.5 finally released into stable, I’ve been looking forward to try out PS3 emulation on the Steam Deck, especially the Uncharted series & MGS4.
Long story short, performance was rather subpar, with frequent FPS drops.
Looking around, I came across this post on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/16ydaoz/mgs4_on_rpcs3_with_full_visual_effects_on_the/
After applying the tweaks referenced there, I really did saw a boost of a few more additional frames, but the real improvement is that the frametimes become more even, resulting in noticeably less stuttering.
With a 50 % resolution render scale, Uncharted 1 can be considered playable on the Steam Deck, IMHO.
Hope these tweaks help you guys out, too!
My guy I have got some GOOD news. I originally only updated my steam deck using the cryoutilities and increasing VRAM/swappiness. With just those I noticed a massive increase in performance to MGS4. Aside from that I used Decky to increase the CPU and GPU min/max outputs and that further increased the performance. I just applied all the changes about an hour ago suggested in the article and let me tell you for the last hour or so I have been playing MGS4 like it was on the PS3 itself!!