Low FPS, stutter, and flicker

There is no official recommended-settings table in the 3.0 notes. The concrete presets below are community reports plus one Deck review. I am labelling them that way so a driver rollback does not look like Ubisoft’s advice.

What players posted

• Turn V-Sync off.
• Drop lighting and shadows to medium or high rather than ultra.
• Cap the frame rate at 60.
• Try DLSS Quality with the transformer model.
• One Steam post says driver 581.27 stopped their flicker. That is a single report.

A blue sun or a blue flicker shows up in more than one Steam thread. Update 3.0 mentions fixes for repeated volcano smoke and for some camera and UI bugs. It does not say the blue flicker is closed. If you still see it after 3.0, the thread is the record, not a guarantee.

Steam Deck HQ’s low baseline is Low quality, FSR Ultra Performance, and a 30 FPS lock. Their large-city benchmark fell to the low 20s. That is a Deck number, not a desktop number.

“Freeze on close” and “grafik düster” (a dark image) are in the same symptom family. Dark image is worth a lighting preset check before a reinstall. Freeze on exit has no separate official note in the sources I used.