EA and Full Circle’s free-to-play skateboarding game, Skate., 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 the PC version of Skate., 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.
Skate. 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.
GRAPHICS
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, otherwise set to match frame rate limit
- Refresh Rate: set to preferred target frame rate
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaling Method: FSR
- Upscaling Quality: Quality
- Texture Filtering: Ultra
- Texture Quality: Ultra
- Global Illumination: Dynamic
- Lighting Quality: Ultra
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Mesh Quality: Ultra
- Visual Effects Quality: Ultra
- Post Processing: Ultra
- Ambient Occlusion Quality: Ultra
- Depth of Field Quality: Off
- Motion Blur Quality: Ultra
How Does Skate. Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 720
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, otherwise set to match frame rate limit
- Refresh Rate: 60Hz
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaling Method: None
- Upscaling Quality: Temporal
- Texture Filtering: Medium
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Global Illumination: Static
- Static Global Illumination Quality: Low
- Lighting Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Mesh Quality: Medium
- Visual Effects Quality: Low
- Post Processing: Low
- Ambient Occlusion Quality: Medium
- Depth of Field Quality: Off
- Motion Blur Quality: Off
While the above video is for the ASUS ROG ALLY Z1, but it gives a fair idea of where performance in Skate. stands on the Steam Deck. With these settings, the frame rate tends to target and maintain 60 fps for the most part on the Steam Deck. As such, we recommend playing the game on Valve’s handheld device.
