In this video I revisited Dying Light 2 on Steam Deck OLED in February 2026 and did a full performance breakdown—because honestly, I wasn’t expecting it to run as well as it does. I show real handheld gameplay, where a custom mix (mostly Low with a couple Medium/High bumps) sits comfortably above 40 FPS, often mid‑40s, and indoors you can regularly hit 55–60 FPS without any frame generation. Outdoors it drops, but not as dramatically as I expected—the worst I saw was around 30 FPS in a busy NPC hub, while most open-world combat stays around 45–50 FPS. Then I get into the big comparisons: FSR vs XeSS, built-in frame gen vs Lossless Scaling, and Low/Medium/High presets. Raw FPS between FSR and XeSS is basically the same, but XeSS has noticeable ghosting, so I stick with FSR (FSR 3.1.5 via DX12). The shocker is that the game’s built-in frame generation is actually broken for me—it runs worse than no frame gen. Lossless Scaling, though, gives me a near-perfect 60 FPS from a solid 40–50 FPS base, with very little input lag, and somehow it even adds about an hour of battery life (roughly 3.5 hours vs ~2.5). I finish by walking through the exact settings I settled on for the best overall experience.