Games need more RAM, but prices are abysmal. Unfortunate, I know. But before you empty your wallet for an upgrade, what if the answer is switching to the penguin side? I ran two identical test benches in real-world workloads to find out if ditching Windows is the only memory upgrade you actually need.
There are simple mods on Nexusmods to disable or dial down graphical effects. Can’t remember what the one is called that I used, but it had a profile explicitly for the Steam Deck and it helped a lot.
This is the case for most UE5 games. They all have mods to tweak the graphics up or down beyond what the developers let you control. No idea why they don’t use those settings.
That helps, but it still feels unnecessarily choppy even with high framerates. Could be a quirk in UE games running via Proton, don’t have any other UE5 games to test though