This game’s got some players thinking their eyes are broken. Whether you’re on Steam Deck or Game Pass, if everything looks blurry, you’re not alone. Here’s how to clean up the mess and make things at least look playable.
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Steam Deck vs Game Pass: The Blame Game
If you’re on Steam Deck
There are no in-game graphics settings at all. That’s not you losing it. It really doesn’t have a settings menu. This makes tweaking visuals a pain, and performance tanks after a few minutes. The blur likely comes from forced anti-aliasing, frame generation, or dynamic resolution.
If you’re on Game Pass
This version is missing DLSS and XeSS entirely. Even if your GPU can run them, they’re just not there. Some players think it’s a stripped-down console build. You only get FSR and TAA… and neither looks great when moving.
Basic Fixes That Actually Help
Turn off motion blur and film grain manually
There’s no toggle, but you can dig into the game’s config files and shut them off. On Steam Deck or PC, go to where the game saves your settings—usually in your Windows user folder under something like “Saved” or “Config.” Inside the file called Engine.ini, add commands to disable blur, film grain, chromatic aberration, and other post-process effects that muddy the image.
You can add lines like:
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Turn motion blur off
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Disable color fringe
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Set anti-aliasing to zero
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Lock screen resolution at 100%
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Disable dynamic resolution scaling
You’re basically telling the game to stop trying to “help” your visuals and just show them raw.
Lock the resolution scale
The blur gets worse when resolution scaling kicks in. Set the screen percentage to 100 and disable dynamic resolution if possible. That stops the game from lowering resolution behind your back during movement or heavy scenes.
Can You Force DLSS or Better Upscaling?
On the Steam version, maybe. Some folks tried adding DLSS override lines into the config file. It worked in other Unreal games like Oblivion Remastered, but this one might need specific names or flags that aren’t documented. If it doesn’t do anything, don’t be shocked.
On Game Pass, you’re out of luck. Even though some DLSS files are sitting in the install folders, they don’t do anything. The code isn’t hooked up, so there’s no way to turn it on yet. Hopefully a future patch unlocks it.
A Few Bonus Tips
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FSR might look better on higher resolutions. If you’re playing on a 720p screen (like Steam Deck), FSR will always be soft.
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If you’re desperate, try forcing sharpness using Steam Deck’s performance overlay or global sharpening filters from your GPU software (like AMD or NVIDIA panels).
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If nothing helps, refund might be the cleanest fix until they patch it properly.
Final Blurb
The blur isn’t your fault, and it’s not your hardware either. Revenge of the Savage Planet just launched without working visual settings for a lot of people, especially on Game Pass and Steam Deck. You can fight it with config tweaks, but at some point, the devs need to show up and do their part too. Until then… it’s either sharpen things yourself or squint hard enough to pretend it’s a design choice.
