hephaistos VS RF5Fix

Quick tip, you can install this in Desktop mode (it's an easy process) to make Hades fill the entire Steam Deck screen (without black bars on top and bottom). It looks even better that way.

You can run it in 16:10 using this https://github.com/nbusseneau/hephaistos

With this small mod from github

The game is locked in 16/9 aspect ratio though, I recommend you use Hephaistos if you’d like to run it without black bars on the computer’s internal display :)

Hephaistos mod author here. The issue happens because your monitor reports back too many supported resolution to the game, and the list of resolutions available gets trimmed to 9.

The game doesnt properly support the deck's resolution so it's letterboxed, but there is a mod to change that if it bothers you: https://github.com/nbusseneau/hephaistos

The repo has instructions for Linux/Steam Deck: https://github.com/nbusseneau/hephaistos

Are you sure it's supposed to work on SD? Since there's an open issue. Also, I found this reply that said "if Steam thinks that you're using a PS4 controller it seems the game will automatically use PS button prompts", so maybe spoof it somehow.

RF5Fix mod

If you're playing on pc you can try installing RF5Fix, it helped smooth out some of the stuttering for me. There is also RF5 Less Compressed Textures available on Nexus to make the game look cleaner. Another small thing I'd look into is sprite edits available for the majority of the characters.

So to do this, you will want to. * Go to https://github.com/Lyall/RF5Fix/releases (I hope links are allowed here) * Once there in the first Release section, you will see a section at the bottom called Assets, and you will see a link for a zip file called RF5Fix_v0.1.4.zip * Click that link and download the file. * Then you will want to unzip that file with your program of choice (personal recommendation is 7zip) and put all of the contents directly into your RF5 install folder. xyz/steam/steamapps/common/RuneFactory5 * Now you should have bepinex installed. At this point start the game. DO NOT use the launcher. You will need to use the exe just labeled "Rune Factory 5", NOT the one that is labelled "Rune Factory 5 Launcher". Steam may try to open with the launcher instead, just bypass it manually for now, and you can change the steam settings later. You can use the launcher to change settings in the future but just hit "save and quit" afterwards, and start the game separately. * After your game has been started at least once and gotten to the main menu, you can close the game. * Back in your game folder, extract the contents of the downloaded mod into the rest of the folder, it has a bepinex folder which will just merge with the existing one and add the plugin for you. * Start your game again and everything should just work. I personally ran into an issue for myself where holding shift and hitting E to place the furniture wasn't working for some reason, so you can change the setting to always ignore placements in the config file found in "bepinex/config".

Works great on steamdeck. While you are at it you can grab this mod to get full aspect ratio and some other nice fixes.

After a quick search through the mod installations, I have determined that this should help if Belpin EX isn't working: https://github.com/Lyall/RF5Fix/releases