The Last of Us Part 1 Steam Deck Update: FSR 4 & Improved Audio

The Last of Us has been one of Sony’s most re-released games ever, with The Last of Us Part 1 becoming the most recent. It’s remade from the ground up for PlayStation 5 and, somehow, the mad folks at Nixxes were able to port this game down to Steam Deck. Nixxes did struggle to make this playable, but it’s mostly fine now on Deck, and a new update keeps that momentum going.

On a Steam Community Post, it was revealed that the latest update has fixed various audio issues fans were having with this post-apocalyptic tale. As if that wasn’t enough to excite handheld fans, this new update also adds FSR 4 to Joel and Ellie’s tragic tale. FSR is often used to scale down graphically demanding titles, while making them look decent, and that could happen with this update.

Considering how behind on power the Steam Deck is, we’re surprised to see how playable The Last of Us Part 1 has been on this system. Sure, players are better off keeping this game at low graphical settings with 30 FPS for decent performance, but that’s not a bad thing at all. We still think PlayStation should have brought over the PS4 version instead, but Deck users will take what’s given to them.

PlayStation’s insistence on bringing its most graphically demanding games to PC and Steam Deck has been a mixture of frustration and joy. It took a while before Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was considered playable on the handheld, but it eventually happened. While the port is still prone to crashes, it’s a far cry from how the game used to be.

Even if it's trendy to dunk on The Last of Us, it’s good to see the game playable on Valve’s powerful handheld. This might not be the most ideal way to play the Naughty Dog classic, but fans who’ve always wanted this game on a handheld now have their chance. Sony might be shoving it down our throats, but that doesn’t mean this is a bad game at all.

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