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Recently i have a fancy gaming PC to handle all the heavy work loads. Before that though (as in last january), i was limited to my Steam Deck as my only gaming device. The thing i learned then is that the hard part is finding a good balance between resolution and Graphic Levels.
This isn't formal advice from an expert or anything (i'm a Computer Science student who learned this stuff by messing with it), but I'd also advise to stay away from anything like DLSS and FSR unless you need them or you can drive them at high resolutions. They are kind of like AI upscaling for your game from what i know. If you have a low powered device, it's a miracle worker but it also muddys the picture. I've also heard people say this same thing about TAA, but i don't know about that one.
If you're doing screenshots on steam i'd also advice going into settings, and telling it to save screenshots as an uncompressed copy. Steam will save it as a JPG which can crunch the hell out of it.
Another thing though is that i've noticed that when i do these screenshots it looks a lot better then what they look like in gameplay, so that's something i'd keep in mind too