ARC Raiders - Texture and shader downgrade even at EPIC

ARC Raiders suddenly looks downgraded — anyone else?

Lately ARC Raiders has started looking like it’s stuck on medium settings, even though I’ve got everything set to EPIC. I’ve tried reboots, restarts, and even adding SteamDeck=0 to the launch command, but nothing changes.

The weird part is that it used to run perfectly fine — 120fps, no issues at all — on my 9070XT. Now it feels like the game thinks I’m on a Steam Deck and is auto‑downgrading the graphics.

Could this be a driver issue, or something else? Has anyone run into the same problem, and are there other fixes I should try?
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