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i feel like valve is straight up lying about its verification system cuz how tf does tlou "run well on default settings?"
I'm still waiting for 3nm SOC
I’ll still play my games at 15 fps 😎
i always going without FSR. FSR just looks aaawful.
Why not just play these games at a locked 30 FPS? The deck is not a 60 FPS machine, as long as AAA games are on the table.
Lol 720p? Where are all the Nintendo Switch basher now?
I have to say my OLED SD is the best thing I’ve bought for a LONG time. It blows my mind how it can play games like GTA V stable 60 FPS and look so good. For more demanding games I’ll just use my PS5 but honestly my PlayStation is collecting dust atm. Games like Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 I could run comfortably at 30FPS and get around 2 hours playtime. I hope they bring a pro version out of the SD I’ll buy it day one
I’d love a 2024 gamws video for the Steam Deck oled.
Steam Deck is incredible. There are some games that are too power hungry – i just stream them from my PC in the office direct to the deck. Love it.
Impling that modern aaa games are even worth playing
Steamdeck the only device that makes the Switch look good, at the least Switch is not advertising as super powerful
Only own a ROG Ally but considering what the Steam Deck started several years before mine came out?
Shoot still wildly impressive, considering hardware it’s working with plus battery life performance and still seems like a formidable device.
You'd get a more stable frame rate by forcing a lower resolution through steam then using built in FSR and then still use FSR 2 in game
Not really interested in modern games anyway 🤷♂️
nothing says lack fair and balanced over the gushing of switch games at 540p sub 30 fps on a device 3-4 years newer yet pushing the most demanding games on a in fact almost cheaper per inlfation…. vs the switch to use the newest and most demanding games meanwhile the mf switch vs the mf video from DF THEMSELVES showed a cellphone years later tech beating the switch
as someone who has always gamed on consoles … does the Steam Deck automatically select the best settings for games, or will I be changing settings each game I load up? Thanks
Just the fact that some of these games even make medium to high end desktops struggle says a thing or two about modern game development. Hopefully with the rise of handheld gaming popularity, developers will try a bit harder to not rely on every pc having expensive last generation hardware and spend some more time actually optimizing their games so both handhelds and people who cant afford to constantly buy expensive new desktop hardware can also enjoy them.
if i can get 30-40fps locked with no dips im fine. I cant expect 120hz 120fps on a mobile battery. or hardware. The switch is locked at 30fp and it does just fine. thats just me though
I'm happy to report that many of these games saw performance improvements after Steam OS 3.5 released in the fall of 2023. From my understanding there was a bug with previous versions of Steam OS where sometimes the CPU wasn't full utilized that was fixed with Steam OS 3.5. Additionally Cryoutilities can also help with performance in some of these games.
I purchased Hogwarts Legacy as part of the Winter Sale and am able to get a stable 30 FPS on essentially Medium settings with FSR Quality. You can actually reach 40-60 FPS in most areas of the game, but there are fairly consistent dips below 40 FPS so I'd recommend targeting 30 FPS. There is still some stuttering due to asset streaming unfortunately, but the game is definitely playable and looks very good on deck.
if the Steam Deck came with an RX 6400 equivalent GPU but at the same price it would've been absolutely crazy
I would personally target 30 FPS in most of these games, there's areason why out of these, the ones that come out on PS4 run at 30, and since the Deck is pretty much a handheld PS4 I'd aim for a PS4 like experience
We all know the z1 extreme devices are more capable than the deck or deck oled. Why is it on games like dead space remake, hogwarts legacy, returnal, and a few other heavy hitters, run with substantially less studder on the deck? Same low settings but the legion go is pumping 25 watts, and I still get less studder on the deck, I just don’t understand it, is it proton or somthing ? Or somthing steam OS is doing with shaders? I hope the wizards at DF can take a look and see what’s going on here.
The deck is great for older games which I think is more its use case.
GlitchDeck
Every computer game ever made is playable on the steam deck, even more with tweaking just like any other pc. You cant pay a system to use your brain for you no matter how much money you have, thats your job, dont be an idiot and youd have already understood all of this
remote playing from your pc is such an underrated steam deck feature, if i want to be comfy in bed or on a couch playing demanding games i can do so and get even better performance than on my pc bc of the lower resolution.
Harry Potter game is boring and not worth it. I'd wait for deep deep sale
Steam Deck Rocks ❤
When GTA 6 releases, will it run on the OLED version of steam deck? I am still wondering if i should be that vs Asus Rog ally or Lenovo Legion Go, which seems to be great on papers but them running win 11 compromises their performance on certain cases..
I wouldn't try playing anything more recent than 2018-9 on these handhelds. You'll just have a miserable time in terms of visual fidelity, battery life and fan noise. I see my ROG Ally as a device I can catch up on all the titles I missed in the last decade. Newer titles only on my PS5
No shot its gonna be on switch how is it not on deck lol
Man, Returnal really kicks the Deck's butt!
more like steam lag
U can’t call it portable ps4 gaming when it doesn’t play every game the ps4 does as well as the ps4. It’s more like ps3.5
So steam deck cant run 1080 p
I think imma either just get the Ally, Legion Go or save up for a decent spec gaming laptop if the performance is wack on newer games.
I’d cap every one of these games to 40fps and be perfectly happy
My original deck died about 45 minutes after starting Hogwarts but I think it was something else because my haptics didn’t seem impressive and it just never acted quite right. I heard others mention how good the haptics were but until I got my replacement deck I thought they were over exaggerated.
I have one, so I will wait to next version of it rather than get oled one
You're joking end of the road, most new games are garbage have 100s of amazing older games.
How does No Man's Sky run?
Imagine buying a "portable console" that didn't manage to play a huge amount of modern games and drained the battery in 1,5 hours of playing in unoptimized pieces of modern game code.
Guys, just buy the Switch oled.
Just noticed, in all of the shots showing the decks performance metrics, the FSR setting is showing as off.
Edit: just realised that that is for the decks inbuilt far setting 😅
Just play the original Dead Space. Probably still looks great and I bet you can run it at high settings over 60 fps at native resolution.
You could put thw bame of the game in every section you show it!! Just saying
I'm playing rdr2 at the mo, it plays smooth on the deck
Expecting anything over 30fps on a handheld is just unrealistic
really?, you used to play the last of us on ps3 at 720p and 30 fps. It is like the original experience but in portable…
The problem tho, 5 months later all these games are deck verified now
I disagree for Hogwarts it plays incredible on my steam deck! Not sure by I set Hogwarts to about 45 fps and I have no issue. And if you do just run it at 60. I dont know about Dead space but the steam deck can run smoothly most of the games listed.