Steam Hardware
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I am continuously shocked that people play things like BG3 or Cyberpunk on their Steam Deck. I love my Deck, and play it lots, but those games run like absolute garbage on it.
BG3 actually runs great now. Larian has been grinding away at it all year. Native Linux and all.
Cyberpunk is playable if you avoid the expansion areas.
Agreed. Have put in close to 200 hours on deck only. Occasionally it bugs but overall the experience has been great. Especially at the bar.
It runs well enough, especially if the steamdeck is your only gaming device.
I read about their native implementation and think that is awesome of them. I have been meaning to try it again since but honestly remain skeptical that it's an enjoyable experience, for my standards at least. I think that is a game that will remain on desktop for me.
It’s definitely not 60FPS but it is a smooth 30 finally. Bigger deal in my opinion is it hits 30FPS without overly strong FSR as it was previously. The picture is more than just barely playable now.
I played before the full Linux build, and I even used to do it with Ps5 controller on my 55' TV.
The game worked great honestly, it did crash once or twice, and it did slow waaaaaay down when getting into fights with 20+ people, but that was always due to my own mods and what not. Definitely not native experience.
All that to say, it worked very well before they made a deck/Linux specific version so I'd imagine that it works darn near flawlessly now.
I'm surprised Cyberpunk runs on the Steam Deck as well as it does. It truly is an incredible little machine.
When one has no other choice, one plays one's favourite game under any conditions. When I was little, I played Minecraft at 15 to 20 FPS and the lowest draw distance.
yep, I got through about 50 hours of Subnautica at ~15 fps back in the day.
Even portal with RTX is kinda playable on the steam deck though if you use that config that one person made to enable fsr3 and do some default settings changes, and put the gpu clock up to full
We're so spoiled by graphical power nowadays. It's easy to forget there was a time when a consistent 30 fps was like using 4k+ with high fps today.
Then again, I played some newer titles for the first time in a while, and the state of optimization brings some of the feelings right back.
When I played games I gta3 worked on my pentium 3 like shit, minimum resolution, probably less than 10fps and very slow. Still played a reasonable amount. The vice city arrived and played much smoother without constantly blocking. Managed to play it to the end.
Any potato can run any game.
I mean the human eye can only see 30fps
This takes me back to the Xbox 360 era.
This is absolutely untrue. Most people can see the 60hz strobe of the US electrical grid. This is why cheap night lights seem to flash.
It's a meme
I assure you, the US is very real
Yeah that's fair. I definitely made do with less than ideal playing conditions when I was younger and it was all I could manage. Bit of a privileged take from me.
they run fine on my deck.
if you're looking for a 4k, 200fps experience on a handheld device, you will not find it. that's not what the steam deck is for.
That's a nice straw man you've built there, but me and my opinion are over here.
I don't believe that means what you think it does.
Seemed like you attacked a position that I did not take. If I misunderstood, then my bad.
I just said that the games run well on my steam deck. I wasn't attacking anything, I don't think.
Well, no, that's not all that you said.
alright
I just enjoy games more on my Deck. The controller is by far my favourite, I can resume where I left in a second, I can take it everywhere, the OS is completely out of the way unless I need it.
I have a reasonably powerful gaming PC but haven't really used it in the past few years because of Steam Deck.
So long as it runs at a stable 30 FPS I can tolerate the limited performance.
I understand the sentiment though.
With Decky LSFG-VK and Power Tools i get around 100 fps in cp2077 and 80 fps in BG3. I haven't reached anywhere in BG3 that really taxes the graphics like the lower or inner city yet.
I've even been playing Starfield around 100 fps outside new atlantis. Graphics are choking everywhere my nv3080 was.
Not on my deck they don't
You just have to use lower graphics settings, I haven't had any issues running C77
I used the steamdeck graphics preset and thought it ran and looked great.
I honestly have GeforceNow on my PC so I also have it on my Steam deck. Imo it makes it run much nicer and I can choose which system to play it on.
Skill issue