Baldurs Gate 3 on Steam Deck is basically turning electricity into heat with some frames produced as a side effect :)
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RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I just don’t think the steam deck is going to be able to handle this game. Baldurs Gate 3 is certified playable and they did a great job making it a seamless experience but it’s obvious that the system strains in anywhere but the most sparse locations.
The steam deck just isn’t meant to play all the AAA next gen ray traced games and nobody should expect it to do so. It already goes further than any handheld on the market, I don’t need it to play starfield. I need it to play cult of the lamb really well. And it does. And I love it.
QubaXR@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Unless it’s poorly optimized, Starfield should be nowhere near as demanding as Baldurs Gate. Do we know what the requirements are yet?
dalingrin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Hard disagree with this. Both of these games are large zone, systems driven games which makes them more demanding on the CPU than many games out there. Starfield will probably a little more GPU demanding than Baldur’s Gate 3 due to dynamic lighting systems and draw distance.
CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
We’ll see, but ignoring Todd’s usual buzz words Starfield just looks like Fallout 4 with better faces and lighting.
Though truthfully Bethesda isn’t exactly known for their optimization either way, so who knows.
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 10 months ago
Baldurs Gate 3 is certified playable and they did a great job making it a seamless experience but it’s obvious that the system strains in anywhere but the most sparse locations.
Yeaaaah it's pretty rough on the steam deck in my experience.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Huh I just tuned down the graphics and it is playing just fine.
Only caveat being I always play it plugged in to power
Nima@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have 140 hours on steam deck for BG3. I’m having a blast.
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 10 months ago
I have every setting on low and it still makes the fans go brrrrr, pushing 90° temps.
Nima@lemmy.world 10 months ago
works fine on mine. I just play plugged in
worfamerryman@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Someone said that valve does not want to upgrade the Steamdecks cpu regularly that way it can act as a baseline for games to target.
I kind of like this approach. I think so many devs focus on making everything bleeding edge when most of us would be happy playing with low settings.
Maybe the steamdeck will lead to further optimizations to these games down the line and maybe games that are early in development will try to target the steamdeck for the minimum spec.
Starfield and bg3 were too far along in development when steamdeck game out for them to optimize for it.
I’ll be happy to see how it runs though.