Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.

• Evrala@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I didn’t play much of it but it ran decently when I tired it. I just decided it was the type of game I wanted to plat with all the settings maxed on my laptop.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It couldn’t play at max settings?

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    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In general the Steam Deck is not the kind of device that is going to run things at max settings. You are gonna play at 720p30FPS low settings but be happy you can play at all on a train or airplane.

      You can stream from your PC to your couch or bed if you are at home.

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    • Signfeld@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Definitely not on Steam Deck.

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      • MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I imagine certain scenes especially in the 3rd act would put alot of strain on the steam deck

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• pyrflie@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think they were playing at a low res. 720p or maybe 480p. That said they didn’t even have stuttering. It was really impressive.

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  • Nurgus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Steam Deck screen is only 800p so that’s the resolution for all games. And it’s perfect for the screen size.

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    • pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m so glad Valve did not give in to the tech-number-nerds who want 2K resolution on tiny screens, saves so much battery life.

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    • pyrflie@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Like I said it was clear and smooth. I don’t expect 4k in a handheld. Portable is it’s own metric.

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      • Nurgus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yep quite right, I was just clarifying because you said “low res like 720p or 480p” - the Steam Deck is 800p native. Total agreement.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d be happy if it played Owlcat RPGs at near full settings. Those games are allot more fun than BG3, imo.

    I digress though. It’d be nice to be able to play recent games again. If the deck can do that on my TV, I’m down.

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    • Nurgus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We hook our Steam Deck up to a 4k projector and it looks amazing. The built in upscaler from 800p to 4k is astonishingly good. Obviously not AS good as native but and many games are limited to 30fps but holy smokes it’s more than good enough.

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    • pyrflie@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hell yeah another Kingmaker/WOTR fan.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        WotR, never played Kingmaker. And I just got Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader. I don’t understand how these games aren’t more popular.

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• Balthazar@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It is. From my experience a couple months back its crisp. Not the highest graphics, and it took a little getting used to from a high-end PC, but it was really nice. In certain aspects even preferable xD

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It might do now. They’ve done a lot of improvements.

  Even on PS5 it was an absolute mess in co-op. 30fps (if you were lucky) all round, constant freezes (several seconds) when swapping characters, many many crashes. Whenever we told it to save, we’d have to both touch nothing to make sure it didn’t crash while saving. Oh, and there was a bug meaning only the player who chose to sleep for the day would get any companion progression.

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