I'd think about it for OLED. I give no fucks about resolution I can't drive and will mostly not notice at that screen size anyways. The pixel density is fine.
Ship a whole front panel replacement with a larger screen displacing the bezels and the higher resolution? Then I'd listen.
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Even if my screen broke I’d go with official instead of higher resolution, because of the performance penalty. Many games I play are already at low framerates, so sacrificing performance for resolution isn’t worth it.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Then use FSR and run the game at 800p. Honestly the pixel density isn’t THAT much higher with this screen. I’d say the fact that it’s OLED is the biggest upgrade; improved contrast and color accuracy is very noticeable.
Having said that, I’m not in a hurry to void my warranty by trying this relatively difficult hardware upgrade. Maybe if my screen breaks I’ll consider it.
terrehbyte@ani.social 8 months ago
Yeah, the improved contrast and color accuracy is the main reason why I even considered swapping out the screen. The simulated color vibrancy mod (which is coming “soon” to stock SteamOS 3.5 anyway) ended up being good enough for me though as long as I’m just want pretty colors.
If I really care about the visual experience, I’m doing it on my desktop w/ a proper monitor anyway, not on the dinky little 7" screen.
That said, if I ever broke the screen though, I might do it since I’d have to replace it anyway.
cron@feddit.de 8 months ago
The Deck HD is not OLED, but still has a better color coverage.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh damn, I keep seeing reviews say it’s “OLED-like” so I thought it was. So yeah, it just has better colors (which is a low bar because the Steam Deck screen is not great).
NightOwl@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I’d go for high fps but same resolution. There’s some rhythm games that benefit from higher frames with it mostly being just scrolling notes so run on potatoes.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 months ago
Exactly this. Valve made the decision for 800p for a number of factors, one of the biggest was performance. We’ve all been there where we upgrade to a sexy new monitor and immediately realized we need a new GPU. This is the same, except we can’t upgrade the GPU. I’ll stick with this where I’m happy.