FSR from 800p to 1080p will look like garbage.
Comment on A few questions before getting a used Steam Deck after my wedding
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Two things to add regarding question 1:
The Steam Deck GPU is optimized for the built-in screen, which has 1280x800 pixels. FullHD is more than twice the number of pixels. The GPUs fragment fill rate will therefore not be sufficient to play many games at FullHD native. The Steam Deck has built-in FSR upscaling though, so if you are not sitting directly in front of the screen, it will look OK-ish…
The second thing is refresh rate. On the deck itself you can set the screen refresh rate to 40 Hz. For many, many games the built-in GPU will not manage 60 FPS even at 1280x800, but it quite often manages to do 40, which still feels OK-ish.
Most external screens don’t support 40Hz though, so you will be stuck with either limiting your framerate to 30 FPS, or you will have to live with either tearing or unsteady framerate.
Amir@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
I have to both agree and disagree here.
Disagree because it doesn’t look that bad.
Agree because there is a reason I haven’t used the Deck with a big screen in months.Amir@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Hardware Unboxed has plenty of examples of FSR 3.1 and everyone can make up their own minds. I think it looks really bad.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I’ll probably end up playing a lot of strategy games or ps3 era games on 720p with 30 fps on the big screen so I hope what you mentioned won’t be a problem.
I also hope it’ll be smooth jumping from portable mode to docked mode (a bit like the Switch).