I just brought a new Steam Deck and I’m playing Control on my nice 27" pc monitor with a cheap dock and my old controller. If you want a big visual this is the best way. People didn’t realize that 800p in a monito so small is already pretty close to the definition of a retina display. The Deck monitor is quite good, especially if you install decky and the Vibrant plugin to increase the saturation of the colors. I use the deck monitor to play on the 99% of the case. If you want a bigger, better monitor just buy a dock.
Deckverse Video - 1200p Screen Replacement
Submitted 1 year ago by Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
https://youtu.be/OuEep8H3kDs?feature=shared
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ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 1 year ago
Battery performance goes brr brr brr :)
Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Personally, the amount of effort to swap a screen wouldn’t be worth it unless my deck’s screen was ever broken - but it is cool to see projects like this in the community.
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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 1 year 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.
NightOwl@lemmy.one 1 year 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 1 year 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.
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.