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- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 days ago:
Of course when we talk about mipmaps, lower resolution textures, lod, or other technics to improve lower end gpus usability, the gains are more toward those lower ends. That’s granted, even because in that field optimization is more up to drivers and the engine itself rather than the studio (given they are not using an homemade engine).
Talking about other optimization, like cpu usage, again yes: results can be various, given not every cpus are the same. Lower ends commonly are faster in single threading rather than high ends which outperform in multi threading.
Ram usage too. Having the game more smartly using it would avoid issues, but still if your rig got soooo many GBs of ram, you can even load the full game inside lol (I know people having 128GB, mind blowing).
If you by everyone, you mean it. Like 100% of gamers, of course it’s not. One can play on the Frontier on all max-out settings.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 days ago:
in the case of our discussion, making the game run on Steam Deck, won’t affect everyone.
Indeed making the game run on Steam Deck involve more than optimization, like gamepad support and a proper UI scale (other than wine or linux friendly anti-cheat) which are beneficial not to EVERYONE but to what I think still a big piece of the cake.
What I was doin was speculating on optimization, which indeed is beneficial to everyone.
Being pushed to target a specific frame rate on a mid or low range device make you more aware of possible bottlenecks and things that can just be improved.Lately there are a lot of studios who just don’t care because they expect you to have an hi-tier rig (or because they use it to test their own game, resulting in good enough fps), so you end up in simple scenes which use 100% of Gpu or whatever just because the engine is doing something in background actually useless. But since you must be running this on a powerfull pc, that still means enough fps. This leads to bad design choices, which is also the trend with not so savvy unreal engine developers.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 days ago:
Optimization involves a lot of things. For example off-loading off-screen stuff, improving multithreading npc path-finding and other stuff using too much cpu cicles without any gain in quality. All these things could go under-radar if you test on hi-tier rig which may not get impact by these but of course increase cpu usage for, again, no gain at all. This of course heats hardware too.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 days ago:
Optimization is good also for hi-tier rigs, since they can run cooler. Don’t see the problem in targeting a specific mid-range device. Lately optimization is not even done right on PlayStation by big developers, it’s just good enough.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 days ago:
I’ve not read the article, so I don’t know if they specify it, but I thinks it comes to performance too, not just proton-usability. Since you target a “console” rather than whatever you are using to test on, that’s a win for other devices too. I’m just guessing here
- Comment on Doom's 32nd birthday has birthed a site which lets you rip and tear through fan-made levels in your browser 6 days ago:
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 weeks ago:
Ouch, tought it didn’t have DP at all. My bad
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 weeks ago:
Probably because it’s designed to be attached to a TV, which use hdmi.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 weeks ago:
Laughs in displayport
- Comment on Don't expect a SteamOS phone after the Steam Machine, Valve engineer says 2 weeks ago:
Who owns a Linux Phone(?)
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 3 months ago:
EA says 330,000 cheaters were stopped in beta
Or 330,000 users without secure boot :P
- Comment on Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet 4 months ago:
So the og developer will find himself with some Windows users and nothing left since most people would probably choose the most foss version supporting Linux and (since that) getting more improvements from contributors.
GG
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 6 months ago:
I think there’s in play also background activity from Windows’ bloat.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 6 months ago:
Battery Life:
Battery life - Comment on 12 Nintendo Switch 2 Games You Can Play On Steam Deck Today 8 months ago:
Is that on top mangohud? If yes, how can it be setup horizontally?
- Comment on [Game] God of War Ragnarök released and Steam Deck Verified 1 year ago:
So even if they provided official DualSense driver for Linux, don’t bother to make their games compatible.
Why? - Comment on Phantom Line Is A Co-Op Shooter Set In A Post-Nuclear Europe From Former BioShock, Cyberpunk 2077 Devs 1 year ago:
Soviet backrooms?
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 year ago:
Another reason to not use GitHub.
