Steam Deck, which is scheduled to hit the console market at the end of this year, is currently welcoming many speculations and doubts from the outside world. Among them, the most concerned is the game performance of Steam Deck under its own hardware limitations. According to an interview with Valve Development by IGN The team, they said that the performance level of Steam Deck may surprise many people.
“In the past few years, we have been testing various games in the back-end catalog,” Griffis said: “For us, the real test is the games launched last year. They just couldn’t work well on the previous prototype test framework.”
Since the core of Steam Deck is a Linux device, Valve has built-in Proton technology in the SteamOS system to solve compatibility issues that some games cannot support. Griffis emphasized that with the latest version of Steam Deck, they firmly believe that they can run all games in the Steam store.
Pierre-Loup Griffis: “We haven’t found a game that Steam Deck can’t run.”
In the film, the Valve team emphasized that the goal of Steam Deck is to achieve a 30-frame (30 fps) gaming experience on an 800p monitor. However, such performance has caused some people who pay attention to the performance of computer hardware to worry, because if the performance of Steam Deck is only 30 fps, then it will actually lose the advantage of PC games: high frame rate performance.
However, Griffis later explained the details of the frame rate performance on his personal Twitter. “”30 fps target” refers to the minimum playable limit in our performance test. So far, the games we have tested and shown have met and exceeded this standard.”
At the same time, Steam Deck will also have an additional built-in fps limiter, because higher frame rate performance will consume more power, so this limiter allows players to adjust the upper limit of the fps display frame to maintain the balance between performance and power.
The “30 FPS target” refers to the floor of what we consider playable in our performance testing; games we’ve tested and shown have consistently met and exceeded that bar so far. There will also be an optional built-in FPS limiter to fine-tune perf vs. battery life.
– Pierre-Loup Griffais (@ Plagman2) July 25, 2021
On the surface, this seems to bring good news for players who like Steam Deck, but before owning the console, there is no confirmation of the actual performance. The Steam Deck is expected to launch in December, and more news will be released before then.
Do you want it? Do you like it, would you buy Steam Deck?
- meeting
- Will not
- Wait and see
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