'Too Big' For Steam Deck? TLOU Part 1, Hogwarts Legacy, Resident Evil 4 + More Tested!

as someone who has always gamed on consoles ... does the Steam Deck automatically select the best settings for games, or will I be changing settings each game I load up? Thanks

Just the fact that some of these games even make medium to high end desktops struggle says a thing or two about modern game development. Hopefully with the rise of handheld gaming popularity, developers will try a bit harder to not rely on every pc having expensive last generation hardware and spend some more time actually optimizing their games so both handhelds and people who cant afford to constantly buy expensive new desktop hardware can also enjoy them.

if i can get 30-40fps locked with no dips im fine. I cant expect 120hz 120fps on a mobile battery. or hardware. The switch is locked at 30fp and it does just fine. thats just me though

I'm happy to report that many of these games saw performance improvements after Steam OS 3.5 released in the fall of 2023. From my understanding there was a bug with previous versions of Steam OS where sometimes the CPU wasn't full utilized that was fixed with Steam OS 3.5. Additionally Cryoutilities can also help with performance in some of these games.

I purchased Hogwarts Legacy as part of the Winter Sale and am able to get a stable 30 FPS on essentially Medium settings with FSR Quality. You can actually reach 40-60 FPS in most areas of the game, but there are fairly consistent dips below 40 FPS so I'd recommend targeting 30 FPS. There is still some stuttering due to asset streaming unfortunately, but the game is definitely playable and looks very good on deck.

if the Steam Deck came with an RX 6400 equivalent GPU but at the same price it would've been absolutely crazy
I would personally target 30 FPS in most of these games, there's areason why out of these, the ones that come out on PS4 run at 30, and since the Deck is pretty much a handheld PS4 I'd aim for a PS4 like experience

We all know the z1 extreme devices are more capable than the deck or deck oled. Why is it on games like dead space remake, hogwarts legacy, returnal, and a few other heavy hitters, run with substantially less studder on the deck? Same low settings but the legion go is pumping 25 watts, and I still get less studder on the deck, I just don’t understand it, is it proton or somthing ? Or somthing steam OS is doing with shaders? I hope the wizards at DF can take a look and see what’s going on here.

The deck is great for older games which I think is more its use case.

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Every computer game ever made is playable on the steam deck, even more with tweaking just like any other pc. You cant pay a system to use your brain for you no matter how much money you have, thats your job, dont be an idiot and youd have already understood all of this

remote playing from your pc is such an underrated steam deck feature, if i want to be comfy in bed or on a couch playing demanding games i can do so and get even better performance than on my pc bc of the lower resolution.

Harry Potter game is boring and not worth it. I'd wait for deep deep sale

Steam Deck Rocks ❤

When GTA 6 releases, will it run on the OLED version of steam deck? I am still wondering if i should be that vs Asus Rog ally or Lenovo Legion Go, which seems to be great on papers but them running win 11 compromises their performance on certain cases..

I wouldn't try playing anything more recent than 2018-9 on these handhelds. You'll just have a miserable time in terms of visual fidelity, battery life and fan noise. I see my ROG Ally as a device I can catch up on all the titles I missed in the last decade. Newer titles only on my PS5

No shot its gonna be on switch how is it not on deck lol

Man, Returnal really kicks the Deck's butt!

more like steam lag

U can’t call it portable ps4 gaming when it doesn’t play every game the ps4 does as well as the ps4. It’s more like ps3.5

So steam deck cant run 1080 p

I think imma either just get the Ally, Legion Go or save up for a decent spec gaming laptop if the performance is wack on newer games.

I’d cap every one of these games to 40fps and be perfectly happy

I noticed alot of these new games use DX12 which studders the game so I use DX11 instead and no studders.

My original deck died about 45 minutes after starting Hogwarts but I think it was something else because my haptics didn’t seem impressive and it just never acted quite right. I heard others mention how good the haptics were but until I got my replacement deck I thought they were over exaggerated.

I have one, so I will wait to next version of it rather than get oled one

You're joking end of the road, most new games are garbage have 100s of amazing older games.

How does No Man's Sky run?

Imagine buying a "portable console" that didn't manage to play a huge amount of modern games and drained the battery in 1,5 hours of playing in unoptimized pieces of modern game code.
Guys, just buy the Switch oled.

Just noticed, in all of the shots showing the decks performance metrics, the FSR setting is showing as off.
Edit: just realised that that is for the decks inbuilt far setting 😅

Just play the original Dead Space. Probably still looks great and I bet you can run it at high settings over 60 fps at native resolution.

You could put thw bame of the game in every section you show it!! Just saying

I'm playing rdr2 at the mo, it plays smooth on the deck

Expecting anything over 30fps on a handheld is just unrealistic

really?, you used to play the last of us on ps3 at 720p and 30 fps. It is like the original experience but in portable...

The problem tho, 5 months later all these games are deck verified now

I disagree for Hogwarts it plays incredible on my steam deck! Not sure by I set Hogwarts to about 45 fps and I have no issue. And if you do just run it at 60. I dont know about Dead space but the steam deck can run smoothly most of the games listed.

Lmao.. he said "end of the road"..... Bruh deck runs literally almost everything from the past and up til today in a playable fashion. It's crazy and the machine is black magic there is no real end for it.

My biggest fear about the deck is drift analog sticks.

RLY 30 fpS I want to but not anymore. 😂😂😂

Let’s say you tested the “most” bad optimized games by themself, no matter what hardware you use, especially Hogwarts Legacy and TLOU.

If I had the money to buy a steam deck I would buy a ps5
As it is much more powerful able to run any game, nonetheless this still is a good innovation

It would be cool to see some retests on 3.5. Apparently they fixed SMT which makes CPU bound titles perform much better.

can barely run games at 720 lol 2 year old hardware already. rog ally / legion go / ayaneo 2 all way better

Maybe it’s just my eyes getting old but everything looks incredible on deck!

conclusion is devs suck at ports

To be fair I just want something affordable ps4 back. I got a monster pc for newer games.

Games play so much better without denuvo on the steam deck... don't ask me how I know😂😂

I think the deck is severely overrated. It's good but not great as far as gaming. I get it, valve have a strong loyal fan base.but why be loyal to a company? It's definitely better out there at a still affordable price range. If you want to emulate snes just save and buy a switch. Steam deck is a great portable pc out in the field ( which I used it for) but gaming on it😂😂😂😂 my cell phone perform better

Returnal looks like it has an 8 bit filter on it xd

This makes me so glad I bought an ally lol

is steam deck already out dated?