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[–] 48 points 10 months ago (30 children)

I am continuously shocked that people play things like BG3 or Cyberpunk on their Steam Deck. I love my Deck, and play it lots, but those games run like absolute garbage on it.

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  • [–] 61 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    BG3 actually runs great now. Larian has been grinding away at it all year. Native Linux and all.

    Cyberpunk is playable if you avoid the expansion areas.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I read about their native implementation and think that is awesome of them. I have been meaning to try it again since but honestly remain skeptical that it's an enjoyable experience, for my standards at least. I think that is a game that will remain on desktop for me.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    It’s definitely not 60FPS but it is a smooth 30 finally. Bigger deal in my opinion is it hits 30FPS without overly strong FSR as it was previously. The picture is more than just barely playable now.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I played before the full Linux build, and I even used to do it with Ps5 controller on my 55' TV.

    The game worked great honestly, it did crash once or twice, and it did slow waaaaaay down when getting into fights with 20+ people, but that was always due to my own mods and what not. Definitely not native experience.

    All that to say, it worked very well before they made a deck/Linux specific version so I'd imagine that it works darn near flawlessly now.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I'm surprised Cyberpunk runs on the Steam Deck as well as it does. It truly is an incredible little machine.

    I am continuously shocked that people play things like BG3 or Cyberpunk on their Steam Deck.

    When one has no other choice, one plays one's favourite game under any conditions. When I was little, I played Minecraft at 15 to 20 FPS and the lowest draw distance.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    yep, I got through about 50 hours of Subnautica at ~15 fps back in the day.

    Even portal with RTX is kinda playable on the steam deck though if you use that config that one person made to enable fsr3 and do some default settings changes, and put the gpu clock up to full

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    We're so spoiled by graphical power nowadays. It's easy to forget there was a time when a consistent 30 fps was like using 4k+ with high fps today.

    Then again, I played some newer titles for the first time in a while, and the state of optimization brings some of the feelings right back.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I mean the human eye can only see 30fps

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    This is absolutely untrue. Most people can see the 60hz strobe of the US electrical grid. This is why cheap night lights seem to flash.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I sat through Yakuza Kiwami 2 at unstable 20fps like 4 years ago, and recently played E33 at 20-30.

    30fps is terrible until you play for like 20 minutes and get used to it, though the instability was actually bad. I tried 120fps for the first time recently with Silksong, but going back to 60 wasn't bad either.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    When I played games I gta3 worked on my pentium 3 like shit, minimum resolution, probably less than 10fps and very slow. Still played a reasonable amount. The vice city arrived and played much smoother without constantly blocking. Managed to play it to the end.

    Any potato can run any game.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    With Decky LSFG-VK and Power Tools i get around 100 fps in cp2077 and 80 fps in BG3. I haven't reached anywhere in BG3 that really taxes the graphics like the lower or inner city yet.

    I've even been playing Starfield around 100 fps outside new atlantis. Graphics are choking everywhere my nv3080 was.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    they run fine on my deck.

    if you're looking for a 4k, 200fps experience on a handheld device, you will not find it. that's not what the steam deck is for.

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  • [+] -15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    That's a nice straw man you've built there, but me and my opinion are over here.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I don't believe that means what you think it does.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Seemed like you attacked a position that I did not take. If I misunderstood, then my bad.

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