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The People Who Put Emulators on Your Steam Deck Now Want to Sell You a Linux Console (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

I'll disagree on the ssd part. I got a refurbished deck and have no issues with load times from the micro sd. But big yeah on the ram.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I get what you mean. When I played cyberpunk 2077 on my PC I noticed a huge performance benefit moving it from my spinning disk to my SSD. I think it's because it dynamically loads as you play. So driving a car fast down the road for example leads to a lot of distant objects loading very late.

    But on my steam deck I play all kinds of other titles. Even play coop Elden ring and that runs fine but the load times definitely lack compared to my desktop 🤣.

    So I think YMMV depending on the game. I've got a 512GB deck with a 1TB SD card, SD card works pretty all right.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Might also have something to do with the size of files that need to be loaded on a less powerful device. Just conjecturing.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    In my case for cyberpunk it was all on my desktop, SSD vs spinning disk. For my deck it was Elden ring and one other game which I can't remember. But typically most everything runs fine off the SD card.

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