Leaked Patch Notes Confirm Starfield Compatibility with Steam Deck
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Leaked Patch Notes Confirm Starfield Compatibility with Steam Deck - Game Is Hard

While it’s great news that Bethesda is making an effort to make sure Starfield will run on Deck, I’d still like to recommend that most people wait for performance reports before buying and expecting a good experience.

  • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Someone said that valve does not want to upgrade the Steamdecks cpu regularly that way it can act as a baseline for games to target.

    I kind of like this approach. I think so many devs focus on making everything bleeding edge when most of us would be happy playing with low settings.

    Maybe the steamdeck will lead to further optimizations to these games down the line and maybe games that are early in development will try to target the steamdeck for the minimum spec.

    Starfield and bg3 were too far along in development when steamdeck game out for them to optimize for it.

    I’ll be happy to see how it runs though.

    • Fidelity9373@artemis.camp
      4·
      1 year ago

      “Tricks” like FSR should certainly make a single platform be able to last longer. Say what you will about the techs usefulness on top of the line hardware, low/mid level hardware like the deck/ally/switch is where it’s greatest benefits lie.

      • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        FSR really shows it’s limitations when you’re running a low resolution to begin with. I want to like it, but it’s pretty noticeable and jarring with every game I’ve tried it with, including BG3.

      • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        My desktop gpu is an rx470 4gb.

        It’s only slightly more powerful than the steamdeck. I’ve been waiting for the day when modern gaming can comfortably be done on an igpu.

        I think we are basically there now.