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How good is the steam deck6/25/2023 You can buy it on Humble Store and Steam. ![]() And just like PUBG, a game I played for 452. It fits the hardware and has quick access to any setting you may want to change mid-game. This is the same leaker who claimed that pricing. It’s a Linux computer that plays Windows games like a Nintendo Switch with unheard-of bang for the buck. There's no doubt, the Steam Deck is a better experience when it's running SteamOS. Though the conversion from the leaked US price of 699 would mean a 632 price point, VAT increases that to an MSRP higher than the Steam Deck. ![]() Seems it's quite a problematic port overall, as the Steam user reviews instantly went down to Mixed (Edit: and now "Mostly Negative"), with many people on Windows reporting problematic performance and constant crashes. The Steam Deck has a unique formula, too. Now think about people who do genuinely swap between PC and Steam Deck, practically the entire refund window gone to see if you have issues with it.įor desktop though, you can of course get much better performance and at least on the Linux side, it actually seems to run reasonably well even at 2560x1440 with FSR set to Balanced it can mostly stick around 60FPS.īoth shots were actually 60FPS, but Plasma screenshot spikes the FPS down. The Steam Deck is an amazing gaming device that has many features, but you might not touch half of them if you simply remove the handheld from its box and start playing PC games. With Steam Deck, which is a handheld console but also a straight-up Linux PC running Windows games through a translation layer, you’ll have to be a bit more hands-on when it comes time to start optimizing your games for performance and battery life. When you only have a 2 hour refund window on Steam, that's not good. Then it took a good 30 minutes (almost to the dot) to do the shaders even with this clearly much more powerful system. Valve did give it a special Proton Hotfix, which doesn't seem to have done enough to make it properly playable or be something I can recommend at this time.Īs for how it runs on desktop Linux? On my Ryzen 7 5800X and NVIDIA 2080 Ti (Fedora KDE), it gives an out of date driver warning that can be ignored to begin with. ![]() YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view.
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