I play a lot of games at 40-45 fps on Deck and knew there would be decent input lag reductions to be had at those refresh rates as soon as I heard about the 90hz screen, it’s one of the things that sold me into upgrading (I may not have bothered if it was just 60hz OLED).
Something else I’m interested to see develop which I’ve not seen discussed is how viable 90hz will make FSR3/frame generation on Deck. I’d wager it’s completely unplayable at 30>60hz but 45>90hz is very playable on my desktop 4080 rig with Nvidia’s implementation and the smaller screen will surely hide any imperfections of the AI frames as long as input lag is acceptable.
I stream on Moonlight in the house too so 90hz again will have big input lag wins in that application along with now being able to stream in HDR. So many potentially game changing upgrades for me, excited to get tinkering!
Man i got my steam deck one month ago. I’m wishing I just waited until the OLED dropped
Comparison is the thief of joy. One can only make a decision with the facts known at the time. Use the deck for the purpose you bought it for and enjoy it.
More on “Valve correct all the problems and early Deck adopters suffer” later…
I literally just bought a refurbished 512gb for CAD$449. Looks brand new too, and now I feel like I should’ve just bought the OLED
Inject this into my veins.
That’s honestly the biggest reason for me to upgrade. The input lag on my current Steam Deck at 30fps is terrible.
I really don’t find games to be enjoyable on the Deck if I have to run them at 30fps.
Damn fomo
Great news on the improvements for LCD with 3.5, too.
I find this is kinda annoying to be honest great if you have an oled happy for you, but a lot don’t and can’t afford one at the moment these kinda things aren’t helpful to most. Also the original lcd would still be the greatest thing since sliced bread if there was no oled edition. Not been an ass but think about it before making a post like this.
I’ve grumbled about input latency under emulation and been downvoted and argued with because apparently emulation perfect. Now we see there was always significant input latency. 🤷♂️
My main sd use case is as essentially a playstation portal device for my pc, the screen was always my biggest gripe with the input lag being close second.
For e every day that pass it just fell better and better thar I ordered the oled 😃♥️
My favorite new “ feature” honestly. 4x controllers for couch games probably do much better with the new Bluetooth setup as well, I would think.
Is there any way to extract the same performance out of a normal Steam Deck?
I’m starting to think Valve hid features so OG owners don’t get even more buyer’s remorse, better input lag, better touchscreen, better gyro are some of the hidden features not mentioned enough on OLED Deck
I bought a SD for convenience and not so much performance. I’m content. I’m looking forward to a 2.0 though.
I’m content.
This makes perfect sense in context but I can’t tell you how many times I had to re-read it over before I understand you were not, in fact, claiming to be a podcast or youtube video.
I’m never gonna buy a Steam device again. Not even two years and your device is already outdated. They should have never marketed this as a console, imagine Nintendo releasing a new Switch every 1.5 years that has performance advantages.
valve’s track record of releasing hardware is pretty bad. the steam machines were a disaster. the steam controller was a disaster AND they got sued by scuff for using the backplate triggers which are patented. the index was and still is overpriced as fuck, not even worth the price of admission. even in 2019 it arguably wasnt due to its tether and lack of standalone functionality.
the deck was the only device they made thats actually built well and priced reasonably, and yet they pissed away a lot of goodwill from it with people like you and I, because they made an improved model less than 2 years after the original and rushed it out after a week of announcement. which wouldnt bother me so much if they actually had some trade-in option.