Hi all,
Just got my 512 OLED the other day, upgrading from my old LCD Steam Deck. (Incidentally, moving all my games and settings from old to new Steam Deck was no more complicated than swapping over the SD card and SSD; worked immediately with no tweaking). Of course, like most of you, I was immediately stunned by the beautiful black levels and vibrant colours. However, one amazing discovery happened by accident.
I don’t usually play modern AAA games on my Deck, using it instead for legacy Steam titles and emulation. One of my favourites to play is Unreal Tournament. I fired it up and played a few deathmatch rounds, and again marvelled at the colours and slightly improved sound. But then I started thinking: man this display is smooth. It doesn’t just feel more vibrant, but… smoother. Then I remembered: oh yeah, it’s a 90Hz display! So I loaded up GameScope and saw that, indeed, the game was running at a locked 90fps. And what’s more, it was running at very low thermals! (I mean, it is a 1999 game after all).
This was SUCH an upgrade. Fast-paced FPS games feel SO much better at these higher framerates. And what;s more, it was totally unexpected. I was aware that the new OLED was a 90Hz panel, of course, but I didn’t expect to run anything at 90fps. But this SO fits my use case: older, faster games.
Very, very satisfied with the upgrade!
bruh 90fps apex, game changer, anyone have good settings for competitive with low fan noise?
normally i run at 10tdp
What accessories does the 512gb come with? Do you get the pouch and the cleaning cloth?
Currently in the process of transferring 200 games from PC to my new OLED lol. Also upgrading from the LCD one for me and the screen is unbelievable. Cannot wait to try a bunch of indies out at 90 fps.
Yeah UT is so good on my LCD Deck. Looking forward to trying it out on the OLED.
This is one of the reasons I moved to ROG Ally the combination of VRR and 120fps and the extra performance to get higher frames made it a no brainer. I’m playing Monster Hunter Rise at 100fps
Have you tried the Lenovo? I’m starting to lean towards this for the screen size.
Lenovo doesn’t have VRR, it has worse software, more uncomfortable to hold, and loud fan noise as well as bad speakers.
That’s good to know. I’ve watched a few videos and they seemed pretty comparable. I didn’t know about the noise.
I ordered the LE on the 21st. It got packaged last night. I’m so impatiently waiting for it to get shipped! 🤣
I can’t decide btwn the 512 and LE. It’s more expensive but I wonder if the resale value will be much higher for the LE down the line for some fan boy collector.
Probably not, to be honest. I would strictly make the decision on what you want for yourself.
Just wait till you get a 144 Herz monitor
240hz gang rise up.
Are the menus in 90hz? That’s one improvement I would love to see. Changing tabs on libraries was always really laggy, etc.
I haven’t spent much time in the menus but I did notice an improvement in UI responsiveness and smoothness, especially in the Steam Input sections
You really can’t beat Quake II on the OLED!
That new remaster of Quake 2 is the fucking gold standard of remasters. Pure excellence, from top to bottom. I’ve had some people actually have the gall to say that the Metal Gear remaster angst is overdone and exaggerated, as in, “what do you really expect from a remaster?” The answer: the Quake 2 remaster.
Anyways now that that’s out of my system, quick question: does the new remaster run at 90fps well?
It isn’t a solid 90 across the board. It’ll dip down to the 70s, but you don’t even notice.
And that’s the best part! It was free for me because I bought Quake 2 vanilla like 9 years ago!
How does it feel with triple A games at 30-45 fps? Does it actually smooth it out like the influencers said?
Honestly, the latency improvements have been pretty night and day. I’m admittedly a bit of an fps snob, being a longtime PC gamer and all, but 30fps is legitimately playable now.
I still vastly prefer the smoothness of 60 fps or higher, don’t get me wrong, but at least it doesn’t feel like the controls are dragging through molasses anymore.
First game I booted up was Starfield because I couldn’t stand to play it before and ended up exploring and scanning an entire planet before I realized how much time had passed. Unfortunately there’s really nothing to be done about the traversal stutter when moving too quickly through environments, but otherwise when capped to 30fps it’s actually pretty enjoyable.
Hogwarts Legacy was exactly the same story as well. Before I never played it on deck because it just felt a little too off. Now, I might actually end up picking the game back up now that I can play it on the go.
Older titles like Fallout 4 are truly wonderful playing portably at 90fps. The recent Quake II redux that came out this year feels like it was made for the Deck now.
Honestly from my perspective the OLED Deck feels like a whole new console. I still wish it had the power of the Z1 Extreme but color me surprised, this ought to be enough to hold me off until Valve’s next iteration/spec bump can arrive in another year or two.
While the people like me who ordered in the first hour still waiting for shipment number. This is bullsh*t. Have fun though, ive heard there may be dead pixels on some models, hopefully you are safe from that.