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!
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!