exactly what the title says. I will note that my steam deck runs Windows 11. I bought it that way on purpose.
Take, for instance, super Mario maker 2. If I tweak and work with the settings on my windows 11 Alienware 17 r5 with a GeForce gtx 1070 (even overclocked), 16 GB of ram. Normally runs pretty much anything I throw at it. But I get maybe 5 to 15 frames per second in super Mario maker two which I’m using as a benchmark just on the first level in story mode, I can run Metroid dread at 25 to 32 frames per second, can’t even run TOTK. I’m using sin’s release of yuzu if that makes any difference/helps. only one that ever seem to work.
Anyway, I take those exact same files on the exact same flash drive, or put some on the internal SSD of the deck, I’ve tried both, and the steam deck runs it at 60 to 80 frames a second, other games get 120 to 200+ frames a second.
Why is this? Everything that logic stands for should say that the Alienware should run everything far better including the switch not just steam games. why is this?
Everything I can think of logically says that the Alienware which plays regular steam games FAR better should run the switch games better since it’s far more powerful or is there something I’m missing we’re not thinking about which plays regular steam games far better should run the switch games better since it’s far more powerful or is there something I’m missing in not aware of?
It might be helpful to note that when I run it on the steam deck I’m running not attached to a TV. I’ve even tried dropping the system wide resolution on the Alienware to 720 or 1080 like you do when you dick the deck to see if that helped the framerate but nope
All energy saving options off. I never once thought the CPU would be the bottleneck because I’m sitting here exporting a build of some code, or of an animation or something that takes a while and has extraordinarily CPU intensive like using gcc to compile a MASSIVE project (C and C++ for this one) or for that matter, uploading an entire project to githubs website via git cli. when this thing is under heavy load it flies. It goes up to 4+ghz. and my archiving, unarchiving, compiling code into a program, etc are done super quick compared to others, and it’s been the best hardware of at least anyone I’ve been around or any I see in stores so I didn’t think it was that far behind in terms of power. Maybe instruction sets. It’s got an eGPU port so if I want I can connect a desktop card to it. I guess I don’t have a reference to the current bleeding edge hardware performance. I just knew it was still better than most. Anyway just explaining my logic.
I still think it was a good question. I think people put too much importance on having the most bleeding edge hardware they can get.