I found myself often setting the deck to 50 fps to save some performance but still get a very fluid picture.

Do you think running the deck at the highest frequency and halving that will be substantially better then anything from 46-50 or maybe even 46-60 at native frequency?

  • chrisdpratt@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Not necessarily. Sometimes 45 FPS is still a bridge too far. You’ll still get the same benefit at 40 FPS: the screen will run at 80Hz with frame doubling. Even 30 FPS will feel better, because you now get frame tripling instead of just doubling. That means it will feel a little smoother and input lag will be less. Ironically, cranking back to 30 FPS to enjoy better battery life and performance may actually see a little more interest, if anything.

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    1 year ago

    Is 45fps/90hz really smoother than just 45fps and 45hz ? Ice never heard about this triple or double with the Hz before this steam deck was released

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      1 year ago

      Yes, because it’s still able to process input through the duplicate frames provided by 45fps at 90hz. At 45/45 there is a gap between refreshes where input cannot be processed.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve heard this from many sources, but it’s not something that was really a thing before on steam deck of course. 60Hz and 30 fps at 60 is kind of a known standard

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      1 year ago

      The OLED Steam Deck may have popularized discussion of it recently, but this is not some new thing. Well established.

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    1 year ago

    Yep, this is how I’m running D4 now. Used to be a 40/40 guy on previous LED deck. 45 works amazingly, feels smooth as butter & the deck is whisper quiet!