I’m gonna get downvoted to oblivion for this…

I just got my new OLED and weirdly enough, upon booting it I saw something that I didn’t even think of till now. With the new OLED, the sub-pixel arrangement is slightly different than the LCD, and it’s causing white edge (specially on text) to have this green/magenta fringing. It’s extremely faint, and it’s not particular to the Steam Deck since I know of other OLED panels that have the same fringing. However I have heard zero mention of this and I have to say that although this matters close to nothing while playing videogames, it’s something I do see with subtitles.

With this out of the way, the screen looks amazing and I’m more than ready to sell and replace my LCD deck now. I hope the technology gets there where this isn’t an issue anymore!

Steam Deck LCD

Steam Deck OLED

  • FenriCZ@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Thank you for sharing. I believe this is valuable post, bcs if this can be fixed by Valve on SW level, as other comments sugests, this needs to be talked about so they even care to improve this. Without criticism there cant be improvement. Glorify SD only without valid criticism (even i love SD btw) will not push the improvements where there needs to be.

    Nuf said, I hope this will be improved, as other problems on 3.5 FW. For example since the update má Wi-Fi acting strangly when in Steam shop (disaconnecting periodicaly) but it is ok when downloading stuff, i suspecting some emergy saving feature which needs to be adjusted. And theres surly more issues to be solved.