You mean unforeseen consequences…

You can cap in-game framerate to 45 and leave Steam cap at 90. The 45 divides nicely into 90 so you’ll get nice frame pacing. If the game doesn’t have a 45 option, then you can of course use Steam’s frame limiter. If you set the slider to 45, Steam OS will run the display at 90 but cap the game to 45, which also gives you smooth motion because of the even division. However, using the Steam frame rate cap usually incurs a latency hit, so prefer in-game framerate caps when possible.

Can’t tell if joking lmao. USB-C port on bottom means a way better docking experience and no cord drape when you’re holding it.

Are they doing anything special with suspend / resume besides just using whatever’s built into Linux? It might just work on a Linux PC with an AMD GPU.

Yeah, the loading screens are insane. Just going to a quest location requires 3-4 loading screens. That wouldn’t be so bad if the quests were meaty, but so far it’s been a bunch of “go here, pick up this artifact, go here and kill a bunch of spacers in this generic base, go back to lodge”, etc.

Even before the OLED videos, they were saying that 40Hz is a nice sweet spot because it gives you a frame time that’s exactly halfway between what you’d get with 30 and 60 fps. In other words, it only takes 10 more frames a second to get you half way to the latency and responsiveness that you see with 60Hz.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/17ubyqw/comment/k9zi5fm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I have the 512GB OLED and fortunately I did not get any dead pixels.

Do you happen to have Allow tearing enabled? I’ve noticed that some games really don’t like that option and will exhibit bad frame pacing whenever its enabled.

Yes, there have been numerous performance improvements in the patches and the Steam OS 3.5 update. I am usually getting a stable 30fps @ Medium (in-game capped) but Skyrest still occasionally dips below into the 26 fps range. Overall, I’ve been enjoying my time playing it on the Deck. I am actually pretty impressed how well the Deck is handling it, considering its a UE5 title.

Don’t some stuff need to be upstreamed first before vanilla Arch can work well on the Deck?

…3.5 is already out now in stable.

Why not just update to the preview build if you’re so eager for 3.5. It works great at the moment. Just switch back to stable when it comes out lmao.