I still love playing latest Triple-A games, but not on release. Playing games on launch day is pretty much participating in payed Beta. Especially with developers asking you to raise technical support tickets, as if it was your job. What a joke.

I bought my Deck because I travel a lot, and there is nothing worse than boredom during travel. There is a lot of older games that can’t be played on Deck anyways. Cyberpunk being 3-years old game and being borderline unplayable on Deck, for example.

I still don’t know what to look for. I checked on YouTube but there is not that much about it either.

It’s LIMITED EDITION and it has worse screen than standard OLED?! What the actual shit?!

I am not impressed by VALVE’s reply, but at the same time I’m intrigued. Can bad pixel “fix” itself over time? That would be interesting to see. Maybe you should use it for a while. Play for a few days, see if there is any change. If not, at least we can call out VALVe for being full of shit.

It’s not very complicated but it’s really difficult to explain.

1. VALVe wants to make a PC console

2. They want to encourage developers to make games with Deck as one of the focus platforms

3. To encourage developers, VALVe wants one device, so it’s easier to code

4. Developers might be discouraged by many different variants of basically the same device

5. Steam Deck might be too young and risky for developers to focus their resources on, especially if they have to put additional efforts to code on many different variants

6. VALVe wants developers to treat Deck as a console, not as PC

7. Games usually run pretty well on consoles, because it’s easier to optimise on one device, instead of many variants and combinations of hardware. That’s why many games run better on consoles than on theoretically stronger PCs.

8. If a game is coded with Deck in mind from the get-go, it might outperform theoretically stronger PCs.

CD Projekt released Cyberpunk 2077 almost 3 years ago. The game is still a bag of garbage with dozens of issues that were known from release and never addressed to this day. And we are talking about a piece of software that you can fix by pressing buttons on your keyboard.

I’ll compare my LCD with my OLED once back home and come back to you. So far I’m loving the OLED screen. My LCD has back bleed and way too much ghosting during camera movement than I’d prefer. Colours coverage is also worse on LCD. I haven’t noticed anything wrong with controls, I’ll compare them and let you know how they feel. At the moment I can’t think of any lack in quality. The battery in OLED is way better, OLED is also quieter and runs cooler. In my case, subjectively, OLED is a huge improvement.

It would appear that only LE has BOE screens. Although I can’t be bothered looking it up on my standard OLED. I’m counting on VALVe to give us an option to check it in device information instead of searching for it in Desktop Mode. Just how they attached information of type of fan in LCD decks.

I have both LCD and OLED SD, use the old case because it’s simply better. It has this pull strip inside, I don’t have to claw my Deck out. It doesn’t have this annoying velcro flap that prevents me from easily unzip my case. I don’t use carrying case outdoors, I got myself a third party carrying bag. The colour of the logo doesn’t bother me, but I like the new power button.

As far as I know, no screensaver. From my observations during downloads, it stops downloading when the screen is off. I’m not concerned about burn-ins, I don’t believe I’ll see any change in display quality for at least 2 years. Definitely not after 6h of downloading games. xD

It looks like overwhelming majority of issues with OLED comes with Limited Edition (aka “LE”). Size of SSD drive has nothing to do with it, you will be most likely fine with buying 1rb OLED. I know it’s not of a proof of quality, but I got my OLED 1TB last friday and got no issues with the screen. No dead pixels. I’m not saying all non-LE decks are good, all I’m saying is, it’s not like all OLED decks come with defects.

Some games have limited framerate due to graphical/physics engines relaying on framerate to calculate stuff. If you push the game to run faster than its internal “clock”, you might end up with everything speeding up randomly, scripts not triggering (automatic door won’t open after cutscene, for example) or physics doing weird shit (objects, dead bodies, vehicles launching into space/glitching out on impact). You don’t need wikipedia to figure out your game. Go to game options, check if there is a slider or an option to make the game run at 90 frames per second. If there is none, chances are that the game is framerate-locked. You can try disabling v-synch, some old games have v-synch synching only up to 60fps. After disabling v-synch, make sure you are limiting the framerate withink steam deck settings for the game, see if that works.

Sorry, I never play at 30fps. I have both LCD and OLED SD, all I can tell you is that OLED screen on Steam Deck has way less ghosting, making the image sharper and easier on my eyes.

I just checked: you have to lower a lot of details to get stable 60fps. And dynamic lights and shadows bug out all the time. There is a lot of issues with lighting and shadow artefacting. It is by all means playable, but it’s very jank at the moment.

Bioshock Infinite runs at 90fps and looks incredible on OLED.

I know it’s the old game, but Half-Life 1 runs and looks amazing on Deck xD

Vast majority of games below runs at either 60 or 90fps, either at full details, or with some details lowered to reach 60/90fps.

Only Cult of the Lamb runs below 60, but only under certain circumstances. Only Fallout 4 doesn’t feel all that great, even though it technically runs at 60.

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Alan Wake

Alien isolation

Bioshock Remastered

Bioshock Infinite

Black Mesa

Carrion

Cat Quest 1 and 2

Cult of the Lamb (performance in the village drops heavily over time, as your little village expands, but dungeon crawling sections are unaffected and run really well)

Dead Space

Deus Ex Human Revolution

Dishonored

Disney NES collection

Enslaved Odyssey to the West

Fallout 4 (although the frame time is inconsistent, making the game feel like it’s running at lower framerate than it actually runs)

Half Life 1

Halo Master Chief Collection

Hardware Shipbreaker

A Hat in Time

Into the Breach

LEGO Star Wars

Mad Max

Metal Gear Solid 5

Ground Zeroes

Shadow of Mordor

Mirror’s Edge

Moonlighter

Ni No Kuni Remaster

Pit People

Prey

Rain World

Sine Mora

Styx Master of Shadows

Subnautica

Tomb Raider

Tunic

Warhammer 40k Space Marine

I never used the mic in my Deck. Not even once.

I have LCD and OLED, but I’ll give LCD away to my family. I don’t need two decks.

You have to disable gyro controls for the game. I’m sure you can do it per game, do you don’t have to disable gyro altogether. Although I did just that. I genuinely hate gyro controls.

Try Bioshock Infinite. Runs 90fps and looks incredible on OLED.

You won’t get decent performance in latest games on Deck. Unless playing at lowest possible details and 30fps you call “decent performance”. I have SD LCD and SD OLED and play older AAA games that can run at full detail at 60-90fps. There is a good selection of older titles that can do that. And you can obviously run all the indie games you want on Deck. But games like Cyberpunk 2077? People who call CP2077 or Horizon Zero Dawn performance “decent” are deranged. Although games like MGS 5 or Alien Isolation work really damn well.