Honestly, the latency improvements have been pretty night and day. I’m admittedly a bit of an fps snob, being a longtime PC gamer and all, but 30fps is legitimately playable now.
I still vastly prefer the smoothness of 60 fps or higher, don’t get me wrong, but at least it doesn’t feel like the controls are dragging through molasses anymore.
First game I booted up was Starfield because I couldn’t stand to play it before and ended up exploring and scanning an entire planet before I realized how much time had passed. Unfortunately there’s really nothing to be done about the traversal stutter when moving too quickly through environments, but otherwise when capped to 30fps it’s actually pretty enjoyable.
Hogwarts Legacy was exactly the same story as well. Before I never played it on deck because it just felt a little too off. Now, I might actually end up picking the game back up now that I can play it on the go.
Older titles like Fallout 4 are truly wonderful playing portably at 90fps. The recent Quake II redux that came out this year feels like it was made for the Deck now.
Honestly from my perspective the OLED Deck feels like a whole new console. I still wish it had the power of the Z1 Extreme but color me surprised, this ought to be enough to hold me off until Valve’s next iteration/spec bump can arrive in another year or two.
Hot Wheels: Unleashed definitely works for me in HDR. I did adjust some of the PQ settings but that’s it and you have to do the same with Spider-Man and Cyberpunk too.
I’m not really sure what exactly you mean by “doesn’t work”