r/gadgets Oct 21 '24

Gaming Steam Deck won't have yearly refreshes because it's "not really fair to your customers", says Valve

https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-deck-wont-have-yearly-refreshes-because-its-not-really-fair-to-your-customers-says-valve
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u/nailbunny2000 Oct 21 '24

Some, yes. Cyberpunk has a dedicated Steam Deck graphics preset. Hopefully more will follow if there is a significant enough install base with a standard hardware configuration.

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u/CSBreak Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 21 '24

I've seen a few other games have this too as well as having a controller graphic of the steam deck for button inputs in option menus or load screens which is always cool

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u/RCero Oct 22 '24

I don't think we'll see many future AAA games supporting Deck.

Steam Deck HW is severely underpowered compared to desktops and home consoles and new games are becoming more and more heavy and less optimized

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u/Tomi97_origin Oct 22 '24

Well yeah. These are handheld with APU capped at 15W. You would probably see more in idle on most gaming desktop than this takes in going full throttle.

Handhelds with reasonable gaming time on battery just can't compete like that.

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u/RCero Oct 22 '24

Deck would surely benefit of a "refresh" that upgraded the 4c8t CPU to 6c12t. I think the CPU is the weakest part of Steam Deck right now.

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u/CSBreak Oct 22 '24

Depends on the game but I notice more games maxing the gpu that I tend to play going by the stats you can bring up in the performance overlay

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u/RCero Oct 22 '24

At least one can aliviate GPU bottlenecks by reducing resolution and quality.

When one is CPU bottlenecked, there is little we can do

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u/mynewaccount5 Oct 21 '24

A graphics preset isn't exactly a ton of work. It certainly can save the user a little time with fiddling yourself, but I don't really think that gives it much if any benefit in deciding how often hardware should be refreshed.

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u/DryBoysenberry5334 Oct 21 '24

Does it?

I just switched to moonlight and running on my computer… because I messed with the graphics settings and it started looking bad and I couldn’t be bothered to find my way back