A new month is here, and something I haven't done recently is a look over what's been the most popular on Steam Deck. So here's what you've all been playing the most over the last month.
I just wish the SD was a bit more powerful. Recently especially with those UE5 games we need to install some custom scripts just to make them playable and usually they don’t even look good. I love the Deck, but Steam should really update the APU.
Seems like the UE5 games can’t get steady framerates on most hardware, but I know what you mean.
I’m definitely looking forward to steam deck 2, but I do appreciate that Valve isn’t pushing out a new one each year with slightly improved specs. And now that the nintendo switch 2 has about the same power as the steam deck, maybe we’ll see UE5 and some other engines actually try to run well at that performance level.
Agreed. We don’t need it to perform like an RTX 5090 but just a smidge more power would get a ton of recent games into playable frame rates. I still don’t know how people play BG3 on the deck.
There hasn’t really been anything worthwhile to upgrade to yet. More powerful handhelds do exist, but most make use of APUs that are 50-100% more power hungry, while not actually achieving that much of a performance increase.
Valve is waiting for the next generation of 15W APUs, and meanwhile the new Ryzen Z2 A APU is actually based on the one made for the Deck because it’s still basically the most efficient APU they have.
I just wish the SD was a bit more powerful. Recently especially with those UE5 games we need to install some custom scripts just to make them playable and usually they don’t even look good. I love the Deck, but Steam should really update the APU.
Seems like the UE5 games can’t get steady framerates on most hardware, but I know what you mean.
I’m definitely looking forward to steam deck 2, but I do appreciate that Valve isn’t pushing out a new one each year with slightly improved specs. And now that the nintendo switch 2 has about the same power as the steam deck, maybe we’ll see UE5 and some other engines actually try to run well at that performance level.
Agreed. We don’t need it to perform like an RTX 5090 but just a smidge more power would get a ton of recent games into playable frame rates. I still don’t know how people play BG3 on the deck.
I requested a refund for BG3 because it’s not as good as a verified version IMO, but valve refused it.
‘How people play BG3 on the deck?’
If you urgently want to play games on the deck, 25-30fps and basic graphics quality are tolerable.
I love my steam deck so much, but i really want to buy a steam deck 2 ASAP!
There hasn’t really been anything worthwhile to upgrade to yet. More powerful handhelds do exist, but most make use of APUs that are 50-100% more power hungry, while not actually achieving that much of a performance increase.
Valve is waiting for the next generation of 15W APUs, and meanwhile the new Ryzen Z2 A APU is actually based on the one made for the Deck because it’s still basically the most efficient APU they have.