Waiting years has been my new normal for games because I’m cheap, and it helps save on hardware costs too due to pushing back the time frame for when I start needing a more powerful system to play them. It’s a win win.
I’m hoping that devs with start offering graphics options for lower powered devices since handheld are gaining popularity. I’m getting a steam deck soon and it will be my main gaming device.
It’s only slightly less powerful than my desktop pc anyway.
I haven’t tried them but I often hear about people modding “potato mode” versions of games (pretty sure one is already out for Starfield and Friends, for example) - fighting game players sometimes use them even if their systems are good to minimize any hitches that would screw up their inputs in a match.
I’m not sure to what degree that sort of thing runs on Deck because of how Proton works, but theoretically that combined with the Deck’s other performance-enhancing modes will help some games run better for you!
That’s interesting. I didn’t know potato mode was anything other than obscure YouTuber content. I rarely play anything demanding, but I’ll look into potato mode for some games.
What I’m really looking forward to playing is fallout new Vegas, disco Elysium, and divinity original sin 2.
I’m sure they will all run super well on the deck.
Waiting years has been my new normal for games because I’m cheap, and it helps save on hardware costs too due to pushing back the time frame for when I start needing a more powerful system to play them. It’s a win win.
We’ve all seen the xkcd, I assume that’s how everyone in this community rolls!
I’m hoping that devs with start offering graphics options for lower powered devices since handheld are gaining popularity. I’m getting a steam deck soon and it will be my main gaming device.
It’s only slightly less powerful than my desktop pc anyway.
I haven’t tried them but I often hear about people modding “potato mode” versions of games (pretty sure one is already out for Starfield
and Friends, for example) - fighting game players sometimes use them even if their systems are good to minimize any hitches that would screw up their inputs in a match.I’m not sure to what degree that sort of thing runs on Deck because of how Proton works, but theoretically that combined with the Deck’s other performance-enhancing modes will help some games run better for you!
That’s interesting. I didn’t know potato mode was anything other than obscure YouTuber content. I rarely play anything demanding, but I’ll look into potato mode for some games.
What I’m really looking forward to playing is fallout new Vegas, disco Elysium, and divinity original sin 2.
I’m sure they will all run super well on the deck.