Terrible Performance on Steam Deck

[Spicy Miso Soup]

Jittery animations, not hitting 30FPS. This game would be playable at 30FPS but the damn performance is so bad. This game would bee some serious optimization, but I can see it working for the Deck.

[Pony]

What are you on about? 60fps with dips to 50 on low settings, 50 to 40 on medium.
Runs better than lotf and elden ring.
Does have random crashes though

[Rez]

1 game is not even out yet and 2 you are expecting steam deck to be head to head with high end gaming pc ?

[Nirh]

Originally posted by Pony:

What are you on about? 60fps with dips to 50 on low settings, 50 to 40 on medium.
Runs better than lotf and elden ring.
Does have random crashes though

This is one of those games that feel like they are running 2/3 of the reported FPS. Flintlock at 30 FPS is borderline unplayable on the Deck, feels unresponsive and like it’s skipping frames, making it hard to react. I had to drastically lower settings and visual quality to get 50 FPS to beat the demo’s last boss.

Elden ring is properly responsive and feels pretty good to play even at 30 FPS, did some SotE right after and was subjectively easier (bosses aside) for this reason.

[ELDRIIN]

Get asus rog ally X (comes out monday), steam deck is too weak to run games.

[overencumbered]

Shouldn't be tagged as Playable on SD. Getting around 20 FPS on the demo after lowering all the quality presets. Too bad, because aside from that, it seems like it might be fun.

[Nirh]

Originally posted by 🅴🅻🅳🆁🅸🅸🅽:

Get asus rog ally X (comes out monday), steam deck is too weak to run games.

No thanks, I like the OLED screen, touchpads, SteamOS and performance ranges from perfect to ok for almost everything I want to play.
I’ll buy a gaming laptop (and eventually stream from it to the Deck) should I need more performance.

[ELDRIIN]

Originally posted by Nirh:

Originally posted by 🅴🅻🅳🆁🅸🅸🅽:

Get asus rog ally X (comes out monday), steam deck is too weak to run games.

No thanks, I like the OLED screen, touchpads, SteamOS and performance ranges from perfect to ok for almost everything I want to play.
I’ll buy a gaming laptop (and eventually stream from it to the Deck) should I need more performance.

But steam deck is locked like apple devices, with windows 11 you can play any game/emu/limitless.

Besides the OLED on the steamdeck is nothing compared to lg c4 oleds/monitors. Its a lesser oled, so ill take a true portable pc over an ok weak portable oled machine. To each own.

[Spicy Miso Soup]

Originally posted by 🅴🅻🅳🆁🅸🅸🅽:

Originally posted by Nirh:

No thanks, I like the OLED screen, touchpads, SteamOS and performance ranges from perfect to ok for almost everything I want to play.
I’ll buy a gaming laptop (and eventually stream from it to the Deck) should I need more performance.

But steam deck is locked like apple devices, with windows 11 you can play any game/emu/limitless.

That is so far from the truth, I don't even know what to say to that.

[Astronimo]

Mortismal said that on his Steam deck it was fine with some minor issue (and a rare one).
https://youtu.be/GnWb9xO4Xmg?t=1151

[Nirh]

Originally posted by 🅴🅻🅳🆁🅸🅸🅽:

the OLED on the steamdeck is nothing compared to lg c4 oleds/monitors. Its a lesser oled, so ill take a true portable pc over an ok weak portable oled machine. To each own.

Yeah, that’s the same argument I make against buying a Ally. Its performance is crap compared to a laptop, so if I’m after performance and visuals I’d get a proper gaming PC.

A laptop with a 4080 may cost twice as much as a Ally X where I live, but the performance difference is massive and obvious.

A LG OLED gaming monitor is similarly twice the price of the Deck, but besides size there isn’t such obvious difference in image quality. And if you buy the monitor … you still need to buy a PC too.