Perhaps I didn’t do enough research into the expected performance for some beefier titles that i have in my library, but why is 30FPS the norm?!

Seems like people set the bar for whether a game runs well on deck or not to be 30FPS. That’s ridiculous… 30FPS is peasantry. Aren’t we PC gamers?!

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    I hate people like this mannnn … spends money n doesn’t do research before buying and then complains about the purchase. CLOWNERY LOGIC AT BEST

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      Really… I wish I had as much money as these clowns if they can just throw money like that

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    So let me get this straight . You bought a HANDHELD and you expected 60fps on starfield ? Are you out of your mind ?

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    Framepacing under SteamOS feels great. The new 30fps/60hz lock is wonderful. It feels like a console tailored 30.

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    this is why I just don’t play the newest games on it unless they are properly optimized like Lies of P. a majority of games made will run at 60fps on steam deck but nobody should expect it to run most new games well.

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    Bro I grew up playing single-digit-fps 3D games and loved it.

    I was walking uphill 15 miles the entire time too!

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    I’ve played a lot of hours of demanding games on the Deck; I do all of my gaming on the Deck. I played a lot of Deep Rock Galactic (600h), too much Cyberpunk 2077 (400h), a little Kena: Bridge of Spirits (4h), and a reasonable amount of Horizon Zero Dawn (100h).

    These are fairly demanding games and while the default graphics settings grant you around 30 fps which is good enough, I’ve installed cryo utilities and played around with the graphic settings a lot, and generally average closer to 45 fps.

    For Cyberpunk 2077, the issue is primarily driving, because moving faster increases the graphical load, and this significantly reduces fps to something like 20 to 30, and the new area (Dog Town) is also a problem, for whatever reason. Most of the time though, I’m playing at 40 fps in non-demanding circumstances.

    For Deep Rock Galactic, the issue arises mostly at higher difficulties with more numerous enemies, but with cryo and the right graphics settings I’ve pushed it to a steady 40 fps all around, without making it look like a potato.

    Horizon Zero Dawn runs actually totally fine and gets you an easy 50 fps in most circumstances, but riding along a mount and travelling in the world causes weird huge lag spikes (in SteamOS, probably due to Proton related bug), but I find them uncommon enough that I’ve played a good 100 hours just fine.

    Kena: Bridge of Spirits on the other hand runs like an absolute charm, hitting a good 50 fps all around without lag spikes in general once you use a little more up scaling than the default.

    I don’t know what games you play but I would recommend playing around with the settings, maybe pushing the up scaling a little further, maybe disabling some particles, depending on whether you care more about performance or quality.

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      Proton isn’t why horizon has those stutters, it’s just the pc version, stutters are just something that happens for most pc builds

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        Horizon Zero Dawn runs smoothly on Windows from what the internet claims if you install Windows on the Deck it runs just fine, but the internet could be wrong.

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    If you want FPS you can go for the Asus Rog Ally and just keep the fucker plugged in 24/7. There’s nothing wrong with that. There are options out there.

    As someone who grew up on a N64 with games running somewhere in the teens I can manage a clean locked 30 on a portable system playing a AAA title, especially if the battery can exceed 2 hours.

    With all that said, with enough tweaks I can generally hit 45fps with recent games, which on a 90hz display is very clean. No complaints here.

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    It’s a handheld PC, it’s focused on efficiency not pure power. If you want pure power get a gaming laptop or desktop PC. I don’t care if this is PC gaming, everyone still has different standards. You are expecting way too much power in a portable system