coolest feature steam – except for everything, if you ask me – how a gaming laptop lets you get the most out of AMD RDNA 2 graphics and a 40 Wh battery. from Last updateyou can reduce the refresh rate of the screen to Suite Efficient frame rate and low latency, I was able to throttle the CPU, GPU and frame limiter since launch. The Goal: Even if you discover a great combination that will give you the battery life and/or performance you crave, Steam Deck can’t to safeguard These settings are for each game.
You will need to memorize them and click the keys appropriately each time you switch to a different game. That changes today.
Wednesday update It now comes with per-game performance settings, allowing you to click a single key in the quick-access menu to set a custom performance profile for each of your games.
Click that, and you’ll go back to the global system settings, so you might have the “I generally like to run my games at 30fps” setting but also ” old ring It should run at 40fps with a 40Hz refresh rate.vampire survivors It should run at 10fps and 5W because I want it to run for the duration of this ride” if desired.
It’s been one of Steam Deck’s most requested features since the beginning, and hopefully there will be more to come – because non Allows you to set multiple profiles (like one when you plug in AC power and another for the longest battery life you can manage), or save and share profiles with the wider community so that we can help the happy low-power users among us. better play their games smoothly.
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(Valve has shown us before how powerful this can be with Community Console Profiles – and the main reason so many older games can be played instantly on Steam Deck is that users were encouraged to download builds from Steam Controller at the time.)
I suspect Valve is well aware of this, and today’s update lays the groundwork for this as well. Because while Steam Deck is still Don’t be ready For anyone who might buy a Nintendo Switch, update next Update Show that Valve is listening intently and carefully to the user feedback stream.
digital foundry i did it recently Excellent appearance How the previous update’s adjustable refresh rate and fan curve let you get the most out of the Steam Deck. I am including a copy below for your viewing pleasure.
you can read Save the full Steam Deck changelog here. The rest are mostly bug fixes, though you can now hold down the power button to ‘stop streaming’ a game, and Valve has moved the haptic and sound switches away from the quick access menu. This is a change I don’t agree with; They came in handy when an old toy (can’t remember) got too jittery with the vibrations.