Leaked Patch Notes Confirm Starfield Compatibility with Steam Deck
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Leaked Patch Notes Confirm Starfield Compatibility with Steam Deck - Game Is Hard

While it’s great news that Bethesda is making an effort to make sure Starfield will run on Deck, I’d still like to recommend that most people wait for performance reports before buying and expecting a good experience.

  • RaincoatsGeorgeEnglish
    311·
    10 months ago

    I just don’t think the steam deck is going to be able to handle this game. Baldurs Gate 3 is certified playable and they did a great job making it a seamless experience but it’s obvious that the system strains in anywhere but the most sparse locations.

    The steam deck just isn’t meant to play all the AAA next gen ray traced games and nobody should expect it to do so. It already goes further than any handheld on the market, I don’t need it to play starfield. I need it to play cult of the lamb really well. And it does. And I love it.

    • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Someone said that valve does not want to upgrade the Steamdecks cpu regularly that way it can act as a baseline for games to target.

      I kind of like this approach. I think so many devs focus on making everything bleeding edge when most of us would be happy playing with low settings.

      Maybe the steamdeck will lead to further optimizations to these games down the line and maybe games that are early in development will try to target the steamdeck for the minimum spec.

      Starfield and bg3 were too far along in development when steamdeck game out for them to optimize for it.

      I’ll be happy to see how it runs though.

      • Fidelity9373@artemis.camp
        4·
        10 months ago

        “Tricks” like FSR should certainly make a single platform be able to last longer. Say what you will about the techs usefulness on top of the line hardware, low/mid level hardware like the deck/ally/switch is where it’s greatest benefits lie.

        • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          FSR really shows it’s limitations when you’re running a low resolution to begin with. I want to like it, but it’s pretty noticeable and jarring with every game I’ve tried it with, including BG3.

        • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          My desktop gpu is an rx470 4gb.

          It’s only slightly more powerful than the steamdeck. I’ve been waiting for the day when modern gaming can comfortably be done on an igpu.

          I think we are basically there now.

    • QubaXR@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      Baldurs Gate 3 on Steam Deck is basically turning electricity into heat with some frames produced as a side effect :)

    • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
      62·
      10 months ago

      Unless it’s poorly optimized, Starfield should be nowhere near as demanding as Baldurs Gate. Do we know what the requirements are yet?

      • dalingrin@lemm.eeEnglish
        122·
        10 months ago

        Hard disagree with this. Both of these games are large zone, systems driven games which makes them more demanding on the CPU than many games out there. Starfield will probably a little more GPU demanding than Baldur’s Gate 3 due to dynamic lighting systems and draw distance.

        • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
          51·
          10 months ago

          We’ll see, but ignoring Todd’s usual buzz words Starfield just looks like Fallout 4 with better faces and lighting.

          Though truthfully Bethesda isn’t exactly known for their optimization either way, so who knows.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      Baldurs Gate 3 is certified playable and they did a great job making it a seamless experience but it’s obvious that the system strains in anywhere but the most sparse locations.

      Yeaaaah it’s pretty rough on the steam deck in my experience.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Huh I just tuned down the graphics and it is playing just fine.

        Only caveat being I always play it plugged in to power