The Official Steam Deck Thread

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Steam Deck Previews are up:

My key take-aways are this.

If you Tweak the Steam Deck and cap it to 30 fps. The battery will last even on demanding games:

If you run it at full tilt, especially above 60fps, the battery life can indeed drain:

The Steam Deck can run certain demanding games at Max Settings Including with Ray Tracing On but typically it's better if you leave at least the Ray Tracing off:

The Steam Deck is also able to run Control at medium setting which I believe is higher than what ps4/xbox one can do (But I'd have to double check DF reviews):

The Heptics are apparently not very good and the control scheme isn't a one size fits all. Some like it while others don't (In Linus Tech Tips Video).

Compared to other PC handhelds that cost over $1000, it is certainly powerful:

The difference in load times between SSD and MicroSD isn't very different but also very game dependent. Control has the same load times while ghost runner sees a difference:

It takes 1 hour 30 minutes to charge to 80% and then takes a total of 3 hours to 100%

There were some issues with Forza Horizon 5 but that's because the Steam Deck runs Linux out of the box. Valve is working to fix it but running it on Windows shouldn't have any issues.

Overall... Can't wait for mine to get here!