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Re:Valve Steam Deck Hardware Review and Analysis [video: Gam... by no_time on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:04AM (#30257068)
I wonder if the latency difference compared to the aya neo is because of Wine/Proton. I've played through Journey on Wine and couldn't help but notice the camera input being 2-3 frames late.
Re:Valve Steam Deck Hardware Review and Analysis [video: Gam... by rkido on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:59AM (#30260937)
The cost of translating input calls from Linux to Windows APIs through Wine/Proton is so much less than the cost of rendering a single frame that it's effectively 0. The only real overhead Wine/Proton might be adding is in the rendering pipeline.

As Steve explained in the video, the Steam Deck's input-to-photon latency is lower than the Aya Neo's simply because it has a much more powerful GPU.

The only real way to test if there's any extra input-to-photon latency would be to compare the exact same game on a Steam Deck running SteamOS to a Steam Deck running Windows.