More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the Steam Deck

Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by NikolaNovak on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:18PM (#36591396)

I have the 256GB version which has regular screen. Glare hasn't bothered me inside at all in the year and a half I've owned it. However, I have not played it outside - in the shade / twilight it may be OK depending on your personal threshold. In sunlight, forget about it :)

FWIW I've added a microSD card and it's fine. Updating the internal nVME is not on my radar, because the whole point of SteamDeck, for me and my personal use, is for it to be "play and forget", as opposed to a hobby in and of itself :). YMMV :-)

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by mtsr on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:57AM (#36599777)

Note that there’s something like 30x difference between SD and NVME performance. Not an issue for smaller games, but definitely something to keep in mind for games that stream data. On the other hand you’re likely not using the largest textures and models games come with anyway.

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by NikolaNovak on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:02PM (#36608428)

That was my understanding as well of the upper limits of bandwidth of the two technologies.

But several folks around the interwebs have done practical tests of loading actual games from internal nvme vs external microSD in steam deck, and actual differences were far lesser than specs would indicate.

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