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[Jams3223]

The Steam Deck hardware will always play the games it plays now, at least as good as they play now. So yeah, if you're buying a Steam Deck to just play the latest stuff - it's gonna be a bad experience as time moves on. I tried Visions of Mana on mine, and while it's playable, it often dips down into the 15-20fps range which makes it a less than ideal experience.

But - the other games I've been playing on it for years will continue to play great on it in the years to come.

Many of the poorly performing games suffer from optimization issues; I struggle to maintain a stable framerate even on my desktop GPU.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

every console is able to survive for at least 10 years.

 

[proandrad]

Damn, the switch 2 is doomed then.

 

[onnextflix5]

Wish they would release a steam box. They should have 2 options, budget one, that is more powerful then series s and one more powerful then ps5. Steam deck is ok, but not a fan of gaming on such a large and heavy device.

 

[HogIsland]

Damn, the switch 2 is doomed then.

Was thinking this too. Very likely Switch 2 will be introduced with a new batch of "impossible ports" like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, Baldurs Gate, etc. But practically all the UE5 games are off the table.

 

[Jams3223]

To enhance performance, you can try lowering the image quality of specific effects, minimizing the number of characters displayed simultaneously, utilizing more efficient fine-grained GPU culling, running particle effects on the GPU rather than the CPU, and fine-tuning the level of detail.

• GPU instancing allows for the rendering of identical meshes all at once in a single draw call. (Example: grass and leaves.)
• Impostors create the illusion of 3D objects by mapping textures onto billboards. (Example: trees.)
• https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/imposters
• https://blendermarket.com/products/instant-impostors--one-click-impostor-generation-eevee
• Occlusion Culling
• Frustum Culling
• Wave Intrinsics
• https://gpuopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/GDC2017-Wave-Programming-D3D12-Vulkan.pdf
• Render Graph or Frame Graph (CPU & GPU)
  • Godot = RenderingDeviceGraph
  • Unreal Engine = Rendering Dependency Graph
• The 'Render Graph' helps feed more work to the GPU and is part of the 'Render Thread'.