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I played Harry Potter on medium-high settings. If you keep the resolution at the native screen resolution and turn off things that aren't needed on a smaller sc

I played Harry Potter on medium-high settings. If you keep the resolution at the native screen resolution and turn off things that aren't needed on a smaller screen (eg AA or super sampling), the performance is better than PS4 and roughly the same as a PS5. Performance isn't really a concern for me unless I'm plugged into an external display.

dagmx 3y ago
But that’s exactly it. You’re playing at a lower setting by turning off AA and playing at low resolutions I’m glad performance is fine enough for you though. I still find it quite underpowered, where every game I play requires both feature and resolution compromises. Playing without AA is just not acceptable to me in this decade. At least not unless I’m getting significant battery life or thermal freedom to compensate.
- deelowe 3y ago
  It's not needed on smaller screens. The switch does similar things. It's a common tactic on handhelds to disable those sort of features as they add no noticeable improvement.
  - dagmx 3y ago
    The switch does it for *some* games when running portably and then enables most things when docked. A lot of that is battery management. The steamdeck does not really have a concept of dual modes, per your own statements about playing on a bigger screen. And I completely disagree that AA isn’t needed on smaller screens. You can see aliasing at any screen size. Again, perhaps it meets your threshold of quality. That does not mean it meets mine nor does it mean that the form factor somehow obviates it. It just means that we have subjectively different preferences. But again, I disagree that “it’s not needed”. That’s not why games will disable AA in handheld mode. AA is expensive and a cost they try and mitigate with art direction that tries to avoid much of the losses. The steamdeck is not just playing games designed for a small screen. Many games suffer from shimmering and shifting. Whether that’s an issue for you or not is independent of whether they exist and might be issues for others.

dagmx 3y ago

But that’s exactly it. You’re playing at a lower setting by turning off AA and playing at low resolutions I’m glad performance is fine enough for you though. I still find it quite underpowered, where every game I play requires both feature and resolution compromises. Playing without AA is just not acceptable to me in this decade. At least not unless I’m getting significant battery life or thermal freedom to compensate.

deelowe 3y ago
It's not needed on smaller screens. The switch does similar things. It's a common tactic on handhelds to disable those sort of features as they add no noticeable improvement.
- dagmx 3y ago
  The switch does it for *some* games when running portably and then enables most things when docked. A lot of that is battery management. The steamdeck does not really have a concept of dual modes, per your own statements about playing on a bigger screen. And I completely disagree that AA isn’t needed on smaller screens. You can see aliasing at any screen size. Again, perhaps it meets your threshold of quality. That does not mean it meets mine nor does it mean that the form factor somehow obviates it. It just means that we have subjectively different preferences. But again, I disagree that “it’s not needed”. That’s not why games will disable AA in handheld mode. AA is expensive and a cost they try and mitigate with art direction that tries to avoid much of the losses. The steamdeck is not just playing games designed for a small screen. Many games suffer from shimmering and shifting. Whether that’s an issue for you or not is independent of whether they exist and might be issues for others.