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Steam Deck

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

With the current rise of PC ARM processor (Apple silicone, Snapdragon X), anyone feel like Steam missed the opportunity when developing Deck with x86 and now they have to stick with it?

I tried Apple MacBook Air M2 with a bunch of games and emulators and it runs amazing while being extremely efficient.

I can run Switch emulator Ryujinx with Mario Kart Deluxe 8 at 60FPS and it only need 12Wh, compared to my PC (i5, 1070) need ~150Wh to do the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do think that the future of handheld devices is ARM or RISC-V, but the software support isn't there yet and would severely limit what could be played.

[–] proton_lynx 3 points 7 months ago

I agree. First we need to solve the Linux compatibility issues, then we can start thinking about new CPU architectures. It would have been too much to deal with at the same time.

[–] AProfessional 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

All games are x86, so you’ll get that 10-40% CPU overhead.

Steam itself doesn’t even support 64bit, let alone arm.