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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Pretty much the same titles over and over again.

I'll never not be shocked at BG3 because it runs potato quality but to each their own, I suppose.

[–] MimicJar 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't say I've ever cared about how a game looks.* Sure maybe it's worth discussing, but it's always the last thing on my list.

I played BG3 (Once, all the way, second time up to act 2) exclusively on my Steam Deck in handheld mode. Sure Act 3 has a little bit of lag, but nothing that ever bothered me. All the characters in the game were unique, I know Gale from Karlach from Lae'zel.

*(Discussion about art style or artistic choice being different, Pixel vs cell-shaded vs realistic etc)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't say I've ever cared about how a game looks.

Fair enough. Certainly some devs spend a ton of time making games look incredible so there's obviously a bunch of users like me who do appreciate that, and also many who don't!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I wouldn't say don't.

If your game can't look good on the lowest settings then there's an art-direction problem, not that BG3 has that issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The default settings look pretty bad, but with some setting changes you can get it to look a lot better without sacrificing too much performance.

It's not really the type of game that has to run at a solid 60 FPS or anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Agree. AAA titles aren't suited to run on a Deck and should be streamed from a PC with remote play....but I this k this is the appeal of having the games in a portable format, that people are willing to put up with such shit performance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

It really depends on the specific game, many older AAA games or non-unreal games run fine.

It's also interesting seeing how some games run much better now than they did on release. CP2077 (non-dlc parts) runs pretty well now for example, much better than it did when the Deck first came out.

[–] Ok_imagination 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I thought elden ring ran beautifully. Is bg3 that rough on deck?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Runs fine on mine but it definitely runs it at a weird res and upscales to maintain performance

[–] twistypencil 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love potatoes, also BG3 works fine on the deck?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Define "fine". Is it playable? Sure. But it also looks quite bad at 800p/low/30fps

[–] twistypencil 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think looks bad at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The display of the steam deck is only 720p in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh right, had just assumed it's 720p because the width is 1280. So it isn't 16:9, which is nice but slightly surprising!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yea it's 16:10

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

imma part of the reason it shows up.