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I just don’t think the steam deck is going to be able to handle this game. Baldurs Gate 3 is certified playable and they did a great job making it a seamless experience but it’s obvious that the system strains in anywhere but the most sparse locations.
The steam deck just isn’t meant to play all the AAA next gen ray traced games and nobody should expect it to do so. It already goes further than any handheld on the market, I don’t need it to play starfield. I need it to play cult of the lamb really well. And it does. And I love it.
Baldurs Gate 3 on Steam Deck is basically turning electricity into heat with some frames produced as a side effect :)
Unless it’s poorly optimized, Starfield should be nowhere near as demanding as Baldurs Gate. Do we know what the requirements are yet?
Hard disagree with this. Both of these games are large zone, systems driven games which makes them more demanding on the CPU than many games out there. Starfield will probably a little more GPU demanding than Baldur's Gate 3 due to dynamic lighting systems and draw distance.
We’ll see, but ignoring Todd’s usual buzz words Starfield just looks like Fallout 4 with better faces and lighting.
Though truthfully Bethesda isn’t exactly known for their optimization either way, so who knows.
Yeaaaah it's pretty rough on the steam deck in my experience.
Huh I just tuned down the graphics and it is playing just fine.
Only caveat being I always play it plugged in to power
I have 140 hours on steam deck for BG3. I'm having a blast.
I have every setting on low and it still makes the fans go brrrrr, pushing 90° temps.
works fine on mine. I just play plugged in