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Valve promises Steam Deck will run “the entire Steam library” at 30+ fps - Ars Technica

Valve promises Steam Deck will run “the entire Steam library” at 30+ fps - Ars Technica

Valve promises Steam Deck will run “the entire Steam library” at 30+ fps - Ars Technica
Jul 26, 2021 1 min, 6 secs

That's according to a recent IGN video interview in which Valve Hardware Engineer Yazan Aldehayyat said that "all the games that we wanted to be playable had really good [performance], a really good experience" in Steam Deck testing.

Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais expanded on that statement by saying that "all the games that we wanted to be playable" means "really the entire Steam library.".

Griffais said initial prototype testing for the Steam Deck focused on older games in the Steam catalog and that there were "games that were coming out last year that just couldn't really run very well on the previous types of prototypes and architectures we were testing." On the finalized version of the hardware, though, he said the company has "achieved the level of performance that is required to run the latest generation of games without a problem.".

"The entire Steam catalog is available to people who have this device," Aldehayyat added.

Griffais added that the performance scalability of modern PC games helps Steam Deck achieve a playable frame rate at its native 800p resolution (which is relatively low compared to desktop gaming PCs).

Elsewhere in the interview, Aldehayyat said that Valve spent a lot of time optimizing Steam Deck's SD card connection so that games stored there should be "comparable" to those stored on the internal SSD storage.

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