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While it's great news that Bethesda is making an effort to make sure Starfield will run on Deck, I'd still like to recommend that most people wait for performance reports before buying and expecting a good experience.

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[–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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.

[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless it’s poorly optimized, Starfield should be nowhere near as demanding as Baldurs Gate. Do we know what the requirements are yet?

[–] dalingrin@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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