Hey all!

My main gaming desktop is down for maintenance, which gets me thinking more about my steam deck.

Does anyone have any experience out putting to a monitor? What resolution do you use?

The SD’s strength is still limited, so what kind of resolution/refresh rate can it reasonably output?

Thanks in advance for your insights!

  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    19 hours ago

    If I see that the game needs some tweaking, I’ll try 720p at 60 or 30 fps.

    You can dock your Deck, but I think you should think about it as an underpowered Playstation 4 or a turbocharged Playstation 3.

    I also think that the docking experience isn’t so fluid if you dock it to a TV and use a console controller. When it’s docked to a PC monitor and wired keyboard/mouse, it’s smoother as you have less configuration to do.

      • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Oh yeah the Deck can be a quite powerful desktop computer if you enjoy KDE.

        I use it like this from time to time after configuring to behave like Gnome, but I prefer the original flavour.