Steam Deck Update Now Allows For Custom Per-Game Performance Settings

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The general hype for the Steam Deck seems to have died down a little, but it's still proving to many to be a worthy addition to, if not an improvement on, the mobile gaming market. Given that Valve has outlined some issues with the portable PC, such as mistakes with regard to compatibility, the company is continuing to make sure the device is operating as well as it can. With that, a new patch has recently rolled out which appears to give users a lot more customization when it comes to performance.

According to the patch notes, a new update for the Steam Deck comes with an additional option for gamers to implement performance profiles on a per-game basis. In essence, it allows for custom settings so that titles can run at high performance, giving the best visual quality, or make it lower performance, which theoretically could reduce the battery life, and be useful for games that are less hardware dependent. The notes say that the device will use the system settings as default.

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On top of that, the update also offers up a few tweaks to the general device, which includes some small fixes for the keyboard, some performance improvements when switching from offline to online mode, as well as adding the Deck to Steam's hardware survey functionality. Valve has been asking for feedback on the Steam Deck, and has evidently been using what the community has been saying about it to roll out frequent patches and hotfixes, which should keep the system in tip-top shape. Of course, one of the most important things about the device is game compatibility.

With the around 2,400 games currently playable on the Steam Deck, the list of titles that are being verified is