What business has the Steam Deck running the graphically intensive pretties of ray tracing? You may ask. But Deck developer, Pierre-Loup Griffais, who took to twitter to make the announcement has also demonstrated the performance of Doom Eternal with it enabled.
They posted a screenshot in the thread, confirmed to have been taken on the Deck, with a performance overlay enabled showing the frame rate at 35 fps, with an attendant frame time graph that is seemingly rock solid at that speed. Doom Eternal isn't the last word in overblown ray tracing effects, but its implementation is a smart use of the technology to enhance lighting and reflections throughout the game. As such it doesn't have high entry requirements for enabling ray tracing, with theThe tech comes through the Vulkan graphics API direct, rather than DXR through a Proton layer, which can add some drag to the frame rate of a DirectX game.
SteamOS 3.4.6 Preview contains fixes for invalid rendering and performance improvements for Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. Also comes with Ray-Tracing support for DOOM Eternal! pic.twitter.com/EViKO0Y4kkThe idea that we'll actually have the ability to enable DirectX Raytracing natively on the Steam Deck is pretty wild. I mean, performance on DXR titles is likely to be tougher on the Deck's GPU hardware than with Doom Eternal, but it's something I'll be interested to check out for sure.
I've been playing with ray tracing on Linux a lot recently, after sticking PopOS! on my RTX 3080-powered Razer Blade 15. I was stunned to be able to get both DLSS and ray tracing running at playable ultra RT settings on the machine in Cyberpunk 2077 through the bleeding edge versions of Proton.But that requires some pre-launch arguments to run, and doesn't work for The Witcher 3. The idea of not having to worry about such Linux-y tweakery on a Steam Deck is tantalising.
...sure, just add more upscaling.
'Lol yeah right, can we get warp speed next?'
of course not! It's not like technology advances and improves over time or anything.
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Cool. Now, I say this as a supporter 125% of the way, early adopter, pre-orderer. How about enabling wifi and bluetooth that actually works? 5/6 times when I boot, my Deck doesn't connect to wifi and 6/6 times my controller will not sync and I have to redo it.
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