Black Myth Wukong has launched to critical acclaim on PC and consoles, becoming the second-most played game (of all time) on Steam with over 2 million concurrent players. Our optimization guide highlighting the performance impact of various graphics settings, including ray-tracing is already up.
As more and more games go digital-only, Black Myth: Wukong's physical publisher says it performed so well that it saved some businesses.
So fix the performance on PS5/Pro. With up all that ghosting and dithering, improve the performance!
The industry wants to push the narrative that physical is on its way out and gamers prefer digital. Fact is that many gamers simply have less and less options to buy physical, so they’re stuck with either digital, or nothing.
Many gamers still prefer physical, especially for SP games. Games without ‘always online’ or other kinds of anti-consumer DRM.
I hope they’ll release a complete edition (physical) for Wukong once the announced DLC comes out.
I totally get it, but dont know if i really matters as most games now do not hold the actual game, or at least a very early version without day one patches.
They are often just a licence to download the actual game. Unfortunately it is not like in the old days, if you just had the game you can play the game no matter what.
That goes for some games but there are still plenty for which this isn't the case: https://www.doesitplay.org/
yeh i hate it too, if they'd give us actual numbers on how much it costs to print themz id be more inclined to beliebe it, but otherwise, nah no way.
I try to buy physical PS5 games when possible. Physical add an extra cost to the developers. However, the fact that digital cost the same as a physical version of the game makes no sense to me. The only games i will buy digital are Nintendo Switch games, those cartridges are small and i lost/misplaced a few already.
Every game that sells well "saves businesses" nowadays - based on how many studios suffer layoffs due to a game not skyrocketing to success, that is.
I waited for the physical release to purchase this. If it didn’t get a physical release I had already made up my mind that I was fine skipping it.
I know I am fighting a losing battle because an all digital future is inevitable, but I only purchase physical and will continue doing so.
You will be surprised. Games are getting bigger in size and we all know that console dont provide you with that much hard drive space. I know you can just delete the game from your harddrive to save space and re-install whenever, but me having a physical insure that i can install anytime i want, even if they they take the game off their digital stores.
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered rose to the very top of the Steam Deck Most Played Games list. Have you tried it yet?
"We have to admit, there is something extremely nostalgic about playing Oblivion at 30 FPS, with mild stuttering outdoors. And, even though it doesn’t run perfectly, it’s still so much fun. This could be one of the games that helps grown-ups find their way back to gaming."
I would assume most grown-ups don't get excited about products that don't work properly. I would also assume that most grown-ups coming back to gaming don't want to spend the limited time they have modding a broken game to get it to run properly on the Steam Deck.
it’s still so much fun. This could be one of the games that helps grown-ups find their way back to gaming.
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered just dropped, and it's Steam Deck Verified! Well, the users aren't satisfied with its performance.
People need to understand that the reason it's verified is cause it runs on proton. If anyone actually bought this thinking that an U5 game was going to run smoothly on hardware too weak for it then idk what to tell ya… well I do know what to tell ya but it isn't something nice.
It wouldn't put it on a consumer to know that Verified means 'it boots up'. Perhaps they should be more upffront on the product page to better mangage expectations.
Maybe, but I've played games on my Deck that say it's verified but run like shite. If I can come to the conclusion that hardware limitations is something that will effect a games performance then so can everyone else. People don't need to be spoon fed, they need to use some common sense.
That's why the real argument here is a broader one that the criteria for "verified" should be changed to better factor in performance. The steam deck site uses this general explanation for verified games: "The game works great on Steam Deck, right out of the box." Given this description, the criteria to meet "Verified" status should factor in performance. So no, it isn't that people should expect U5 games to run well on Steam Deck. It's that U5 games shouldn't meet the criteria for "Verified."
It's not like Valve produces a more powerful unit themselves that can run this game in an acceptable way (if reports are as bad as the headline suggests).
Deck Verified should mean and imply that it will not just open but run in that acceptable way on the one hardware they make where that label is of any relevance. And for future hardware that is more powerful, or new OEMs, that label will mean that the game not only runs, but will run better than the baseline.
How is it the consumers fault for not looking deeper into this sort of technicality. This is still misleading the consumer.
There seems to be a misconception about what the deck is capably of.
Not sure what people expect its a portable PC did people expect it to run every new PC game for the next decade. It's not a bespoke console where Devs will target that SKU and optimise for it specifically the thing about pc gaming is that eventually you'll be forced to upgrade or be left behind.
The steam deck hardware was fantastic for running last gen games but modern games are now starting to push into a new level of requirements (finally!!!).
I think the verification system for the deck does need an overhaul though as it's not the first game to be approved which clearly shouldn't
@anast Pretty sure this was a PS4 game, and it's running it. Better than the PS4 even. https://youtu.be/hb9JeNYfXI...
@Anast
"It's not running PS4 games, not even close"
Stop being a dumbass. I've played and finished spiderman remastered, miles morales and Days Gone at a near perfect 40fps on the steam deck.
Cyberpunk 2077 also runs great on the steam deck. In fact, it's a better experience on SD than on ps4
Anast has been on a roll lately with the dumb comments. More so than usual. Some event must have transpired recently to cause him to overcompensate so much.
If you’re a steam deck owner, you would know the ProtonDB rating (platinum, gold, silver, bronze) is the accurate measure of performance on the SD. If something is verified, you would know that doesn’t mean stable 30fps or 60fps is guaranteed.
A savvy SD owner will download and make use of the decky plugin in steamOS. But you have to own a steam deck in the first place to understand this
Baldur's Gate 3, FF7Remake come to mind as well. I love the device but it struggles games from the modern age.
Verified should mean that it runs on Proton and doesn’t dip below 30fps at any point.
But that would mean a huge drop in sales so no dice…
I've yet to play a game that I'd personally use Frame Gen for.
In Alan Wake I would but it's already so GPU intensive that it only got another 20 FPS and incurred a very noticeable delay. Black Myth I'd take the responsiveness over smoothness as well, if my base FPS was already ~30 fps like in this Steam Deck situation.
It's also a GPU heavy game so again on my desktop BMW don't get much of a boost, on top of all, the traversal stutter that FG wont fix.
I think I actually did use it a bit on Cyberpunk, a game that's CPU limited without the path tracing. Frame Gen works best on those titles where you are CPU limited and still have GPU overhead but I really haven't seen that happen.