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.
Shaz from Pixel Swish: "From the Asus ROG Ally X to the Lenovo Legion GO to the Steam Deck, we’ve gotten a lot of PC handhelds over the past few years. However, for as impressive and exciting as these PC handhelds are, they all fall shy in one way or another from my dream device."
Valve gave a user Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for free as compensation for the long wait during their Steam Deck repair.
I had a similar experience when I initially pre-ordered my Deck. There was an issue during shipping and they offered me a customer service perk for the hassle and let me pick any game on Steam. It was super nice of them. I got a copy of Rime.
Celebrate the holiday by getting some of the best Star Wars games compatible with your Steam Deck. Which one is your favorite?
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.