Monster Hunter Wilds Steam Deck players experiencing abysmal performance

[Redaktion]

Monster Hunter fanatics would enjoy the freedom of taming beats on handhelds. Sadly, Steam Deck performance is even worse on the system than on a desktop PC. Mobile Monster Hunter Wilds gamers currently have few options except waiting for patches.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Monster-Hunter-Wilds-Steam-Deck-players-experiencing-abysmal-performance.970351.0.html

[GeorgeS]

Just today in another tragic/comical exchange with a Deck user who parroted the "+17,000 games fully supported on Steam Deck" nonsense Koolaid I pointed out to them that < %20 of my meager Steam library is 'Deck Compatible' and out of the titles I tested, many were virtually unplayable due to performance issues.

As it is TODAY, ANYONE can 'rate' how well games function on Steam Deck and there is absolutely NO transparency on who did the rating or the criteria/standards used in the ratings.

Did the game merely boot? Get through the opening sequence? Did they play 5min? 5hrs? 5days? Finish? Were they getting 5/50/500FPS? CGA/VGA/SD/HD/FHD/Higher resolution?

These mobile/portable APU's are rather amazing however they are not 'magical'. When mid-range desktop GPU's work hard or struggle with a title the iGPU folks need to tender their expectations accordingly.

[Decktard]

@GeorgeS: Lmao. The whole point of the "play all your pc games" made no sense to begin with.

Like, most pc exclusives really require keyboard and mouse and are unplayable on handheld.

The rest of the games that do play well with controller / gamepad input, are literally just all console ports and can be played there (arguably better without the DRM too).

And if you're gonna emu console games, the deck CPU is too weak. Better off running almost native with arm cpus on android or pretty much native with hacked switch. (Since 90% of console games ported to switch anyway)

These mobile/portable APU's are rather amazing however they are not 'magical'. When mid-range desktop GPU's work hard or struggle with a title the iGPU folks need to tender their expectations accordingly.

Idk. The deck gpu seems especially poor even for igpu standards. I remember the last time I briefly tried one, was getting drops down to 30fps, whereas on a 680M/780M pretty solid 90-110fps minimum on windows laptop.

Couldn't be bothered to debug further and tbh, not even my problem. Could of been driver, Linux or something else but all I remember is even for igpu standards it was poor (like worse than intel Iris graphics). But maybe with updates some issues have been resolved now.

It does amaze me the level of fanboyism valve has with the deck userbase tho. They might as well make a second version since this apple like cult will buy anything they release. >_<

[Mar2ck]

As it is TODAY, ANYONE can 'rate' how well games function on Steam Deck

The questionaire for if you think the game deserves it's verified rating is just for Valve to collet data, it doesn't factor into the rating itself. Third-party sites like ProtonDB obviously don't affect it either.

there is absolutely NO transparency on who did the rating or the criteria/standards used in the ratings.

The ratings are done internally, this was covered in the Steam Deck developer livestream and clarified various times by the devs on Twitter and Github.

Did the game merely boot? Get through the opening sequence? Did they play 5min? 5hrs? 5days? Finish? Were they getting 5/50/500FPS? CGA/VGA/SD/HD/FHD/Higher resolution?

The criteria is that all game functionality must work and it must maintain at least a stable 30fps at 720p, along with some other stuff like keyboard entry. The only thing that isn't clear is how long they do the testing for.

Idk. The deck gpu seems especially poor even for igpu standards. I remember the last time I briefly tried one, was getting drops down to 30fps, whereas on a 680M/780M pretty solid 90-110fps minimum on windows laptop.

Steam deck was the first device with an RDNA iGPU, 6XXM and 7XXM didn't exist yet. At the time of release it was the most powerful iGPU avaliable even compared to laptops.