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Too big for Steam Deck? Many triple-A games are unplayable on Valve's handheld


Can Valve's Steam Deck produce playable experiences on the most demanding PC games of 2024? Digital Foundry reckons it's starting to struggle.

Meanwhile, God of War Ragnarok, Black Myth: Wukong and Dragon Age: The Veilguard are playable - but the visual deficits required to get good frame-rates can severely blunt the quality of the experience. But the Deck isn't the only portable we have at our disposal, so I decided to take out my Bazzite-equipped ROG Ally in its high TDP turbo mode and see if I could log any decent, playable results. Perhaps a next generation device, packing an eight-core CPU, a meatier GPU and additional RAM and memory bandwidth could deliver transformative results in some of the titles we've surveyed today.

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