Valve: There is no game Steam Deck can’t run

Valve’s latest Steam Deck can be said to have sucked up the eye recently. This handheld with AMD’s custom APU is based on a customized Linux series and is Valve’s attempt at the handheld. Compared to its biggest rival Switch, Steam Deck has the advantage of having a huge number of games. When the Steam Deck was launched, Valve had already announced that this handheld could run most of the games in its Steam library, Valve recently stated once again that even if the game from 2021 this year runs on Steam Deck, there is no problem.

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In the latest IGN video, Valve talked about some of the technical compatibility issues of Steam Deck and the AMD processor it uses and made it clear that even the games launched this year can “run the latest generation of games without problems.”

“We’ve been looking at various games the past few years in the back catalog, but the real test for us was games that were coming out last year. They just couldn’t really run very well on the previous types of prototypes and architectures we were testing. This is the first time we’ve achieved the level of performance that is required to really run the latest generation of games without problems. All the games we wanted to be playable is, really, the entire Steam library. We haven’t really found something we could throw at this device that it couldn’t handle.“

Yazan Aldehayyat, Valve’s hardware engineer, reiterated that Steam Deck uses a brand new APU from AMD and uses LPDDR5 memory. “We might actually be one of the first products to showcase this memory technology. That gives a lot of future proofing, especially since we’re not the only people with this architecture. Any optimization that game developers make for this new architecture will carry forth to benefit us as well.”

Via: PCGamer