Note: Many players have been looking forward to Valve providing native dual-boot support, which allows the Steam Deck handheld console to run SteamOS and Microsoft Windows systems at the same time, making it easier to access Game Pass, Cloud and some Microsoft game services.

Yang promised users that native dual-boot support is always the “first priority”. After the OLED version of Steam Deck is released, more focus will be placed on this feature and it will be provided to players as soon as possible.

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▲Source: Steam Deck performance information from V

According to PCGames, a few days ago, the official listing of Counter-Strike 2 (CS2), although the Steam page about Steam Deck performance column certification is “playable” status, in fact, Steam Deck running the game is not good.

Foreign media tests that, under the game’s default screen settings and native 800P resolution, Counter-Strike 2’s frame rate is around 25~35FPS, which is “terrible” for a first-person competitive game.

▲ Source: PCGames

After detailed testing, the foreign media believe that the performance of the game on the Steam Deck is mainly due to poor optimization, in the game GPU occupancy has been in the 50%~70% floating, but the foreign media also believe that the Value society will be timely to fix the relevant performance vulnerabilities, the Value society programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais has deployed a number of fixes aimed at improving the Counter-Strike 2’s optimization level.

According to V’s official introduction, Counter-Strike 2 is a free upgrade to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and showcases the biggest technological leap in Counter-Strike’s history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 features realistic physics-based rendering, state-of-the-art networking, and upgraded community creative workshop tools.

▲ Source V

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The summary of the updated content is as follows:

The update offers improved default color rendering for the Steam Deck, new display color settings, automatic mounting of external drives, and a host of other feature improvements and fixes.

The update also brings a new graphics driver that will feature a number of performance and functionality improvements, which V says will optimize performance performance for Starry Night games.

Additionally, the update brings Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and HDR support for Steam Deck screens and supported displays, with HDR now enabled if the user has a compatible display, and VRR now enabled if they have a compatible USB-C adapter.

In terms of details, the update also improves the stability of the Bluetooth connection (especially when using multiple joysticks), improves the speed of resuming from sleep, and updates some of the desktop widgets.

The Steam Deck is a portable handheld developed by Valve that uses a Zen 2 architecture CPU and RDNA 2 architecture GPU; the chip code name is “Aerith.” The device comes with Steam OS, supports Linux installations, and will be available on February 25, 2022 for a starting price of $399 USD.

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The setting of screen color temperature provides a series of options, allowing users to try different degrees of color temperature changes. Here’s the difference between the default 7500K color temperature and turning it up to 11000K (using the default color vibrancy):

Currently, setting the color temperature of the screen is only available in the Main + Steam Deck Beta update channel. To use this feature, users must enable the developer mode and select the advanced update channel in the developer menu in the settings. The Beta update channel is frequently updated and may contain major bugs, so use it with caution. Users are advised to use the normal Steam Deck Stable/Beta update channel.

It is worth mentioning that SteamOS 3.5 will also introduce a color saturation setting.

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The setting of screen color temperature provides a series of options, allowing users to try different degrees of color temperature changes. Here’s the difference between the default 7500K color temperature and turning it up to 11000K (using the default color vibrancy):

Currently, setting the color temperature of the screen is only available in the Main + Steam Deck Beta update channel. To use this feature, users must enable the developer mode and select the advanced update channel in the developer menu in the settings. The Beta update channel is frequently updated and may contain major bugs, so use it with caution. Users are advised to use the normal Steam Deck Stable/Beta update channel.

It is worth mentioning that SteamOS 3.5 will also introduce a color saturation setting.

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The whole process of modification is not easy, @balika011 said that the need to desolder the memory chip, and then re-soldering to install a larger capacity chip, the whole process is very complicated. It’s impossible to reproduce this modification for the average gamer who doesn’t have the necessary tools and skills.

Check @balika011 related tweets, he did not share the performance improvement after the memory expansion, just the sunshine picture showing the memory capacity of 30.2GB.

The Steam Deck comes standard with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, which is still plenty for running Linux and playing games, and Valve won’t be releasing a new Steam Deck with more RAM for a while.

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According to the official update page, the Windows driver for Steam Deck is updated with an APU driver, which still does not support dual systems, and to install Windows, you still need to erase SteamOS data and then install Windows.

Steam Deck is powered by AMD’s Van Gogh APU, which features a Zen2 architecture for the CPU part, with a 4-core specification of 2.4 GHz to 3.5 GHz. for the GPU part, Van Gogh APU integrates 8 CU of RDNA2 GPU at 1.0 GHz to 1.6 GHz, with a performance of 1.6 TFops FP32. The entire SoC has a TDP of 4 to 15W and supports LPDDR5 memory with 16GB capacity.

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