Steam Deck Running Portal 2 At 4K/60fps
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- I’ve been giving Valve’s Steam Deck a workout as my new daily driver, putting a battery of titles to the test at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K to see how much performance it can squeeze out. With Aperture Desk Job releasing today, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to put Portal 2 through the paces!
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I’m happy to report my jaw nearly hit the floor when I fired it up.
Sure, I understand that Portal 2 is nearly 12 years old, but aside from some dull textures here and there, it still holds up visually and remains a testament to how efficient and performant Valve’s Source Engine is.
Even as a generations-old game, I didn’t expect this $399 handheld with AMD integrated graphics (optimized for gaming at 800p) to run this (or any game) comfortably at a whopping 4K resolution. Much less at 4K resolution on high-quality settings. Not to mention complimented by a mostly stable 60fps! Yet here we are.
I captured the video with OBS Studio, using an external USB capture card to avoid impacting the Steam Deck’s performance. As you’ll see in the beginning, Portal 2 is running at my monitor’s native of 3840 x 2160, and AMD FSR is not enabled. (AMD’s upscaling technology is available to use on all Steam games that use Proton, Valve’s Windows compatibility layer. It’s even built right into SteamOS when using the Deck’s default UI.)
In the Video settings, I’ve set Shader Detail, Effect Detail, and Texture Detail to “High” quality, disabled Anti-Aliasing, and set Filtering to Anisotropic 4x.
The overlay you’re seeing in the video is MangoHUD, which I’ve also cropped and zoomed on the bottom left, so you can more easily track the FPS and frame time graph.
Overall, there were a few drops below 60fps, and the Steam Deck has infrequent audio hiccups from time to time when playing on an external monitor. Still, color me very impressed.
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That game blow my mind back in the day, time to replay...
Made this video, then stayed up half the night replaying the game again!
One of the best(if not the best) game(s) ever made👌
Not only is this technically impressive for the Steam Deck, I forgot how gorgeous this game is!
Good art style can make a game timeless!
All this video has done has made me more excited for my Steam Deck and want to play through the Portal games again. Thanks Jason. XD This is really awesome though.
I remember playing this on my dad's crappy old laptop at about 900P on Christmas day in 2012. It's one of my fondest memories that I'll never forget, especially because running games on mobile hardware was much more difficult.
Portal 2 is like the most optimised game on steam. My current PC can’t run roblox, but portal 2? Runs just fine
My laptop (not my gaming PC) runs portal 2 worse then roblox
@@AlfiesFuntime damn that’s crazy, mine doesn’t
@@crimblr I think it's because Roblox is more of a CPU heavy game, and portal 2 uses less CPU but more GPU
What system you using?.This game worked on my windows 8 fine until i upgraded to 11 last year lol
@@spaceman022 windows 10. I’m like 90% sure I have a bunch of viruses lmao
Now to compare with the Switch version that will be released. Nice.
Hoping Digital Foundry does this comparison!
Where are all the naysayers who scoffed at how performant the Deck is now?
writing hate comments and continuing to pull no bitches
Portal 2 will never get boring
I was wondering as I have a 4k monitor and I was thinking of downgrading if no games I liked would run at a reasonable frame rate, I knew maybe some indies would work but no a game like portal 2.
I believe 4K will be quite great for the Steam Deck since I believe you will be able to integer upscale the image. and that would mean that you can have perfect sharp square pixels in the following resolutions: 540p (4x4), 720p (3x3), 1080p(2x2), 4K (1x1). Which will make your monitor look more or less like a native 540p-, 720p-, 1080p- or 4K monitor.
If you downgrade your display you will be left with fewer upscaling options in my opinion. 1080p screens can't evenly scale 720p. And 1440p can't evenly scale 1080p or 540p.... 4K monitor is great for this specific purpose. it has the most options for perfect integer upscaling.
It seems like the DeckUI only shows a 1280x800 screen on its video out. Unless you use desktop mode. I hope the DeckUI will improve, preferably being able to choose output resolution independently of rendering resolution. Let say 1080p rendering resolution, utilizing FSR 720p base resolution on a very demanding game. Then integer upscaling up to 4K. (since a 4K framebuffer is very demanding on integrated graphics and you will loose performance using FSR to upscale the ALL the way to 4K)
It IS 11 years old
I have sadly never played a portal game. I have never owned a gaming PC
You should do it, both games run in every pc
@@edumendiola5958 I will wait for my steam deck in Q2
@@acdnan that's ok, I'd recommend running the games in desktop mode tho, as they're way better with a mouse.
The Portal games will run well on pretty much any computer
@@narufan987 I’m gonna use to game to get use to the motion aiming.
Well this basically proves Valve's entire gameography can run on the Steam Deck at at least 4K60p even w/o FSR, & presumably at around 1080p @ 120 FPS as well. Most of the time people will only be playing games on the Deck's 1280×800 60Hz screen, so that'll be effortless. Something I think a lot of people lose sight of is the thousands of legacy games that will look & run their best on the Steam Deck w/ good battery life to boot, that for me is an exciting prospect.
Upcoming for Nintendo switch is a dream
I heard that when using the Deck UI, it tends to cap the game at 800p on external displays; is that why you went through the desktop?
This is true, though I think Valve is working on fixing this. I'm not sure it's the intended behavior but it does output at 800p if not in desktop mode.
when i bought my steam controller i completed this game in the same day
👍!
still cant get over how cheap it is
Damn it, I want to continue playing this but I get so disoriented and dizzy :(
Don't play so close to the screen, that could help.
@@_blacken I don't. I always play on a big screen. Maybe I'll try again some time.
Can you please try apex legends. the steam deck testing branch has been merged with the mainline branch.
On Deck? Absolutely.
I'm playing now on my Kubuntu PC and it's running well!
yea i think fps will drop when gun fight
cringe
It doesn't