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Hey all!

My main gaming desktop is down for maintenance, which gets me thinking more about my steam deck.

Does anyone have any experience out putting to a monitor? What resolution do you use?

The SD's strength is still limited, so what kind of resolution/refresh rate can it reasonably output?

Thanks in advance for your insights!

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[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

If I see that the game needs some tweaking, I’ll try 720p at 60 or 30 fps.

You can dock your Deck, but I think you should think about it as an underpowered Playstation 4 or a turbocharged Playstation 3.

I also think that the docking experience isn’t so fluid if you dock it to a TV and use a console controller. When it’s docked to a PC monitor and wired keyboard/mouse, it’s smoother as you have less configuration to do.

[–] _Nico198X_@piefed.europe.pub 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I could also then double as a computer in desktop mode, which would be kind of cool

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Oh yeah the Deck can be a quite powerful desktop computer if you enjoy KDE.

I use it like this from time to time after configuring to behave like Gnome, but I prefer the original flavour.