Steam Deck is compatible with ray tracing, but only on Windows

Steam Deck is one of the most powerful portable consoles, thanks to the AMD RDNA2 chip, which is the same architecture found in the next-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles. tracking technology in compatible games, and Steam Deck also appears to be compatible.

Richard Leadbetter, founder of Digital Foundry, wanted to check out in a new YouTube video whether the console is capable of gaming in ray tracing, this technology that makes it possible to display dynamic lighting effects. Then the games become more beautiful, but most importantly, they consume much more resources.

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You can play ray-traced on the Steam Deck

As Digital Foundry demonstrates in its videos, SteamOS doesn’t allow gamers to use in-game ray tracing options. On Quake II RTX, Control, Metro Exodus Enganced Edition, and Doom Eternal, the menu with ray tracing options is greyed out. But the journalist noticed.After installing Windows 10, drivers finally managed to recognize RDNA 2 cores It’s integrated into the APU and unlocked all ray tracing options. As a reminder, you can now even install Windows 11 on a Steam Deck console.

However, even though ray tracing is now enabled, the games no longer look truly playable. In the effect, Definition should be lowered to 540p in most games to hope to reach 30 FPS.. To reach 60 FPS you will have no choice but to lower the definition to 252p, not very interesting as you can imagine.

it will be necessary Wait for AMD to make FSR 2.0 technology compatible, The equivalent of Nvidia’s DLSS to hope to get the right performance using ray tracing. More and more gamers will soon be able to try the console out, as Valve recently announced it’s ramping up its pace to deliver it to you as soon as possible.