Can It Run Crysis? The Only Steam Deck Question That Matters Finally Answered 

For sure

Lol, I still don't think it's suprassed rise of the tomb Raider.

@@BoshBargnani Still upset they never did a final One X video for Rise though, lol.

@@raresmacovei8382 what Rise?

No kidding- DF barely makes any videos about Crytek. ;)

Same here...I totally lost it...

Fortnite level greens are nothing to be proud of. Effin zoomers and devs catering to them.

@@Jucelegario what

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Great! Now I have to worry about the existential crysis :P of my computer along with mine.

It's a goddamn machine, mr liberal arts degree.

@@richardhunter9779 no shit Sherlock! Do people take everything at face value nowdays?

Considering how computing makes them run hotter... Dear God: COMPUTING IS SEX FOR A COMPUTER!! Pushing your hardware to the point of it running out of memory and blue screening is just it climaxing.

@@richardhunter9779 considering we have a very poor understanding of a biological machine’s consciousness (human), with our best explanation being random quantum phenomenon in our brain’s micro tubules (which resemble transistors functionally) I think the question of whether silicon machines have consciousness is valid

As someone who loves NMH3 about as much as I hate the performance of NMH3, I too would be intrigued by a side-by-side comparison

Just being a handheld does not make it an apples to apples comparison. There is very different technology under the hood of each system. I’m a Nintendo lover and absolutely love my Switch but even I can admit the Steam Deck is way more meatier under the hood. Definitely not apples to apples.

@@dewinter1411 Well, no. But people make comparisons between console and PC all the time. The biggest difference is that this is a highly specific PC build.

@@dewinter1411 Of course the Deck isn't like a Switch. They aren't similar in terms of power or architecture but the comparison would be interesting considering the similarities they _do_ have, such as a similar price point, and both being handheld devices capable of playing modern games, which is a very limited market, aside from 1000-dollar Windows handhelds it's basically just the Deck and Switch which makes it a naturally interesting comparison.

@@dewinter1411 he means apple to apples in terms of same game (being the same apple), he wants to see how much better they will perform with the extra power.

Crysis on the bathtub, what a time to be alive gentlemen

@@alexsilva28 wrong channel, but it's fine..

Very brave of him to hold it with one hand

Wait, they're doing a 40hz setting? That's amazing.

Yeah. I've tested out 40Hz on my 120Hz TV just for curiosity, and it wierdly feels closer to 60 than 30, to me. So I think there are probably lots of games that I couldn't bear to play at 30 but would be fine with it at 40. I think that would be even more true on a small screen like the Deck's.

@@originalulix Yep, a dev confirmed it on Twitter! He said they're working on making the screen blanking time shorter when switching refresh rates, so presumably as soon as they figure that out it's ready!

@@liamness 40hz is exactly in between 30hz and 60hz in terms of frame times. 30hz is 33.33ms, 40hz is 25ms and 60hz is 16.67ms

If this is happening, Sick! my main request was VRR or 40/50hz setting for the display, this solves the issue most games will be able to lock 40Hz

I want to know if steam deck is waterproof!

@@lee-suhuang5326 you beat me to it!

a treat for the girls... if there were any on the internet

@@cldpt - 😬 Uhh...not. Alex Battaglia is part of the LGBTQ 🌈 community.

Alex found his happy place :)

It can’t run it in a respectable resolution

Original didn't run at 20...tf?

@@TeamGun On my crappy laptop, it did, at 1024x768, while looking a lot worse.

Yeah ever since I watched DF’s ratchet video it’s like a part of my brain expanded at the idea of 40fps on a 40hz display. Sounds awesome and I wish it was a widely available thing.

A 40fps cap wouldn't look good unless they are able to to downclock the Deck's screen to 40hz. 40fps on a 60hz display will lead to incorrect frame delivery. However, Valve has said they are working on getting the screen to downclock to 40hz so that 40fps would still look smooth. I also believe the Phawx got it working in Windows, so that's a positive indication for SteamOS.

@@TeamGun play any of the crisis games on the xbox 360 lol. They definitely ran at really poor framerates.

Can it run Doom?

Can Cotton-Eye Joe run Crysis?

Yes please

Problem is I don’t think Alex cares or has Nintendo stuff. But yes he should compare both.

@@anasevi9456 I assure you the tiny Aerith APU in the Deck is much more efficient than the high end builds of the mid 2000s

@@anasevi9456 steam deck has the power of a gtx 950 which is trice stronger than a 8800 but yeah I see your point. Still 2013 not 2006

@UCVCQhFe26__8b2rjLrJmICQ heating thats why the more powerful your system not only do you draw new to draw more power but your parts get warmer which means you need to have better cooling. Especially on a portable. You don’t want to burn the users hands or just have the inside just melt.

There’s other videos of it online. Seems to run well actually

Can the panel itself be set to 40 Hz though? Usually 60 Hz panels can do 50 Hz but rarely 40 Hz. 24/48 Hz would be really great too for apps like netflix and such. This is why the next revision has to be 120 Hz and adaptive sync. And OLED too (better quality and saves battery life compared to LCD).

@@deus_nsf Maybe. My very old laptop supports 60 hertz as well as 40 hertz. I used it sometimes with Vsync and it was okay.

@@deus_nsf I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but my Quest 2 launched at 75hz, updated to 90hz and can now do 120hz natively.

@@deus_nsf hey currently in windows you can set the screen at 40 hz but they are working on it natively to be supported in an upcoming branch for SteamOS

It needs a VRS display.

Performance can also be quite different than Windows PCs, like we saw with Elden Ring

The gpu is around rx460 4gb in performance which is a bit slower than 1050

I read that devs are able to make it so specific files are downloaded if you're on a Steam Deck. So if you want to optimize specifically for Steam deck you can. Or if you want to make the download file size lower by not including every language pack then you can do that too

Would require a ton of work... Ooooor they could make some kind of a "dynamic comparison" of similarly powered hardware benchmarks for games and just webscrabe the web to find references of that similar hardware's performance on certain games.

There are multiple videos with Witcher 3 on Steam Deck (though not as in depth as Digital Foundry). With a mix of medium to high, you can lock it to 60fps with great detail and good draw distances

Yep, i saw multiple videos of steam deck running witcher 3 at high settings around 40fps ish, switch looks like absolute potato in comparison, i said it since the switch was released back then, it aint powerful enough to play future games on the go and i say that as a switch owner, thats why i ordered the steam deck for my travels and will sell the switch instantly as i get it.

There is no comparison. Quality in grqphical fidelity and fps is pretty huge there.

Witcher 3 can do 60fps on most high settings. The issue with Crysis Remastered is it was a very bad remaster and struggles on tons of platforms lol

@@ADreamingTraveler On pc they butchered the mouse settings by using mouse acceleration. Cant think why people like that to be honest. If it was an option that you could toggle on or of it would be fine. but it is foced. I just installed the original though xbox gamepass and added that to steam to make a gyro config and flickstick. Atleast the original has raw mouse input. I just cant understand why so many pc ports get mouse acceleration. People complain about it all the time. Like with god of war, before they patched after a huge backlash, Developers cant seem to make good pc ports anymore. A pc game needs to be judged by pc standards. This peans a few measly things. 1 raw mouse input. 2 mixed inputs. 3 every key needs to be rebindable. 4 It needs to run good at most pc setups (wich is the hardest thing to do).

Alex has been here for like 3 years at least lol

Am I being gaslit? He's been on the channel as long as I've been watching it.

Same. John is my favourite member of course, but Alex gives him a run for his money, they have really good chemistry together.

He's not as comfortable in the three way convos they do but he sure knows his shit

I think there all great at there narrating, a good bunch of guys, that know what there on about.

Yeah, a direct comparison to Switch when a port is available would be really interesting. The Deck is.... not a console, and I've been impressed by how well dedicated Switch ports hold up against the Deck sometimes, so that's not a trivial data point on this version of the hardware.

@@mademedothis424 it doesn’t even have to be a very serious comparison, just a quick reminder of what the standard handheld’s visuals are at

@@spencerl9897 Yeah, I think just having the fame data side by side on a comparable section would be great. I think it'd show many unexpected results.

The TAA in Elden Ring is really good with the only noticeable artifact is moving distant enemies looking worse than no AA

FSR from a lower res might be worth looking into. TAA not so much since it's rather expensive in Crysis Remastered.

I do not like the Low res sharpened aliased look here with the vegetation when going subnative with FSR

And it starts at around the same price, is only a little bit larger, has a larger library and way more performance under the hood. Hm, I wonder why does DF keeps putting off Deck X Switch comparisons?

@@VariantAEC They already get enough heat from Nintendo fans whenever they spill the beans on the performance of the Nintendo Switch (be multi-platform releases ported to Switch or even exclusive games)

@@DeepWeeb No excuse for not covering it. I guess DF isn't really impartial though.

@@VariantAEC I mean, considering how Nintendo fans at large have reacted to the Steam Deck, a side-by-side video might come across as a direct affront to them. It's funny how these people keep repeating to themselves that the Deck poses no threat to the Switch but still get very defensive when highlighting the advantages one has over the other.🤔

@@DeepWeeb For real. Have to agree with the ninty fans on one point though. Steam Deck isn't direct competition for Nintendo. It's Microsoft's direct competition and as a person who loves tech but hates the PC as a platform for gaming... I hope the Steam Deck does well.

I've gotta say I'm impressed with how well FSR works on the Steam Deck. Not the biggest fan of it on my 27" 1440p monitor, but it does a great job when running games at 1024x640 and upscaling to 1280x800. Significant sharpness difference and it doesn't look artificially sharp or anything.

@@startedtech Huh, didnt know you could use FSR on custom resolutions, thought it was just 960x540?

@@startedtech Agreed. I've been using it in a variety of settings and on a smaller screen, it's actually very reasonable!

power of the ability to run the crysis... in the palm of my hand!

@@teddyroosevelt8067 I call my dick crysis.. so I guess it's been running in the palm of my hand for a good minute now lol

It already did, on Nintendo Switch

Android phones can run crysis either through eggns or exagear, fps on eggns is still pretty bad on the latest flagship, 15-20.

I don't think a Palm Pilot can run Crysis

Crysis ran on the PS3 so it's not thaaat much of an achievement.

@@rideroundandstuff True. I think *running* Crysis pretty much stopped being in question since at least since 2015. When the Tegra X1 started running it.

@@rideroundandstuff I think it's more a testament to a handheld gaming pc than the Crysis part. The game could be interchangeable in this example. The steam deck itself is the highlight.

Price of these devices is the biggest difference.

@@ViceCommando Not as big as the performance difference.

Portable Halo Reach. Man, if only you would've told my 13 yo self that would be possible in the future

It's more than speculation at this point, a dev on Twitter said they're working on switchable refresh rates but they have to improve the screen blanking time.

50hz is probably abit too high here, 45 or 40hz would be a better bet. The only issue is that you would want to make sure FPS is consistent as the drop would be to Half the refresh rate, instead of being from a Third from Half (eg: 30fps cap at 60hz) or a Quater from a Third (eg: 40fps cap at 120hz).

They did. Said there's worse frame pacing using it.

At least a few people

TBF, the Switch has a Crysia port.

In 2007 I was hoping for a DS port 😢

Switch would win

@@scuppo lol no. I have Crysis 1 on Switch. It's like 480p at low settings with regular drops below 30fps compared to stable 720p30fps with medium settings on Steam Deck.

That was to try to get 60fps but he did 720p medium to high with a locked 30fps