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Valve’s Steam Deck verification system has long given owners of the handheld a way of identifying which games run on the device. That being said, the system isn’t always perfect. Beyond the ‘Verified’ and ‘Playable’ tags, performance is one of the key factors gamers look out for, and with the latest Steam Deck update, Valve has made performance stats on the Steam store transparent.
When it comes to Steam Deck performance, not everyone has the same definition of smooth FPS, so it has become important for handheld gamers to seek reviews and benchmarks before they really commit to purchasing a new game for their device. Valve started recording framerate data anonymously back in February, and now these benchmarks are visible as part of the Steam Deck Compatibility tab.
Now on Steam Deck, and coming soon to desktop
Steam Deck owners can now view average framerates for both the LCD and OLED models, along with a Framerare Distribution graph to demonstrate how the average is calculated, based on the anonymous data collection. Valve says there is “a minimum threshold of anonymous data points collected” before a game can display these performance stats, so it needs to have a solid playerbase.
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Anyone with a Steam Deck can still opt-in to send their data via a game’s Steam library page, and this opt-in option is now available for on the latest desktop client beta, which means regular PC gamers should soon have access to similar data. It will be interesting to see how this is displayed, given the wide range of hardware used by desktop gamers.
We see this update as a stepping stone toward providing framerate data for more devices than just Steam Deck. To this end, we are also prompting customers to opt-in to providing anonymized framerate data in the Steam desktop client. This opt-in is currently only on Steam Client Beta, and will ship to all customers in the future.
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