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Part of the fun is tuning both in-game and Deck performance settings to squeeze out as much as possible. It's an art of tradeoffs.

Many less demanding games can run with a ~7w TDP limit at 60fps without a hitch at full detail. This yields massive battery life improvements.

For modern AAA games you'll probably have to frame cap 30-40fps and lower detail settings in-game.

Good advice. I haven't really dug into the settings as much as I should.

It'd be cool if Valve had a shareable "common power settings" similar to how the Deck works with Steam Input.

It is honestly the only thing that is missing for me as a daily Deck user with dozens of games from the backlog finally getting installed and receiving attention.

Yea, I was playing Wolfenstein New Order on it and was shocked at how well it ran. Easily made 60fps with battery life projected at well over 3hrs.

Setting the refresh rate to 40hz helps a lot too.

I wish I had over 2 hours of uninterrupted play time :D

The other is weight and screen isn't as nice.