On top of that, it kinda seems like this is a fix that is primarily targeting CPU bottlenecks, so mostly simulation-heavy games like CK3, the Civ series, Stellaris etc. This is relatively without consequence for games that are actively bottlenecked by graphics, and those are the games where the framerate improvements would be the most useful. But then again, it's an APU, maybe that just performs differently. I'm not really that well versed in how APUs work exactly.

Cool that it exists, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's not going to have a lot of impact on the steamdeck. Would be cool to see more games tested tho.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 minutes ago

It's not just simulation heavy games that stress the CPU a lot. There are lot of single player games that would (or could) benefit from this. Things like enemy and character ai (not that LLM Ai of sort, I mean just the normal game logic) are stressing the CPU a lot and can cause stutter in certain regions of the games. It does not mean a constant stress, but like in Witcher 3, Baldur's Gate 3 or Crimson Desert in certain situations when its not about the graphics anymore (dungeon with lots of enemies, town with lots of people).

But we need more testing with those games before coming to a conclusion off course. We can just speculate at this point.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Could boost 1% framerates by 30%+... way to fucking fail miserably at your ONE job...

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 7 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

What are you yapping about? The 1% refers to the low end of framerates, usually when games have lag spikes. This approach makes those spikes less noticeable because the APU power management doesn't get in the way.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 13 points 2 hours ago

If I had to guess this is about the blatantly false title of the article.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 5 points 2 hours ago

I think he's berating the author of the article for using a title that implies that the improvement is to overall frame rates, not 1% lows.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 0 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

and what about that is factually correct in, "boost Steam Deck frame rates by up to 32%"?

If you say, "butbutbut they said 'up to'!" .. then you're nothing but an absolute moron drooling over press releases thinking about what they mean less than an average cave man thinks how to cook their dinner...

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 3 points 22 minutes ago

Please live up to the Lurking part of your username more.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 points 1 hour ago

You can talk without insulting everyone or attacking people yk, literally every comment of yours is full of rage and/or have insults to another person, geez