Personally, the amount of effort to swap a screen wouldn't be worth it unless my deck's screen was ever broken - but it is cool to see projects like this in the community.
Even if my screen broke I'd go with official instead of higher resolution, because of the performance penalty. Many games I play are already at low framerates, so sacrificing performance for resolution isn't worth it.
Then use FSR and run the game at 800p. Honestly the pixel density isn't THAT much higher with this screen. I'd say the
fact that it's OLED is the biggest upgrade;improved contrast and color accuracy is very noticeable.Having said that, I'm not in a hurry to void my warranty by trying this relatively difficult hardware upgrade. Maybe if my screen breaks I'll consider it.
Edit: not OLED apparently, but the screen has better colors according to everyone that's used it.
I'd go for high fps but same resolution. There's some rhythm games that benefit from higher frames with it mostly being just scrolling notes so run on potatoes.
Exactly this. Valve made the decision for 800p for a number of factors, one of the biggest was performance. We've all been there where we upgrade to a sexy new monitor and immediately realized we need a new GPU. This is the same, except we can't upgrade the GPU. I'll stick with this where I'm happy.
I'd think about it for OLED. I give no fucks about resolution I can't drive and will mostly not notice at that screen size anyways. The pixel density is fine.
Ship a whole front shell replacement with a larger screen displacing the bezels and the higher resolution? Then I'd listen.
I just brought a new Steam Deck and I'm playing Control on my nice 27" pc monitor with a cheap dock and my old controller. If you want a big visual this is the best way. People didn't realize that 800p in a monitor so small is already pretty close to the definition of a retina display. The Deck monitor is quite good, especially if you install decky and the Vibrant plugin to increase the saturation of the colors. I use the deck monitor to play in the 99% of the cases. If you want a bigger, better monitor just buy a dock.
EDIT - You know? In hindsight maybe there could be a better monitor solution afterall... 🤔
Battery performance goes brr brr brr :)
tbh I stopped playing my deck mainly because the screen sucks (I have a lot of blowout and inconsistency) also I got a Win4 2023 which is just a much more capable device, however...... I still think I might install DeckHD screen eventually because I do like having a bigger display when I’m playing ps5 remote play. performance wouldn’t matter in that case anyway. I’m just happy to see upgrades coming out.
