In our own testing, with Wi-Fi enabled and at 50% brightness, we have found the Steam Deck battery life ranges from just 83 minutes at worst all the way up to seven hours and nine minutes. Personally, I found a 40 fps limit was a great balance between battery life and smooth gaming performance, so was disappointed to see the option disappear. There is the potential for it to return to that granular level, as the developers are still working on it behind the scenes, which would be great. This used to be a granular fps slider, but wasn't working as it was supposed to, and so Valve has made it a binary, off or on situation. The most powerful of these tools for any gamer using the Deck is going to be the 'Limit Frame Rate to 30' toggle. This has changed a lot-and is probably the part that's changed the most in my time using the Deck pre-launch-and I would expect it will continue to evolve going forward. This stops any less-demanding game from going over and above the 60Hz the 7-inch touchscreen is capable of displaying.īut by dipping into the 'Performance' menu and hitting the 'Advanced' button you gain access to some extra settings to tweak. By default, Valve has enabled a hard 60 fps lock by forcing Vsync on no matter what the in-game settings might be.
It's worth stating at this point that the Steam Deck has a host of advanced settings in its arsenal designed to squeeze more life out of its 40Wh battery.
The most powerful of these tools for any gamer is going to be the 'Limit Frame Rate to 30' toggle
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