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.
Yeah, the improved contrast and color accuracy is the main reason why I even considered swapping out the screen. The simulated color vibrancy mod (which is coming “soon” to stock SteamOS 3.5 anyway) ended up being good enough for me though as long as I just want pretty colors.
If I really care about the visual experience, I’m doing it on my desktop w/ a proper monitor anyway, not on the dinky little 7" screen.
That said, if I ever broke the screen though, I might do it since I’d have to replace it anyway.
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.
Battery performance goes brr brr brr :)
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… 🤔
