{"id":32429,"date":"2023-08-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/too-big-for-steam-deck-remnant-2-and-ratchet-and-clank-rift-apart-tested\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:00:00","slug":"too-big-for-steam-deck-remnant-2-and-ratchet-and-clank-rift-apart-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/too-big-for-steam-deck-remnant-2-and-ratchet-and-clank-rift-apart-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"Too big for Steam Deck? Remnant 2 and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Two of the most technically advanced current-gen titles have just launched on PC &#8211; Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and Remnant 2. These games push features like ray tracing, advanced upsampling, virtualised geometry and GPU-driven decompression, taxing even high-end PCs &#8211; and yet, both games also received Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck Verified seal of approval. Can the modest 15W APU that powers the Deck deliver a good experience in these cutting edge games, with good-looking visuals at reasonable frame-rates? Or do these latest PS5 ports push past the limits of Valve&#8217;s handheld? <\/p>\n<p>Rift Apart in particular is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2023-ratchet-and-clank-rift-apart-pc-tech-analysis\">most cutting-edge current-gen titles<\/a>, but the game is surprisingly scalable. We actually don&#8217;t need to cut back visual settings much at all, but upscaling is required to get into a comfortable performance window on the Deck. Here we have three options: AMD&#8217;s FSR 2, Insomniac&#8217;s temporal injection technique, or Intel&#8217;s XeSS, running in its reduced quality DP4A path with support for non-Intel GPUs. <\/p>\n<p>Running all modes in their performance presets, I generally preferred the look of the XeSS image, which is sharp and relatively free of visual artefacts. FSR 2 suffered from more artefacting but maintained visual clarity, while temporal injection delivered a softer image with an artefacting level roughly between the other two options. On the surface, it seems like XeSS is the right choice &#8211; but FSR 2&#8217;s better performance eventually become the overriding factor. I used the performance preset to provide a stable set of resolution settings, though the dynamic resolution options do work very well if you want to try those instead. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2023-too-big-for-steam-deck-remnant-2-ratchet-and-clank-rift-apart\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the most technically advanced current-gen titles have just launched on PC &#8211; Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and Remnant 2. These games push features like ray tracing, advanced upsampling, virtualised geometry and GPU-driven decompression, taxing even high-end PCs &#8211; and yet, both games also received Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck Verified seal of approval. 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