I simply don’t understand how Sony studios extract the visuals they achieve in their games from old hardware. It feels like tech sorcery.

    • @Ado@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10•9 months ago

      Would be amazing if windows did what steam deck does in shutting off the OS during gaming mode.

      • @astropenguin5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        I doubt windows either has or wants to have that functionality, given their more business/general purpose oriented focus, also the steam deck runs on Linux.

        A part of me wonders if it would be possible to put the Linux distro/is of a steam deck onto a dedicated gaming computer to get some of the optimisations from it like that.

        • @Quentintum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          That’s the Holo ISO project. It looks pretty experimental and only supports certain hardware (nvidia graphics cards not recommended).

    • @DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8•9 months ago

      It’s a little easier when the machine is dedicated to that and only that. The OS doesn’t have all this extra crap running in the background that takes resources from the game because it was designed for that in mind.

      At best you’re looking at a 10% performance penalty, closer to the 1-3% range without known bad background software.