Bonus Material: Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4 vs Steam Deck (Patreon)

Hey everyone, a semi-broken and barely conscious Rich here with the first bonus material from my Steam Deck review. There's a lot more stuff coming for Premium and Retro tier supporters, but this first bonus extra is available to all - but before I go on, a big SHOUT out to Discord users on the #Steam-Deck channel who helped a desperately uninformed Linux noob through an utterly embarrassing shortfall in knowledge!

Onto the story behind this content: when I first got the Steam Deck, it wasn't in particularly good shape. SteamOS had issues, the 30fps cap - essential for the system - wasn't working and well, there's a lot more to share there to the point where I may put a bonus diary together detailing the full story if I can find the energy.

However, I knew that the Deck had so much to offer and I was convinced that the handheld at 720p/800p could likely match the PlayStation 4 at 1080p. The 30fps cap wasn't working, but I discovered that attaching a 4K display to the video output forced the Deck to output at 30Hz... and this allowed me to get properly frame-paced 30fps capture of Horizon Zero Dawn I could compare against PS4. If I'd waited another week, the 30fps cap would have worked and the whole exercise could have been achieved with a lot less fuss. Settings? Steam Deck is up against PS4 here at the original preset with TAA enabled.

But anyway, just a few seconds of this much larger segment made it into the review, so help yourself to the complete comparison I made! Coming next: three different seven minute God of War Steam Deck vs PS4 performance analyses...

Horizon Downloads here: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/2022-02-25-horizon-zero-dawn-ps4-vs-steam-deck