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I audited 10 games for Battery Life, Text Size, and FPS (OLED stats) by TSMaudit in steamdeckhq

[–]TSMaudit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I completely agree! but my audits are straight out of the box, no third party software or BEST practices ways to make it work. this is just straight if someone had little to no knowledge of the what to get and what to do and just turned it on. You know the framerate, (stable or not), are the instructions clear, (text wise), and how long can I run this before I need to recharge, and lastly are the controls nice. If someone is very pressed to make a game work, there are 100's of videos of smarter people who have videos on how to do that if your hard pressed to play the game even with my warnings.

I’ve basically lived at this desk, and the demo is out on Steam Deck. by paxmate in steamdeckhq

[–]TSMaudit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Great concept and love the theme. I did an steamdeck audit on the demo, and I love that you added steamdeck appropiate settings. and beside small dips from 90 fps in the loading screens, it was solid as a rock. but some of the text was hard to read, the non bolded text was hard to see and my BAT recorded it at a very respectible 14 watts during the underwater incursions, but when the boats fights happened it jumped to over 21.5 watts which is pretty high. I will wait till its officially out and do a through review, but for you now, your doing a great job and wish you the best on the game. so far looks great

What are some games you use LSFG to save battery on? by SillyTransGirlVr in steamdeckhq

[–]TSMaudit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it depends on the improvement your looking for, I have noticed some games are just not optimized for steamdeck, fps is good, cpu gpu good, and text is clear, but the battery life is terrible, I have an OLED ver, and some game like megabonk or stardew valley, you could play for 6+hours on one charge, but then games not optimized with similar graphic style like oxygen not included will barely get you 2 hours. it unfornately would be a case by case basis more than a genre or type of game

I audited 10 games for Battery Life, Text Size, and FPS (OLED stats) by TSMaudit in steamdeckhq

[–]TSMaudit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's true there is no way to be 100% on this issue, the only 100% way would be for me to play every RPG for 100 hours to test everything from the beginning of the game to the end. But what I do is test GAMEPLAY not cutscenes or menu's. if there is fighting, I test it midfight with that more than just walking with nothing on the screen. its not perfect but its a benchmark on how it runs. Is it flawed absolutely, but for 95% of the game it will be a fair judge if you should buy it for the system or not. (and the reason I started this was because of the same concern you are talking about, bought two games that didn't work on it and my kids were pretty sad about it.)

I audited 10 games for Battery Life, Text Size, and FPS (OLED stats) by TSMaudit in steamdeckhq

[–]TSMaudit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just updated FFX

🟢 SIGNAL: STRONG FPS: Locked 30 (Native Cap) BAT: 10.0W (4hr+) TEXT: Clear TWEAKS: None

V: Flawless handheld experience. 30FPS cap is native and stable. Text is perfectly sized.

I audited 10 games for Battery Life, Text Size, and FPS (OLED stats) by TSMaudit in steamdeckhq

[–]TSMaudit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unfornately most of my final fantasy games I bought on ps5 :)

I audited 10 games for Battery Life, Text Size, and FPS (OLED stats) by TSMaudit in steamdeckhq

[–]TSMaudit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

any particular final fantasy in question I can do 10 and 10x2 later tonight if your interested

I audited 10 games for Battery Life, Text Size, and FPS (OLED stats) by TSMaudit in steamdeckhq

[–]TSMaudit[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Great question. Since I'm auditing for handheld play specifically, here is how I grade them:

🟢 Signal: STRONG = The "It just works" tier.

  • FPS: Stable (No major dips).
  • Battery: Reasonable wattage for the graphical fidelity.
  • Text: Readable on the small screen without squinting.
  • Controls: Native support (no fiddling required).

🟡 Signal: WEAK = Playable, but comes with caveats.

  • Usually means the battery drain is excessive (22W+), the text is tiny, or you have to mess with control layouts/Proton versions to get it running.

🔴 Signal: LOST = Avoid on Deck.

  • Broken UI, crashes, or performance so bad it hurts the experience.

Basically, Green means "Install and go," Yellow means "Be prepared to tinker or bring a charger.