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When you’ve got a Steam Deck LCD, and want to get higher colours and a better decision, the DeckHD is an possibility to think about. This can be a display you possibly can set up that gives a better decision (1920×1200), whereas overlaying a bigger colour vary (87% sRGB vs 67% sRGB). It additionally has the identical brightness, dimension, refresh charge, and anti-glare coating whereas additionally giving no flicker on decrease resolutions and higher contact panel responsiveness. It is an superior concept, however with out official assist from Valve, there are sure to be points when utilizing it. Fortunately, this appears to be beginning to change.
Observed and posted by Brad Lynch (or @sadlyitsbradley on Twitter/X), evidently Valve has began including assist for the DeckHD display. He discovered that the DeckHD has been referenced within the Gamescope compositor, including in higher assist for the display on the Steam Deck. In each photographs, it’s seen referenced as Jupter Deck HD (or DHD for DeckHD), which can permit it to acknowledge the show with none points.
Brad additionally linked to the Github merge request that was fulfilled by Joshua Ashton, who works on Gamescope and different elements which might be used to make video games run on Linux/Steam Deck.
Whereas this does not get rid of the necessity to reflash the BIOS, it does imply that it’ll have wider assist with Gamescope on the Steam Deck. Particularly, the unique merge request that this was a part of talked about that it was meant to repair unified body restrict administration with DeckHD. On the very least, this could imply that altering the framerate utilizing your fast entry menu with the unified framerate slider, which mixes each refresh charge and framerate sliders into one, will work with the display. However this may very well be the beginning of much more assist down the road, making it a lot simpler to arrange the display and use it to play video games on Deck!
You should purchase the display by way of DeckHD’s web site for $100. You’ll have to set up the display your self, and your buy consists of the instruments you’ll need to put in it. It’s semi-complicated, and you’ll have to watch out because it means taking aside your Steam Deck, but it surely may very well be a worthwhile buy ultimately for higher colours and elevated decision.
There are additionally experiences of individuals ready months to get their orders, and there is some lack of communication from the staff. Evidently the orders are going out ultimately, however I might preserve this in thoughts when deciding to buy.
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