The latest beta update to Valve’s handheld-console operating system adds the option to enable ray tracing in Doom Eternal.
Steam Deck already supports real-time ray tracing , in at least one game: Doom Eternal . Valve’s portable console-computer has convinced many since its launch, but about the device, capable of moving games from the last generation with ease, a question hovers: Will it be able to correctly run titles that only come out on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series? The recent verification of Dead Space Remake sheds some light on the situation, as does the verification that it is capable of moving ray-traced titles.
Although it is true that the title belongs to the last generation, and that its performance is greatly affected. Pierre-Loup Griffais, a Valve programmer who works on the Steam Deck, has shared an image on Twitter demonstrating what Doom Eternal looks like with ray tracing enabled on the device. It’s pretty impressive that a laptop is able to display such realistic reflections in puddles and metal, but it comes at a price. As Griffais himself shows in another image, the performance in that scene drops to 35 FPS , and the GPU is being used at 99% of its capacity while the processor rests at 54%.
Beta update also fixes graphical issues with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
The feature to enable optional ray tracing for Doom Eternal on the Steam Deck is one of the new features of the operating system’s 3.4.6 beta update , released on March 2. The patch also fixes “graphical corruption issues with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and unspecified “graphical corruption issues and GPU bugs in various upcoming titles.”
