Valve adds information about game performance and average FPS rate achieved on Steam Deck

Valve continues to improve its hardware and software ecosystem, this time adding new features to its Steam store. Specifically, players will benefit from the Steam Deckwho will now be able to check the FPS rate that games have before deciding whether to buy it. FPS data collection was previously available to developers to benchmark performance to optimize their games, but will now also be displayed on the game page before purchasing.

Steam will show the average FPS of games on Steam Deck before purchasing them

Data collection collects performance information for games on the Steam Deck, all anonymously (according to Valve). This data is used so that developers can have a vision of the performance that your game has on Valve’s portable consoleand thus be able to offer better optimization to make it more fluid. The FPS is also something interesting for the user, since if it has a good rate of these the game will look fluid on your console.

To help you decide whether to buy the game or not, Valve will also display this information for users, specifically on the game purchase page. At the bottom of the screen you will see a average FPS rate in the box announcing Steam Deck compatibility. The last update of this figure will also be specified, and thus know which version of the game it can be obtained with. If you click it will open a histogram to know how this average FPS speed is distributed as a percentage, something that will allow us to determine if there are jerks in some areas of the game.

Performance data will also come to the PC version of Steam

This data collection will also come to the PC version, although it is currently available for users of the Steam beta client for PC. With this data collection, players will have more performance information when purchasing a game, and know how it will work on their computer.

But Valve also warns that this system is an approximation and you may encounter some errors and warnings, such as the difference in FPS when you have vertical sync active at 90 Hz, and the game tries to reach these 90 FPS, although it may fall halfway.

Valve warns of possible errors in FPS measurements

In any case, this information can be very interesting to know if our Steam Deck is capable of running a game with an acceptable FPS rate. Otherwise, developers can also access this information and make the necessary optimizations to reach a larger audience with their titles, such as the thousands of users who have a Steam Deck.