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Steam Deck

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[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 6 days ago

The worst part is while variable shading can help... The fixed half shading on the Steam Deck's APU barely gives any performance benefits at all. It will make everything look horrendous on many games, and net you pretty much zero FPS. Keep it always off.