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Valve have finally made clear what they've been doing with all that hoovered-up performance data and all those "Framerate Estimator" text strings : a framerate estimator for the Steam Deck . Or, rather, a framerate average-r, as games on the Steam Store are now getting attached graphs – under their existing Steam Deck Compatibility details – that show how many frames-per-secondseses that game has been recording on real players' handhelds, the OLED and original LCD models both.

The thinking, as Valve explain in a Steam post , is to set more precise performance expectations than the existing verification ratings – Verified, Playable, and Unsupported – provide. This may induce some gentle learned nodding, if you've ever tried an Unsupported game only to find it works more or less fine, or have ever wondered why a game that can just about scrape 30fps together gets the same green good-job sticker as something that screams along at 90fps.…