Overview
- Valve rolled out the new framerate display on Steam store pages for thousands of tested titles on Tuesday, showing average frames per second and expandable histograms in the Steam Deck Compatibility panel.
- The numbers come from anonymized telemetry that Steam Deck owners opt in to share, and Valve is prompting users in the Steam Client Beta with a wider opt‑in rollout planned later.
- Averages reflect the Decks at their default frame limits — 60 FPS for the original LCD model and 90 FPS for the OLED — and Valve calculates averages from sessions that meet those standard caps.
- Valve warns the data have limits: V‑Sync, user‑changed settings, and frame‑cap behavior can skew results or produce stepped distributions that do not match every individual’s experience.
- Valve says it plans to extend framerate data to other devices in the future, and the new store charts give buyers clearer expectations while also giving developers real‑world performance feedback.