Valve Shares Steam Deck Frame Rate

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Valve Shares Steam Deck Frame Rate

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Since Valve announced its Steam Deck Verified program in two thousand twenty-one, players have noticed that a title’s “Verified” status does not always match how well it actually runs on the handheld.

Valve has been collecting anonymized frame‑rate data from Steam players who opt in since February.

Yesterday evening, the company announced it has started sharing that data on many Steam Store pages as averages and histograms for both the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED.

Valve acknowledges that players enabling VSync or frame‑rate limits can bias the collected data somewhat and that the measurements don’t account for custom in‑game settings that Steam Deck users may tinker with to get a game running.

Published 2026-11-10 21:32:57 UTC · Published by JQJO

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Timeline

On January 1 2021 Valve announces Steam Deck Verified program.
On February 1 2022 Valve begins collecting anonymized frame‑rate data.
On November 10 2026 Valve starts sharing average frame‑rate data.
On November 11 2026 Steam Store pages display frame‑rate histograms.
On November 11 2026 Valve notes VSync and limits bias data.

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