Perhaps I’ve not been with the SD long enough if this is a regular thing (5 months or so) but why oh why is something like this making it into a stable release with all the months of previews and testing…… surely this thing got flagged the very moment it got released just like it did in stable? I mean other more simple things like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or sound issues you notice immediately. Or maybe I missed something about how this preview/ stable releases work with Valve?

Ok thanks, I read through all the GitHub comments too, doesn’t look great. I was hoping to upgrade from 3.4 to 3.5 to get a bit better performance out of StarField but I think I’ll wait until they admit there’s an issue and fix it in the next release. My system is very stable right now and plays great in most games so rather not break that! I’ll wait a little longer, even Starfield is very playable for me only bad drops below 25fps are in the cities but everywhere else is nice 30 up to 50 (low but 70% scale and 100% sharpening, FSR2) personally I think it looks very nice like this, detail is not ‘low’ by all means

I’ve not upgraded… yet. Planning to do this evening. Apart from games not running well, how do I also check for this just via enabling the on screen performance settings?

Yep hence exactly as I assumed with the impact only for the few. After all the SD is there for tweakers so I’m sure there are few stock SD’s out there without some customisations, add-ons or emulators running that may conflict but in reality how many are not doing that! Not many I’d hazard a guess. Yes Star Citizen is installed, not played yet, but bar the swapfile increase (which I’ve not changed as yet) and installing a version of GE proton that can be forced for it to use, there is nothing else changed for it to ‘work’ just interested to see what it’s like and if it’s the same or worse than Starfield ;) my SD is otherwise as it came but with some steam games and emu deck installed, that’s it, so much less customisation than many I would think

Keeping mine, only had 6 months. Can’t justify the changes being worth it for me personally. Will put the money I’d lose to sell it towards a Switch 2 when that comes perhaps even in 2024