Whereas the truth that Steam Deck OLED is the superior machine ought to shock completely no person, it’s value preserving in thoughts that the previous LCD mannequin is simply wonderful, too. This goes doubly so now that SteamOS 3.5.5 has formally come out, permitting you to tune your color vibrancy and extra.

Certainly, not do that you must depend on third-party plugins to tweak your Steam Deck’s show: the long-awaited SteamOS replace 3.5 is now obtainable for obtain, and it consists of some large must-have options for the older mannequin of the machine. Do anticipate some efficiency and stability enhancements, in fact, however the greatest draw right here is completely the brand new color settings interface, the place you’re free to customise the Deck’s show picture output nonetheless you would like.

Extra particularly, after downloading and putting in SteamOS 3.5.5, you possibly can go into the Deck’s Settings menu and choose the ‘Modify Show Colours’ choice to fine-tune its picture. As proven within the screenshot featured above, there are two disparate sliders so that you can fiddle round with right here. Color vibrance allows you to bump up the show’s vibrancy to nice impact, serving to reduce the Deck’s in any other case uninteresting LCD show. It’s no OLED, thoughts, but it surely certain is a giant and significant change.

Except for altering your Deck’s picture vibrancy, you too can tweak the baseline color temperature of the show. The specifics of the place you’re taking your sliders will rely by yourself private choice, in fact, however the truth that the choice is right here is greater than welcome, and arguably transformative for the poor previous LCD.

In actual fact, just by tweaking the Deck’s show, some might really feel that it could be value their whereas to attend a number of extra years for Steam Deck 2.0 to reach. On condition that the efficiency differential between the LCD and the OLED variations of the Deck is pretty minimal, sticking it out is now a extra viable choice for individuals who have been miffed by the bottom machine’s display. All in all, an ideal change that’s been a really very long time coming, and that is simply the headline characteristic of an in any other case substantial OS replace.