Valve has enabled its own ray tracing in the Steam Deck

Yes, it finally happened – Steam Deck now has native support for ray tracing technology in games. Earlier,

if you wanted to enjoy such an experience, then youit was necessary to perform some manipulations with the console operating system. And it must be said that for a device that costs less than the RTX 3050, having ray tracing is truly impressive.

What is known

Valve Announces New Steam Deck BetaOS in the preview channel, and which, in particular, updated the Mesa graphics driver to version 23, which sounds dry, but in fact should fix some bugs in the latest build of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, as well as several other projects. The update also includes ray tracing in Doom Eternal.

Doom Eternal – not the last word inbloated effects of ray tracing, but its implementation – it's a clever use of technology to improve the lighting and glare of the game. The game doesn't have any initial minimum system requirements to enable ray tracing, but at 1080p resolution players will need to have an RTX 2060, so the fact that the technology runs on the device you're holding in your hands is nothing short of surprising.