Valve’s Steam Machine Brings the Best and Worst of PC Gaming to the Living Room

Valve claims the Steam Machine can hit “up to 4K at 120 Hz” on supported displays via HDMI 2.0 connections (albeit using AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling tech, rather than at native resolutions), but the Steam Machine Verified label it will be applying to games on the Steam Store is based on a 1920 x 1080 benchmark.

I’ve been testing it on a 55-inch 4K OLED TV and a 27-inch 1080p desktop monitor, both with 120-Hz refresh rates, both using HDMI. I used four games as references: Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, Crimson Desert, Lego Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, and Japanese RPG Granblue Fantasy Relink: Endless Ragnarok. Frame rates were tracked using the Steam Machine’s built-in monitor, accessed by tapping the “…” button on the Steam Controller and activating the “Performance Overlay.”

On the TV, Spider-Mandefaulted its output resolution to 2048 x...

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