All games have performance issues when docked, what am I missing?

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As the title suggests, every single game has some sort of performance issue when docked but works perfectly when handheld. Is this just a known thing with the steam deck?

Going as far as running a GBA game on Emudeck to Overcooked 2 on steam. Just the GBA boot screen plays quarter speed and is unplayable, some games are bad but playable but a lot you just cannot.

I get that RDR2 for example may lag because it’s producing a higher resolution when docked but I wouldn’t have thought retro emulation would be an issue.

Any suggestions or thoughts on this please? It’s embarrassing when I have friends over to play some multiplayer retro games and it is unplayable due to the poor performance! Please can someone shed some light!

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