Is a Steam Deck worth buying for gaming in bed?
Is a Steam Deck worth buying for gaming in bed?
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Probably weights too much and you'll drop it on your face
>t. twig armed tendie
Whenever I feel bad about being an out of shape twig armed loser, I enter a Deck thread and find at least one person complaining about the Deck being too heavy and feel better about myself.
I got one this week and I love it, have been using it for that exact thing. I also use it to play vidya on the sofa. Unexpectedly, I was using it to play Mario Kart with my fianceé there today, with her using a DS4. Was super easy to get everything set up for it.
Also, I spent all day tweaking a 2003 PC game to work on it - got it all set up with mods and working perfectly. That was quite fun in itself, and now the community layout makes controlling the game work really well too.
>Whenever I feel bad about being an out of shape twig armed loser, I enter a Deck thread and find at least one person complaining about the Deck being too heavy and feel better about myself.
They're all people who don't own one and have never handled one. Even
says "probably". I was instantly struck by how light it is and how easy it is to handle. One of my friends was complaining that it makes it feel "cheap".
Literally bought it for that reason. Yes. Also a good break from sitting in front of a computer all day.
You're an unironical gay. I don't even exercise nowadays and it's not that uncomfortable unless you hold it on top of your face like a phone.
Ye
Fuck no, steam dick is a joke and it's rumored valve is going to abandon it soon and cut off it's acecess to the steam servers soon.
>and it's rumored
No it isn't.
>cut off it's acecess to the steam servers soon.
how the fuck would that even work, idiot?
>literally the shittiest, laziest, most retarded bait ever posted
God I'm just so tired
I love making you people this upset that you'll go for lies this pathetic and blatant. Sad.
This. And gayben personally came to my house, ate his entire beard in front of us, beat my dog to death with the deck and sued my family for 400 million dollars. The man is a monster.
Why are you mentally ill? Show me where the Steam Deck touched you, jealous peasant Hispanic.
>those replies
Why are steamies so thin skinned?
It was last year, I played a lot of Elden ring on it. Not anymore. Just take a look. The new Nioh game doesn't work on the deck.
None of the new games work on it. The hardware got powercreeped quick.
Just save your money.
Do you mean Wo Long or Nioh 2?
Yes
The handheld costs as much as a phucking console you idiot
Can a console play pc games, emulate everything up to wii u and pirate almost everything while being a handheld you APE
I don't emulate, I'm not a boomer
Instead you'll just buy the $40 remaster on your Switch.
If you genuinely bought a 400 dollar HANDHELD to play the newest AAA shit of the next years when those games run like shit even on 1k pcs you are a retarded moron.
Is this what people expected though? Nobody bought a Steam Deck thinking "well, I'm going to buy this just to play all the last gen games out there and emulate. Definitely not to play any new current gen games". That's what the Switch is. Steam Deck is leagues above the Switch in terms of power so why should people expect more from it?
>Nobody bought a Steam Deck thinking "well, I'm going to buy this just to play all the last gen games out there and emulate. Definitely not to play any new current gen games".
That's literally exactly what I did. So far I've played Tomb Raider 2 and Deus Ex: Invisible War, and set it up so that I can emulate all my PS2 games.
>"well, I'm going to buy this just to play all the last gen games out there and emulate. Definitely not to play any new current gen games"
Correct. Why would I play modern current games on a 800p screen. I have a 4K TV and 3080 for that. It's been great for Rain World Downpour.
The switch struggles to play ps3 games and couldn‘t even emulate n64 properly without overclocking until nintendo made an official emulator.
It was made for that
You're desk isn't next to your bed?
that's mostly what I use it for, definitely a luxury item but if you can afford it, it's nice
Yes, perfect for a
Yeah, it's really good at that.
Bonus points if you have a bed that can angle up so you can just sit in it.
Yeah as long as you sit up.
yes, also good with nreal airs if you have too much money
>the morons at nreal don't want to bother making it function properly so the screen is static when you use the steamdeck
Looked into them and found that out so that killed them for me.
yes, don't listen to contrarian fags
Can someone explain the shader cache thing to me? Why does it need to continually download this shit almost every time I boot up? My country boy internet can't handle this nonsense. Is there a way to disable it?
I think GE-Proton doesn't use downloaded shaders. It introduces stutters probably though, unsure which's better
IIRC Valve maintains pre-compiled shader caches for games so they don't need to be compiled on the fly which introduces stutter. Got no idea why Vulkan is like that, I'm just a dumb normalfag who never heard of shader compilation and the need for caching while DirectX and OpenGL were what every game used for 3D rendering.
got one recently and only play it in bed, nice to be able to play a game on PC and then just hop into bed and continue from where you left off - also i'm a retard who can't focus on old games on the PC, playing them on the deck feels more natural so I've logged multiple hours in games I otherwise wouldn't have played.
That is the best purpose for it. Moonlight works great if you manage to fine something that doesn't actually work. I have some pretty obscure eroge that doesn't work well, but streaming them works just fine.
You can make custom one handed controls for any game, it's great.