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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I play 30 fps on my 1660s because I want graphics over frame rates

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you wanted graphics you'd get a RT card

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Ray Tracing
        it is the worst thing to have happened to graphics cards. it works like shit and looks blurry.
        t.3060ti user

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Money though

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        RT is a poorly implemented gimmick.
        Whoa there's my window reflections for paying hundreds more! Honestly have a nice day gamers are the most contrnt to be scammed consumer base out there and in the same ranks as new age crystals consumers

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    50hz is pretty good for shooters that can't quite hit 60

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Some people have a good usecase for it, maybe they travel a lot. Some people are women who dont have a dedicated gaming pc and play visual novels with it.
    The performance isnt the issue, its whether you actually have a use for it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I turn down the fps to 40 if I want to conserve battery life. I usually eke out at least one more hour, possibly two, and for turn based games like octopath traveler you literally cannot tell the difference.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I turn it down to 40 or 50 if I want easy mode in a game that ties game speed to frame rate 🙂

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Some people are women
      Why does this sound dystopian to me?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've just always preferred handheld when it's an option, it's what I'm used to. Even when I'm sitting on the couch, I prefer to have the game in my hands like a book, which has the added bonus of avoiding >dad walks in moments

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The performance isnt the issue, its whether you actually have a use for it
      pure gaming wisdom

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I really like mine. I've been wanting a competent emulation handheld that went up to PS2 for the past decade and this thing exceeds expectations. The fact that the vast majority of my favorite PC games run on it is just a huge bonus.
    Playing Oblivion and Dragon Ball Tenkaichi 3 on the go is an amazing experience.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >On the go from the couch to the toilet.
      Total meme.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Some of us leave our houses anon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      All u need is the dock.
      I've got mine set up and play MK8 and RE4 ps2

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        why the hell would you emulate re4 when you can run the texture upgrade mod? its like and additional 30gb, but its so worth it.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >play ds3
    >literally need to set 480p just to get 60fps
    i got scammed by shills on this board

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It was good last year, could play Elden ring and shit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why lie about something that's so easy to check?

      800p medium gives you 60fps with few dips into the 50s.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >few dips
        >800p medium and it still drops to 50-52 every time
        Black person did you even watch the vid you linked? the only time he's on 60 is when he's not doing anything

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Just like on my RTX 4090. The games are badly optimized and stutter all the time.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            if DS3 stutters on your 4090 then that's not a 4090 and you got scammed by a pajeet

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It's a 4090, it does shit in other games that only a 4090 can do. DS3, Sekiro, Elden Ring, etc all have optimization issues that cause stutters and slowdowns no matter what hardware.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >4090 can never run DS3 on 1080p constant 60fps
                what kind of deckshill cope is this?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                What kind of moron doesn't know that not everything in shitty game development can be solved with pure computing power?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >deckshills unironically pretend that a 4090 desktop PC has the same performance with the Steam Deck when running DS3
                HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA holy shit

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No one ever said that, have a nice day.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Lower your moronicly high expectations. Every game dips once in a while.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >>play ds3
      >i got scammed
      No shit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >implying i paid for it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >480p just to get 60fps
      fix your shit anon what the frick
      also you don't need 60fps to beat these games

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >also you don't need 60fps to beat these games
        damn you're carrying that goalpost to the moon

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >fix your shit
          >G- GOAL POST MOVED!1!!
          Learn how to use your shit moron, there's no reason why you should be having this much trouble.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Quit lying dumbfrick, this is literally the best you can get with a higher res and it still drops a lot of the times to 50.

            Why lie about something that's so easy to check?

            800p medium gives you 60fps with few dips into the 50s.

            >inb4 b-but it's 60
            That's not 60fps dumb Black person, that 50fps with occasional 60.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      is ds3 particularly badly optimized?
      i played elden ring at medium settings 60fps just fine.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >i played elden ring at medium settings 60fps just fine.
        not on a Steam Deck you didn't

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          you are free not to believe me
          the 40hz mode is a meme to save battery, you can easily play anything at 60 on it thanks to the 800p resolution

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >you are free not to believe me
            I can verifiably call you a liar because I have a Steam Deck and regularly play elden ring on it and there is no way in hell the game can handle 60fps in overworld, let alone 40hz without drops.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              where did i ever say i did not have drops? LMAO
              i grew up with metal slug x, i'm used to this shit

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Literal consolepleb mentality. If the lowest frame drop is not 60, then it's not 60fps. Simple as.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Consoles have hit 60fps consistently this gen thus far.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >dude you can totally play anything at 60fps!
                >game that gets constant drops all the way down to fricking 35, shit frametime the entire way through and never even hits 60 unless you're in a cave where almost nothing gets rendered
                yeah ok moron
                just because you cap it to 60 doesn't mean the game is actually running at 60fps

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >says it can "easily play anything at 60"
                >admits it has massive drops
                So it doesn't easily play anything at 60?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                those drops aren't massive at all, it's nitpicking at best

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Take off gaben's wiener in your mouth for a sec and post your "60 fps" gameplay you lying shill.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Bro, it doesn't ever even hit the fps cap running at 60. It runs at like 35fps in overworld while pulling 15W TDP. You can't even run at 40hz. ER is a 30fps game on deck.

                Even at 30fps, with mediums/low, no AA, low shadows and some AO so the game doesn't look like dog shit, I still find my deck pulling up to like 18W total power and get an occasional dip even at 30fps. The game is not capable of running anywhere near 60 unless started making radical sacrifices. I love my deck and the performance is pretty spectacular for what it is, but you're basically just lying.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yeah you played 60fps by looking at the sky and staying still you moron

        deckshills are just as much, if not more, of a cultist than nìntendrónes

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know what you think you're accomplishing by lying about this

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    of course it's a meme, have you ever heard anyone mention one outside of Ganker?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah my friend got one. He has both switch and deck to play games at work. I’m leaning towards switch because it’s more portable and I want to play mario kart and smash.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I also own both and honestly I'm just using my switch now for ringfit and my deck for playing pirated anime on my tv.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >my deck for playing pirated anime on my tv
          You don't need a Deck for that.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I don't but it sure as hell a lot more convenient

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              A small laptop is just as–if not more–convenient.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                homie I'm not buying a small laptop if I already bought the smallest "laptop" that I don't use

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, I can't think of a reason to get the Deck when my 14" laptop does everything it can and more.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What jobs do homies have that let them play games at work?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, your employer is supposed to let you have breaks

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I don’t understand this mentality at all. I love the shit out of video games, but I wouldn’t squander a 15 minute break or a 30 minute lunch on gaming for a paltry amount of time. Get some food, do some reading, talk with people a little, unwind some sure. Using 10 of 15 on gaming or cutting into your lunch feels inadequate to have a good gaming session, and it makes me feel like those people need their “fix.” Also, those are always the people that are pulling their consoles out at inappropriate times. They’re adults, and they’ll be at a party or a funeral, and you’ll find them on their handheld like some 8 year old.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            by the time you eat your lunch, use the bathroom, and do your business your break time is up. the most you can squeeze in gaming is a mobile game that is less than 2-5mins.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes.
    Switch is much better and I say this as someone who loves Linux.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    As someone who has a Deck and a Switch, both have their pros and cons. I feel like the Switch is more let down by Nintendo though than itself.
    >Steam Deck
    +Despite size it's surprisingly comfy to hold
    +Decent power, if you're not into AAA shit you can play a lot of older games at 60
    +God tier emulation machine
    +Similarly, great for playing source ports, Ocarina of Time randos are fricking great on the deck
    -Linux is fickle and annoying, especially Steam's version of it. A lot of the time I need to compile shit on a Linux VM then send it over because Valve has locked down aspects of it
    -File transfer between Windows and Linux is annoying as frick, requiring FTP because Windows doesn't recognize Linux formatted disks. This is more of a windows complaint though
    -Screen could be better

    Switch (OLED)
    +Fricking amazing screen and small bezels, makes a further negative point about it down the list worse though
    +Quick OS
    +Decent library of first party games. Probably wouldn't get it for third parties but that's me
    -Nintendo locking it down. Shit could be a great emulatorbox for PSX and below complete with an OLED screen. Could be playing stuff like Virtual Boy Wario Land with true blacks but Nintendo doesn't care. Can't hack OLEDS without a modchip either.
    -Everything Nintendo does is frustrating as frick, dripfeeding content and such, remapping is console-wide and no emulation options
    -Find its less comfortable to hold than my Deck

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There's a Decky plugin called DeckMTP that lets you transfer stuff directly from windows to linux via USB

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Need to grab one of those USB C converters, though I genuinely didn't know that existed. Thanks anon.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          it's a fairly new plugin, shocked it isn't mentioned more.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      tendie machines are incredibly comfy once you can hack them fully.
      nintendo's autism gimps their hardware so much it's unreal

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, I used to game on a hacked 3DS and is was practically attached to me. I'd fricking kill for a softmod for the OLED. A lot of shit I like is playable on a hacked Switch and that screen is fricking beautiful. It's practically going to waste.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You forgot to mention the Deck has shit-tier battery life

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >literally can tweak anything
        and your Nintendo response?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It just works

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        wrong

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I have a Switch and was utterly shocked to see how people totally ignored the terrible battery life. Playing Breath of the Wild on release I distinctly recall getting about 3 hours and a couple minutes of battery life on a full charge when not tethered to the wall. Some games did better, some did worse.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            3ds & wii u had terrible battery life as well so i think tendies were simply conditioned to accepting 2.5 hours of gameplay.
            otoh you have mustards losing their shit because they've never owned a device that isn't plugged into the wall at all times

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            metroid dread kills a v2 switch in like an hour forty five, it really is atrocious
            meanwhile if you run brightness down, 30 fps, cap your tpd at 10-12, you can get like 5-6 hours out of most switch games on deck, and 10-12 on lightweight pc games

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I got myself a decent 65W USB battery pack and this is no longer a problem for me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      is Steam Deck worth it if i want to use psp, ps vita or PS2 emulators ?
      or old nintendo games

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        PSVita emulation is in its infancy. Get a PSVita. But for PSP and PS2, hell, even PS3 it's pretty great.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      this post isn't biased towards nintendo and shitting on the deck, delete this anon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Ocarina of Time randos are fricking great on the deck
      Do you have a link to a OOT build for the deck? Mario 64 as well.
      >File transfer is annoying because it requires FTP
      FTP is super convenient though?
      >Bezels
      Why do people hate them so much?
      I have both as well (original hacked, Not OLED). Its nice for all the first party stuff but anything I can play on the Steam Deck I will over the switch now. Both are good but the Deck is better overall because of all the emulation power and PC games.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Why do people hate them so much?
        Really?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I mean I'm not actively wanting them but its just a little extra space on the sides. What is it taking away from?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >What is it taking away from
            Screen real estate. Bezels are just pointless.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              But the screen wouldn't be any bigger. If it was the same texture as the plastic would that change anything?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >-Linux is fickle and annoying, especially Steam's version of it. A lot of the time I need to compile shit on a Linux VM then send it over because Valve has locked down aspects of it
      WTF are you running on your deck that isn't available as a flatpak, appimage, or just a tar.gz archive? I haven't had to compile a single thing.
      >-File transfer between Windows and Linux is annoying as frick, requiring FTP because Windows doesn't recognize Linux formatted disks. This is more of a windows complaint though
      You moron frick. Lmao. Just format a USB stick or mSD as exfat and boom. They can both read it. Do you just enjoy making your life harder for no reason?

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yesterday i played tekken 7 all night at 60fps, great game.
    one of the cutscenes was lagging though, wtf

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is there a trick to playing FPS games with gyro? I've been so used to playing FPS with a KB+M that it feels insanely weird going back to controller.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Just remember that gyro is there to help the analog stick, not to replace it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Wrong. Flick stick is the best control scheme.
        >gyro to aim
        >stick to rotate in direction you flick it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Use it in tandem with one of the other inputs. I started using gyro with my Steam Controller. I used the gyro with touch on the right pad as an activator, using tilt for big movements, swiping on the pad for fine adjustments. Some people do it opposite, but either way is better than stick or pad input alone. Takes a little bit to get used to. Once you have that muscle memory tune to it though there is nothing better apart from a mouse. Its the best that a controller could ever be.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone playing master duel on theirs? seems built for it.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw trying out the steam controller templates with it

    I never realized how comprehensive this shit was, I feel bad for the Steam controller for dying now, it's pretty neat.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    does deck have a VRR display?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        vrr eats battery life I guess

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Dug around a little bit. Looks like it apparently supports refresh rates anywhere between 40-60, which is bizarre to me, but I was only going to say 40 fps isn't bad considering battery life, it's rather frame-pacing that would be shit

        but since it seemingly supports 40hz proper, it's actually fine.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >get it
    >try out Portal 2 to test it out and get a feel for it
    >forgot how nice Portal 2 looked for a game made in like 2011

    I think it's mainly the lighting but it still looks better than some modern games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      mgs4 still looks better than 90% of the games coming out today.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you're referring to the tech demo of MGS4 that was at E3 2005(2006?) then yeah.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    You can use that Steam API to configure any input the same way now, but the Steam Controller really shined with it.
    >hold down a button as a modifier to increase total inputs
    >using the pads for radial menus
    >held button plus pad is a second quick menu
    >quick double presses
    >double presses and holds for another entirely separate set of bindings
    I've never had a controller be so absolutely useful. It really is remarkable.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the only problem i have is that the start button is way too close to the face buttons

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It is for normie consoomers. Games work like trash under proton, shitty performance, lots of bugs due to translation layers. It's expected for Wine/Proton, and is manageable if you are at least experienced with linux.
    As a linux toy it's great and a lot of fun. Emulation is good, and old stuff runs great if you fine-tune it in wine (like Heroes3 for instance).
    As a gaming console for your average joe? Nah.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    whole valve is a meme

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. I'm sick and tired of people pretending they're "le good guys" when they're just another shitty company.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They're easily the most trustworthy company that's making a niche device like the steam deck. You can order a steam deck right now for 400 dollars for the base model and receive it within 5 days. It has tons of support and will continue to be supported by Valve and the userbase for years to come.
        The rest of the competition are all chinkware devices shipped out from who the frick knows where China. They're overpriced, a crapshoot on quality, and you're going to have to wait months for it to arrive. Sometimes you wont get the device until the next revision comes out because they churn out hardware updates faster than Apple iPhones.

        Steam Deck isnt the most powerful device on the market, nor is Valve the most consumer friendly, but the rest of the competition is so bad it's easily the safest choice to make for the average enthusiast.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He's talking about homosexuals like these that make videos about "OWNING BIG EVIL CAPITALIST COMPANIES" while shilling for Valve.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Why there are even videos about some fat guys playing pirated nintendo games on deck
            Nobody believes that they dump their own roms
            Youtube wtf

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              yeah wtf, why hasn't the FBI done anything?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Its only because Nintendo aggressively takes down content like this. Valve isnt going around DMCAing videos about cracking steam games.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Valve isnt going around DMCAing videos about cracking steam games
              Valve doesn't have valuable video game franchises.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Valve doesn't have valuable video game franchises.

                Yes. But they’re one of the few companies that VALUES video games.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >They're easily the most trustworthy company
          How you can say that after the whole Artifact fiasco boggles my mind.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            gaben likes dota
            he has never been to a single csgo major
            he goes to every dota international
            he just loves dota
            he will never stop loving dota
            he will do anything for dota
            it hurts

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >mocking consoles for decades for sub 60 fps and sub hd resolution
    >steam deck comes out
    >akshually 20fps 360p was always good!!

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I can't imagine lying on the bed and playing the deck. I get numb hands even when looking at my phone. So now I have to sit on the couch or on a seat and play the deck. Now I might as well use a dedicated machine to play my game or a laptop whatever. I don't see the appeal.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Steam Deck is a VN reader. Simple as.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I can't imagine lying on the bed and playing the deck
      I do it pretty often. On my back, on my side, or sitting in a reclining chair. I really like the ability to sit down anywhere I happen to be comfortable and play a game, not have to worry about resting a laptop on my thighs while also holding a controller.
      Maybe you have an issue with your circulation.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i set it on a pillow for high bpm stuff.eg

      i have no problem otherwise but i also liked the duke. joycons feel way worse for long sessions imo

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I wish Deck had removable controllers.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I wish that in general separated controllers were the norm for the entire industry.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I took mine apart to upgrade the 2230 nvme, the sticks are on seperate PCBs with a few screws and a single ribbon cable seems easy to replace.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Me too. I'm so scared of getting stick drift one day.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The deck has hotswappable joysticks & can be replaced with hall sensor ones too, even the most tech illiterate people will be able to figure it out

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I love whatever Anon started this trend, I love my overhead bed phone and tablet vice. I just wish I had more time to snooze and play games like this. Peak cozy.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There are UMPC's that do. They're also better than the shit deck.

        Try shopping around more.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        just use an external monitor

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    40FPS is unacceptable, deck needs better cooling, like an optional protruding heat sink cooler.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes.
    Handheld gaming is for children and boy-molesters.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How well does the steam deck do remote play? I've been running games straight off the steam deck, but I'm considering using remote play from my Desktop to run more intensive gsmes in the near future.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      same as any device
      it 100% depends on your home network

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    nah, its pretty great

    >nearly all of your steam games in portable form
    >can play non steam games too
    >excellent controls, you can play pretty much anything you can play with a controller and km+m nearly as good
    >can dock it to your living room and have a nice entertainment center

    really the only downsides is that going even slightly off the "Great on Deck" path can be a huge pain in the ass in terms of tinkering, but the option is there, also battery life is not the best

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Map magnifier to a button and turn based strategy works great. Been playing battle academy on the couch in docked mode.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      that's a nice taste

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Realistically it's just replaced my living room consoles and switch. All I really need.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I can play MHR on Deck for like 2 hours before plugging in. Indie games like 4+. The battery life meme is the biggest lie the poorgays/thirdworlders who can't get decks spread on this board.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i can play ps1 and gba games on it for 6 hours.
      on the other hand, botw on cemu at 60fps murders my battery in much less than 2 hours
      it's on a case by case basis
      mhr does not sound very well optimized if what you say is true btw

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you have to be out of your fricking mind not to lock it to 30 instead of tolerating an inbetween framerate like 40

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you have to be a fricking moron to not understand how the refresh is matching the framerate just like VRR so it's a non-issue

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yes

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    40fps is twice what the switch can do

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't see how this is better than 14 inch asus/razer laptop

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >playing a from game without the framerate shitting itself
    youdidntbeatthegame

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    no

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    modifying hz for smoother gameplay is just smart, 40 is far from even 60, but its also far better than 30.
    so it's probably better to say 40 is the new 30.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    not if you have an use for it.

    If you don't have a gaming pc, travel a lot or spend a lot of time in middle of nowhere, then this is an absolute steal.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Reminds me of corona showing people's true colors in the face of desperation. Now there's people saying theyre cool with 30-40-60hz when the past 10 years or so I've been hearing about le epic 144hz or 4k (epic lmfao @ ps3 only 720p30fps) (xd @ switch only 60hz and 720p)and consoles suck because they cant do native 4k or capped 60.

    Its just another incidental test of mass psychology. I already had a feeling with the never ending "yeah 4gb of ram is enough and game devs/pc ui are so advanced now you'll never need more than 4-8-16gb of ram" horseshit that nobody knew what they were really talking about. Now I have confirmation.

    Its great for mobile, Im sure its nice, I just cant find a use-case a 25 dollar tablet with steam link cant already fill. Longest ive been away from my pc was maybe a week, tablet fills its void on vacations, phone fills the tablet's void on the go. Im too saturated with entertainment to enjoy it right now. It does come in handy for debunking old PC feature-copes that turned out to just be sour grapes for console stuff.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >using pedo as an insult on Ganker
    >implying the Switch doesn't run Splatoon 2 and 3 at 60fps

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >splatoon on non-OLED display

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For me its 45 fps on the deck

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm in the Navy and it's perfect for someone like me, so small and plays all the games I want to play on it. I'm playing the first Silent Hill at the moment.
    When I have a bit more space I use the dock and have a better PC than my old windows 7 one at home anyway.
    I agree with an earlier post, it's great, but it's definitely elevated if you fit into the niche that doesn't have an amazing PC sitting about anyway.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I'm in the Navy
      do the deck scrubbers even get internet access, or do you have to stock up on shit while in port?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Install EmuDeck
      Play MK8 Deluxe

      It's mad kino and slaps so hard it's not even funny.
      Fr u can use any controller if u got a dock.
      No cap I'm using a WiiU pro controller too

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sometimes I forget that I set the hz and fps to 40 to save battery life in some intensive game and then I boot up a GBA emulator and wonder why the FRICK its shitting itself

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      GBA I usually set it to lowest on cores and hz or at least very low.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >mustard race spends their entire existence screaming about how anything under 60 FPS is unplayable
    >Cuck Deck releases, can barely do 40 FPS
    >40 FPS is suddenly fine

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >has choice
      >this is bad
      the ultimate cuck.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      because it runs on a small screen at 800p, not 1080p or 4K on large monitors.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Am I being trolled or are some people really expecting for a handheld to play latest AAA at full speed when even most PC struggle?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There are people here who post weirdly about the deck all the time and im pretty sure most of it is just the same few of them

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How come that you PCgays have been shitting on 30 fps for decades and now it’s fine when Steam Deck is doing it? How can you not see this hypocricy? Are you mentally ill?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >How come that you PCgays have been shitting on 30 fps for decades and now it’s fine
        Nice zoomer strawmanning. Anyone who grew up with PCs knows that a shitload of PC classics from the 90s (Doom, Doom 2, RCT, RCT2, Diablo, Diablo 2, Starcraft, Ultima games, Dungeon Keeper, and a shitload more) all ran at hardcoded 20-40 fps depending on the game. You can open any list of greatest 90s PC games of all time, and you can bet at least a third of those, if not half, were never meant to be played at 60 or more fps.
        This MUH FPS obsession is a modern phenomenon that started becoming a trend at the same time e-sports and other "gamer" shit started becoming a trend in the mid-late 00s (gaming snacks, gaming drinks, gaming chairs, gaming diapers, etc.), and was used as a way to market useless crap and launder money and has nothing to do with what PC gaming was about.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It’s a fricking portable device, it’s not competing with 2000 dollar PCs or even PS5/Xbox Series X, but with Switch or mobile phones etc.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        40hz is the direct answer to that.
        also performance may be the easiest way to demonstrate the advantages of PC, freedom us far nore important.
        Even if the performance cap of PC was only about the same as a series X/PS5 (lets say Nvidia and AMD just stopped at mid-range for consumer cards), the freedom would still make PC appealing.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The majority of snes games were 60fps

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      if only you were actually around to have played on an SNES.
      whats the deal with underage pretending to be old men?

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, far better options exist. Only poor people get a reddit deck

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >PC lards shit on console gays because console games perform worse
    >couple years go by
    >every single modern DX12 release performs worse than the console version and has inherent, unpatchable stutter
    >uhhhh calm down guys, a few frame drops here and there don't mean anything
    *breathes in*
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      downloading premade shaders gets rid of stutter on my PC.

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >it's alright when steam deck does it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > stema deck is raising the standard fps by 10
      Based

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Post your recent games

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        binding tilt to q and e in combination with gyro is amazing in FEAR.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Holy shit good idea.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Binding of isaac
        Okay I'll give you a pass for now

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Astlibra is kuso kino

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      no its literally all just the lastest major nintendo releases anyway
      switch emulation being as good as it is, is the death rattle of NOA
      so far i haven't encountered anything unplayable and everything runs at least 25 fps with sufficient tweaking (disabling SMT is usually key)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Post it anyway

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I got one last week and I'm really enjoying it so far. It is basically the best emulation machine ever made, can do anything up to PS2 flawlessly. It can also emulate PS3/360, but I've not tried those yet.
    Spent a day or two getting Deus Ex: Invisible War set up and working on it. Had to do some tinkering to get a mod working on it, but in the end it did despite needing an .exe installer. I got dgVoodoo working on it too, which means almost all the old PC games I play will run on it nicely. Then I had to set up a control scheme which works, but it has enough buttons and customisation options that I actually had buttons to spare by the end. Trackpad works really nicely even for FPSes.

    As for whether you should get one, it really depends on whether you have a use case. I wanted it so that I can play old PC games when I'm sat on the sofa. I can't use the TV because my fianceé watches things on there, and my laptop was a bit unwieldy, so a beastly handheld fills the gap nicely. You should get one if you travel a lot, or want to play on a giant handheld on the sofa or in bed. If you're sat at your PC desk all the time anyway, there is no point.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It is basically the best emulation machine ever made, can do anything up to PS2 flawlessly
      Bro my phone can do that

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        PS3/360 emulation on phones is absolute shit, the screens are tiny, and they have no physical buttons. Even if you buy one of those snap-on controllers, it won't have dual trackpads or the 4 extra rear buttons. I also use my phone for emulation sometimes, but it's only really good for stuff up to GBA.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is there any difference between the models aside from storage capacity? I probably wouldn't play big games on it, just emulators and Isaac. Don't think I'd need much space.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The 512gb has an anti glare screen. It's not really worth it. There's no difference between the 64gb and 256gb besides storage space. A lot of people buy the 64gb and upgrade the SSD if you're comfortable with that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >And isaac
      based
      Anyway get a 64gb and upgrade the internal drive. You can get a 512gb for like $50 I think. It takes like 5 min to replace.
      >Unscrew the back
      >Unscrew the cover
      >Replace.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        midwit thinking
        imagine not leaving all of your enclosed hardware stock and in a TPU, only buying items that will eventually appreciate in value
        you can buy 2TB SD cards and hotswap them
        ruining the resale value of your switch unit with aftermarket mods is the definition of midwitdom

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          ps when you incels get married this justification is how you get toys past a normie wife, hth

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            midwit thinking
            imagine not leaving all of your enclosed hardware stock and in a TPU, only buying items that will eventually appreciate in value
            you can buy 2TB SD cards and hotswap them
            ruining the resale value of your switch unit with aftermarket mods is the definition of midwitdom

            The resale value of a Steam Deck is not going to be "ruined" by having a 512GB SSD instead of a 64GB one. It also is not going to be ruined by opening it. In fact, consoles with sensible modifications sell for more than stock.
            Also, the way I "get my toys" past my normie wife is by saying "I want this so I'm going to buy it".

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              you don't have a normie wife, you live with some ugly bat you can barely stand
              point me to a single good condition, used gamecube-or-earlier generation console with a storage hardware mod going for more than a comparable mint/near-mint unit without any modifications

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Just look at any ODE mods anon. Also what do you mean earlier storage mods? Before gamecube era most other things still used cartridges so they would use flashcarts not hardware mods. Hardware mods for video outputs always increases the value.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >you don't have a normie wife, you live with some ugly bat you can barely stand
                Nope, she is a literal Stacey. Never touched a video game in her life. I'm just not a pussy who has to give clever arguments to allow me to spend money.
                >point me to a single good condition, used gamecube-or-earlier generation console with a storage hardware mod going for more than a comparable mint/near-mint unit without any modifications
                Easy as frick. Stock GBC £60, modified GBC £260. I literally make money modifying old consoles and then selling them for a profit. It is fricking obvious that a console with better specs and custom modifications is going to sell for more. People literally pay me to do these mods on their own consoles.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                > paying 320 dollary-doos for a gameboy color

                what the actual frick

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Mental, isn't it? People do it though. The best bit is, the LEDs in the buttons make them absolutely horrible to play.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                A nice screen is cool but the light up buttons are dumb. Looks cool for a pic but wastes battery and are always too bright. I plan to mod one myself eventually and need to pick the colors for it still. Or I might just do a gameboy horror one.

                Steam deck is quite literally a suboptimal console experience, only you also don't own your games on top of it.

                But its a handheld console not a normal "console". Also if I pirated a game I own it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, I definitely agree about the LEDs. They look absolutely horrible in the dark, they are searingly bright and cannot be adjusted. For when you do it, I can highly recommend the Funnyplaying LCD retro pixel 2.0, and you'll need a case from them to fit it in. You can do it on an original case, but it takes a shitload of work with a dremel. The soldering is very easy.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah I was planning to get a funnyplaying. I love the pixel grid to make it more like the original a bit. Its been fun seeing all the different advances with them over the last few years. I'm semi comfortable with soldering so Im not too worried about it. I've done the n64digital hdmi mod which is annoying and small. Might do a GBA one instead or also at some point as well.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I also love the pixel grid. The one thing I would say that their screens still need is different colour modes to emulate what a real screen looks like. The default colour data taken from the GBC and fed into a backlit LCD results in an oversaturated colour palette - it goes from pastelle colours to really bright ones. A setting to tone the colours down to make them look a bit more washed out would be welcome.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah that is like the one last thing I can think of that could be added. Other than that its pretty much perfect.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                funny how I got a fully modded GBA with flashcart but i use my cheap chink handheld more since it's more portable and easier to use.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >only buying items that will eventually appreciate in value
          It's $400 and will wear out eventually. I'm not going to sell it. Why would I care. Also an upgrade like that would only increase it lol.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            typical, Ganker gamer morons don't even know enough about their own hobby to make money doing it
            you guys being incels has nothing to do with being nerds and everything to do with the fact that you quite literally can't make money doing something even if you spend your whole life on it
            fricking sad, liver king out

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >typical, Ganker gamer morons don't even know enough about their own hobby to make money doing it
              Buying a video game console, unboxing and using it and *at the same time* pretending it's an investment is absolutely pants-on-head moronic. Just take that money and put it in *any* mutual fund and it will produce far greater returns.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >everything you do should be monetized
              suicide by age 35 i guarantee it

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          ps when you incels get married this justification is how you get toys past a normie wife, hth

          you don't have a normie wife, you live with some ugly bat you can barely stand
          point me to a single good condition, used gamecube-or-earlier generation console with a storage hardware mod going for more than a comparable mint/near-mint unit without any modifications

          typical, Ganker gamer morons don't even know enough about their own hobby to make money doing it
          you guys being incels has nothing to do with being nerds and everything to do with the fact that you quite literally can't make money doing something even if you spend your whole life on it
          fricking sad, liver king out

          I can't even decipher this Black person-tier schizobabble. Stop posting.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    At first I thought 40fps was a meme but then I tried it on my $2000 OLED and I understand why now. You can easily crank out max settings at 4k or even 8k at 40fps instead of 120fps and it's smooth because it sits on the VRR range and you don't notice shader stutters like before when it takes your fps from 120 to 50 if your fps is 40.

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Im using it right now as a dedicated PC.
    Its pretty swag!
    Runs pretty much all my stalker mods so im happy with it.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anybody tried KOTOR 2 on it?

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Steamies rather lie than admit the first go round for the machine is ass.

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    "playtime 7 min" typical hoarder behavior, collects all the games/installs them and never plays them.

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    anyone using windows on deck? i heard its performing better than linux but no idea how true is that

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Problem is you miss out on all the integrations built into the Linux side.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It is not performing better

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've never played a single game at 60fps. It looks weird.

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    FRICK THE SWITCH!

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Steam deck is quite literally a suboptimal console experience, only you also don't own your games on top of it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >don't own games
      Well, technically, you don't even have to buy games if you don't want to.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        And you can mod games like on pc. That Black person is real dumb

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      well you can install anything you want on the steam deck. you could install windows and EGS if you wanted

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >only you also don't own your games on top of it
      It's a PC you dumb Black person. You can find a usb adapter that lets you hook up a floppy drive to it and install original Wolfenstein 3D on it that Carmack personally shipped to you 30+ years ago if digital games are triggering you so much.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Steam deck is quite literally a suboptimal console experience
      You can install mods on games, so really it's a massively superior console experience.

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why would being able to change stuff like hz, fps limits, gpu, tdp be a meme? wow, sure is horrible being able to control how battery-intensive you want the unit to be. fricking moronic nintendogay.

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nah. Being able to play gta iv anywhere makes it worth it

    Also Depends on what you’re trying to play. I’d rather stick with steamos for the same reason I like iPhone over android. I don’t want to “tinker” and spend hours customizing or personalizing. I’d rather just play on the steamos and play games from the steam store. Also being able to play steam games with console simplicity is great.

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Glad the grape foxes have moved on from 'steamies don't even play games on the deck!' to a different, if equally moronic, angle.

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    redpill me on OLED.. People always talked about how great the VITA was because of the OLED screen but then later said it was bad/not needed for the Steam Deck

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      OLED is nice to have but not a must

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I have a Deck and a Switch OLED and I like the OLED screen way more, but nothing is worse on an OLED than seeing PS3 era games struggling to hit 30fps

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        are games that are native to steamdeck(pc) and switch always better on steamdeck or do you still prefer playing some things on switch for form factor?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I own both and the form factor is pretty much exactly the same, the Switch just has all-round worse performance. I use a Hori split pad too, which makes it even more similar in feel. Switch has exclusives and an OLED, but that's really the full list of advantages.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It really depends. For games with high quality 2D art I'll usually go the OLED route. I've played a lot of Streets of Rage 4 and Pocky & Rocky Reshrined on it recently. I also like the GBA emulator on the Switch (>paying for roms, I know but I'm part of a family plan so it's like $10 a year), and even though I have the option of playing all of those and more on the Deck, they definitely look nicer on the OLED.

          Basically I'm much more inclined to play a game on the Switch vs the Deck if it runs well and the colors are a big part of the art direction. I haven't picked up Octopath 2 quite yet but I will be getting it on the Switch when I do

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Adding to this, I also factor in if a game has crossplay or not, and where most of my friends will be playing it. I actually went with Shredder's Revenge on PC over Switch because more of my friends were playing the PC version

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Its okay when steam deck do it

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >if only there was some way to play pc games on the go

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'll just bust that out with a trackball mouse on the bus thank you friend

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        maybe you could afford a car if you didnt buy moronic tech like the steam deck

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I own a very nice car, but it's far cheaper and easier to take a bus in and out of the city. Plus, I get to play videogames on my commute.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      But I don't want a laptop, I want a handheld.

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The vent at the top smells good when it's on

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anybody have a spare $400?

  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >wtf this can't even play cyberpunk for 7 hours at 60fps

  69. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Would it be a bad idea to replace my switch with one of these?
    barely use my switch but i would probably emulate it for a few games, what is the state of emulation like on the switch?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      people want to tell you that amd sucks for emulation pc even though steam deck uses all amd parts and runs emulators like a dream

  70. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Mobile gaming is a meme. It caters to the lowest denominator of people with full blown adhd

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