Steam Deck

What have you been playing recently, fellow Deckers? Those of you who bought an OLED Deck, how is it?

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  1. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Playing through the Mass Effect trilogy right now, just finished runs through Ocarina and Twilight Princess on emulator and all the Halo games (CE-Reach)

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Pseudoregalia. Most fun I've had in a while. I'll occasionally revisit the NieR games or the Fate/Extella games. I thought about Souls games but I like a more normal controller for that. Also liking the PC port of OoT for the randomizer.

      Are you playing on Ship of Harkinian or normal emulator for OoT? I recommend ship but that only works for OoT, so if you have other N64 games I bet the normal emulator is more convenient. What emulators are you using?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      just a FYI if you're playing the legendary edition(and they havent patched it), you cannot learn the skill from your teammates in ME2 without loading up your game on a PC because the in-game achievements dont work on steam deck. Also I hit an unpassable crash during a cutscene on the final mission that also required me to play past it on PC.
      that is all, enjoy.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        My PC is Linux, so would be running in Proton just the same. I already have all achievements for the legendary edition anyways. I’m mildly curious to see how the whole trilogy plays out via Proton as I haven’t tried it before.

  2. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What are you playing recently, fellow Deckers?
    with 'ick

  3. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've been playing Tevi and I have a question for old deckers. If a game freezes your whole Deck, could it be the fault of a game or is it most likely a hardware fault? I played Tevi for 2 days and it was fine, picked it up today and 30 minutes in I got a black screen, then the screen turned back on for a few seconds and turned off again. Had to shut down the Deck and restart it.

    From what I've looked around online, a lot of people seemed to have issues with games freezing their Decks, but their problems seemed to be because of a faulty GPU. I've checked the logs for gfx timeout, but found nothing. Though the log did have "sdma0 timeout", but I haven't really found much info about it.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Please respond. Do crashes/freezes like these happen to anyone else with different games and they weren't a hardware issue? I just got my Deck which I had to wait 2 weeks for, I don't want to wait another month to receive a new one.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Chill out anon. Crashes can happen even on healthy hardware. It might be a freak event. If it doesn't happen again or doesn't also happen with other games there's likely nothing going on.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Chill out anon. Crashes can happen even on healthy hardware. It might be a freak event. If it doesn't happen again or doesn't also happen with other games there's likely nothing going on.

        Yeah I've had a few games hard crash but it's very rare in practice. Gamescope is nice because a game can't bring down your display with it.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        crashes just happen with PC games due to all the different parts they have to run on. the good thing about the deck is that all the hardware is almost identical so if you see people playing the game on the deck they probably ran into the same issue, or didn't. I been playing cyberslop42069 and its run fine and crashed just the other day too first time. I just restarted the deck and it was fine again. I wouldn't get worried unless it crashes everytime randomly or at the same part again and again.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Did you keep the overlay on while it was happening? What was it reporting?

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        I had it turned off today. I did have it turned on for the last 2 days, but figured I didn't really need it for Tevi.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Please respond. Do crashes/freezes like these happen to anyone else with different games and they weren't a hardware issue? I just got my Deck which I had to wait 2 weeks for, I don't want to wait another month to receive a new one.

      I would suggest you to try to ssh into Deck after this blackout.
      And no, didn't happen to mine, so it's *probably* hardware.

  4. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    BG3
    pirated robocop yesterday, runs great for a handheld
    pizza tower
    i haven't touched my switch since getting the deck

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Same. I want to buy the Oled and give my old deck to my sister

  5. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Indie games

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why not play those on the switch?

  6. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Been playing the succubus series maybe Another Crusade if I can transfer my save file

  7. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Playing Coffin of Andy and Leyley, but I think I’m almost done. Any other indie game recs?

  8. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    absolutely worth it! this is a 'good', not a 'material'

  9. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Playing dragons dogma on my TV as well as TF2 with gyro controller

  10. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    reading Chaos;Head Noah on it and also really itching to play Dragons Dogma too but want to grab some mods first (vignette remover and also one to fix the aspect ratio) not that the black parts are that bad on OLED

  11. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Got VTM Bloodlines and Saints Row 2

  12. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Those of you who bought an OLED Deck, how is it?

    I should have bought the etched. I have an anti-glare screen protector and it looks like shit.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      You still have time to return don't you? The return window is 2 weeks.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        What do they do with returned decks?

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          wtf are you talking about

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            What does valve do with a returned deck?

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              most likely they refurbish it and resell it

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                For full price? Fricking homosexuals
                How do I know the one I get is actually new

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                stupid man
                https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeckrefurbished

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              ‘Ick it

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                bop it

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >You still have time to return don't you? The return window is 2 weeks.

        Yeh... regrettably gonna return 100%. I don't want to put up with this for another 18 months until Deck 2.

        I was an idiot for listening to Youtubers... firstly they blew out of proportion the issue of etched glass on an OLED panel. Then they lie by stating that a matte protector on a glossy model will look the same as etched... basically implying "best of both worlds". So I bought the glossy OLED for that optionality, I could choose which screen look I wanted after purchase.

        But in reality, the anti-etch treatment is easily superior to any "orange peel" aftermarket matte screen protector.

  13. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >emudeck
    99% of the time I'm in emudeck. Currently playing TLOZ WW. I want to play pathfinder kingmaker when I'm done.

  14. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What have you been playing recently, fellow Deckers?
    Playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005). Was annoying to get it setup. Weird how it drains the battery really fast.
    Also playing Half-Life. Wish that 25th anniversary update were also applied for it's expansions.

  15. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Quasimorph

  16. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Only trannies use Steam Deck.

  17. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty much only been playing porn games that wont run on my mac. Thinking about doing a new BG3 playthrough on honor mode but it sounds like a lot right now.

  18. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Days Gone, Gears 5, Halo: Infinite multiplayer, Balders Gate 3, and replaying Half-Life.

  19. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Trying to get though disco elisyum but my adhd is getting the better of me. The walls of text are tiring me out.

  20. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ape Out is a pretty cool game
    I hit a new milestone in Neon Abyss
    The Binding of Isaac has been taking up most of my time with it
    I also got GZDOOM working on it

  21. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just finished Katana ZERO and loved it. I bought SANBAI cause it looked similar and refunded it after 2 straight hours of pixel-shit cutscenes.

    Been trying to set-up emulators too, but it's painful without a dock.

  22. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Went on a Sonic bender, played through adventure and generations, most of colors, but got filtered by the last level of the hero story in adventure 2. Playing Horizon Zero Dawn now.

  23. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Been playing Dragon Quest 11. I love Jade

  24. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Ender lilies
    >We love Katamari
    >Pizza Tower
    >Omori
    I wanted to replay all the old RPGs but I so sick of them in the first 2 minutes that I decided to uninstall them immediately. Though Persona 4 Golden looks tempting to replay as it looks amazing on the OLED deck

  25. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >mfw have to rma my LE deck due to audio port and dead pixel issues

    frick my life at least i get a replacement unit

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Which audio port issues?
      Ive read both of these
      >apple usb c headphone dongle doesnt work - this is fixed by going to deck bios and change usb mode to XHCI
      >regular ticking noise from headphone jack - open the deck and put kapton tape between the headphone jack board to stop the screws from grounding the board to the deck's metal frame, this completely removes the noise.
      Cant do nothin about the dead pixels tho

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        valve sent me an RMA specifically for the dead pixels on my BOE panel after I complained that I had 3 in the middle of my screen. Super obnoxious to see the dead pixel in the middle of the screen on a handheld. The audio port makes a EMI type sound just because of how it's badly designed into the deck, which is why that tape fix works. I'd rather get a new unit that is not defected.

  26. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Those of you who bought an OLED Deck, how is it?
    OLED is a fricking meme and I actually regret upgrading
    Black pixels leave red trails when you turn in dark rooms
    Apparently this is just a regular common thing for all OLED displays for any device
    Sad that not one fricking onions "professional" review mentioned this downside
    Also the speakers sound way worse, less bass, and are way quieter than my original LCD Deck speakers

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      i don't have red trails on black, you must have the samsung panel which is known to have issues with mura, and black blur/smearing.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nope, I have deck LE.
        I flat out dont believe you dont have this issue.
        Remember it has to be black pixels being turned into grey pixels.
        If you have Quake 2 this is an area that will demonstrate the issue
        Those black squares on the wall should leave red trails when you turn. Even at full brightness.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          I've had VA monitors with extreme smearing and ghosting. my OLED LE doesn't have that issue. You might wanna talk to Valve about getting an RMA while you can.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            Frick that, I bet the one I get back will just have dead pixels instead or some shit
            Im gonna wait for someone to make a non oled screen replacement

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              If you're savvy it's not super hard to remove the mobo and replace the screen yourself when the ifixit parts come out. If it doesn't bother you that much then don't RMA.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            Please prove it with a photo.
            Heres another test
            If you see the grey square lagging behind the white box then you also have the smearing.
            Because the grey is pretty bright in this test you will mainly see it if you set screen brightness to about half or less.
            https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/1053519077958803456?lang=en

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          if you're being serious this makes my pee pee very hard as a 512 LCD owner

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            be grateful that your LCD doesn't have dead pixels or smear. Samsung panels have black smear and mura. BOE have great vibrancy but are now infamous for their dead pixels. The LCD deck uses BOE panels. It's a QC issue mainly

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              BOE has black smear too.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                not true. been playing quake 2 and dusk at 90 fps, no ghost or smear. It's a notable defect of the Samsung panels

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cope

                if you're being serious this makes my pee pee very hard as a 512 LCD owner

                I am serious and dont call me shirley

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                >cope
                says the homosexual with a defective steam deck

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Im saying cope because he says it doesnt happen with BOE panels and yet here it is.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                i have a BOE panel and this isn't an issue. You have a defective product.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                >You have a defective product.
                Yes, he has an oled display. Oled is flawed technology from the start. People have been pointing out the same flaws since the fricking vita

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                >dark jeet fingers

                HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA GET FRICKED moron

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                No

                i have a BOE panel and this isn't an issue. You have a defective product.

                So its not an issue even though youre looking right at it?
                How do you know that samsung panels arent just defective then and that it is all of them that are bad?
                Seems to me they all can be bad.
                Ive also yet to see you post proof still.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                >hand as big as deck
                Jesus christ anon your hands are massive

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Loaded up about a terabyte of roms to emulate, been playing through Metroid Prime 2 since I owned it as a kid but never finished it

                the deck isn't big, if your hands are smaller than the deck you are a manlet

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                where can I find such packs ?

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Have you tried looking on the internet

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                fat frick mexican

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                is this a lottery thing or a problem with all the panels?

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Haters will say all panels, copers will say lottery

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                was gonna get one for christmas, maybe I'll stick with my LCDeck. I knew oled was a meme

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Clearly he bought a samsung oled deck and swapped it into his le just for this video

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                cringe samegay

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                You deserve it for being a consoomer and getting the Limited Edition

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Does this happen on the OLED Switch? Please say yes so I can cope.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah there have been reports of OLED panels with heavy mura on the Switch as well. No idea if it's as common of an issue though.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                what am I looking at? the black blob that seems to pull away from the shadowed area when turning away? That looks obnoxious, but I could also see some people not caring enough to notice.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes
                Basically the cause is any time it shows black (pixel turns off) it takes some time to turn back on, and it's a lot slower if it's turning on to a dark color (grey) than a bright one
                It's more obnoxious than the video shows but yeah it's a thing

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              so basically if you got BOE and no dead pixels you won the lottery?

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                And no smear

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                yes.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                u can get a samsung display that is perfect with no grainy mura or green tint, or u can get unlucky and get a shit panel that is noticably terrible. Valve is very lenient at the moment at accepting RMAs so if you're unhappy with your deck's screen u can get a new unit. they are very aware of the dead pixel and QC issues with the launch and trying to damage control by offering RMAs.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Implying reviewers actually use the devices they review

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Works on my machine

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Black pixels leave red trails when you turn in dark rooms
      Yeah, my phone does this.
      Most people are NPCs

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Apparently this is just a regular common thing for all OLED displays for any device

      Oh so that's why my phone leaves a trail sometimes (although it's blueish in my phone's case)

  27. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    someone post the bottom surgery deck post

  28. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >people afraid to rma because they are sure the replacement will be defective too
    Holy kek the actual state of valvecucks

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      i'm keeping mine over the weekend since the post is closed then sending it in on Monday. I'm not impatient, I can wait an extra couple weeks for a non defective product.

  29. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's the optimal way to play fps on steam deck, joystick, trackpad, gyro?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gyro.
      There is no comparison.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is it accurate? I turned gyro off pretty much as soon as I could because I felt like it would require me to move around too much in a way that was awkward and cumbersome

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes

          i'm personally good at aiming with joystick since I am a controller player, but trackpad and gyro are great options especially for games like Dusk.

          Thats only because your games handheld you with autoaim. Most PC games dont have that.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            i try not to play with autoaim because it's too snappy in most games

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Most console shooters dont let you turn it off.
              Dont forget shooter autoaim actually has 2 parts: the part that turns you with the enemy, and the part that scoots your angle of fire away from your crosshair towards the enemy, without actually moving your crosshair.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >MEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWNNN!

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      gyro + trackpad

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      i'm personally good at aiming with joystick since I am a controller player, but trackpad and gyro are great options especially for games like Dusk.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >gyro always on

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gyro and trackpad.

  30. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Any ideas when Cyberpunk will go on sale again? I want to buy it for my new OLED

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Slop for the slop machine

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Winter sale for sure.

  31. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Project Diva. There's something great about playing rythm games on a portable.

  32. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >playing Kannagi Usagi
    >can somehow FEEL the lowered latency difference despite running in similar FPS as the LCDeck
    Is this the power of OLED, or just Valve Linux wizardry? They're both running on the same 40fps frame limit. Is this because the OLED panel runs on 80÷2 as opposed to 40÷1 on LCD?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      digital foundry did a video in which the latency is lower because the screen refresh and polling rate is higher. 10 to 20ms improvement at lower framerates.

  33. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Could I potentially use my SteamDeck as a Wii U gamepad, streaming the window that would be on the gamepad while using a computer with CEMU for the main screen, i.e. playing Xenoblade X on my PC while having the map on my deck?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      not trying to be a redditor but i did a quick google search for you and got these two links:

      https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/13qpfcg/using_steam_deck_as_wii_u_gamepad/

      https://www.pcmag.com/news/your-steam-deck-can-now-double-as-a-wii-u-gamepad

      good luck getting it setup

  34. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What have you been playing recently
    ender lilies, getsufumedan, and batman arkham asylum

  35. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wait so the 512gb OLED has a better panel than the 1TB one?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      the 512gb and 1TB can use either BOE or Samsung. the 1TB uses BOE. both panels have issues

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        whats the issue with samsung panels?

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          samsung panels have mura.

          see pic rel, BOE top 1TB LE top, Samsung 512 bottom.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            in english please

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              The graininess you see on the bottom panel is called mura, and it happens whenever the panel has to display imperfect blacks. Tons if not all samsung panels are plagued by it, and it's a general flaw found in many OLED display. Turns out it isn't this amazing technology that's better than LCD in literally every way like OLED bandwagoners would have you believe.

  36. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Void Stranger
    It's a perfect fit for it until I realized that I'd need to use photoshop/paint

  37. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    LCDecklet here. Currently using it hooked to my TV to watch a movie. when I'm not doing that I'm either streaming from my PC Snowrunner or running RetroDeck natively to play some SNES Zelda Link to the Past.

  38. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    512GODS, we won

  39. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >pay for brand new deck
    >don't get brand new deck
    LEsisters... it is over

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      You got the one Gaben was playing on.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      probably automated factory testing

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        ?t=10

  40. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wrapping up what I believe to be the postgame's final dungeon in Prodigal. It's been a fantastic ride, definitely got my $4 worth. Also juggling Halo CE and Children of Morta

  41. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Been distracted a few months by my PC, but with comfy season coming I’ve got some boomer shooters in my backlog I’d like to slap onto the Deck. Gotta finish Boltgun for sure. Also been keen to start Dredge which I bought a few sales ago. Any of you chuds play Dome Keeper?? Runs great on the Deck and I personally really enjoyed it

  42. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Was thinking of beating Mario Odyssey got all the way up 480+ moons but I'm losing momentum, some of these moons are so deceptively hard to find. Might move on and finish Dragons Dogma.

  43. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw mine has the uneven haptics issue
    you can kinda calibrate it in the settings but i think it's assembled wrong

  44. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >close Great Detective Ace Attorney after playing it today
    >steam deck needs to download 4gig for it
    why

  45. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I have the LED Deck and back when I tried to use a dualsense with it I felt some shitty input delay. Did anyone else experience this issue?

  46. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Emulating the PS2 version of FFX and I'm about to go fight Sin. I've started the game several times but this will be my first time finishing it. I know it's repeated constantly but the deck is such a great backlog slayer.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      deck is the best for ps2

  47. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    DT2-2, amazed it runs out of the box with just compatibility mode considering my luck with other japanese games. Took 6 years to get this in english on a handheld but I'm glad it finally happened

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      how are you playing it on steam

  48. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Not that there ever was a real reason to buy an overpriced chinkheld, but the steam oled basically invalidates any reason to buy a chinkheld now right?

  49. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Been playing a bunch of Noita again on the OLED. Looks fantastic especially later on when you build wild wands.

    I'm especially excited to see how Dragons Dogma 2 will run on this thing. Probably not well but I always love kneecapping a game to get it to locked 30 on the eck.

  50. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    En Garde is excellent, basically playing Lady Zorro and swashbuckling your way through some pretty tough though fanciful combat (enemies will gang up on you, use atttacks unable to be parried and otherise try to keep you from just dueling guards one on one. However, its your job to kick crates, stun enemies, throw stuff, vault over their heads, bonk them with a goblt from the table to surprise them and let you get in a strike you wouldn;'t normally, knock them into weapon racks that collapse onto them, drop chandeliers etc..). There's a good amount of secrets and even the platforming and puzzles are sort of set to what you'd expect an old Scarlet Pimpernel , Zorro, Musketeer, or similar TV show episode would be (ie you get tossed in jail, there's a convenient hole to escape into the next cell hidden behind a painting, or a rope to let you swing over guards heads without them being any the wiser). Its on sale now.

    >Deck OLED
    I have an original Launch Deck LCD 512GB and it was great, OLED Deck LE 1TB is even better. Only possible downside is that there are two different display manufacturers and one of them is more likely to have dead pixels it seems, BOE vs Samsung Of course you have to run a dead pixel test in any case even if you have the BOE and may not have any dead pixels, but it can also draw your attention to them. Still, lots of neat upgrades for the OLED all around

  51. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Having a 90hz screen makes me realize how shitty Nightdive's quake 1 port is cause it's stuttery as hell if its running past 60fps

  52. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I have a very slightly sticky X button and I can't decide if it's worth rolling the dice on an RMA considering there are much worse issues and it'll probably take forever coming into christmas, or just see if it gets better over time.

  53. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    What could come on the 'eck 2wo that would make it worth the weight?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Running all current gen games at 60 fps would be a good start. Some stuff released this year runs terribly.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Really at this point the only thing left that the eck needs to completely mog everything else is more performance.
      So IF AMD can provide Valve with another low TDP miracle SoC then that's all a Deck 2 needs.

      Maybe hall-effect sticks?
      Maybe dual stage triggers?
      A less glued battery?
      An extra usb jack?
      Thunderbolt/etc. support?
      That's about it probably.

      Oh and release it in more regions for fricks sake.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >1600p vrr display
      >better performance
      >another size reduction?
      Honestly most issues I have are with the software, desktop is still 50/50 if it's gonna crash the system

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        How the frick are you expecting better performance and smaller size but want 1600p?

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          1600p is the perfect resolution
          Older stuff can run at a crisp resolution while newer titles can run at 800p with integer scaling

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      it'll be a required upgrade to emulate switch 2

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      oh yeah, another two reasons to get the 'eck 2. current 'eck is close to running star citizen but needs a but more juice, which the next version will have. similarly 'eck 2 needs a bit more juice to run VR games, so the upgrade will be nice in that regard.

  54. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is Outward good on it? Is the view distance heavily affected? I don't care about graphics too much, but fricking hate pop in.

  55. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Played the entirety of Perfect Dark, played some Hoe-girlve games. Finally sat down and also played
    Etrian odyssey.

    Side note, is the Oled version suppose to blind you at max brightness? LCD does not come close to the oled.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      are you playing the linux port of PD? it crashes consistently when i aim.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        No, it's the latest release of Perfect dark, the one that was being decompiled

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
          this one?

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            yah, thats the one. which linux compatibility are you using.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              I was using the Soldier runtime, running the native port.

  56. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Suprised how well this game runs, without any configurations

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      which emulator? I was playing it on a pirated switch but one of the updates killed the game. I can take what I learned and play a new save.

  57. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    My Legion Go is arriving in a week. I'll be joining you Deckbros in handheld vidya soon.

  58. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Battlebit. Hits 90fps.

  59. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    How long until the Deck 2? The OLED Steam Deck has a nice screen and all but the hardware is obsolete

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      2025
      Source: it was revealed to me in a dream

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      just get an ally if you're that desperate for more power. at this point it's cheaper than a deck.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >How long until the Deck 2?
      5 Namekian minutes, or 3 days in Valve time.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Depends on how much of a trainwreck RDNA4 will be, because I doubt that by 2024-25 Intlel architectures will be mature enough for Valve. Especially considering that they have to actively develop the chip right now to mass produce it in 25.
      4 years between releases should be good enough of a jump between Deck and Deck 2. (Yes I know deck is from 22, but everything about it screams 21 chip that got fricked by chip shortage and supply chain disruptions)

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Valve is on record for not being satisfied with current hardware enough for a Deck 2.

      I'm guessing they're going to wait and see how AMD and Nvidia's ventures into ARM turn out.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >How long until the Deck 2?
      Hopefully, a lot.
      The tech didn't improve nearly enough for it to warrant a new model.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        The main thing I really want is just a better/stronger battery which the OLED has but I don't really want to buy a new model just for that. I'll just cope with using a power brick when on the go though.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          I thought about it a lot, and I think that figured out the solution that's gonna be at least semi-realistic for, say, Deck 2.
          Add a battery slot. Not an accumulator in the depths of the device, but make it trivially swappable.
          Then you can regulate the effective play time by bringing N accumulators along.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            that would mean much smaller batteries, since you'd have to add two layers of plastic to protect the pcb and the battery

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              I would argue the "much" part. I don't think think that the battery volume will be reduced by more than 10%.
              Alternatively, one could put two slots, and it will make a battery hot swap possible.
              It would also be a clever way to work around the battery limit that - correct me if I'm wrong - is enforced during flights in some countries or something.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I don't think think that the battery volume will be reduced by more than 10%
                eh, the batteries already have weird shapes and are pretty flat, so reduction in depth will have drastic effects

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Depends on how semi-custom Valve will be willing to go. I imagine adding something like 3D cache would boost relative performance massively, at same power consumption, but is expensive as frick. (even if existence of 5600x3d suggests that cost rapidly goes down)

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          yeah but cost isn't the only problem
          idk if 3dvcache is power hungry, but that could be a dealbreaker for the 'eck
          other handhelds wouldn't mind half an hour of battery life but valve wants that

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            >idk if 3dvcache is power hungry
            Should be the opposite. With [relatively] huge chunk of data being nearby (compared to going to RAM) it should be much cheaper in terms of energy to feed GPU portion.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Are you implying that this processor *cache* is going to be shared?
              I've always assumed that it's CPU-only, so it needs to be dumped into RAM so the GPU can access it.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          My bet on RDNA4 and
          > 3D cache
          yep

  60. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Has that fat frick christened the oled deck with his jizz?

  61. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >playing
    Rogue legacy 2, Baldur's gate 3 and pokemon let's go pikachu
    Rogue legacy 2 is great for the deck absolutely recommended

    Also havent ordered an OLED, but I hope everyone that has is having a great time with it. I'm a little bit jelous but can't justify buying it

  62. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    MGS1 and Fading Afternoon. Completed mgs for the first time as I didn't have a memory card as a kid, so I'd have to start from scratch every time my dad wanted the TV. Way harder than I remember, but still a good time. Fading Afternoon is pretty great.

    It was pretty buggy on release, but its been updated a lot since and has had a lot of qol improvements, but regardless, its an interesting game. Its approach to choice is crazy, no two playthroughs have been the same so far. Characters who are potentially loyal protégés in one playthrough betray you in others and become the final boss in other depending on certain choices. Every playthrough is like your very own hard boiled noir Yakuza movie you act out yourself. Works great on deck, easy to just pick up and play.

    Highly recommend it, especially if you've played The Friends of Ringo Ishkawa as its made by the same guy and has a lot of the same style to it.

  63. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Playing the pic related russian visual novel called Tiny Bunny, PARANORMASIGHT and The Citadel while docked with m+k.
    Also learning Retroarch in preparation of playing the PC98 old game Dead of the Brain.

  64. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Got an OLED a few days ago and I fibally figured out how to pirate on linux and it's been fricking amazing.

    My only problem is that I still don't know who to do games that need jap locale stuff.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Japanese Locale is already installed on SteamOS since version 3.5.
      You simply need to add this line in the Steam game launch options:
      > LANG=ja_JP.UTF8 %command%

  65. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Baroque. The setting is unique, but the gameplay so far is a bit boring.

  66. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Touhou Puppet Dance, pokemon touhou fangame
    It's the only game that I notably had trouble get running on the SD since it has a installer and shit. Eventually got it working by just installing the game on my Windows PC and transfering it over, setting up the JP language stuff on the launch options. If you're playing with the expansion, you'll have to tell it where the base game folder is each time you launch. Other than that, it works perfectly.
    Other than that, sometimes I play RDR2 and Monster Hunter Rise as my go to games.

  67. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bought a second hand "512gb" LCD deck off Ebay but found it's a user-upgraded 64gb version. Is there any actual hardware difference other than the storage?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Glossy screen, allegedly.
      I have a native 512 and I've compared it to 64Gb that I've bought for my friend on his birthday, and it's nearly identical.

  68. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    i played new vegas for about 30 hours on my series x. got it on my deck and it looks and plays so much better. realized because it was playing at a locked 90fps on deck and probably 60 on xbox. didn’t think it’d make such a difference but ill never play it on xbox again. it just looks too good on deck.

  69. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Finally got the basic-ass 64gb version since I'm a poorgay. Planning on getting an SSD whenever I can but I guess I'll just eat hard shit until then it's fine.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Been playing bloons td6, Killing floor 1/2, and f76. Been trying to run fricking Darktide but it keeps crashing so Ill try to play TF2 and Risky rain series
      Any game recs based on my shitty choices?

      Get yourself a micro sd for the time being, they go very cheap now and days, but do try staying with a name brand and from a store that aint aids

  70. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    november top games. exactly what you’d expect

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >steamies endlessly gloat how PC users play real games at 4k240fps maxed while consoles play aaaslop at upscaled 540p and shaky 30fps
      >steamies all proceed to play nothing but the same goyslop at upscaled 540p and shaky 30fps

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        endlessly gloat how PC users play real games at 4k240fps maxed while consoles play aaaslop at upscaled 540p and shaky 30fps
        all proceed to play nothing but the same goyslop at upscaled 540p and shaky 30fps

        This is only true for 2022 slop onwards. Anything before, the Deck will run great at native 800p.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pretty much. I have a semi-decent 12400/3070, but I haven't used it in months.

  71. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >ordered OLED deck day 1
    >first one had tons of dead pixels, broken B button, and a chip on the back
    >just got second one in
    >screen and buttons are good but now haptics are super uneven, 3.5 jack hisses, and right bumper is sunken in
    God what the frick is this shit, this level of QC (or lack of) should be unacceptable

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      thanks for alpha testing the product for those of us willing to wait

  72. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I finished Wall World. I enjoyed it a lot but the endgame was lackluster. What should I try next

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      stop posting your shit in every thread

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        not that anon but jelly detected? possibly pajeet

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