>shmups on a controller
How are the controls? Playing them on a handheld would be supremely comfy, but I can't imagine playing them on anything but a keyboard
Steam input makes pretty much anything playable with enough config. I'm struggling a little with RTS, even with trackpad mouse regions, but even that is still workable.
I got Black Souls running on my Linux desktop, getting it to run on the Deck should be trivial
Steam input makes pretty much anything playable with enough config. I'm struggling a little with RTS, even with trackpad mouse regions, but even that is still workable.
I'm sure it'll run, but I'm not sure if the analog stick is a good enough replacement for the arrow keys. And the d-pad on the Deck kind of sucks
It's not a Saturn/Vita d-pad or anything, but the d-pad seems good to me. You sure as FRICK would not want to use the analog for this. I think you just need time to adjust to using the d-pad for shmups. Personally, my issue is the other way around. I can't use keyboard for shmups, but I probably could if I spent enough time to get used to it.
The D-pad requires too much pressure on the Steam deck.
https://streamable.com/fz6ku6
Running on all different versions of proton, still happens.
Out of curiosity, what crack are you using for Rabi-ribi and what version is the game?
The most recent versions of rabi-ribi have both custom anti-tamper and AP. You probably need to launch through something like smartsteamemu instead of using an API crack. I can tell you that a legal version works fine; I'm currently doing a BEX run.
Lies. It crashes even on High budget pcs.
With all the compability issues Steam Deck has a not as good components, it probably not only crashes but it has other issues of stuttering (even if it's one of the easiest to emulate)
The Steam Deck being a thing made me start actually taking an interest in emulation where I never really gave much of a shit about it before
only to find out apparently only Nintendo and Sony consoles can be emulated well, while Xbox emulation is still in the shitter
how the frick have they not figured out Xbox emulation yet it's been so long
The only thing I really want emulated is Phantom Crash off the OG Xbox. A lot of it is that the Xbox is a fricking nightmare of spaghetti code on TOP OF M$ being surprisingly good at being anti-pirate on their console.
There's maybe like five Xbox games that haven't been ported somewhere else
The Steam Deck being a thing made me start actually taking an interest in emulation where I never really gave much of a shit about it before
only to find out apparently only Nintendo and Sony consoles can be emulated well, while Xbox emulation is still in the shitter
how the frick have they not figured out Xbox emulation yet it's been so long
>buy anker USB c hub to "dock" my deck >top recommended multiple places including from people on Ganker >deck doesn't keep a positive charge with it and dies quickly at 1080p completely negating the point of docking it
Frickers, never taking an accessory recommendation from you gays again, I'm waiting for the official dock now because this thing is a piece of shit
Speaking of accessories, I want some dock recommendations myself.
Going to be living the dorm life soon and been thinking about using my deck as a pseudo PC with a monitor and shit hooked up.
Most can't provide their advertized power rating. Wait for the official one if you want to be sure.
Speaking of accessories, I want some dock recommendations myself.
Going to be living the dorm life soon and been thinking about using my deck as a pseudo PC with a monitor and shit hooked up.
Anybody got a good rec?
My deck works great with the dell d3100 dock I use with my laptop. Though it's quite expensive and arguably overkill, you probably don't need 5 usb ports and 3 monitors with the deck.
Yes, but it works great and provides enough video outputs and I/O for me not to need a desktop. I wouldn't buy one out of my own pocket though, It doesn't provide power.
I'm using a Dell WD19 with mine and it works great, though it's too expensive to be worth it at full price.
People are fine with emulating full screen console games on devices with 3.5 inch screens (chinese emulation handhelds ala the RG351P).
A 4-4.5 inch screen should be fine for low horsepower games and games without tiny ass text.
That's actually fine because console games use large text and large menus because they're meant to be played on a TV that's far away from you. The typical TV size to viewing distance ratio for most people will have the TV looking comparatively smaller than a monitor does when you're up close to it at a desk. PC games use much smaller fonts and UI elements.
>i can't get the emudeck parsed shortcuts to workhowever, have to boot through RPCS3 directly
if you're using emudeck + a different version of rpcs3, the shortcut is probably just pointing at the wrong version
i believe it has to have a highly specific folder structure for it to boot into iso/image dumps.
"/roms/ps3/<game-title>/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/EBOOT.bin"
i tried making sure it all aligns properly but it the parser might only work for PSN dumps at the moment
anyway it's fine, just added another shortcut to RPCS3 and renamed it. not auto-booting into the chosen game will only be an issue if your PS3 library is massive
yea i spent the first 3 days playing nothing but steam games and then the next 11 setting up and organizing and tweaking my entire retro library/various HD pc mods.
but now that is out of the way i have gone back to full time gaming. absolutely none of that was mandatory, but the amount of access i have is 10 fold.
It's a software problem, not a hardware problem. And they're steadily working to fix shit
Though they aren't too competent at it >game is marked as unsupported >it just werks
I wish they would add protondb rating right next to their own rating. Or implement a community-based rating focused solely on the Deck, instead of GNU/Linux as a whole
I want a smaller device but tech isn't there yet.
Maybe someone will make a device the size of the psp in two or three years that's a decent chunk weaker.
I feel like the problem with something that small is screen size for games that are meant to be played on a full desktop.
I'm not sure I'd want much smaller of a screen than the one on the deck, which sort of limits how small you can go with it, I guess eventually you could just have the screen be integrated into ar glasses or something when those are to that point.
People are fine with emulating full screen console games on devices with 3.5 inch screens (chinese emulation handhelds ala the RG351P).
A 4-4.5 inch screen should be fine for low horsepower games and games without tiny ass text.
F.E.A.R maxed out with Nabs? gyro control mappings
only had to set slowmo to ctrl in the options to have everything mapped right
Im really shocked at how the gyro aiming really adds to the immersion in this game, it defaulted to that control scheme when i loaded it up and just rolled with it, now i plan to play the whole game like this
>Crimzon Clover
Extremely based. I don't have a Deck just placed a $5 reservation. Says that it'll come by October or after Q3. I don't mind honestly. But Crimzon Clover is great.
It's not that I have no idea, it's that I have lots of options anon.
Yakuza 0 and mgs V were my first choices. Great visuals, performance and battery life.
Yakuza I already played through clearing my backlog, but maybe MGSV
Metroidvanias are great on this thing, about to finish Ender Lilies
You could also go for something like Dragon's Dogma or Nier Replicant
Neat.Dragon's Dogma is fun but I keep getting sidetracked by all the endless side quests and then quitting a couple hours in. I really need to just sit down and play through it.
i want to see you homies playing some RTS on that thing
>connect bluetooth mouse and KB >works like normal
Oh wow that was so hard.
>things went to shit at my old job so I had to quit >had a family vacation / Anime Expo >got a new job after coming back >new job is paying out the ass >steam deck preorder link comes >$0 in my bank account >money comes in when the preorder expires >next one doesn’t come until October
must be nice to not have any responsibilities or bills or needing good credit.
i pay off my balance every month and rack up the miles on shit i'm buying anyways.
I delayed it until I found out I was literally getting passed up for jobs because of not having a credit history. People work and pay bills without having credit, believe me. Especially if they're sharing a house or apartment with a few others.
It's one of the biggest problems a lot of high schools don't even bother to address in kids is financial management. I didn't get my first credit card until I was 26 because all I ever used was my bank's debit visa. It was a Discover with a $500 max because my credit was nonexistent. You can get a cosigner with a parent which will give you a better opportunity but usually for people who know nothing about credit it's a good start. I'm now 33 and my credit's well over 800. It definitely opens a ton more doors, but my parents are still in that mentality where they get paper bills and pay it off. I just told them to write me checks and I'll pay all the bills and rack up the miles. It got me to almost diamond with my regular airline doing that.
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kids in the us either get a card when they're in college because of predatory "student offers" and rack up crazy debt, or fear it like the plague and put it off until their mid-late 20s like yourself and me. I would say that discover you got is still better than a cosign card, you can build up your shit pretty quickly. Personally I don't care about miles or anything since I don't like to travel but there are definitely other perks to be had
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I'm glad really that mine was so little because initially I was pretty good about making sure it was paid, but then I'd go out and have a night out where I spent a ton and realized how fricking easily you can pile up money on it, so I reeled it back and only started using it for just bills alone.
Now, I just use my credit to look for deals to do signups on cards where I can rack up a ton of miles or points for regular spending. Even if you aren't a big traveler or want to grind for miles or stupid shit like I do, having a card to do something as miniscule as using it to pay your internet bill will be a massive help in the long run to help your credit. Keep in mind too that credit score for getting a mortgage or a car lease will not be a 1:1 score that you see on creditkarma or similar sites. My card now shows me my actual FICO monthly which is the accurate one. I think you can view your full score for free through the gov once a year too.
must be nice to not have any responsibilities or bills or needing good credit.
i pay off my balance every month and rack up the miles on shit i'm buying anyways.
I delayed it until I found out I was literally getting passed up for jobs because of not having a credit history. People work and pay bills without having credit, believe me. Especially if they're sharing a house or apartment with a few others.
Most Asian countries are often cash-based tbh. I had a flip and Singaporean roommates who never used a credit card in their lives.
It's one of the biggest problems a lot of high schools don't even bother to address in kids is financial management. I didn't get my first credit card until I was 26 because all I ever used was my bank's debit visa. It was a Discover with a $500 max because my credit was nonexistent. You can get a cosigner with a parent which will give you a better opportunity but usually for people who know nothing about credit it's a good start. I'm now 33 and my credit's well over 800. It definitely opens a ton more doors, but my parents are still in that mentality where they get paper bills and pay it off. I just told them to write me checks and I'll pay all the bills and rack up the miles. It got me to almost diamond with my regular airline doing that.
>living on credit and in debt
lmao do americans really?
I only have about 5K in debt, and that's only because a triple whammy of new graphics card, Steam Deck, summer sale, and home renovations. Normally it's zero.
That price looks like a complete steal. I've been looking for 1TB 2230 NVMe SSDs and the price I usually see is around 200EUR.
You probably could honestly if it didn't require too many hotkeys.
Problem is you'd be mostly clicking to build units or structures, rather than using hotkeys, unless you worked some sort of magic with the left trackpad.
You might be able to map it so it works like a mouse for a specific screen region which you match to the part of the UI where the build controls are. Alternatively if the RTS game in question supports grid hotkeys you could map it to virtual buttons matching said grid hotkeys, I imagine both those options should work fairly well.
>You might be able to map it so it works like a mouse for a specific screen region which you match to the part of the UI where the build controls are
I've tried that. It's too slow for unit commands. It's great for using the minimap though.
>i realize i was wrong and now i am going to deflect like a flailing idiot
as to be expected
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Pointing out the obvious isn't deflecting. If you want to buy the 256 version and then buy a used hard drive to save a few bucks, by all means go for it. I don't give a frick what you do lmao
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>continuing to fail to engage with the original argument
we're done here
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>lies about numbers >says objectively worse screen with no proof >posts used hardware as an argument
keep going anon
the etched glass provides the same effect as a $1 screen protector.
the fact you can actually protect your screen makes it literally and objectively superior.
Well that's an eye opener. Thanks for the warning anon.
i bricked my deck cuz im a goofy shit and i picked up the xbawks 512 for $70, cracked that shit open and instead of doing an RMA, i replaced AND upgraded AND fixed my deck. feelsgoodman
256, but at the time I wasn't sure if the 64gb model had the memory soldered to the board/even had an M2 slot. There was a big gamble at the time when there wasn't enough information. There was a chance you could have gotten 64GB of eMMC plus an unused M2 slot but there was also a chance that there was no M2 slot and the eMMC was soldered. It wasn't worth the risk to me so I went for some ssd storage. Had I know, I would have gone for the $400 and just upgraded it myself, but I'm pretty happy with my 256.
I bought the high tier model mostly because I figured the cheapest one would sell out like crazy and I see it more as funding Steam to develop proton(which it did) to make linux gaming more comfy. The extra $ was chump change anyway
You probably could honestly if it didn't require too many hotkeys.
Problem is you'd be mostly clicking to build units or structures, rather than using hotkeys, unless you worked some sort of magic with the left trackpad.
I've been messing around with aoe2. I tried a mouse region over the unit commands and it works okay but its a little too slow in practice. I'm trying to figure out how to bind the 15 buttons used for commands
Q W E R T
A S D F G
Z X C V B
in a way that is intuitive with action layers.
thats 3 sets of 5, you could use one of the analog sticks for each set (4 directions plus the stick button) alongside another botton to toggle an action set
say, holding down R1 and using the Left stick gives you Q W E R T, holding down R2 plus the left stick gives you A S D F G, and so on
I don't think I want to use analog for that. Right now I'm using left analog for camera movement and right analog for a radial to select control groups, it's set as continuous so it just snaps me all over the map and feels really smooth. I could have it change depending on the action layer, but I think I'd rather just bind them to face buttons instead. Luckily I've got 6 shoulder buttons to work with if you include back paddles, so that's a frick load of action layers to work with.
I've been fricking around a lot with Steam Input and I am beginning to believe this is actual magic. Especially now that I've figured out how trackpads and chords work, it feels like I can literally play anything better than even some elite controllers.
Why did the SC never hit it big? I guess it's because it only had two trackpads? God when is Valve going to shit out a SC2? I'd instantly buy it if it had Deck-like controls.
>Why did the SC never hit it big?
Because people are incapable of change. The SC forced you to use the trackpads because you only have 1 analog and no physical dpad. Valve learned their lesson and made sure the deck had all the options of a standard controller, plus the trackpads so nothing was taken away by using it and anyone who didn't care for the trackpads could simply ignore them. Of course, it comes at the cost of looking kind of ugly. Definitely function over form.
>Why did the SC never hit it big?
Too many options and shitty defaults
People want things to just werk they don't want to sit around and configure things
Works pretty well for me. If you've got an NVIDIA card give Moonlight a try, in my experience NVIDIA's hardware capture + encode is mostly unbeatable. I think Steam has to capture some games in software, as in it intercepts some graphics API calls to intervene and capture the frame. Encoding is only half the battle, how capture happens is essential since the graphics API intercept methods intervene directly in the game's renderer and they can hurt game performance.
I hear Parsec also does hardware capture, but I haven't tried it on Deck. I did try it in general and it wasn't as smooth as Moonlight.
>You might be able to map it so it works like a mouse for a specific screen region which you match to the part of the UI where the build controls are
I've tried that. It's too slow for unit commands. It's great for using the minimap though.
I'd probably map the primary unit commands to some physical buttons since those are what you need most when in combat, so you'd want them available directly. I was suggesting mouse regions only for stuff like building.
Is the Steam Deck is better than the overpriced chinkshit that was already on the market?
Yeah for sure, the chinkshit options - at least the ones that are currently available for actual purchase and delivery, so not preorders - are way overpriced. Still that in and of itself is not actually the worst thing, the problem with most of them is that they have shit controls and that hampers usability no matter how cheap or expensive they are. Looking at a Deck it's clear they spent some actual thought on how to design a handheld that could reasonably play PC games. The chinks absolutely do not do this. The worst (and sadly common) case scenario is that they basically clone the Switch layout, which is truly terrible for anyone with adult hands as the right analog stick is far too low on the devices to use comfortably for any length of time. The vast majority of them also lack touchpads entirely, which are honestly essential if you're a PC gamer who wants to play PC games.
I think only AYANEO so far has plans to add trackpads into one of their models and that's going take ages to release and probably horribly overpriced too boot.
Yup and that's really the dealbreaker I think. With a Steam Deck, as long as it doesn't outright break, I could still see it being useful around the house in 10 years as a streaming client, even if the hardware can no longer run games the controls will still be good and usable. If the controls suck ass the hardware doesn't matter, because almost nobody buying a handheld is buying it in order to hook it up to external peripherals in order to use it comfortably.
It's like the chinks are designing products for people who shop by reading a spec sheet.
How's the Dpad.
Feels good to me, I've been playing some 2D platformers/metroidvanias and it works great.
> >It's like the chinks are designing products for people who shop by reading a spec sheet
That definitely feels like the case.
My overall problem with this spec ratrace is that these aren't just PCs. They're handhelds and you can cram in all the new-fangled shit in there that can run next gen shit at 60FPS but everything is still bottlenecked by battery tech and that sitiation isn't improving any time soon. It's already surprising how well the Deck can punch up its weight class despite being 15w.
Without question. Steam Deck has several layers up opt-in for updates and it gets them almost every day. The hardware quality is for the most part very good, although there's other anons who had to RMA because of some screen glow and sometimes the B button sticks because of how it falls on the chassis, but more or less the software itself makes it work.
I'm sure someone in the next few years will make another product that rivals it with better hardware though.
If it's not a Deck 2 then I hope it's a more reputable western manufacturer than the chinks. Back when I ordered GPD's shit it was hell on a hand basket to deal with their support and I hear AYANEO has the same problems as well. Meanwhile I'm pretty sure Valve's hardware support will kneel down and suck you off given the opportunity.
And understated aspect of the Deck though is that it has a very good overall community around it that just pumps out loads of nice stuff to get into that no other PC handheld has because of how fragmented they are.
thats what happens when you leverage the steam/linux/emulation/modding community at the same time
rally them all behind one open hardware and that's very good foundation to work with
chinese companies shit out WAY too many SKUs
>And understated aspect of the Deck though is that it has a very good overall community around it that just pumps out loads of nice stuff to get into
Such as?
I wish Valve would give back and release the kernel already so I can just use Arch.
Basic stuff like Steam Input configs that have been built up over the years since the release of the SC.
My friend keeps sending me a bunch of CAD files for moronic shit he 3d prints for the Deck. Most of them from the community too.
Then there are third party companies jumping in. Not dbrand but more substantal stuff like the hallsensor thumb stick replacements for the Deck.
Though I don't like it that much, emudeck and a bunch of other scripts and shit on the Discover store keep getting updated and pumped out for the Deck.
Linux in general is just a more helpful and tight community overall so it'd be hard to miss out on helpful tips people say and protonDB overall still keep rolling.
There's probably way more if you dig into it but the community stuff is building up rather well and really gives the Deck that extra value-add compared to your usual chink handheld.
doesnt use the steam version of retroarch, so cloud saves aren't supported
i'd rather just add the extra emus as non steam games (yuzu, rcsp3, dolphin)
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not that anon but my only issue with emudeck is that the parsers aggressively auto-correct my japanese game titles to shit like "jimmy neutron". even if you go in and toggle off the aggressive parsing options, it's still annoying to have to go in after the fact and change a bunch of shit.
that and i don't like how you don't have the option to simply assign *no* artwork. it always populates it with shit from griddb, worse when it's referencing the wrong game to begin with.
but yea it still saves you a ton of time trying to set up all the shortcuts manually so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
>luxury of access
I think it's also something else, it's like how I have every game and TV show I ever wanted as a kid all on my computer but I rarely use them and are never happy with them.
the luxury of access is the first problem
the second is knowing yourself and where your interests lie
it's entirely possible you never had to know what you do and don't like because you only had so few options growing up that you just went along with whatever prevailing trends and forces pushed on you
now you've grown older and obligations have changed along with your tastes and interests
i understand the sense of futility. however that reality was always there to begin with. that there is no inherent value in doing anything. you have to create the meaning yourself. it might be a desire to become intimately familiar with a niche genre/era of games, or a developer, or a mechanical skillset whatever.
gpd win max is arguable if you are looking to pay 3x to get 60fps/60hz in everything where deck has to run 40/40 atm, but i'd say wait until Q1/Q2 next year
ergonomics on the gpd win max look like a fricking meme.
It's $400 starting base model that is really repairable, expandable memory, backed by Valve with customer service to suck your dick off if anything goes wrong. It also has a community figuring out their own shit for free. You tell me, you want the deck or a $1000 handheld from "xingyiang xys group" who's marketing is only to shit talk every other handheld.
The Deck appeals to me in the same way that console gaming does, in that it seems to have at least some semblance of 'it just works' quality control. I don't think the tradeoff of higher specs is worth game compatibility being the wild west, not for a handheld anyway
You're easily swayed by the appearance of the hardware. In terms of whether things just work, the deck requires far more fiddling than regular pc gaming. It's still great and will only get better, but compared to a regular decent pc it's lags behind in the "shit just works" department.
Support has been good in my experience. I had to replace Index controllers fricking twice and every time they accepted shipping my new controllers to me before I even ship the broken one(s) back so I'm not left with no controllers. They weren't super quick in responses but other than that I got quality support from them.
boot into desktop mode and try to update. you could be out of space potentially.
not that anon, but yea shaders are ONLY stored on your SSD, no matter what you do.
its a rookie mistake for people on the 64gb to load up their microsd card with a bunch of shit and then suddenly their entire internal is full of shaders
I have the 512 gig model and a 1 tb sd card with 177gb and 364gb free respectively. I even tried installing it in desktop mode and still got the same error. This is the only game giving me this issue. I have installed other games after this and the installation went fine.
not that anon, but yea shaders are ONLY stored on your SSD, no matter what you do.
its a rookie mistake for people on the 64gb to load up their microsd card with a bunch of shit and then suddenly their entire internal is full of shaders
the shader thing is something that I didn't realize at first but it definitely piles up quickly. the system does a decent job of cleanup but i'd never used arch before this so it took me a minute to get a hang of all the commands.
the 64gb had a real big glitch that I think was patched regarding shaders too.
I have the 512gb model. I grabbed a 400gb micro SD on sale for ~$30 back when I first ordered the deck. I'm a cheap ass and didn't want to shell out for a 1tb.
I currently have 16 games installed >Ace combat 7 >Dark souls 3 >Doom (2016) >Doom eternal >Elden ring >Endless space >Fallout new Vegas >Hades >Kenshi >Kingdom come deliverance >Mad max >Metal gear rising revengeance >Middle earth shadow of Mordor >Nier automata >Remnant from the ashes >Sekiro
Those 16 games will be hundreds if not over 1000 hours of game play tho. It's pretty lit. And as I finish the games I decide I'm not interested in replaying I can drop them to open room for more. I love this thing tbh.
I've been trying to get Gran Turismo 4 to work but I keep getting random slowdowns whenever there are lighting effects. Special Stage Route 5 and a couple others are unplayable. Anyone have any suggestions for getting it to work?
>I installed all these, no screenshot since I can't get them in one, but what should I play first?
ATOM RPG
Baba Is You
Blasphemous
Bloons TD6
Crypt of the BlackDancer
Darkwood
Hades
Hotline Miami 1/2 (already beat but I like them)
Icewind Dale
INscryption
Ion Fury
LISA
Max Payne 2
Mini Metro
Mini Motorways
Nex Machina
Pathologic 2
Persona 4
Project Zomboid
Rain World
RimWorld
Risk of Rain 2
Civ 6
SOMA
System Shock 2
Teardown
Binding of Isaac
Great Ace Attorney
TABS
Vampire Survivors (beat it)
VVVVVV
WORLD OF HORROR
wouldn't read too hard into 'great on deck'
small percentage of those games actually run like shit, and there are loads of examples of games that are 'unsupported' or 'unverified' that run just fine. dig around a little and you'll be surprised
risk of rain 2, the binding of isaac and VVVVVV are 3 of my favourite games ever, ror2 and isaac are infinitely replayable and VVVVVV is great the first time playing it.
I don't have a Steam Dick, but if I had one, I'd be playing Darksiders Warmastered Edition. The large font it uses is perfect for such a small screen, plus that game was tailor made for a joystick.
i think Klonoa 2 is very good, but the best way to experience Klonoa 1 is through the PS1 version, the Wii remake and this remake butcher several important cutscenes
butcher how, i barely care to begin with and am tapping the fast forward button during them
won't touch the second til i finish the 1st and won't want to come back for awhile after finishing it
>i barely care to begin with and am tapping the fast forward button during them
bro, the story is like, half of the charm of Klonoa 1
anyhow some sad shit happens later, stiff animations ruin the mood, the ending in particular is butchered by stiff animations and bizarre artistic choices, possibly done due to laziness
if you are more into gameplay, i say just right into Klonoa 2, its harder and has more going on gameplaywise
man, im barely playing anything. blogpost incoming
it's finally a perfect handheld. i have genuinely no complaints about it or irritations with it. i finally have the "gamecube on the go" that ive wanted for years, so i put my entire gamecube collection on the device. i already had a steam library of great games i was recently playing.
i also bought $50 of games during the summer sale that i had been really looking forward to play eventually. stuff like prey and sable, which the deck actually handles really well.
i have every game i wanted on here, past present and future, in the exact way id want them, and now im stuck in this odd mixture of exhaustion, choice paralysis and depression. i wish i had this as a kid, because having it as an adult is sad. i get home exhausted from work/exercise/errands, and then can barely decide what game to even start with. plus, life has gotten pretty shit recently and ive just felt too sad to even touch this thing or even do anything in my gaps of unplanned free time.
ive had the deck for about two months now, but put maybe like 20ish hours into playing games on it total. here i am with the device of my dreams, and im not using it. i feel like a kid again when i actually do get a session in with it, but those sessions are rare.
tl;dr i love this thing but i cant bring myself to really even start with it.
every zoomer or boomer late to the party goes through this phase. the luxury of access in the modern age. i think it's okay to be overwhelmed by your choices, more options is always better. but with this comes the responsibility of knowing how to commit to something. if you have to force yourself to play for 45 minutes or 90 minute time blocks, do it. anything to make you play something, if only to help yourself better understand what you do and don't like.
once you become more in tune with your tastes and interests it will be easier to prioritize and better select for games that appeal to you.
you may also consider setting up an account on a website like backloggd to better categorize and list things (but this can also lead to OCD/autismal looping behavior).
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to elaborate further:
i usually associate different styles/types of games with my energy levels. i don't think you could ever play a game like death stranding for example with the sort of mental energy you are describing as being available here.
i would try to prioritize games that are first and foremost easy to pick up and play. games that don't require a strong attention to plot or an awareness of 'where you were' or 'whats going on'. then evaluate what kind of experience you are looking for when you pick up the device (high stimulation? shooter/action/racer/arcade type game) (chilling out? sandbox/visual novel/jrpg etc.)
thanks for the advice, anon. was just shitranting, but youre probably right about me picking a wrong style of game
i was in an rpg mood earlier this year, and i kept trying to force myself to play some long jrpgs like skies of arcadia and dqxi when i got my deck, but that just wasnt working out. i should probably be sticking to roguelites and arcade games for now
yea games like that can feel like a real burden, i know the feeling.
if it helps you might try checking sites like 'howlongtobeat.com' or gamefaqs to see how much of a time investment the game you are about to make.
>luxury of access
I think it's also something else, it's like how I have every game and TV show I ever wanted as a kid all on my computer but I rarely use them and are never happy with them.
every zoomer or boomer late to the party goes through this phase. the luxury of access in the modern age. i think it's okay to be overwhelmed by your choices, more options is always better. but with this comes the responsibility of knowing how to commit to something. if you have to force yourself to play for 45 minutes or 90 minute time blocks, do it. anything to make you play something, if only to help yourself better understand what you do and don't like.
once you become more in tune with your tastes and interests it will be easier to prioritize and better select for games that appeal to you.
you may also consider setting up an account on a website like backloggd to better categorize and list things (but this can also lead to OCD/autismal looping behavior).
to elaborate further:
i usually associate different styles/types of games with my energy levels. i don't think you could ever play a game like death stranding for example with the sort of mental energy you are describing as being available here.
i would try to prioritize games that are first and foremost easy to pick up and play. games that don't require a strong attention to plot or an awareness of 'where you were' or 'whats going on'. then evaluate what kind of experience you are looking for when you pick up the device (high stimulation? shooter/action/racer/arcade type game) (chilling out? sandbox/visual novel/jrpg etc.)
Any have any luck getting gog games running on their deck? I downloaded heroic launcher and it took me two days of trouble shooting to launch fricking loop hero, I JUST got it to launch and am going to try playing now. Wondering if anyone has had better luck
I finally got my replacement model in after Valve shipped me a broken Deck.
Anyway, while this b***h is setting up, can someone spoonfeed me the most sane way to install a PSX/PS2 emulator on here? I partially bought one so I could proofread fan translations. I know I can't just pacman -Sy in desktop mode because the home dir just gets wiped on update, is there a decent way to manage packages otherwise?
Basic stuff like Steam Input configs that have been built up over the years since the release of the SC.
My friend keeps sending me a bunch of CAD files for moronic shit he 3d prints for the Deck. Most of them from the community too.
Then there are third party companies jumping in. Not dbrand but more substantal stuff like the hallsensor thumb stick replacements for the Deck.
Though I don't like it that much, emudeck and a bunch of other scripts and shit on the Discover store keep getting updated and pumped out for the Deck.
Linux in general is just a more helpful and tight community overall so it'd be hard to miss out on helpful tips people say and protonDB overall still keep rolling.
There's probably way more if you dig into it but the community stuff is building up rather well and really gives the Deck that extra value-add compared to your usual chink handheld.
This. Valve has a lot of good will and a history of supporting devices that aren't even that popular like the SC and the link, so the fact that the Deck is incredibly popular means it'll probably have a disgustingly long life time.
So other than the Deck and games, if I wanted to bring it to serve as a setup at a tournament for, say, fighting games, what do I need? Is there any additional input lag if I were to out to a monitor? Is there enough ports for controllers and HDMI/sound?
>fighting games
id be wary about what kind of fighting game you're playing as well.
tekken 7 for example can't get to 60, and if you drop it to 40hz you will really be taking a hit in input delay
>whatever new SoC AMD shits out for Valve >better D-pad for diagonal inputs >OLED screen keep the resolution >better battery if possible >more HDMI ports >repairability is already great but a non-glued battery and non-soldered usb ports would be gold
What else we hoping for lads?
I'm satisfied with it overall but the second gen has the potential to be pure platinum.
Trackpads with a physical click and better haptics for the trackpads. Basically just the steam controller pads.
Rear grip buttons improved, I want to squeeze to press them, not press upward toward the screen.
Beefed up m.2, you can fit a 2280 in the deck currently with some slight modding but the slot isn't rated for a 2280, so you can end up frying its power delivery circuitry with some 2280s.
don't care about oled or more ports but dual stage triggers and bumpers that don't feel like clicky garbage would be nice
Its amazing how good they are at general ergonomics on their controllers but suck at bumpers. I mean they're a huge improvement over the steam controllers 0 travel only click, but still bad.
With the way they said parts are easily replaceable. Does this mean we could possibly have a company selling better sticks, different buttons, even a better screen like 1080p?
and yea i have high hopes for the modding scene, especially since people can just buy extra parts like back panneling and frick around with it without actually ruining thier decks
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Steam_Deck
So how's the battery life on Steam Deck for games that people actually want to play on Steam Deck? Of course all the promotional materials showed it running Doom Eternal or whatever the current meme game was, because MUH GRAPHIX, but even with gyro controls, I think I'd rather punch myself in the balls than play a first-person shooter using anything other than a mouse. I'll probably be using my Steam Deck to play the same games I'd play using a gamepad on my desktop PC: platformers, maybe racing games, and basically anything not requiring a lot of precision. For me, personally, that means platformers, which means mostly 2-D platformers, which means okay yeah I'm going to play stuff like Shovel Knight on it. Is the battery life heavily dependent on what game I'll be playing? Is the ">2 hours" meme only true when playing "MUH GRAPHIX" games on ultra settings, or will the battery life be short regardless?
Please note that I already have a reservation (Q3 btw) and I'm not going to cancel it, so you don't have to shill it to me. Valve might as well have my money already. I just want to know what to expect.
it's pretty good. https://sharedeck.games/ this sit is nice for advice on optimizing settings on games. a lot of games you can run on low TDP which will let your battery go for quite a while.
I played Frincess&Cnight from 0 to completion today, about 3.5 hours unplugged. Was at 60% when I was done.
Make of that what you will. I didn't adjust any settings, everything is default pretty much since I just got it in.
battery is pretty good for low graffix/platformer type games. 4-6 hrs Id say, especially if you optimize the settings
As far as FPS goes I played Portal on the deck and it's comfy. I wouldn't try anything too twitchy/skill based on it but honestly it's quite nice. Any HL/Portal game is fine, anything slower/story based should be fine. But yeah I wouldn't try Doom even if it does run quite nicely on the limited hardware.
Depends on the games. I've been playing Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster and get about 5 hours while I only get about 2 in Monster Hunter Rise (but I can stretch that to about 3 if I lower the frame rate to 40 and put settings at medium).
2D games will last a very long time, APU power draw for that level of game is going to be well under <1W so you'll get shit like screen brightness, WiFi and power draw from other components being the main deciding factors. I played Shantae and the Pirate's Curse and could easily get over 7h battery life at 60FPS with minimal tweaks (just lowered GPU clock to minimum since more wasn't required). Even playing Diablo 2 Resurrected at 45FPS I can get over 3h. You get like 2h if you run something balls to the wall.
>even with gyro controls, I think I'd rather punch myself in the balls than play a first-person shooter using anything other than a mouse
I played Ion Fury and it was very enjoyable. Not as good as a mouse but touchpad + gyro works quite well. It's fine for SP I'd say.
Getting a Deck delivered in a few days. How easy is it to pirate games on it (ie. Linux)? Launch on as non-steam game and call it a day? Do I still need to do some goldberg frickery?
>"i bet i can make SS work with this switch pro-controller"
i spent most of my first initial run tinkering with the controls until they were mostly good, then after finishing the game i said to myself
>"that was fun, i bet some other folks will enjoy this config, i just need to make some adjustments to make it more use friendly"
and that was a mistake, those small adjustments ended up becoming 12 actions sets and 18 action layers, steam input was actually glitching the frick out while i was trying to add radial menus just in case people find my key combinations for hardware attachments and MFDs too complex
but well i got it done in the end, might replay the game in hard mode later using the improved config
my friend told me this trick that works wonders: imagine a laser coming out of the front of the controller into the screen, it helps to wrap your head around the aiming
honestly gyro is the only way i can tolerate aiming with a controller, ever since i played warframe on the switch i became a believer
get mine soon deck chads, got the highest gig version because im not poor. probably wont even use it much but i like having a pack up pc i can take wherever
So what's the configuration setup for Dolphin and RPCS3? SSX Tricky and F Zero GX get crazy stutters. Tekken Tag 2 also stutters too. Shit up to GC and the Woo run fine though.
>too much work
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>posting every 25 minutes to save the thread from page 10 hell
Oh look, a deck thread. Maybe you guys should consider going to Ganker, where these PC hardware threads belong.
>worst version
Because of that censored scene? Not a thing when playing in Japanese so not my problem.
I have a hacked 1000 vita lying right next to me. Being able to play it both in bed and and on PC with a big screen and FSR upscaling is much better
No, I'm just acting like I can for extra weeb credit on Ganker.org. I only look at the pretty pictures and mash buttons until new pictures come up. I do this for dozen of hours. In this case it is a bit more difficult due to the gameplay segments but I was able manage so far.
Going through Persona 3 FES and checking out older games like Alan Wake and the first Rage. Really nice though being able to load up bo3 custom zombies and waste thirty minutes to a hour on challenge maps
Played the entirety of Cyber Shadow on it, probably the best platformer I've played over since MM9. I can't believe I was sitting on it, I'm glad I'm using the Deck to go through my backlog.
>literal discord trannies making one post every thirty minutes to keep this shameful pos thread alive >nobody else in here
Why don't these threads just get deleted? What good are they?
It just goes from play and then back to launch. I have the rabi.exe running with every version of proton. Sometimes I hit play and it instantly goes back to the play button other times I get an error saying proton can't run it or something. No luck.
You can try setting "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" in steam launch properties, it'll disable Vulkan
Alternatively, you can try using wine through Lutris
Just downloaded both from skidrowreloaded.
Did you apply the crack though? IIRC it's in some separate folder and you need to move it to game files
2 years ago
Anonymous
Did you actually apply the crack? Instantly closing is usually a symptom of steamstub going "no, frick off"
There's no crack to install. On skidrowreloaded most of the time the cracks are installed. It's a codex version. I just ran it on my windows machine and it worked.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Do me a favor and try replacing codex with goldberg instead.
Some of these game cracks do weird memory introspection bullshit that's fundamentally incompatible with WINE.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I tried the same thing with Eyes in the Dark. That's a Goldberg version and I'm still getting the same issue.
Again booting from desktop, again it just works on windows.
The eyes in the dark exe seems to just be running but not actually launching. It doesn't instantly crash but it's not really opening either. Steam just says that it's running.
Tried with proton 7 and 6.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I did another Goldberg copy running a different game on proton and again, steam just shows it running but it's not actually launching.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Tried that (without the quotes obviously) didn't run.
I'm also getting the same issue with eyes in the dark as well. Again, both downloaded from skidrowreloaded, both working on windows.
I'm booting them both from desktop mode.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I think your last options are trying Lutris, doing what
Do me a favor and try replacing codex with goldberg instead.
Some of these game cracks do weird memory introspection bullshit that's fundamentally incompatible with WINE.
suggests or just buying the legit copy, since apparently that one works
Can't buy with one without paying scalpers, what are some comparative gaming laptops for around $600-$700? All the ones I see israelite you on the ram
Reservation list is still a better option than whatever the frick graphics cards did. I still don't have a 30xx series/amd equivalent graphics card because I refuse to pay above MSRP
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I think your last options are trying Lutris
Well frick. I was really hoping I didn't have to and that proton would just work.
Nope.
Friend has the 512gb and I got the 64 with a 512 replacement SSD, they look very similar.
You can also buy matte glass screen protector and then it looks the same.
The only reason to buy the 512gb is if you have tinkering anxiety or you really want to support gaben.
I'd rather have a glossy screen and then put on whatever kind of screen protector I want, rather than having an etched screen that remains etched no matter what.
$250 and looks fricking MASSIVE what the frick. Why is it so large and why so expensive? I was looking at a $60 one and thinking i might be getting ripped off
It's a professional "enterprise" dock. I found mine on the local equivalent of Craigslist for about $100 new in box. I'm happy with paying that much since it has all the ports I could possibly need and supports dual monitors at 4k 60, but yes if you cannot find it cheaper than full retail price I wouldn't suggest it, but it does work. It's the sort of device meant to be left permanently installed at a desk with all peripherals connected to it and then having only 1 cable to connect to a laptop.
Not him but can I set the Steam Deck per game preferences to work for dolphin? Don't want to have to Switch that every single time
Per-game profiles work for non-Steam games, so I assume it should be fine.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I see, makes sense thanks anon. I'm gonna look for something similar but smaller, my use case it for trips and maybe rarely my home tv for basically mario party only really
2 years ago
Anonymous
Anything with support for USB, DP alt mode video and USB-C PD at 45W (15V 3A IIRC) should work in theory, though literally anything and everything with USB-C seems to be highly unreliable and finicky in my experience so frick knows if whatever you buy with the right shit on the label will actually work.
$250 and looks fricking MASSIVE what the frick. Why is it so large and why so expensive? I was looking at a $60 one and thinking i might be getting ripped off
How much of a pain in the ass is setting up RPCS3? I saw a video of someone running Demon's Souls at 60fps on the deck adn I would like to do the same.
There's no actual performance difference between all the formats once the application has loaded up, it all comes down to compile options.
Flatpak is slightly faster in startup time (largely due to less sandboxing)
Does Sonic Generations run okay on the Deck these days? I want to play a bunch of Sonic games when I finally get mine but heard several months ago that Generations didn't run well.
The part that gets me is there's no dent, deformation or other indicator of stress in the carrying case that would imply it was actually damaged in shipping.
how do i disable Zcull in RPCS3 on the steam deck? the 'open config folder' option from the drop-down menu doesn't actually do anything and i'm not sure where to locate these files that emudeck has created.
So hows the screen quality on these things? Obviously I'm not expecting it to look amazing since its not oled but are the black levels at least decent? Do the black bars during 16:9 games look like shit?
Im still on the fence on whether i should keep my preorder or let it go when i finally get my email.
The black levels are average for an LCD, which is to say they're backlit and not anywhere as nice as blacks on an OLED. The display only covers 70% of the sRGB gamut on average with some variance between units. I can't tell the difference, personally, but I'm sure someone who works in the print industry or a graphic designer would.
>educating anons on how to properly take care of their 512 >not letting them be absolute fricking morons and posting about how mucked up it is within a week
NGMI
I've been replaying old stuff on mine, only new thing I've been playing at the moment is Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Quake modern remaster works great, Quake 2 works but works better using the Yamagi native Linux port (I've not tried Quake 2 RTX because that's gross). GZDoom works but gets random freezes of 3-4 seconds sometimes, which is weird as it is also native Linux program.
I enjoy using the trackpad as a weapon quick-select for FPS games. It's not quite as good as a keyboard for Doom Eternal style quick swapping, but it works decently.
Haven't tried gzdoom directly but I did try Hedon which I'm pretty sure runs on gzdoom, that worked perfectly well after fricking about with getting the controls right.
Got mine Friday haven't been on Ganker since. How can I find out if mine is the x4 version?
So far I have installed P4G, bloodstained, bully, intravenous, katana zero, Mark of the ninja, olliolli and slay the spire.
I want to put some Elden Ring or Death Stranding but my net sucks and having it on and plugged in forever ses like it would be bad for the battery.
Hasn't overheated on me or come even remotely close to it no matter what I've played, tested Metal Gear Rising (and chopped up a lot of stuff), Sonic Generations and Dark Souls 3. About to test DMC5 and Black Mesa.
Hi! I'm trying to get emulation set up on the Deck, but I was wondering what's the best place to get ROMs, ISOs, NSPs, and CIA files so that I can actually get some games? Thanks!
can confirm these settings are good
https://greatondeck.net/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker-hd-on-steam-deck/
https://greatondeck.net/bayonetta-2-on-steam-deck-cemu-emulator/
As someone who has a hacked, no games switch, yes. I have zero desire to even touch it and its shit tier library. I can often find more interesting indie games on the regular.
The only shitch game I ever planned to play was Bayo 3, but after that latest trailer I'm not even going to bother.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Just emulate it then. It will work on a shit tier PC.
>indie games
Ok normie
Kek, a Switch gay calling others normies while playing a normie tier library of shit gameplay.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No I mean I'm not even going to bother emulating it anymore. It just looks bad.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>normie tier library of shit gameplay.
Kek. Least my switch can run it properly.
2 years ago
Anonymous
the shitch can't even run most of its own games without dipping below 30 at 540p.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I mean, thats still better than 10fps on your Decklett.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's not since we can run far more advanced games at 60fps. We literally have tens of thousands of games to choose from while you only have the trash released for shitch.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>We literally have tens of thousands of games to choose from
That's why every deck thread is always full of deckletts obsessed with getting Switch games to work? Ok, whatever lets you sleep tonight I guess.
2 years ago
Anonymous
We do that to make tendies seethe because it's funny, and look it's working on you right now.
2 years ago
Anonymous
the switch games run full speed? it's just a matter of tweaking to get them running even more efficient. you know, entirely optional steps that pc gamers take
That's a bit disingenuous. It's more honest to just say you don't like nintendo games or feel they're too child-oriented, but they have plenty of exclusives.
If anyone bought it purely for switch emulation that'd be moronic, but nobody does that. Kirby will likely be perfectly playable by the end of the year anyway.
Look, As a believer in what the deck can become, I'm going to ask you really nicely to delete your post.
They system does have faults, I'm not denying that, but it has the potential to really built up steam and become something great if given the chance and sales. Webms like this are only going to put potential buyers off and ultimately cause the system to fail.
PSVita is a great comparison. It was a superb system at the time but because it didn't sell well it had no time to flourish.
So I'm asking you as a video game enjoyer. Please stop posting webms like this
Loaded up Meral Gear Rising
On the default control scheme everything works except L5 which is the binding for Blade Mode
I can't figure out why it does detect that being pressed because it works in other games
>Steam shilling literal troony and "NB" games on the front page
Thanks Gabe for rounding up all the homosexuals and putting them in one spot so I can blacklist and ignore them in one fell swoop.
How hard is it to get pirated games and non steam H games running on this?
I pre ordered last year and I feel like I'll be getting the email soon but I am still on the fence
>tendie/Tianamenheld forgot to use the correct image
>shmups on a controller
How are the controls? Playing them on a handheld would be supremely comfy, but I can't imagine playing them on anything but a keyboard
Steam input makes pretty much anything playable with enough config. I'm struggling a little with RTS, even with trackpad mouse regions, but even that is still workable.
Gyro controls are a thing
I wonder if I can get h-games to run on this thing.
nice
game?
not that anon but 魔法少女セレスフォニア i believe
I got Black Souls running on my Linux desktop, getting it to run on the Deck should be trivial
I'm sure it'll run, but I'm not sure if the analog stick is a good enough replacement for the arrow keys. And the d-pad on the Deck kind of sucks
It's not a Saturn/Vita d-pad or anything, but the d-pad seems good to me. You sure as FRICK would not want to use the analog for this. I think you just need time to adjust to using the d-pad for shmups. Personally, my issue is the other way around. I can't use keyboard for shmups, but I probably could if I spent enough time to get used to it.
anonymous pls
The D-pad requires too much pressure on the Steam deck.
Out of curiosity, what crack are you using for Rabi-ribi and what version is the game?
The most recent versions of rabi-ribi have both custom anti-tamper and AP. You probably need to launch through something like smartsteamemu instead of using an API crack. I can tell you that a legal version works fine; I'm currently doing a BEX run.
Just downloaded both from skidrowreloaded.
Did you actually apply the crack? Instantly closing is usually a symptom of steamstub going "no, frick off"
I thought the same thing but it would be too much of a pain to hide it from my friends.
in the steam overlay you can enable per-game profile settings and just put it into airplane mode (offline) whenever you boot up the porn game
anon..
>cabin pizza dude got a steam deck
holy frick I haven't seen him in ages
Cheers anon, I post in lots of Deck threads
glad you're enjoying it
Peak comfy, but how do manage to jack off?
Deck seems to big to hold with one hand
How does Smash Bros Ultimate run?
Fine, unless you're doing 8-player battles with ice climbers on fountain of dreams, but even the switch drops frames in that situation.
Lies. It crashes even on High budget pcs.
With all the compability issues Steam Deck has a not as good components, it probably not only crashes but it has other issues of stuttering (even if it's one of the easiest to emulate)
Emulating Saturn and 3DO games. Never really had a handheld that could run those before. Incredible.
I was playing some Radiant Silvergun on my Odin Pro the other day and it was based.
what's the game?
https://steamdb.info/app/1173400/
GTA 5
he posts it on literally every game review for (you)s
stupid copy and paste
Been playing psychonauts
Beware its a fricking nightmare to get going well..
The Steam Deck being a thing made me start actually taking an interest in emulation where I never really gave much of a shit about it before
only to find out apparently only Nintendo and Sony consoles can be emulated well, while Xbox emulation is still in the shitter
how the frick have they not figured out Xbox emulation yet it's been so long
There's maybe like five Xbox games that haven't been ported somewhere else
Ace Combat 6
Lost Odyssey
I can't think of any others. Army of Two was cool, but only because I played with my buddy
JSRF
Blinx
unique hardware + no games people really wanted to play to motivate development
No demand, thanks to MS and all xbox just got more pc ports for the games people wanted over the year.
iktf. M$ can't be assed to port Fable 2 to PC for whatever reason. At least the 360 version of Perfect Dark works with mouse input via Xenia.
The only thing I really want emulated is Phantom Crash off the OG Xbox. A lot of it is that the Xbox is a fricking nightmare of spaghetti code on TOP OF M$ being surprisingly good at being anti-pirate on their console.
I wanna try Kakuto Chojin
It's because Xbox has no games, so there's no reason to waste time and resources on an emulator
saturn, ps3 and N64 are the hardest to emulate of all of the consoles.
it's because xbox is for black people.
it never had a big market share of autistic white kids who became coders when they grew up.
What's the best PS2 emulator on the deck. Feel like playing Ratchet and Clank.
PCSX2 runs pretty well. Vulkan is slower than software rendering in my experience, OpenGL is fine though. Having a great time playing gran turismo 3.
>buy anker USB c hub to "dock" my deck
>top recommended multiple places including from people on Ganker
>deck doesn't keep a positive charge with it and dies quickly at 1080p completely negating the point of docking it
Frickers, never taking an accessory recommendation from you gays again, I'm waiting for the official dock now because this thing is a piece of shit
dockBlack folk get what they deserve. totally fricking pointless
Speaking of accessories, I want some dock recommendations myself.
Going to be living the dorm life soon and been thinking about using my deck as a pseudo PC with a monitor and shit hooked up.
Anybody got a good rec?
Most can't provide their advertized power rating. Wait for the official one if you want to be sure.
My deck works great with the dell d3100 dock I use with my laptop. Though it's quite expensive and arguably overkill, you probably don't need 5 usb ports and 3 monitors with the deck.
>d3100
that thing is almost 200 bucks
Yes, but it works great and provides enough video outputs and I/O for me not to need a desktop. I wouldn't buy one out of my own pocket though, It doesn't provide power.
Mine works at max power delivery. I did have to use a special 100 watt charger instead of the deck charger to make it work though.
As good as the Deck is, the charger is absolute ass.
Playing D2R and Ender Lilies
I'm using a Dell WD19 with mine and it works great, though it's too expensive to be worth it at full price.
That's actually fine because console games use large text and large menus because they're meant to be played on a TV that's far away from you. The typical TV size to viewing distance ratio for most people will have the TV looking comparatively smaller than a monitor does when you're up close to it at a desk. PC games use much smaller fonts and UI elements.
neon white, death stranding, a.i: the somnium files
just finished setting up RPCS3 and stoked that drakengard runs at a higher framerate than it does on my ps3 and at 10w
i can't get the emudeck parsed shortcuts to workhowever, have to boot through RPCS3 directly
>i can't get the emudeck parsed shortcuts to workhowever, have to boot through RPCS3 directly
if you're using emudeck + a different version of rpcs3, the shortcut is probably just pointing at the wrong version
yea i have both the emulator parser and the individual games parser using the exact same app image, so i don't believe that is the issue.
i believe it has to have a highly specific folder structure for it to boot into iso/image dumps.
"/roms/ps3/<game-title>/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/EBOOT.bin"
i tried making sure it all aligns properly but it the parser might only work for PSN dumps at the moment
anyway it's fine, just added another shortcut to RPCS3 and renamed it. not auto-booting into the chosen game will only be an issue if your PS3 library is massive
Is death stranding max comfy? I would love to play DC on deck. How is it?
it'll eat your battery in like 1.5-2 hours but yeah it's performing far better than i expected
40hz/40fps is ideal
Sweet, on another note, has anyone done Yakuza 7? I feel like it would be perfect for the Deck.
Beautiful, looks perfect. Im gonna do 30 fps to squeeze out the battery.
Bro, resonance of fate has a hd remake version for pc
yea was just curious
also that shit never goes on sale
XD
yea i spent the first 3 days playing nothing but steam games and then the next 11 setting up and organizing and tweaking my entire retro library/various HD pc mods.
but now that is out of the way i have gone back to full time gaming. absolutely none of that was mandatory, but the amount of access i have is 10 fold.
Happened to me when I HB my 3ds, my vita, my wii u, fiddling with my odin pro, and my steamdeck.
The same thing for fricking homebrew consoles
You do hack your portables right?? Don't tell me you actually PAY for games and compiled roms
No, I just import my retroarch config from my home server and I instantly have access to all my ROMs, saves, savestates, and console configs.
just like on pc
>not having fun tweaking and adjusting your games
it's fun when you get it working just right then just not play it
for me it's pic-related
True I hope they fix it for the next version. It's clear this was nothing more than a beta launch for a device they weren't sure about
It's a software problem, not a hardware problem. And they're steadily working to fix shit
Though they aren't too competent at it
>game is marked as unsupported
>it just werks
I wish they would add protondb rating right next to their own rating. Or implement a community-based rating focused solely on the Deck, instead of GNU/Linux as a whole
This belongs in a LOL thread so mods can immediately take it down
I want a smaller device but tech isn't there yet.
Maybe someone will make a device the size of the psp in two or three years that's a decent chunk weaker.
I feel like the problem with something that small is screen size for games that are meant to be played on a full desktop.
I'm not sure I'd want much smaller of a screen than the one on the deck, which sort of limits how small you can go with it, I guess eventually you could just have the screen be integrated into ar glasses or something when those are to that point.
People are fine with emulating full screen console games on devices with 3.5 inch screens (chinese emulation handhelds ala the RG351P).
A 4-4.5 inch screen should be fine for low horsepower games and games without tiny ass text.
how many of these shitty threads need to die before you take the hint and frick off to Ganker?
Ganker talks about the tech, this board talks about games, it’s different
going to need to learn some new phrases, "anon"
https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/text/%22PC%20hardware%20threads%22/
Tendie pls
>how many of these shitty threads need to die before you take the hint and frick off to Ganker?
I'll be sure to keep these threads bumped once mine comes in tomorrow.
how about you frick off back there Black person
F.E.A.R maxed out with Nabs? gyro control mappings
only had to set slowmo to ctrl in the options to have everything mapped right
Im really shocked at how the gyro aiming really adds to the immersion in this game, it defaulted to that control scheme when i loaded it up and just rolled with it, now i plan to play the whole game like this
>Crimzon Clover
Extremely based. I don't have a Deck just placed a $5 reservation. Says that it'll come by October or after Q3. I don't mind honestly. But Crimzon Clover is great.
Legitimately mine just got dropped off at my door. It's charging now. Pretty hype. Not sure what I'm gonna play first.
>Not sure what I'm gonna play first.
>didn't spend the last year finding the answer to this precise question
NGMI
It's not that I have no idea, it's that I have lots of options anon.
Yakuza I already played through clearing my backlog, but maybe MGSV
Neat.Dragon's Dogma is fun but I keep getting sidetracked by all the endless side quests and then quitting a couple hours in. I really need to just sit down and play through it.
>connect bluetooth mouse and KB
>works like normal
Oh wow that was so hard.
>Oh wow that was so hard.
you are missing the point moron, i want to see people get creative with steam input
Yakuza 0 and mgs V were my first choices. Great visuals, performance and battery life.
Metroidvanias are great on this thing, about to finish Ender Lilies
You could also go for something like Dragon's Dogma or Nier Replicant
Aperture Desktop will introduce you to the controls.
Been playin Destiny 2 with the lads.
looks like the same metroid start screen to me, anon
wrong pic?
>Product_Showcase_ID_52471.jpg
lmao
Now check post history with that filename
>always the same pic
chinks are so moronic
Steam Kneck
I can't buy one because Valve is incompetent but I've been playing Stardew Valley on my gaming laptop
>Screen wouldnt come on at first
>Finally screen came on, takes a few minutes to boot
>First thing it does is updates
>Breaks after update
JFC, how hard is it to get functional hardware out the door
Even some random no-name chink companies can do it.
You'd be surprised how many people fall for the scam deck
>(x) Dismiss
What's more cope? That oled TV thread or the Steam Deck threads?
>things went to shit at my old job so I had to quit
>had a family vacation / Anime Expo
>got a new job after coming back
>new job is paying out the ass
>steam deck preorder link comes
>$0 in my bank account
>money comes in when the preorder expires
>next one doesn’t come until October
>FoTM avatargay is incompetent with finances
Many such cases.
I've been a fan of Sakamoto Days since day 1, and it's going to break my heart seeing Anons call anyone who uses a Sakamoto Days image as
>Reddit
do you not have a credit card
>reddit x family
i see
>do you not have a credit card
i'd say only about half my friends have a credit card, others feared the credit israelite
>t. 28
must be nice to not have any responsibilities or bills or needing good credit.
i pay off my balance every month and rack up the miles on shit i'm buying anyways.
I delayed it until I found out I was literally getting passed up for jobs because of not having a credit history. People work and pay bills without having credit, believe me. Especially if they're sharing a house or apartment with a few others.
Most Asian countries are often cash-based tbh. I had a flip and Singaporean roommates who never used a credit card in their lives.
It's one of the biggest problems a lot of high schools don't even bother to address in kids is financial management. I didn't get my first credit card until I was 26 because all I ever used was my bank's debit visa. It was a Discover with a $500 max because my credit was nonexistent. You can get a cosigner with a parent which will give you a better opportunity but usually for people who know nothing about credit it's a good start. I'm now 33 and my credit's well over 800. It definitely opens a ton more doors, but my parents are still in that mentality where they get paper bills and pay it off. I just told them to write me checks and I'll pay all the bills and rack up the miles. It got me to almost diamond with my regular airline doing that.
kids in the us either get a card when they're in college because of predatory "student offers" and rack up crazy debt, or fear it like the plague and put it off until their mid-late 20s like yourself and me. I would say that discover you got is still better than a cosign card, you can build up your shit pretty quickly. Personally I don't care about miles or anything since I don't like to travel but there are definitely other perks to be had
I'm glad really that mine was so little because initially I was pretty good about making sure it was paid, but then I'd go out and have a night out where I spent a ton and realized how fricking easily you can pile up money on it, so I reeled it back and only started using it for just bills alone.
Now, I just use my credit to look for deals to do signups on cards where I can rack up a ton of miles or points for regular spending. Even if you aren't a big traveler or want to grind for miles or stupid shit like I do, having a card to do something as miniscule as using it to pay your internet bill will be a massive help in the long run to help your credit. Keep in mind too that credit score for getting a mortgage or a car lease will not be a 1:1 score that you see on creditkarma or similar sites. My card now shows me my actual FICO monthly which is the accurate one. I think you can view your full score for free through the gov once a year too.
>living on credit and in debt
lmao do americans really?
I have zero debt other than my mortgage, which is equity. I pay off everything and carry no balances, pinhead.
I only have about 5K in debt, and that's only because a triple whammy of new graphics card, Steam Deck, summer sale, and home renovations. Normally it's zero.
jobs will check your credit when you apply, it helps determine if you are a responsible person. yes this is how america is.
Contact steam support. There are times they are willing to sell you it if you just missed the window.
>There are times they are willing to sell you it if you just missed the window.
Seems unfair when there's a giant list of people waiting to buy
>iPhone user is an absolute fricking moronic homosexual
Imagine my shawk
Elite Dangerous
can i play genshin impact on it?
I've been playing the frick out old GBA games, man Sonic Advance may have not been a "Sonic" game but it's still fun as frick .v
Advance games are great. Love the team stuff and controlling multiple characters at once.
Although I guess 1 didn't do that but still solid games.
Which version did you guys snag? Is there really any reason to not go for the 512GB one, money aside?
>is there any reason not to give $200 for literal avatars and a blue dot on your carrying case and an objectively worse screen
you tell me.
Well that's an eye opener. Thanks for the warning anon.
That price looks like a complete steal. I've been looking for 1TB 2230 NVMe SSDs and the price I usually see is around 200EUR.
You might be able to map it so it works like a mouse for a specific screen region which you match to the part of the UI where the build controls are. Alternatively if the RTS game in question supports grid hotkeys you could map it to virtual buttons matching said grid hotkeys, I imagine both those options should work fairly well.
>You might be able to map it so it works like a mouse for a specific screen region which you match to the part of the UI where the build controls are
I've tried that. It's too slow for unit commands. It's great for using the minimap though.
I guess there would be the anti glare screen which doesnt do what its supposed to be.
Pic related. Its a massive scam
Yet another incompetent moron.
>$120 is the same as $200
>what are taxes
>$127 is the same as $200
>$120
did you overlook that the SSD in the lower half of the image is literally 2x the maximum capacity of the premium model?
No I didn't overlook a used hard drive from fricking mercari. Only idiots would shop for tech there.
>i realize i was wrong and now i am going to deflect like a flailing idiot
as to be expected
Pointing out the obvious isn't deflecting. If you want to buy the 256 version and then buy a used hard drive to save a few bucks, by all means go for it. I don't give a frick what you do lmao
>continuing to fail to engage with the original argument
we're done here
>lies about numbers
>says objectively worse screen with no proof
>posts used hardware as an argument
keep going anon
The screen is objectively better.
the etched glass provides the same effect as a $1 screen protector.
the fact you can actually protect your screen makes it literally and objectively superior.
i bricked my deck cuz im a goofy shit and i picked up the xbawks 512 for $70, cracked that shit open and instead of doing an RMA, i replaced AND upgraded AND fixed my deck. feelsgoodman
all for under $100
i have no idea what this post is trying to convey
>buying used SSDs
Helldivers. I know it's a Vita game, but it has an active PC community.
256gb, I don't mind the screen glare and I think the storage is upgradeable.
None, i did the smart thing and bought myself a new laptop, waiting for an actual HANDHELD umpc to release
256, but at the time I wasn't sure if the 64gb model had the memory soldered to the board/even had an M2 slot. There was a big gamble at the time when there wasn't enough information. There was a chance you could have gotten 64GB of eMMC plus an unused M2 slot but there was also a chance that there was no M2 slot and the eMMC was soldered. It wasn't worth the risk to me so I went for some ssd storage. Had I know, I would have gone for the $400 and just upgraded it myself, but I'm pretty happy with my 256.
Well I pre-ordered the hiest tier, maybe is not worthed, but I don't wanna cancel the order and wait for god knows when
I reserved the 64GB model.
When I got it, I opened it up and replaced the eMMC with a 512GB SSD I got off eBay. All good here.
I bought the high tier model mostly because I figured the cheapest one would sell out like crazy and I see it more as funding Steam to develop proton(which it did) to make linux gaming more comfy. The extra $ was chump change anyway
i want to see you homies playing some RTS on that thing
You probably could honestly if it didn't require too many hotkeys.
Problem is you'd be mostly clicking to build units or structures, rather than using hotkeys, unless you worked some sort of magic with the left trackpad.
i think Comapny of Heroes 2 could work, theres an option to make it so the hotkeys are always mapped to: Q,W,E,R,A,S,D,F,Z,X,C and V
thats a 4x3 grid, you could map each row to the Dpad + some other button
you could have a similar solution to any other game that allows you to map hotkeys
I've been messing around with aoe2. I tried a mouse region over the unit commands and it works okay but its a little too slow in practice. I'm trying to figure out how to bind the 15 buttons used for commands
Q W E R T
A S D F G
Z X C V B
in a way that is intuitive with action layers.
thats 3 sets of 5, you could use one of the analog sticks for each set (4 directions plus the stick button) alongside another botton to toggle an action set
say, holding down R1 and using the Left stick gives you Q W E R T, holding down R2 plus the left stick gives you A S D F G, and so on
I don't think I want to use analog for that. Right now I'm using left analog for camera movement and right analog for a radial to select control groups, it's set as continuous so it just snaps me all over the map and feels really smooth. I could have it change depending on the action layer, but I think I'd rather just bind them to face buttons instead. Luckily I've got 6 shoulder buttons to work with if you include back paddles, so that's a frick load of action layers to work with.
ok, i was suggesting that because thats what i did for System Shock
all the hardware attachments are handled with the Dpad + B button and R1
The fact that it's 5 buttons instead of 4 is really triggering my autism. Maybe I'll bind each set to dpad + select and do it that way.
Then L1 will add an action layer for QWERT, L4 for ASDFG, L5 for ZXCVB and maybe make mouse click with the right trackpad unset the action layer.
yeah thats why i suggested the stick, 4 directions plus the stick button
you know, 15 is almost 16, which is divisible by 4, i think you could probably still map em to the Dpad
I've been fricking around a lot with Steam Input and I am beginning to believe this is actual magic. Especially now that I've figured out how trackpads and chords work, it feels like I can literally play anything better than even some elite controllers.
Why did the SC never hit it big? I guess it's because it only had two trackpads? God when is Valve going to shit out a SC2? I'd instantly buy it if it had Deck-like controls.
>Why did the SC never hit it big?
Because people are incapable of change. The SC forced you to use the trackpads because you only have 1 analog and no physical dpad. Valve learned their lesson and made sure the deck had all the options of a standard controller, plus the trackpads so nothing was taken away by using it and anyone who didn't care for the trackpads could simply ignore them. Of course, it comes at the cost of looking kind of ugly. Definitely function over form.
>Why did the SC never hit it big?
Too many options and shitty defaults
People want things to just werk they don't want to sit around and configure things
Still waiting for mine, anons.
How is emulation? PS3/360 mostly.
I just want a portable to play everything Tales.
Why is in home streaming so shit?
use Ethernet
I am. It does gigabit. My computer has hardware encoding for the stream.
It microstutters like fricking crazy.
Works pretty well for me. If you've got an NVIDIA card give Moonlight a try, in my experience NVIDIA's hardware capture + encode is mostly unbeatable. I think Steam has to capture some games in software, as in it intercepts some graphics API calls to intervene and capture the frame. Encoding is only half the battle, how capture happens is essential since the graphics API intercept methods intervene directly in the game's renderer and they can hurt game performance.
I hear Parsec also does hardware capture, but I haven't tried it on Deck. I did try it in general and it wasn't as smooth as Moonlight.
I'd probably map the primary unit commands to some physical buttons since those are what you need most when in combat, so you'd want them available directly. I was suggesting mouse regions only for stuff like building.
Yeah for sure, the chinkshit options - at least the ones that are currently available for actual purchase and delivery, so not preorders - are way overpriced. Still that in and of itself is not actually the worst thing, the problem with most of them is that they have shit controls and that hampers usability no matter how cheap or expensive they are. Looking at a Deck it's clear they spent some actual thought on how to design a handheld that could reasonably play PC games. The chinks absolutely do not do this. The worst (and sadly common) case scenario is that they basically clone the Switch layout, which is truly terrible for anyone with adult hands as the right analog stick is far too low on the devices to use comfortably for any length of time. The vast majority of them also lack touchpads entirely, which are honestly essential if you're a PC gamer who wants to play PC games.
I think only AYANEO so far has plans to add trackpads into one of their models and that's going take ages to release and probably horribly overpriced too boot.
Yup and that's really the dealbreaker I think. With a Steam Deck, as long as it doesn't outright break, I could still see it being useful around the house in 10 years as a streaming client, even if the hardware can no longer run games the controls will still be good and usable. If the controls suck ass the hardware doesn't matter, because almost nobody buying a handheld is buying it in order to hook it up to external peripherals in order to use it comfortably.
It's like the chinks are designing products for people who shop by reading a spec sheet.
Feels good to me, I've been playing some 2D platformers/metroidvanias and it works great.
>
>It's like the chinks are designing products for people who shop by reading a spec sheet
That definitely feels like the case.
My overall problem with this spec ratrace is that these aren't just PCs. They're handhelds and you can cram in all the new-fangled shit in there that can run next gen shit at 60FPS but everything is still bottlenecked by battery tech and that sitiation isn't improving any time soon. It's already surprising how well the Deck can punch up its weight class despite being 15w.
Yeah the battery tech is definitely the cap on portable stuff.
It isn't for me, get a better wifi router.
For the price point it's leagues better in terms of support, quality, and ability.
Works well on my machine
how do you clean your steamdeck? i mean the surface of your buttons/triggers etc.
i have a bunch of useless glasses cleaning cloth.
yea i use microfiber cloth for the screen but i meant everything else
Compressed air can and just lightly use a microfiber with water or some cleaning (wnot over the button with it powered off.
auto posted, but meant to say something approved for cleaning electronics/plastics - not with ammonia or bleach in it.
yea i was wondering more about the the cleaning solution itself, will have to research.
Is there a good ultra slim case for the deck? I find mine to be way too big.
I dont know who said it but I want to thank the anon who told me you could pay this with steam bux.
There was a good deal for some pack of gift cards that I got. Saved up probably 50-75 bucks from it.
Good, glad if it helped you.
I was one of the responders to someone asking that, I paid for my steam deck almost entirely with gift cards too.
Is the Steam Deck is better than the overpriced chinkshit that was already on the market?
obviously?
Yeah mostly.
Without question. Steam Deck has several layers up opt-in for updates and it gets them almost every day. The hardware quality is for the most part very good, although there's other anons who had to RMA because of some screen glow and sometimes the B button sticks because of how it falls on the chassis, but more or less the software itself makes it work.
I'm sure someone in the next few years will make another product that rivals it with better hardware though.
If it's not a Deck 2 then I hope it's a more reputable western manufacturer than the chinks. Back when I ordered GPD's shit it was hell on a hand basket to deal with their support and I hear AYANEO has the same problems as well. Meanwhile I'm pretty sure Valve's hardware support will kneel down and suck you off given the opportunity.
And understated aspect of the Deck though is that it has a very good overall community around it that just pumps out loads of nice stuff to get into that no other PC handheld has because of how fragmented they are.
thats what happens when you leverage the steam/linux/emulation/modding community at the same time
rally them all behind one open hardware and that's very good foundation to work with
chinese companies shit out WAY too many SKUs
>And understated aspect of the Deck though is that it has a very good overall community around it that just pumps out loads of nice stuff to get into
Such as?
I wish Valve would give back and release the kernel already so I can just use Arch.
Basic stuff like Steam Input configs that have been built up over the years since the release of the SC.
My friend keeps sending me a bunch of CAD files for moronic shit he 3d prints for the Deck. Most of them from the community too.
Then there are third party companies jumping in. Not dbrand but more substantal stuff like the hallsensor thumb stick replacements for the Deck.
Though I don't like it that much, emudeck and a bunch of other scripts and shit on the Discover store keep getting updated and pumped out for the Deck.
Linux in general is just a more helpful and tight community overall so it'd be hard to miss out on helpful tips people say and protonDB overall still keep rolling.
There's probably way more if you dig into it but the community stuff is building up rather well and really gives the Deck that extra value-add compared to your usual chink handheld.
when can i buy one
why do you not like emudeck?
it seems fine
NTA, but insane defaults like widescreen hacks on
doesnt use the steam version of retroarch, so cloud saves aren't supported
i'd rather just add the extra emus as non steam games (yuzu, rcsp3, dolphin)
not that anon but my only issue with emudeck is that the parsers aggressively auto-correct my japanese game titles to shit like "jimmy neutron". even if you go in and toggle off the aggressive parsing options, it's still annoying to have to go in after the fact and change a bunch of shit.
that and i don't like how you don't have the option to simply assign *no* artwork. it always populates it with shit from griddb, worse when it's referencing the wrong game to begin with.
but yea it still saves you a ton of time trying to set up all the shortcuts manually so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
the luxury of access is the first problem
the second is knowing yourself and where your interests lie
it's entirely possible you never had to know what you do and don't like because you only had so few options growing up that you just went along with whatever prevailing trends and forces pushed on you
now you've grown older and obligations have changed along with your tastes and interests
i understand the sense of futility. however that reality was always there to begin with. that there is no inherent value in doing anything. you have to create the meaning yourself. it might be a desire to become intimately familiar with a niche genre/era of games, or a developer, or a mechanical skillset whatever.
gpd win max is arguable if you are looking to pay 3x to get 60fps/60hz in everything where deck has to run 40/40 atm, but i'd say wait until Q1/Q2 next year
ergonomics on the gpd win max look like a fricking meme.
It's $400 starting base model that is really repairable, expandable memory, backed by Valve with customer service to suck your dick off if anything goes wrong. It also has a community figuring out their own shit for free. You tell me, you want the deck or a $1000 handheld from "xingyiang xys group" who's marketing is only to shit talk every other handheld.
The Deck appeals to me in the same way that console gaming does, in that it seems to have at least some semblance of 'it just works' quality control. I don't think the tradeoff of higher specs is worth game compatibility being the wild west, not for a handheld anyway
You're easily swayed by the appearance of the hardware. In terms of whether things just work, the deck requires far more fiddling than regular pc gaming. It's still great and will only get better, but compared to a regular decent pc it's lags behind in the "shit just works" department.
>steam support
>not useless fricking Black folk
Support has been good in my experience. I had to replace Index controllers fricking twice and every time they accepted shipping my new controllers to me before I even ship the broken one(s) back so I'm not left with no controllers. They weren't super quick in responses but other than that I got quality support from them.
anyone ever got this "corrupt download" error? I've tried installing it in the SSD and in my SD card and I still get the same error. Any ideas?
nah never, is your ssd full
I have the 512 gig model and a 1 tb sd card with 177gb and 364gb free respectively. I even tried installing it in desktop mode and still got the same error. This is the only game giving me this issue. I have installed other games after this and the installation went fine.
When you tried installing in desktop mode did you nuke it entirely in game mode first and clear cache?
how do you do that?
boot into desktop mode and try to update. you could be out of space potentially.
not that anon, but yea shaders are ONLY stored on your SSD, no matter what you do.
its a rookie mistake for people on the 64gb to load up their microsd card with a bunch of shit and then suddenly their entire internal is full of shaders
the shader thing is something that I didn't realize at first but it definitely piles up quickly. the system does a decent job of cleanup but i'd never used arch before this so it took me a minute to get a hang of all the commands.
the 64gb had a real big glitch that I think was patched regarding shaders too.
I have the 512gb model. I grabbed a 400gb micro SD on sale for ~$30 back when I first ordered the deck. I'm a cheap ass and didn't want to shell out for a 1tb.
I currently have 16 games installed
>Ace combat 7
>Dark souls 3
>Doom (2016)
>Doom eternal
>Elden ring
>Endless space
>Fallout new Vegas
>Hades
>Kenshi
>Kingdom come deliverance
>Mad max
>Metal gear rising revengeance
>Middle earth shadow of Mordor
>Nier automata
>Remnant from the ashes
>Sekiro
>only 16 games
sad
Those 16 games will be hundreds if not over 1000 hours of game play tho. It's pretty lit. And as I finish the games I decide I'm not interested in replaying I can drop them to open room for more. I love this thing tbh.
I've been trying to get Gran Turismo 4 to work but I keep getting random slowdowns whenever there are lighting effects. Special Stage Route 5 and a couple others are unplayable. Anyone have any suggestions for getting it to work?
this dude found a way
>I installed all these, no screenshot since I can't get them in one, but what should I play first?
ATOM RPG
Baba Is You
Blasphemous
Bloons TD6
Crypt of the BlackDancer
Darkwood
Hades
Hotline Miami 1/2 (already beat but I like them)
Icewind Dale
INscryption
Ion Fury
LISA
Max Payne 2
Mini Metro
Mini Motorways
Nex Machina
Pathologic 2
Persona 4
Project Zomboid
Rain World
RimWorld
Risk of Rain 2
Civ 6
SOMA
System Shock 2
Teardown
Binding of Isaac
Great Ace Attorney
TABS
Vampire Survivors (beat it)
VVVVVV
WORLD OF HORROR
babbies first steam collection
inscryption i guess
nah just a huge backlog and installed ones that I hadn't beaten yet and were marked for great on deck
wouldn't read too hard into 'great on deck'
small percentage of those games actually run like shit, and there are loads of examples of games that are 'unsupported' or 'unverified' that run just fine. dig around a little and you'll be surprised
I like booting up world of horror to kill an hour if I can't get a full play session due to work
zomboid is surprisingly good on deck
risk of rain 2, the binding of isaac and VVVVVV are 3 of my favourite games ever, ror2 and isaac are infinitely replayable and VVVVVV is great the first time playing it.
>try to install emudeck
>get some yuzu error
what do bros
care to elaborate more lil' techlet buddy
actually nevermind. i just realized yuzu is a switch emu which i don't care about. thanks anyways
if you have any yuzu settings questions hmu, i've tested like 80 different games
make sure when you go into yuzu that the version is:
Yuzu development build | HEAD-mainline-636-9058-gecd22c9d8-dirty (2022-07-08)
also look into powertools plugin if you haven't already, will be needed
How's the Dpad.
Its okay diagonal could use some work
not good for fighting games/retro shit but serviceable otherwise
really looking forward to button mods in the future (steam and "..." button are trash too)
Heads up lad. Just sticker some potrusion on the steam/... buttons. I just cut some good feeling rubber and stuck it on there. Works like a charm.
yea i'm using universal razer mouse grip over them atm, would like something better however that can only come from a mechanical mod
>not good for fighting games/retro shit but serviceable otherwise
seconding this
unless you want to play 3D fighting games like Soul Calibur or Dead or Alive on the Deck....don't play fighting games on the Deck
Really? I play a ton of retro shit and thought it was perfectly fine.
I wouldn't want to use it for fighting games just because I've gone through so many DS4 dpads that way. They always wear down too fast.
I don't have a Steam Dick, but if I had one, I'd be playing Darksiders Warmastered Edition. The large font it uses is perfect for such a small screen, plus that game was tailor made for a joystick.
I am not really enjoying it
>trusting furgays ever
dun goofed anon
i think Klonoa 2 is very good, but the best way to experience Klonoa 1 is through the PS1 version, the Wii remake and this remake butcher several important cutscenes
butcher how, i barely care to begin with and am tapping the fast forward button during them
won't touch the second til i finish the 1st and won't want to come back for awhile after finishing it
>i barely care to begin with and am tapping the fast forward button during them
bro, the story is like, half of the charm of Klonoa 1
anyhow some sad shit happens later, stiff animations ruin the mood, the ending in particular is butchered by stiff animations and bizarre artistic choices, possibly done due to laziness
if you are more into gameplay, i say just right into Klonoa 2, its harder and has more going on gameplaywise
Can anyone try Microsoft gamepass.
I have it
You can only do streaming through browser. Can't play gamespass natively on linux.
i heard skate 3 emulates well on deck
definitely going to look into it after hearing about the fricking awful new game
https://sharedeck.games/
wish this site was more popular
would like some configs to bounce around with
HURRY UP I'VE BEEN WAITING A YEAR
:^)
DING DING DING DING DING DING DING
DING DING DING
Who'd you rob?
I didn't rob anyone, I pirated it from a porch
man, im barely playing anything. blogpost incoming
it's finally a perfect handheld. i have genuinely no complaints about it or irritations with it. i finally have the "gamecube on the go" that ive wanted for years, so i put my entire gamecube collection on the device. i already had a steam library of great games i was recently playing.
i also bought $50 of games during the summer sale that i had been really looking forward to play eventually. stuff like prey and sable, which the deck actually handles really well.
i have every game i wanted on here, past present and future, in the exact way id want them, and now im stuck in this odd mixture of exhaustion, choice paralysis and depression. i wish i had this as a kid, because having it as an adult is sad. i get home exhausted from work/exercise/errands, and then can barely decide what game to even start with. plus, life has gotten pretty shit recently and ive just felt too sad to even touch this thing or even do anything in my gaps of unplanned free time.
ive had the deck for about two months now, but put maybe like 20ish hours into playing games on it total. here i am with the device of my dreams, and im not using it. i feel like a kid again when i actually do get a session in with it, but those sessions are rare.
tl;dr i love this thing but i cant bring myself to really even start with it.
every zoomer or boomer late to the party goes through this phase. the luxury of access in the modern age. i think it's okay to be overwhelmed by your choices, more options is always better. but with this comes the responsibility of knowing how to commit to something. if you have to force yourself to play for 45 minutes or 90 minute time blocks, do it. anything to make you play something, if only to help yourself better understand what you do and don't like.
once you become more in tune with your tastes and interests it will be easier to prioritize and better select for games that appeal to you.
you may also consider setting up an account on a website like backloggd to better categorize and list things (but this can also lead to OCD/autismal looping behavior).
thanks for the advice, anon. was just shitranting, but youre probably right about me picking a wrong style of game
i was in an rpg mood earlier this year, and i kept trying to force myself to play some long jrpgs like skies of arcadia and dqxi when i got my deck, but that just wasnt working out. i should probably be sticking to roguelites and arcade games for now
yea games like that can feel like a real burden, i know the feeling.
if it helps you might try checking sites like 'howlongtobeat.com' or gamefaqs to see how much of a time investment the game you are about to make.
>luxury of access
I think it's also something else, it's like how I have every game and TV show I ever wanted as a kid all on my computer but I rarely use them and are never happy with them.
to elaborate further:
i usually associate different styles/types of games with my energy levels. i don't think you could ever play a game like death stranding for example with the sort of mental energy you are describing as being available here.
i would try to prioritize games that are first and foremost easy to pick up and play. games that don't require a strong attention to plot or an awareness of 'where you were' or 'whats going on'. then evaluate what kind of experience you are looking for when you pick up the device (high stimulation? shooter/action/racer/arcade type game) (chilling out? sandbox/visual novel/jrpg etc.)
Any have any luck getting gog games running on their deck? I downloaded heroic launcher and it took me two days of trouble shooting to launch fricking loop hero, I JUST got it to launch and am going to try playing now. Wondering if anyone has had better luck
I finally got my replacement model in after Valve shipped me a broken Deck.
Anyway, while this b***h is setting up, can someone spoonfeed me the most sane way to install a PSX/PS2 emulator on here? I partially bought one so I could proofread fan translations. I know I can't just pacman -Sy in desktop mode because the home dir just gets wiped on update, is there a decent way to manage packages otherwise?
Someday I'll be able to participate in these threads
So I can only play valve games not epic games on the proton Linux side?
You can run Legendary using WINE(Proton is just steam's special wine version) or use Legendary and add it to steam to use proton
you can play whatever you want but egs/gog has no official linux support so you have to use a third party launcher/lutris
heroic launcher for epic/gog shit
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/heroic-games-launcher-gets-more-steam-deck-and-flatpak-improvements/
also boilr is nice
What about Xbox pass.
only xcloud is supported atm
no xbox games pass sadly
Use browser to use cloud.
This. Valve has a lot of good will and a history of supporting devices that aren't even that popular like the SC and the link, so the fact that the Deck is incredibly popular means it'll probably have a disgustingly long life time.
The Deck is an amazing piece of tech.
So other than the Deck and games, if I wanted to bring it to serve as a setup at a tournament for, say, fighting games, what do I need? Is there any additional input lag if I were to out to a monitor? Is there enough ports for controllers and HDMI/sound?
It has a single usb C out, so you'd need a usb c hub if you wanted to physically plug in controllers instead of using bluetooth
>fighting games
id be wary about what kind of fighting game you're playing as well.
tekken 7 for example can't get to 60, and if you drop it to 40hz you will really be taking a hit in input delay
>What are you playing on your Steam Deck?
Street Fighter 5.
How well does it run ps2 and GameCube?
Runs gamecube great at 2x for almost everything with good battery life (for the deck), not sure about ps2.
Elite Dangerous
>whatever new SoC AMD shits out for Valve
>better D-pad for diagonal inputs
>OLED screen keep the resolution
>better battery if possible
>more HDMI ports
>repairability is already great but a non-glued battery and non-soldered usb ports would be gold
What else we hoping for lads?
I'm satisfied with it overall but the second gen has the potential to be pure platinum.
don't care about oled or more ports but dual stage triggers and bumpers that don't feel like clicky garbage would be nice
>OLED
For frick's sake no, I want these things to last longer than two years
i mean my 2012 vita is still working so
same
Trackpads with a physical click and better haptics for the trackpads. Basically just the steam controller pads.
Rear grip buttons improved, I want to squeeze to press them, not press upward toward the screen.
Beefed up m.2, you can fit a 2280 in the deck currently with some slight modding but the slot isn't rated for a 2280, so you can end up frying its power delivery circuitry with some 2280s.
Its amazing how good they are at general ergonomics on their controllers but suck at bumpers. I mean they're a huge improvement over the steam controllers 0 travel only click, but still bad.
FFVII The New Threat, Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn and Takes of Symphonia on a new game plus from my 2004 save file. Feels gud.
New Threat is great.
With the way they said parts are easily replaceable. Does this mean we could possibly have a company selling better sticks, different buttons, even a better screen like 1080p?
hall stick mods already exist
and yea i have high hopes for the modding scene, especially since people can just buy extra parts like back panneling and frick around with it without actually ruining thier decks
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Steam_Deck
So how's the battery life on Steam Deck for games that people actually want to play on Steam Deck? Of course all the promotional materials showed it running Doom Eternal or whatever the current meme game was, because MUH GRAPHIX, but even with gyro controls, I think I'd rather punch myself in the balls than play a first-person shooter using anything other than a mouse. I'll probably be using my Steam Deck to play the same games I'd play using a gamepad on my desktop PC: platformers, maybe racing games, and basically anything not requiring a lot of precision. For me, personally, that means platformers, which means mostly 2-D platformers, which means okay yeah I'm going to play stuff like Shovel Knight on it. Is the battery life heavily dependent on what game I'll be playing? Is the ">2 hours" meme only true when playing "MUH GRAPHIX" games on ultra settings, or will the battery life be short regardless?
Please note that I already have a reservation (Q3 btw) and I'm not going to cancel it, so you don't have to shill it to me. Valve might as well have my money already. I just want to know what to expect.
it's pretty good. https://sharedeck.games/ this sit is nice for advice on optimizing settings on games. a lot of games you can run on low TDP which will let your battery go for quite a while.
>death stranding: 1h46m
>death stranding directors cut: 4h27m
what
enthusiasts can go pretty far with powertools
>FAN RPM
WAIT WHAT, YOU CAN CHANGE RPM NOW?
I played Frincess&Cnight from 0 to completion today, about 3.5 hours unplugged. Was at 60% when I was done.
Make of that what you will. I didn't adjust any settings, everything is default pretty much since I just got it in.
battery is pretty good for low graffix/platformer type games. 4-6 hrs Id say, especially if you optimize the settings
As far as FPS goes I played Portal on the deck and it's comfy. I wouldn't try anything too twitchy/skill based on it but honestly it's quite nice. Any HL/Portal game is fine, anything slower/story based should be fine. But yeah I wouldn't try Doom even if it does run quite nicely on the limited hardware.
Depends on the games. I've been playing Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster and get about 5 hours while I only get about 2 in Monster Hunter Rise (but I can stretch that to about 3 if I lower the frame rate to 40 and put settings at medium).
you're doing something wrong. I get like 3h40m in rise with 40hz and basically unchanged settings
2D games will last a very long time, APU power draw for that level of game is going to be well under <1W so you'll get shit like screen brightness, WiFi and power draw from other components being the main deciding factors. I played Shantae and the Pirate's Curse and could easily get over 7h battery life at 60FPS with minimal tweaks (just lowered GPU clock to minimum since more wasn't required). Even playing Diablo 2 Resurrected at 45FPS I can get over 3h. You get like 2h if you run something balls to the wall.
>even with gyro controls, I think I'd rather punch myself in the balls than play a first-person shooter using anything other than a mouse
I played Ion Fury and it was very enjoyable. Not as good as a mouse but touchpad + gyro works quite well. It's fine for SP I'd say.
PS2-era games look so clean on the small screen. It does a good job of hiding low quality assets.
Is there a good slim case for the deck? It seems like there's not a single one.
whats wrong with the one that comes with it? too big?
Well yeah.
Thanks that looks nice.
>cityslicker
the memes write themselves
jej
Well, Well. look at this City Slicker and his fancy Ultra Portable PC.
capcom fighting collection. Currently trying to beat every arcade mode with each character
Elite Dangerous
Getting a Deck delivered in a few days. How easy is it to pirate games on it (ie. Linux)? Launch on as non-steam game and call it a day? Do I still need to do some goldberg frickery?
non-steam game and toggle on proton in the launch options
Just download the torrent app and get whatever game you want. It’s easy
Still waiting for Valve to make headsets.
How do I mod new vegas?
you're in luck:
july 18th is the day of the deckard
meant for
yea not enough submissions on the site
Finally giving Labyrinth of Refrain a try.
enjoy your kino
so, just in case any of you Deckbros want to try System Shock Enhanced Edition, i just published a guide with my controller config
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826550920
i think it works pretty well all things considered, and it has gyro support, i beat the game using it
>unironically linking to your reddit profile
kys, never post again
whatever, i just wanted to share my config
Nice autism, anon. You clearly put a lot of work into this.
well it started when i said to myself
>"i bet i can make SS work with this switch pro-controller"
i spent most of my first initial run tinkering with the controls until they were mostly good, then after finishing the game i said to myself
>"that was fun, i bet some other folks will enjoy this config, i just need to make some adjustments to make it more use friendly"
and that was a mistake, those small adjustments ended up becoming 12 actions sets and 18 action layers, steam input was actually glitching the frick out while i was trying to add radial menus just in case people find my key combinations for hardware attachments and MFDs too complex
but well i got it done in the end, might replay the game in hard mode later using the improved config
Looks gr8
Makes me want to actually try and learn how to use gyro, but I still feel iffy about not using MKB for FPP games
my friend told me this trick that works wonders: imagine a laser coming out of the front of the controller into the screen, it helps to wrap your head around the aiming
honestly gyro is the only way i can tolerate aiming with a controller, ever since i played warframe on the switch i became a believer
get mine soon deck chads, got the highest gig version because im not poor. probably wont even use it much but i like having a pack up pc i can take wherever
So what's the configuration setup for Dolphin and RPCS3? SSX Tricky and F Zero GX get crazy stutters. Tekken Tag 2 also stutters too. Shit up to GC and the Woo run fine though.
60fps/60hz lock, manual GPU clock to 1600
power tools:
turn OFF CPU SMT (literally toggled off)
CPU BOOST to 2.8Ghz
too much work, not going to bother with Dolphin on Deck
PCSX2 is unironically easier, if it slows down, switch to software, and problem solved
>too much work
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Not him but can I set the Steam Deck per game preferences to work for dolphin? Don't want to have to Switch that every single time
>RPCS3
going to need to defer to the RPCS3 wiki for each game individually, many of the fixes for these games are very specific.
>posting every 25 minutes to save the thread from page 10 hell
Oh look, a deck thread. Maybe you guys should consider going to Ganker, where these PC hardware threads belong.
Why do sometimes my backpads deactivate during desktop mode?
>ctrl+f
>switch
rent free
not a single post containing the word switch is what you think it is
>emulator? not interested
>already tried that game, i dont think ill play it on my deck
>i got a game working well with the pro controller
>heh, talking about the switch yet again. my superior corporation wins.
>ctrl+f
>Ganker
rent free
>ctrl+f
>swit
rent free, n'wah
>ctrl+f
>rent free
rent free
has anyone used this tracker and does it really work? And they only send out emails on thursday right?
Wolfstride while taking a break from some commission work and relaxing on the bad with our fat cat.
It's a reasonably good tracker. I got my email at 97%. Emails go out Mondays and Thursdays.
i love your cat
She's a fatty ding dong, but at least she's talkative and lovable. She's on a diet till she stops being so heavy.
Your cat is fat and depressed
Playing some utawarerumono
baste underwater ray romano
we literally vitagen now
If only DT2 were available too...
>worst version
Because of that censored scene? Not a thing when playing in Japanese so not my problem.
I have a hacked 1000 vita lying right next to me. Being able to play it both in bed and and on PC with a big screen and FSR upscaling is much better
The best version of playing uta is in the most comfy way, which is the vita
Can you even read niponese?
No, I'm just acting like I can for extra weeb credit on Ganker.org. I only look at the pretty pictures and mash buttons until new pictures come up. I do this for dozen of hours. In this case it is a bit more difficult due to the gameplay segments but I was able manage so far.
basted
Imagine spending 400$ to play the worse version of uta when the better version runs on a 100$ device with oled screen
Good choice Anons!
Going through Persona 3 FES and checking out older games like Alan Wake and the first Rage. Really nice though being able to load up bo3 custom zombies and waste thirty minutes to a hour on challenge maps
Played the entirety of Cyber Shadow on it, probably the best platformer I've played over since MM9. I can't believe I was sitting on it, I'm glad I'm using the Deck to go through my backlog.
When the frick are they going to let me order one in Australia?
>literal discord trannies making one post every thirty minutes to keep this shameful pos thread alive
>nobody else in here
Why don't these threads just get deleted? What good are they?
How do I run pirated games? I've downloaded some games, added the .exe to steam, ran it with proton and it doesn't launch.
Do I have to use wine for this?
Trying to get rabi ribi to run
Works on my machine
Do you get some kind of error message or does it just not launch?
It just goes from play and then back to launch. I have the rabi.exe running with every version of proton. Sometimes I hit play and it instantly goes back to the play button other times I get an error saying proton can't run it or something. No luck.
Do you have any configurations?
It'll run for a split second (steam displays STOP) then go right back to play. So far I can't get rabi or Eyes in the dark to run.
You can try running it in desktop mode and see what pops up
I was running it on desktop mode. Rabi.exe and then eyes in the dark
https://streamable.com/fz6ku6
Running on all different versions of proton, still happens.
You can try setting "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" in steam launch properties, it'll disable Vulkan
Alternatively, you can try using wine through Lutris
Did you apply the crack though? IIRC it's in some separate folder and you need to move it to game files
There's no crack to install. On skidrowreloaded most of the time the cracks are installed. It's a codex version. I just ran it on my windows machine and it worked.
Do me a favor and try replacing codex with goldberg instead.
Some of these game cracks do weird memory introspection bullshit that's fundamentally incompatible with WINE.
I tried the same thing with Eyes in the Dark. That's a Goldberg version and I'm still getting the same issue.
Again booting from desktop, again it just works on windows.
The eyes in the dark exe seems to just be running but not actually launching. It doesn't instantly crash but it's not really opening either. Steam just says that it's running.
Tried with proton 7 and 6.
I did another Goldberg copy running a different game on proton and again, steam just shows it running but it's not actually launching.
Tried that (without the quotes obviously) didn't run.
I'm also getting the same issue with eyes in the dark as well. Again, both downloaded from skidrowreloaded, both working on windows.
I'm booting them both from desktop mode.
I think your last options are trying Lutris, doing what
suggests or just buying the legit copy, since apparently that one works
Reservation list is still a better option than whatever the frick graphics cards did. I still don't have a 30xx series/amd equivalent graphics card because I refuse to pay above MSRP
>I think your last options are trying Lutris
Well frick. I was really hoping I didn't have to and that proton would just work.
Feels like cheap plastic. Still, running Factorio and Valheim on the go os pretty nice
Is the bottom part sinking? And is it supposed to do that?
What am I looking at?
You dropped it didn't you?
Mine's not that bad, I can't push it down like that but the screen sounds squeaky. It's kind of distracting but not enough to warrant a return
Everything
>crimzon clover
Opened the thread just to say based choice.
Is the mag glass anti glare thing worth it? How is the 512gb model anti glare?
Nope.
Friend has the 512gb and I got the 64 with a 512 replacement SSD, they look very similar.
You can also buy matte glass screen protector and then it looks the same.
The only reason to buy the 512gb is if you have tinkering anxiety or you really want to support gaben.
I'd rather have a glossy screen and then put on whatever kind of screen protector I want, rather than having an etched screen that remains etched no matter what.
When is the dock coming???? I went on vacation recently and really wished i had one, could have skipped bringing my laptop for mario party with bros.
Probably after q4
You can buy something else that's compatible with USB-C and DP alt mode for video, the output isn't something special or proprietary.
Are there any confirmed to work with deck? I'm mostly worried about buying something that just doesn't work
I'm using a Dell WD19 and it works, though it needed a firmware update or the USB 2.0 functionality was very unreliable.
$250 and looks fricking MASSIVE what the frick. Why is it so large and why so expensive? I was looking at a $60 one and thinking i might be getting ripped off
It's a professional "enterprise" dock. I found mine on the local equivalent of Craigslist for about $100 new in box. I'm happy with paying that much since it has all the ports I could possibly need and supports dual monitors at 4k 60, but yes if you cannot find it cheaper than full retail price I wouldn't suggest it, but it does work. It's the sort of device meant to be left permanently installed at a desk with all peripherals connected to it and then having only 1 cable to connect to a laptop.
Per-game profiles work for non-Steam games, so I assume it should be fine.
I see, makes sense thanks anon. I'm gonna look for something similar but smaller, my use case it for trips and maybe rarely my home tv for basically mario party only really
Anything with support for USB, DP alt mode video and USB-C PD at 45W (15V 3A IIRC) should work in theory, though literally anything and everything with USB-C seems to be highly unreliable and finicky in my experience so frick knows if whatever you buy with the right shit on the label will actually work.
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Multi-Port-Type-C-Delivery-HB-TC5P/dp/B08V3PHKR8/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?tag=ganker-20&crid=1OLFCRUX0B9PU&keywords=Sabrent+USB+Hub+4k+hdmi&qid=1658078270&sprefix=sabrent+usb+hub+4k+hdmi%2Caps%2C312&sr=8-3
This video says this $20 one works fine but I haven't tested myself yet, waiting on shipping now
I just farted
underrated pots
The steamdeck leddit is full of morons.
I've never seen a place full of motherfrickers who can't follow simple instructions or do a google search.
Its full of shit tier memes and the jannies stick their thumbs up their asses and do nothing about it.
>Out for Delivery
frick frick frick frick frick
In the meantime I'm playing Returnal, but I'm going to install Rise/Sunbreak the second the Deck gets here
>the second the Deck gets here
it wont.
How much of a pain in the ass is setting up RPCS3? I saw a video of someone running Demon's Souls at 60fps on the deck adn I would like to do the same.
Just get emudeck and it installs any emulator you want. Extremely easy.
I'm trying to solve the issue of why I'm getting stuttering on dragons crown. Yet other videos are running it flawlessly
I heard somewhere that AppImage runs better than Flatpak. Not sure if it applies to just Yuzu (because pineappleea) or RPCS3 too
There's no actual performance difference between all the formats once the application has loaded up, it all comes down to compile options.
Flatpak is slightly faster in startup time (largely due to less sandboxing)
Correction, AppImage is slightly faster
Sorry, my bad. I'm tired.
I've been out of the emulation scene for newer systems for a bit. Will I still need to hunt down a BIOS or does that come prepackaged now?
You'll still need to hunt it down, at least for the PS1, PS2 and original XBox. The others I can't speak to.
Yeah gotta get the bios. Those are easy
Does Sonic Generations run okay on the Deck these days? I want to play a bunch of Sonic games when I finally get mine but heard several months ago that Generations didn't run well.
IT JUST SHOWED UP BOYS
..............................
The part that gets me is there's no dent, deformation or other indicator of stress in the carrying case that would imply it was actually damaged in shipping.
Look at the top left part, there's a huge bend in the plastic.
Post pics and timestamp
Hopefully seeing the time in the corner of the screen will suffice
I'm in a completely different timezone friend. But looks good looks good
Sup, fellow ESTbro. Enjoy your deck.
how do i disable Zcull in RPCS3 on the steam deck? the 'open config folder' option from the drop-down menu doesn't actually do anything and i'm not sure where to locate these files that emudeck has created.
anyone? apparently pretty important for skate 3 but game seems alright without
Launch rpcs3 via desktop mode to edit settings properly
yea i launched it via desktop and the folder still doesn't pop up
"disable zcull" is a config file only option, cannot be accessed with GUI
Can't buy with one without paying scalpers, what are some comparative gaming laptops for around $600-$700? All the ones I see israelite you on the ram
So hows the screen quality on these things? Obviously I'm not expecting it to look amazing since its not oled but are the black levels at least decent? Do the black bars during 16:9 games look like shit?
Im still on the fence on whether i should keep my preorder or let it go when i finally get my email.
The black levels are average for an LCD, which is to say they're backlit and not anywhere as nice as blacks on an OLED. The display only covers 70% of the sRGB gamut on average with some variance between units. I can't tell the difference, personally, but I'm sure someone who works in the print industry or a graphic designer would.
What did they mean by this?
>gabe fricking lied
steamies....................................................................................................................................
Did i frick up by getting the anti glare version?
Couldn't say... never seen the one without... I did the same.
If you're ever worried about it you can just buy the normal screen from iFixit and put it in.
But what exactly is the issue with it vs regular screens?
You need to use the special cloth to clean it.
AND THE SPECIAL CLOTH ONLY.
>educating anons on how to properly take care of their 512
>not letting them be absolute fricking morons and posting about how mucked up it is within a week
NGMI
Anyone gotten old GTA games to work with ASI loader? San Andreas just crashes when starting games
Bye bye Delta fan.
I wanted to buy one too but the frickers at ifixit won't ship to Europe.
I missed the window
One more year bros
If you narrowly missed the purchase window, you can still contact steam support. Supposedly you can still get it
They couldn't have put a frickin google chrome sidescroller minigame type thing on this for while the updates are downloading?
I've been playing mostly emulated games since I got mine, also helps that I've traveled around with it just to use it before going to bed.
Anyone try N64 emulation? Id be down to play DK64
It's about the same as you would expect on PC
I've been replaying old stuff on mine, only new thing I've been playing at the moment is Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Quake modern remaster works great, Quake 2 works but works better using the Yamagi native Linux port (I've not tried Quake 2 RTX because that's gross). GZDoom works but gets random freezes of 3-4 seconds sometimes, which is weird as it is also native Linux program.
I enjoy using the trackpad as a weapon quick-select for FPS games. It's not quite as good as a keyboard for Doom Eternal style quick swapping, but it works decently.
Haven't tried gzdoom directly but I did try Hedon which I'm pretty sure runs on gzdoom, that worked perfectly well after fricking about with getting the controls right.
It's been stuck at 1 second remaining for like 20 minutes now. Great start!
Try again but connect to a 2.4ghz wifi instead of 5ghz. Crazy but worked for me same issue
laptop > steam deck
Oranges > apples
switch > steam deck
shitting in a urinal > toilet
As someone who has had a gaming laptop I would never buy another. This is at least portable and does what I want.
I get mine Wednesday.
Mega Man X Dive, a fricking phone game.
Got mine Friday haven't been on Ganker since. How can I find out if mine is the x4 version?
So far I have installed P4G, bloodstained, bully, intravenous, katana zero, Mark of the ninja, olliolli and slay the spire.
I want to put some Elden Ring or Death Stranding but my net sucks and having it on and plugged in forever ses like it would be bad for the battery.
open command prompt
lspci -s 01:00 -vv |grep 'controller|Width'
if width = 4x you won the lottery
2x = loss
what are the thermals like on the Steam Deck? Any chance for it to overheat and turn off in the summer if you use the wrong settings?
It gets up to like 85C but never thermal throttles, the fan just ramps up.
Hasn't overheated on me or come even remotely close to it no matter what I've played, tested Metal Gear Rising (and chopped up a lot of stuff), Sonic Generations and Dark Souls 3. About to test DMC5 and Black Mesa.
Not from my experience. The fan can get pretty loud if you're playing something really demanding, but heat wise it seems totally fine.
Hi! I'm trying to get emulation set up on the Deck, but I was wondering what's the best place to get ROMs, ISOs, NSPs, and CIA files so that I can actually get some games? Thanks!
Vimm's lair for older smaller shit
can confirm these settings are good
https://greatondeck.net/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker-hd-on-steam-deck/
https://greatondeck.net/bayonetta-2-on-steam-deck-cemu-emulator/
archive.org
Wow Ys Seven looks beautiful on here!
Seems like you need to switch to an earlier proton version
https://www.protondb.com/app/587100
Thanks bro
Max Soul
Kek
i simply own both
So this is what all the Deckletts are boasting about?!
Same poster, same time of day. Runs at full speed with proper config, you are just being disingenuous. Also switch games fricking suck.
>I-I don't wanna play it anyway! N-nintendo games suck!
Kek
As someone who has a hacked, no games switch, yes. I have zero desire to even touch it and its shit tier library. I can often find more interesting indie games on the regular.
The only shitch game I ever planned to play was Bayo 3, but after that latest trailer I'm not even going to bother.
Just emulate it then. It will work on a shit tier PC.
Kek, a Switch gay calling others normies while playing a normie tier library of shit gameplay.
No I mean I'm not even going to bother emulating it anymore. It just looks bad.
>normie tier library of shit gameplay.
Kek. Least my switch can run it properly.
the shitch can't even run most of its own games without dipping below 30 at 540p.
I mean, thats still better than 10fps on your Decklett.
It's not since we can run far more advanced games at 60fps. We literally have tens of thousands of games to choose from while you only have the trash released for shitch.
>We literally have tens of thousands of games to choose from
That's why every deck thread is always full of deckletts obsessed with getting Switch games to work? Ok, whatever lets you sleep tonight I guess.
We do that to make tendies seethe because it's funny, and look it's working on you right now.
the switch games run full speed? it's just a matter of tweaking to get them running even more efficient. you know, entirely optional steps that pc gamers take
>indie games
Ok normie
>tendie calling anyone else a normalgay
>also used "normie" like a true normalgay
alcoholics anonymous invented "normies" to refer to people that weren't drunks
anonymous invented "normalgays" to be normies, but edgier
Stop embarrassing yourself, normie
shut the FRICK up normalgay.
>Running on windows
The cope
That's KDE, mate
Mind posting the config? I don't particularly care for Mario games, but might come in handy once Xenoblade 3 releases
Deckbros we just got bings wahoo'd how will we ever recover
I feel bad for the kids on Ganker who were trying to buy one purely because "muh switch emulation".
If they're big enough dipshits to order a $400 (minimum) machine to emulate a $300 console and nothing but, they deserve all the agony they receive.
That's also true. Lessons to be learned I suppose.
No need when the Switch has no games.
That's a bit disingenuous. It's more honest to just say you don't like nintendo games or feel they're too child-oriented, but they have plenty of exclusives.
Not really, it has no games. Exclusives doesnt mean they are worth playing.
If anyone bought it purely for switch emulation that'd be moronic, but nobody does that. Kirby will likely be perfectly playable by the end of the year anyway.
>Kirby will likely be perfectly playable by the end of the year anyway.
Deck shill literally can't help himself from creating more lies
I truly pity you.
That feeling is envy, get used to it.
Why would I envy what I already have? Fanboyism is a disease.
Look, As a believer in what the deck can become, I'm going to ask you really nicely to delete your post.
They system does have faults, I'm not denying that, but it has the potential to really built up steam and become something great if given the chance and sales. Webms like this are only going to put potential buyers off and ultimately cause the system to fail.
PSVita is a great comparison. It was a superb system at the time but because it didn't sell well it had no time to flourish.
So I'm asking you as a video game enjoyer. Please stop posting webms like this
Deckletts can't be this desperate... right, bros?
decklet here, can confirm we is
>Deckletts struggling to run the Nintendo games they were calling glorified ps2 games
Ouch
Loaded up Meral Gear Rising
On the default control scheme everything works except L5 which is the binding for Blade Mode
I can't figure out why it does detect that being pressed because it works in other games
*doesn't detect I mean
>Steam shilling literal troony and "NB" games on the front page
Thanks Gabe for rounding up all the homosexuals and putting them in one spot so I can blacklist and ignore them in one fell swoop.
How hard is it to get pirated games and non steam H games running on this?
I pre ordered last year and I feel like I'll be getting the email soon but I am still on the fence
If you're on the fence then you realistically don't really want one. Let it go to someone who does.
Just run the exe through proton. It works for nearly everything.
new thread
wait for real thread, this is reddit bait
it's the real thread anon, sorry.
it is not, wait for non-reddit thread
It is, I'm sorry anon.
real thread incoming
= reddit
That's the real thread, sorry anon.