Thoughts on the Steam Deck?
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the what
Ahhahahahahhahahaha! Imagine the cope someone has to go through to think this is comparable.
Still waiting for my email, says after Q3.
I really hope you saved that from Ganker and didn't actually waste money on that shit lmao
this shit looks like it has awful ergonomics
Looks like shit. Try again, Chink.
These look really uncomfortable.
it not
very comfortable
>it not very comfortable
i know
yes
also good for business call
My god, I think I first saw this image months ago. You have to admire the dedication...or be fearful for his/her mental health.
I fricking love it. My only issue was the battery, but this 65W with a long cord makes that a non-issue. It charges this thing ridiculously fast. So if I play it several times during work breaks, I don't need it. If I play for longer sessions during lunch, I plug it in while I'm waiting for my next work break or whatever. Or if I'm doing a much longer session, the battery can run it WHILE charging it for the next day.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THFDRSZ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Currently playing Undertale, South Park SoT, and Broken Sword 5. I'm shocked this thing is running Stalker Clear Skies just fine. The gyro is taking me a lot of getting used to, but it's still fun trying.
One of the best gaming purchases I've ever made.
Looks awesome! How much does it cost compared to the steam deck?
Imagine shilling chink handhelds and you choose the one with the worst ergonomics to shill.
It's also expensive as frick AND worse than the deck.
These actually look cool but I can't imagine it being used for more than a novelty.
Obsessed
this is gonna be a fun device once the hinge loosens up and the screen can't stay up properly
i want one just because i'd rather lay down and play some of my games in bed than stay sitting all day
It's trash. Terrible battery life, can't conceal it, horrible for games where mouse precision is important, 60hz, etc.
>b-but i-it's better than the Switch!
So?
>it's trash
you're trash
>terrible battery life
compared to what? I have no issues with it
>cant conceal it
cant conceal you either
>horrible for games where mouse precision is important
dont play those games on this device
>60hz
good
>switch
you're the only one talking about the switch
>a few hours of battery life, 60hz, not being suited for the best PC games, and it being a huge handheld are good things!
Giga cope
cope? why would I have to cope with owning the newest game console lol
sounds like you're trying to cope without it
>it's new therefore it's good!
Ok moron, I accept your concession considering you didn't even try to refute anything I said.
you didn't say anything dumbo, you just said "giga cope". I'm the one who said things. I'm also the one who has things. You're the one who doesn't. Cope.
get a job
NTA, but anything under competitive play and this thing handles games fine. What sticks and trackpads cant accomplish, gyro makes up for really well. As far as input devices go, this goes pretty far to close the gap between kbm and controller.
As far as battery life and size goes, it's about on par with a gaming laptop for longevity and the size being a problem is entirely an opinion. If it's too big for you, don't buy it.
You guys are admitting it's a gimped PC that you can hold, with short battery life, and you think it's worthwhile, lol.
you are saying nothing still
there is nothing that competes with the Steam Deck currently.
Oh, so it's just for poorgays who don't have a decent PC, lol. So it's pretty much useless for anyone who actually cares about PC gaming and it might as well just be considered a console.
>just for higher class individuals who can afford a PC and a deck, not people like me with a limited budget
see? Not giving you a nickel for your drivel unfortunately.
performance doesn't make a console, being a locked down DRM box does
anyone with a brain shits on consoles for this reason, not for muh grafics
? I own a Steam Deck and a much more powerful PC than your own.
Cool. I'll upgrade my equipment later instead of downgrading and wasting my time with a Deck.
I guess you're in a position where you can only have one. I'm not, so I got both.
My point is that I don't want one. It's literally just a low-spec PC with poor battery life
>please save up some cash so you can get a Deck later!
No, frick you.
Nobody is telling you to do anything, you're making that up lol.
Special kind of mental illness to enter a Deck thread and scream over and over about how you don't want one.
No. All of the arguments for the Deck consist of:
>dude, just buy another (worse) PC lel! What are you poor!?
This is just blatant shilling when the entire argument is just
>dude, just give Valve your money otherwise you're poor
Yeah, nice device you got there homosexuals.
This thread just porves that there's blatant shilling and fanboyism.
Still not giving any counter points to what you're replying to, and still posting in a thread about something you supposedly don't care about and don't want.
Sour grapes.
Nope. I already refuted everything. The Deck is demonstrably just a low-spec with a Valve stamp. Your cope and/or shilling won't change this fact
You've refuted nothing. You're trying really hard tho.
Nope. My PC specs are superior to the Deck so there's 0 reason for me to buy one. Your cope and/or shilling won't change this.
Some of us have a need for more than one device. I'm not sure you understand that.
Cool, how about a good PC and something that can fit in your pocket that lasts for more than 2 hours?
>heh, I bet you're jealous of this giant gimped PC
No, I'm really not. Valve dick-riders are just embarrassing.
so wait, are you advocating for good graphics or small form factors and long battery life?
because you can't have both, and a device that's like the latter will be 10x as "gimped" as a deck
how about a capsule that i can throw on the ground that turns into a beautiful lady whom i can frick and then turn back into a capsule?
asking for random cool shit that isn't possible (yet) does not make the deck bad.
why do you think anyone here wants (You) specifically to buy one?
do you have brain damage?
>tell them it's just a gimped PC
>HUUUUR, WHAT ARE YOU POOR!? IF YOU WEREN'T POOR YOU'D HAVE ONE TOO!
have a nice day.
At that point you can just have a laptop; something with a superior screen and typing.
what is a gimped PC? Every PC is gimped in the hands of moronic users
I own a gaming laptop that I got for free
I'd switch it for a deck in a heartbeat
Let's see you bring your PC on a 16 hour plane ride with you
>My PC specs are superior to the Deck so there's 0 reason for me to buy one.
Wtf does your PC have to do with wether or not you would buy a deck.
The deck is a handheld that can run pc games, not a desktop pc replacement.
If you want a handheld, it's pretty much the best choice on the market right now.
If you don't want a handheld, then what are you even doing in this thread?
There's no point to it when you already have a decent PC. It's just a low-spec PC with terrible battery life. The Game Gear is portable too but that doesn't mean it's actually well suited for it--and guess what: the Deck isn't either because it only gets 2 hours of fricking battery life unless you're playing easy to run games . . . in which case you might as well just emulate on something that actually fits in your pocket.
You don't have one so you don't know what it's like.
There's no point to you where there's 9001 other contrarians just like you on this board (with better chins probably).
>it's good because . . . it just is, okay!?
Nice argument moronic shill.
I commonly hear 2 hours and it says on the Deck page from Valve too.
>it only gets 2 hours of fricking battery life
you keep saying this but its demonstrably not true
then don't
no one is forcing you to
though having so much vitriol for a product you don't even plan on buying and have no interest in seems absurd
I have a good PC.
I just wanna play games in bed and around the house as well.
For 400 bucks, yeah definitely. Find an equivalent that matches its performance.
>that you can hold
why so big mad? you can get one as well you know that right?
Anon, this is an adult website. As an adult, you don't get to have 3 hours long gaming sessions anymore. You may now leave for reddit
>he doesn't wfh and play games all day
ngmi
>Deck-tards are people who don't even play games
Checks out.
>anti-steam deck shitposters are children with no responsibilities
Checks out.
You admit you spend your little free time to defend the Deck online kek
>can't conceal it
are you robbing a bank with it?
No moron, it's about Black folk stealing your shit, if you left your house to work you might have to deal with that shit. Jealous though if you're a NEET that doesn't
Do you expect it to fit into your pocket? Past a certain size threshold, you need to store a handheld in a carriable bag
Just live in a place without Black folk
Do you not have a backpack or briefcase? I put my switch in my backpack and use it in my car at lunch and put it back in there when I'm done.
Do you think anyone wants to be seen in public holding this thing?
Outside of the third world we don't need to fear being robbed. I use my deck on the train all the time and the only person who seemed to care was an envious looking kid who looked bored with his switch.
Not even making that shit up.
I took it with me to a coffee shop to show it to some friends.
The waiter spotted it and recognized it from a mile away and came over to ask questions about it.
Switchlets seething i see
I don't own one you moron and I don't want one.
>JUST GIVE VALVE YOUR MONEY ALREADY! WHAT ARE YOU, POOR!? YOU DON'T WANT A GIMPED PC WHEN YOU ALREADY HAVE A DECENT PC!?
Frick off moronic shill
It's still just a gimped PC with poor battery life.
how is it gimped?
do you know what gimped means?
Playing on a high refresh rate hz monitor with mouse and keyboard + any controller, on a PC with a decent graphics card and CPU, is much superior to playing on a deck.
>b-but I can carry it wherever I want for 2 hours!
It's really just pathetic.
>b-but it's cheaper!
I don't care. It's still a subpar experience.
you can do all that on the deck, moron
it's just a mid range PC, nothing stops you from hooking a high refresh rate monitor, a keyboard, a mouse and a controller to it
>but I already have a NASA processor and twin 3090s
that's very good, you should pay for a crash course on basic economics to understand why entry level products and luxury ones can and must coexist
Ok, thanks for confirming to me that the Deck is just for poorgays and Valve dick-riders because it's just a low-spec PC with a Valve stamp that you have to wait forever to even get lel.
you quite literally cannot get a better device for their asking price, not even a desktop, hence it being backordered for months
what exactly do you get out of this?
OP asked what I thought of it and I told him what it is: low-spec PC for a Valve dick-riders. Valve dick-riders got offended as usual.
>low-spec
if you think the deck is low spec, you don't know low spec
Same guy, another day of you spewing bullshit. moronic Shitch poorgay.
See:
It being better than the Switch doesn't mean it's not trash.
>Starts shitting his pants in response to being told they are seething
HAHAHAHAHA you switchkeks live on some other planet I swear
Switchlets imply they don't have a switch. The right term would be Switchgays or Decklets etc...
>Decklets
Heh
>horrible for games where mouse precision is important
Compared to what? A Handheld with no touch pads?
Quit it already, the fight is over.
You lost.
seems cool to me but I'm poor
I'll let you know next week when I get mine.
>After Q3
It's pretty great for what it is.
I'll be pretty happy if future revisions make it lighter, improve battery life and improve the screen, though.
Just got mine two days ago, it has been really nice. The one thing I don't like about it is that I can't install packages or update through pacman. Finding out I couldn't access the AUR without a deck update wiping my filesystem clean was annoying and I'm looking for workarounds, but other than that this deck has exceeded my expectations.
I think there's an AUR now that will let you install a pure Arch environment while still getting the full Deck setup.
Its a bit of a pain, but I think the SilverBlue style immutable root partition was the way to go for this kind of mainstream targeted device.
what's the AUR package called?
This fricking pic had me almost in tears when I realized the joke
I guess at least this guy hasn't castrated yet.
I'm a linuxgay, reserved on the first day and have had it for 2 months now.
Every day I find new and exciting bugs with the OS. It's not as heavy as I expected, but it can hurt my wrists in some positions, when held for too long. More of an indication that I need to lift weights probably.
Overall 6/5, I need to order a second one to tide me over if the first one breaks.
It makes nintrannies absolutely seethe.
>battery life is bad
since it's x86_64 the only way to fix this would be to ship it with a frick huge battery, which would make the price, size and weight of the damn thing skyrocket, and that's only if they are even able to ship it out since you can't even load batteries over a certain capacity in a normal cargo plane
The battery life being short has literally nothing to do with the CPU's ISA, dunning kruger brainlet.
current chips of that architecture consume way more power than, say, an ARM equivalent by design
They literally do not, you dunning kruger brainlet. There is no 15w~ ARM chip on the market which can compete with Van Gogh. Apple's M1 SoCs are on a more advanced EUV node and they still pull over 25w under load to deliver their spotty performance.
you are a midwit and don't know what the frick you're talking about. Sit the frick down.
It'll burn through power pretty quickly if you just fire up games, but once you've dialed in settings its not that hard to get it to run for 3+ hours. I fully expect Valve to add a feature for community game power profiles like there is for the controller profiles.
It's pretty great. Software could use more work, both in terms of features and in terms of stability, but the device itself is amazing.
Battery life is fine, you get 7-8h+ in light games which is on par with or better than other devices in this category and it only drains quickly when running software that other similar devices either cannot run at all or do run, but get even worse battery life.
Great Switch replacement.
>The Great Switch replacement theory
You white supremacists really need to stop
I wish people would just post pictures of what they're playing, things they're messing around with, and stuff like that.
We really don't need more console wars/fanboy shit. If you need a video game system to cheer for and identify with then please just realize how pathetic you are. The polite thing to do would be not to not bother regular people with your screeching and "hot takes".
I would but
posted in the other thread
playing a.i: the somnium files
also death stranding & neon white w/community gyro presets
Somnium Files works good I take it? I mean, apparently it works, but no dumb issues or anything?
I bought it back when it launched on switch but I started getting a really bad stutter as the game progressed.
I bought it on PC awhile ago, but I've yet to play it since I have to start from the beginning and I'm backed up on games. I really hope it works well on Steam Deck because that's how I would prefer to get back in to the series.
yea works great, really nice mapping a mouse to the left joypad. can very quickly inspect rooms compared to joystick.
(this is the first game however, no clue about the second)
i'd recommend turning on FSR since the default resolution is lower than the SD's native, really helps smooth out the text.
also will want to bind the magnifying glass toggle to L5/R5 or something if you are trying to read text in the table of contents or whatever.
Nice, thanks! But yeah, for games that don't require much power a lot of times I actually run them at 1440p. For Sakuna Rice Farming Game (or whatever the name is) for example it looks waaay better. Sometimes I have to turn the shadows down or something but the benefits almost always outweigh the cons, since you get such a wonderfully clean looking image.
I never actually did think about napping the magnifying glass before though. That's a really good idea. I'm going to have to start doing that.
are those hentai visual novels? i really dont get why poeple like them is it just because they are lewd? im not instulting you or anything i just really want to know why poeple like them.
the ones with the breasts as icons are the omega labyrinth games (mystery dungeons) if thats what you mean
actually i think about 95% of those games in that image are actual games, dungeon crawlers or whatever
This.
On the other hand, it's pretty hard to avoid arguing since Steam Deck can turn into a pile of dog shit in wrong hands.
Just imagine the ammount of people who won't like Steam Deck
>anyone who think this is a Switch replacement
>anyone who wants to play AAA game on high settings
>anyone who doesn't like to mess around setting up stuff properly
There's probably more but I'm too tired to think
Yeah, it doesn't help that these stupid content creators have been using clickbait titles like: "Switch Killer?!!!" for tons of videos.
I definitely don't see me using my switch as much anymore now that I have it, but it's pretty clear that each suit different crowds much better than the other. I just wish people didn't always need to pour fuel on all the moronation and encourage it.
Summer Pockets. Being summer here in the US I figured it was as good a time as ever to play it. I was also hoping that it will encourage me to get out and do more this summer. It's been really heartwarming and fun so far.
Thank you
What game?
Here you go.
I got the capcom bundle and decided to try the dmc series from the beginning.
I understand know that I may have picked the wrong beginning.
I've been testing my game on it and playing Yakuza Kiwami 2
Wow, nice! I kind of want to get my handhelds together and take a cool picture like this. Sadly, I sold quite a few of mine that are way too expensive now to get back. Handheld gaming is awesome though.
Yakuza is awesome. Hope you enjoy!
Strangely enough I've mostly just played Summer Pockets, Supipara, and Root Double. Switching depending on what mood I'm in.
I only had the Steam Deck for a couple weeks now so a lot of my time was setting things up, testing, and getting acquainted with everything, but I'm now at the point where I should just pick a big, regular game and put my time into that. There's just so much stuff I want to play that I'm kinda undecided...
I might just make it Rune Factory 5 when it launches next week. I've been waiting to play it ever since it released on Switch, but I figured I was better off waiting due to performance. I really hope that the PC port turns out to be good.
is yakuza on it good? i just bought them all and im waiting to play it on my deck.
yeah it runs great
Also cloud saves between my pc and the deck makes it act very similar to a switch. I hope in the future games account for different consoles and auto-load settings based on where you're playing.
REALLY!!? i cant wait for my deck dude i feel like a child getting my N64 for christmas
Played 50 hours of 0 on it so far and it runs well with the standard config.
Only problem i ran into was when dude's hair didn't load properly with the game crashing shortly after the cutscene. Verifying local files downloaded like 6mb of stuff and fixed it so no idea if that's a deck problem or just steam.
Sagawa blanco......
a curious kind of feel
F-Zero GX runs well, might need to turn down internal resolution and turn on a hack to make it totally smooth though.
As expected, Sand Ocean runs like shit just like every device that tries it, including my main PC.
Got Sand Ocean working great! Had to enable Skipping EFB Access from CPU in Dolphin. It no longer renders the mirage-like effect on this track but for the performance boost its a small price to pay.
i'm struggling to run la mulana freeware on it 🙁
Been playing Dohna Dohna on it. Works great, as long as you get the english version (F95Zone has it). Japanese locales sadly aren't supported.
Nice, thankfully, it seems pretty great with VN compatibility, but I've yet to figure out the Japanese locale thing either. I have so many games I want to play and need to finish that I figured I would just put that off and cross that bridge later when there's something I'm really itching to play that requires it.
Here's a video I found where this guy runs some other comparable games. In case anyone is interested.
>I've yet to figure out the Japanese locale thing either
You're not going to figure it out. Valve basically ripped the ja_JP locales out. You need to actually reinstall glibc and regenerate them.
Wait what? Then how can you use different languages inside the SteamOS interface without using glibc and iconv? Are they using a different library? That seems insane to me it's not part of the base OS image.
Been playing Evenicle on it. Best thing for in bed gaming
>Been playing Evenicle on it. Best thing for in bed gaming
I bet. There's a lot of visual novels with gameplay like that that I'm looking forward to finally getting around to now that I have a Steam Deck.
I really just enjoy the feeling of handhelds give for things like VNs and JRPGS. It's basically the kind of cozy feeling you get curling up with a good book or something.
Now that I have this my gaming time is gonna go way up.
Almost finished AC: Unity (holy shit this game drags ooooon). Also playing Farm Together with my GF and the original Doom. Previously finished New Vegas, Call of juarez gunslinger and Elden Ring on it. Think Max Payne is next.
I've mostly been playing Tunic on mine the past few days, though this in particular also sounds fun.
i want to pet your cat.
All this stupid console war back and forth is giving me Game Gear and PS Vita flashbacks.
>i want to pet your cat.
Thanks, he's my best friend and always deserves more pets
>what game?
Summer Pockets. It's a Key VN, so it's more heartwarming/fun times/reading than lewd excitement.
what game?
Got mine a few days ago and it's fricking amazing most of the time. Really makes me hate myself for not picking up a Steam Controller when they were on clearance for basically free because if those trackpads were anything like the ones on the Deck, I think I would have been in love with it. Only real downsides are it being fricking massive and piss poor battery life if you're playing anything more demanding than indie games (in which case, you probably already have and prefer the Switch), but I still absolutely love playing multiplats running at full force on a handheld. Will definitely get a ton of mileage out of it, even if I'll definitely always be packing a Switch if I'm going on a flight or a long bus ride.
just strap on a kickstand and a 450g battery pack and get your gains on brotherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>downsides are it being fricking massive and piss poor battery life if you're playing anything more demanding than indie games (in which case, you probably already have and prefer the Switch)
THIS. but(!)
I was basically one of those people you just described but it all changed when I found out it runs old AAA games perfectly and battery doesn't die too fast.
Playing Deus Ex: HR in bed is perfect
So dragon's dogma is marked as unsupported by the deck verification and so far going through tutorial + character creator it plays just fine. Is the deck verification thing busted for other titles or did proton or whatever get update since then to fix it?
The buttons and stick on the steam controller are way worse than the deck but yea the track pads are great; huge for playing KB&M games with a controller.
How much extra battery life do you get out of doing this?
Not sure but it's the same for Sleeping Dogs
>How much extra battery life
not sure on conversions but it feels like one full steam deck's worth of battery
it might be half though
steamdecks battery is 40Wh, battery pack is 20mAh
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THCNNCS
either way, i can charge it to full using the steamdeck's charging cable in 50 minutes. it keeps the deck topped off the entire time so the only thing you need to charge is the battery pack itself, meaning i can have practically 100% uptime even in games like death stranding
You mean 20000 mAh or 20 amps, its roughly an 80w battery
ah
“Deck verified” is extremely strict so there aren’t a bunch of people that find a single graphical glitch in 60 hours of gameplay and start whining on forums everywhere that valve lied and said it would work but look it’s literally unplayable reeee
To be fair on the flipside there's people on ProtonDB that are like
>"heavy graphical glitches at a particular section, need to install like 5 different dependencies, input 3 terminal commands, thumbs up, runs perfectly"
>3 terminal commands
heaven forbid
you jest but having to use the terminal without a real keyboard is pain
That's what SSH is for, my friend.
Look, I don't care personally, I run Endeavour on my desktop in a dual boot, and arch inside of a virtual machine on every windows PC I have.
But people coming straight off windows do care. It doesn't matter that it's the same way on Windows sometimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fICNiohuZME
they just see a terminal and go "oh no, I am not le haxorz I don't want to screw up my PC even though it's just copy and pasting commands"
I have 3 steam controllers and the trackpads were almost identical in terms of general feel. The plastic quality is a little cheap feeling but not flimsy by any stretch. If you think you’d like them you probably will.
I hope the next iteration of the steam controller has all the controls of the deck, because I gotta say, I am not really an fan of using the trackpads for aiming versus just using analog+gyro. I use it for menus, radials, mouse regions, etc and like it, but I still prefer analog for general aim.
Its a fair criticism. I loved the steam controller but the omission of a second analog was the single serious flaw. That said the gyro works extremely well.
It probably will. To be frank, the steam deck's "controller" is separated from the mainboard and modular. It even has its own firmware.
I'm going to mainly use it for emulation, playing occasional steam games on it is just a bonus.
Why won't it let me log in to epic games?
because epic doesn't offer an official linux client
try legendary
Been playing with it hooked up to my monitor the steam ui is broken with the mouse in dishonored 2. Honestly im shoked at the power. 1600x900 on low/med settings is enough for a nearly locked 60fps...this is a game that ran horribly at launch on a vega 56
id get one but the wait time is too long.
I want one
where do you guys go to see how long you have to wait?
Try this one
https://getmydeck.ingenhaag.dev/
Ah sweet.
>10.3% through
Neat
How the frick do I get it to connect to my PC hub thing? It says its a 96W hub so power shouldn’t be an issue.
It charges from it, but won’t connect to the keyboard, mouse or monitor at all.
Guys? If I get a steam deck, can I emulate bloodborne and demon's souls on it?
Maybe
So you can dab on sony and nintendo at the same time with a deck? This is the greatest thing that's ever happened to video games
demon's souls should fine run on rpcs3 if you don't max out the resolution
as for bloodborne, there isn't a ps4 emulator that's ready for that just yet, but that should change in the near future
i love how comfy my deck is in bed, lil bummed i missed out on some expensive tendie shit like smash and mario maker but i think the thing that makes me most excited is how the deck makes men outta tendies. they realize not everything has to be daddy/mommy corpo based and can instead forge ther own path like when i cracked this sucker open and crammed a 512ssd in it all by myself 🙂
dumb frogposter
Wish it had a 1080p display. It would be more future proofed, video content and *streamed* games would look a lot better, and native games would not have to run at that res, that's what FSR is for.
Hopefully if a Steam Deck 2 happens, it will be upgraded to 1080p and OLED, and without the bezels
Why would I even ever need a Steam Deck when I already have a gayman pc? I may as well just get as switch instead. At least it would be something different.
Got something better, thanks.
Similar performance to a Steam Deck while costing 2 or 3 times as much.
How is that better?
That's the old model... so half the performance (if it's the Ryzen version, less than half if it's the Intel one) for 2-3 times the price.
Deckbros, what are you playing and where are you playing it?
Streets of Rage, balcony
Mine is coming in on the 12th. Can't wait.
Looking at how much people in this thread are SEETHING that they don't have one, I REALLY can't wait.
>the deck has like 0.2 seconds of battery life
reminder not to enjoy the Deck for what it CAN do and not to confuse the Deck with a decent Switch emulation PC
>reminder not to enjoy
reminder to* enjoy
I'll still be able to emulate the only switch game I care about with pretty good performance, so fine by me.
I have both systems anyways.
there are better switch games than Sonic Mania, anon.
I've played just about all the ones I care about.
I mean desktop mode with a lot of apps open is going to lag it out yes
wtf did you have to do to your deck to make it run this terribly? I downloaded pre-cached shaders and this game runs at 60fps all the time.
I love mine. It's probably going to be my go-to device for emulation. The back buttons are awesome, and I feel like older games benefit from the lower resolution compared to my 1080p monitor.
Dolphin is currently borked on Deck though after the recent Flathub update. Nothing will start.
I don't have any because I can't buy one because Gabe and Valve are incompetent
I'm not buying one, but you should, because it gives Valve a reason to continue investing in Linux gaming.
Really has no reason to exist
>lacks the innovation and exclusives of Nintendo handhelds
>too big to be comfortable
>but not as powerful as a laptop anyway
>too big to be comfortable
of course it's bait, he's crying a laptop is a better value
show me a laptop $600 or under (knock ~$50-$70 off mentally for an additional controller, so really your budget is closer to $500) that performs the same as or better than the steam deck, with the same RAM amount, with the same or better battery life
show me that and i will show you a fricking wizard
>muh exclusives
Did you forget Switch users spent years begging for ports?
What exclusives? Its all trash.
What innovation lmao
>too big to be comfortable
handlet detected
Why havent i got my email yet
I'm enjoying it enough that I'm posting on Ganker less
I like mine.
I'm taking a break right now
Been playing a lot of Pac Mania
I am still waiting on my email which is due this month according to estimate calculators.
I'd be able to tell you if Valve ever sends me another unit. Been 18 days since I shipped them the broken one they sent me.
odds of me receiving a defective unit?
Very low. If you do get one, you can RMA it to Valve or repair the problem part yourself with an iFixit part.
what is RMA?
Return Merchandise Authorization. You'll ship it back to Valve and they fix or replace it.
can any non shill tell me how the elden ring on deck experience is?
better than switch
i dont have a switch. i have it on xsx tho
Runs 30 fps locked on medium, you can get the game up to 40 with some tricks but it's not stable, it'll drop like a rock back down to 30 or so if there's much going on.
2 hours battery life.
Like the majority of people, I don't even think about the steaming upper decker
there's a ton of porn and /misc/ threads on the catalogue, why don't you complain about those?
Just got the deck today and I love it
What's the best way to be able to share screenshots taken during gameplay without having to open file browser manually?
I'll let you know after Q3 of this year.
But piecing together what I've seen of stuff from youtube videos and such, it's an exciting prospect to have all the games I normally play on a handheld, and I know they all work because I only play 2 games with EAC that I don't mind giving up and I boycott games Denuvo DRM cold turkey so I shouldn't have trouble playing stuff in offline mode. I also really, really appreciate that it's showing people how like "linux gaming isn't as bad as everyone memes it as".
My main complaint, the #1 problem I have with steam deck, is the immutable file system. The battery? I'm a busy guy, I will not be playing longer than 2 hours before a charge anyway. But I want to use the AUR to download ani-cli on it, it's a fricking arch based OS, I should be able to use the arch user repository. If only there was a way to use git clone functions inside of a flatpak.
can the deck run the oot pc port?
It's a decompilation, so literally yes.
You can compile it for Linux, last I checked, no reason why you couldn't + add it to Steam as a game.
All open source projects can run on linux, so yes
Serious question because I'm trying to decide between a Switch and Deck for purely portable purposes
Is there anything on Switch that's actually worth playing that ISN'T a first party Nintendo title (Zelda, Fire Emblem, Mario, etc.)
Also is the deck screen gorilla glass or is it plastic like the switch
Plenty but a lot of it is also theoretically stuff you could bring along on the Steam Deck like indies. Some stuff is just not emulateable worth a pinch of shit like Breath of the Wild this is not actually a point, you'd be emulating it on CEMU instead for better performance or Hyrule Warriors DE, and online games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Smash, and Mario Party add a lot of longevity.
>gorilla glass
Don't know, actually haven't been able to find anything on the glass specs, just that it's tempered.
Literally the only thing nintendo has going for it is its first party games at this point. If you're comparing multiplats between the two it's a slaughter.
>right has been heavily optimized for the target hardware
>left is running an NVIDIA sponsored game on AMD hardware through a fricking translation layer
>still wins
they're not even in the same weight class and people comparing the two eat crayons
The Steam Deck is unironically ten times faster than the Switch, it's 1.5 "console generations" ahead in terms of pure hardware performance. It's like comparing a PS3 with a PS4 Pro.
Still haven't gotten the email even though my friend did. We ordered on the same day. Where is it, Gabe?
>We ordered on the same day.
How many hours apart?
Ill let you know when it gets here tomorrow, assuming FedEx doesn’t destroy it.
do 3rd party docks kill the deck?
No, Deck is a PC, it'll work with whatever powered USB-C hub you use.
No. The deck is standards compliant.
The reason third party docks (and chargers for that matter) kill the switch is that it's not compliant with the USB-C standard and has insufficient voltage protection.
>doom 2 is supported but ultimate doom is not
wat the frick
>not playing doom through one of the many sourceports
gzdoom, prboom, etc.
I noticed that a while ago, and yeah, I have no idea what's going on there. Maybe there's some difference between Bethesda's ports of the two games. On that note, as the others have implied, both games run natively on Linux since forever, and in fact the best way to play them on Windows is exactly the same as the best way to play them on Linux. Just install a source port. It's actually easier on Linux because you can just do
>game-data-packager --install doom
after downloading the game, or use Luxtorpeda. Steam Deck ratings only consider how a game will work "out of the box" — and, frankly, both of the "out of the box" options for classic Doom are just stupid.
>using Proton to run Bethesda's closed-source Windows-only censored port of a game that has had multiple open-source Linux-compatible engines capable of playing the uncensored game since forever
lol
>using Proton to run the Windows version of a DOS emulator which is also available on Linux
lmao
There's nothing Valve can do about it, of course, except maybe getting permission to distribute Boxtron or Luxtorpeda as official compatibility tools. It's Bethesda who desperately want to pretend Doom and Quake are Windows-exclusive games. Too bad for them, that cat doesn't go back in the bag.
a deck and a dick
we're missing a dock, a duke and a DAC
Reminder that Corsair's patent on controller paddles is completely fricking bogus and they have made zero effort to clamp down on other products that feature paddles like 8bitdo controllers which sell in the US
Xbox (Microsoft) is the only company that has paid Corsair's licensing fee for the patent they hold that they cannot actually prove they designed, or even that they came up with the idea first
Parent has been invalidated as of last September which is why they haven't gone after anyone else.
This tactic of Microsoft buying 'licenses' from companies who then immediately turn around and sue Microsoft's competition is one of their favorites.
Read up on SCO vs IBM if you haven't, its a real nightmare.
odds of nintendo's next console being more powerful than the deck?
To me it won't matter, they don't have the versatility of a PC. Nintendo's gonna charge me not just for the privilege of playing online but they're only going to have a handful of older games, meanwhile I can play nearly whatever the hell I want on a PC handheld
0
Nintendo does not give a frick what other consoles and companies are doing
Can the steam deck run emus
yes, look on youtube the emu name + steam deck, certain demanding ones will not run well fpor demanding games like RPCS3 and Xenia
it is a PC
>Can I do this on a linux desktop PC?
if the answer is yes, then yes you can do it
The Steam deck can run literally every game except bloodborne and fortnite
>fortnite
surely there's a way
If you install Windows it works but Fortnite has 3 anti cheats layered ontop of each other like condoms, it's never going to work on Linux.
>mfw game developers think they need a bunch of sophisticated anti cheat systems when all they need to do is rangeban russia, china, and india
how much linux do i need to know in order to be comfortable using the steam deck?
If you just play steam verified games. none.
If you want to play with emulators, or some less supported games, very little, most stuff are identical to windows.
Now if you want play a specific 1998 game, that only kinda works with a specific version of wine, or you want to mod a game with mods that use dll replacements, things might get a bit more complicated
Microsoft isn't directly competing with the Deck, they don't make any mobile or portable gaming hardware.
Do you mean Windows might lose market share because the Deck is a Linux device that might end up in too many homes?
Still doesn't make much sense because barely anyone is going to use their Deck as a desktop PC for productivity
MS has acted friendly toward the Deck, quality-testing things like Xbox Cloud for it
More games running on the Deck means more games running on desktop Linux. Any time Valve makes an improvement to Proton I can use it on my desktop computer running Linux. Microsoft doesn't like that, they want me to use their crap.
Microsoft is the reason most Steam Machines ended up shipping with Windows and not their (really bad, actually) SteamOS distro.
Microsoft know that the Deck is the thin edge of the wedge just like ChromeOS systems that have Steam available pre-installed to end their dominance in the desktop space.
They've watched as Linux based OSes have devoured their marketshare in every other segment over the last 20 years, and now they're going to be faced with the same decision again before the end of the decade.
Cut their losses and abandon yet another market to free OSes?
Attempt to completely lock down gaming to their closed platform subscription service?
Follow IBMs lead and completely exit the end user market?
In all likelyhood Microsoft will pull another EEE and make their own Linux distro.
They recently hired Lennart Pottering after he left red hat which is a frightening concept to me.
They can't do anything unless they replace most applications and libraries on the system. The GPL protects Linux from EEE.
>In all likelyhood Microsoft will pull another EEE and make their own Linux distro.
They actually already have. Its what's running most of their cloud infrastructure. When it comes to dollars earned Microsoft is increasingly a GNU/Linux company.
Their VMS clone has become basically a legacy product, and they really don't want to continue support for their legacy win32 compatibility layer.
That's the thing I'm not sure about, the reports about Valve's 2012 meeting with Microsoft and what happened afterwards are somewhat hazy and tinged by bias.
Microsoft's reps telling Gaben that the end of win32 was coming may not have been a threat, it may have just been a friendly heads up.
>They recently hired Lennart Pottering
I'm not really frightened by that. Microsoft is kind of where coders go to retire.
has anyone tried using it with steam remote play?
I did but my desktop is also on wifi and it kinda runs like ass.
Assuming it's on par with the Steam Link I have and actually wiring my PC to the router, should work fine
You may encounter some bugs or inconsistencies, but when it works, it works well.
>it’s still up
eh, more of a half chub
penisdeckbro is gone
Personally, I blame microsoft
How did you guys get Arkham Asylum to work? ProtonGE didn’t do the trick for me
>No physical media no buy.
I'm not going into the all digital future, I did read an article saying the system could do cartridge's like the switch, so i still might end up getting it.
I guess you could use SD cards as game cartridges if you really want.
Physical on PC has been dead for like a decade, bro
The deck isn't a PC though, it's in a completely different league.
>New information from Valve seems to indicate that the Steam Deck could offer more than simply reproducing a person's Steam library on the device, instead possibly offering support for cartridge-style gaming.
At least this way you don't have to store everything right on the deck it's self or like a 1tb card.
>The deck isn't a PC though
It is
>possibly offering support for cartridge-style gaming.
Read the rest of the article. They’re just talking about the SD card slot.
>The deck isn't a PC though
yes it is
Best I can do for you.
And, unless some publisher is feeling gimmicky, you need to make them yourself
I wish someone would make a battery pack that fits into the hole on the back on the case. That would be the ideal place for one because strapping it to the back of the deck would make it too heavy
https://www.ravpower.com/products/rp-pb203-30w-pd-portable-charger
i mean this one does but you are sacrificing on power delivery (30W) and capacity to do so. it can still functionally trickle in power as you play but i opted for the ravpower (baseus) 65W 20,000mAh pack instead
Well if you buy shitloads of high capacity microSD cards and also have a 1TB SSD you could have a whole lot of games in physical form, but that`s gonna be fricking expensive
I like mine, but I do kinda wish it was made with windows in mind..
can i play broodwar on it?
sure
Haven't tried it myself but probably yes
Anybody using an EA build of Yuzu?
Downloaded one of the builds shared here the other day and it's not letting me update it or open the yuzu folder from the file menu. Just keeps giving me errors.
How does the Switch emu run on it
excellent with EA yuzu app image (locked behind israelite paywall)
*cough* *cough* https://pineappleea.github.io/ *cough* *cough*
Depends on the game like with PC emulation. I've only tried playing three houses and it runs at the usual 30 fps, just requires more tinkering to get past some graphical issues. With the 60 fps mod, it can go to 60 fps for some battles, but drops down to 40 often, so 30 fps it is.
question for actual deck owners:
if i have a sd card with all my steam games
and i have an sd card with all my emulation games
do all the library shortcuts that were created with emudeck get fricked when you swap the card?
Just battened down and finally finished Alien Soldier on supereasy. It really is a nice game. (this is showing a screenshot)
it'll probably want you to format the thing, but it seems to probably just be ext4. it just creates a steamapps folder and a .vdf info file, which you probably can't make apart from just letting the thing format it.
it'd probably be easier to just duplicate the layout and restore it later.
True chad.
oh, i can't read
since it's linux and everything is a file, it shouldn't give you any issues. when it unplugs it just won't be able to find the associated files.
Has anyone else tried Impossible Creatures on theirs? It’s a long shot but im curious as to whether or not anyone else has been able to get past the infinite load screens when clicking on stuff.
How exactly do I put all my emulation programs on the deck? I heard about emudeck but how do I transfer what I already have on my computer (retroarch that's already perfectly working well) to the deck?
I'm gonna get it
is btrfs superior to ext4 performance wise as far as formats recognized by both windows and linux?
btrfs is mainly just nice for compression, but it is relatively unstable when compared to ext4
neither of those is supported natively by windows, also btrfs is unstable.
you'd just copy all the right files to a folder on your SD card, and then move them to the correct places in the steam deck retroarch install.
it's got a gold rating on protondb, looks like you just have to use version 5.0-10 or so. you can change the version you use for games individually. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1055
probably a permissions issue. the steam deck's main filesystem is readonly by default.
Any Q3bros gotten their email yet? I keep checking and it's never there
plenty of q3 bros have gottem emails. you need to use the leddit calculator to get a better idea of where you are in the queue. also they only send emails out on mondays and thursdays so you don't have to check as often.
Wasn't aware of the calculator, thanks. It's guessing the 25th, so not too bad of a wait if it's right
I get mine monday. Cya virgins
are programs like warpinator, syncthing, setting up ssh etc. the only way to transfer files from windows to linux?
what about formatting a thumbdrive to FAT32 or NTFS?
also, what sort of performance differences should i expect for switch emulation on games that are stored locally versus on the SD card?
(this is assuming you'd store the shader cache on the internal in both cases)
>what about formatting a thumbdrive to FAT32 or NTFS?
That works. You have to do some terminal stuff to get ntfs support though
nice, shame about the capacity limits but fine enough for most things
i couldn't get warpinator to work for some reason. scp and ssh worked just fine, though. not that hard, either.
Using a fast SD card reader is probably really the preferred and fastest way, but SSH justwerks. also, exfat is a thing.
considering there isn't a huge performance hit with native games, probably not much.
yeah, installing ntfs-3g probably is all. and disabling the readonly filesystem to be able to install it, which is more annoying.
>are programs like warpinator, syncthing, setting up ssh etc. the only way to transfer files from windows to linux?
No.
Before using Linux, I used Windows 7. When I decided to install Linux Mint, I wanted to dual boot, but didn't want to frick with resizing partitions or whatever, so I just left my Windows 7 drive alone and bought a second drive for Mint. When I boot into Mint, I can just open the file manager and mount my Windows drive. I've copied files back and forth. Nothing special.
I never use Windows 7 anymore, though, so I should really just confirm I've gotten all the important files off this thing and then wipe it.
Frick, I thought I was posting in another thread, thus I thought the context was PCs, not Deck. So you can ignore unless there's a way to plug a desktop hard drive into a Steam Deck as external storage. lol
I was intentionally being cheeky in implying that the correct way to transfer files is to have Windows not currently running though.
>running Windows
You can technically do that, but you might get slower speed or maybe breakage with them for some games, if you try to run them off there. I'd only use them to transfer them to local storage.
I haven't looked into it much but you may be able to mount the ext4 sd card on windows, as an alternative, with specialized tools.
I just use a python http server.
>what about formatting a thumbdrive to FAT32 or NTFS?
I would personally not want to deal with the read/write speeds on a thumbdrive.
yeah i'm definitely planning to get around to figuring out my network situation at some point
just want to transfer over some shit to set up emudeck and maybe play a switch game in the short term
well, if you know a few basic bash commands, running python through cygwin is definitely the easiest option to transfer files in my opinion, also pretty fast too
It takes 2 minutes to set up a shared network windows folder, and to just access it with SMB share in the Dolphin browser
i have wifi and my deck uses it
but my pc is hardwired to the router and i'm too fricking moronic to figure out how to portforward
You dont need a port, the only prereq is having a password on your local windows user account (or being logged into a microsoft account)
Enable SMB in windows, heres a streetshitter showing you how to do it
Find a folder you want to share from, right click, properties, sharing, click the Share button.
Click drop down box, find your account name
Select it and click ADD to add the user, and then click SHARE
Its now a network folder that can be accessed from any other device on the network with the name and password
Go to steamdeck desktop mode, open up dolphin file browser, click network, and then click Add Network Folder
Click Add Windows Drive
Name it whatever you want the folder to be called
Go to your windows PC and right click, properties on your shared folder, to back to Sharing folder and look at the Network Path
It will say something like
\mycomputersusernamesteamdeckshared
So server will be "mycomputerrsusername"
Folder will be "steamdeckshared"
Click enter, itll ask for your username and password
Give it the username and password you gave permissions to in the shared folder
WA LA
You are now connected to your windows PC folder through wifi in your desktop mode on the deck.
EZ
holy frick i think i'm getting somewhere
i've managed to share a folder and to have my deck see it in the network
the thing i'm hanging on is i don't know what i'm meant to be enterting for username or password
is that just the literal login info for when that user logs in on boot up?
Yes, the username and password to get into windows. Thats the name you authorized the folder to share to.
It HAS to have a password, so if you login to windows without a password, set one.
If you login to windows with a microsoft account, type in your email and your password for that.
holy frick thank youu aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
No, of course not. In fact I find it very strange that people are using those programs, I heard about Syncthing before but Warpinator I've only ever seen mentioned relating to the Deck. The most basic way to transfer files would indeed be to use some form of USB storage, a stick or an external SSD/HDD. If you have a home server or NAS providing a file share then you can also use that.
Or, you know, SSH. The deck comes with a ssh server. Just use sftp or scp to copy shit.
Yeah but if somebody doesn't know whether they can use USB storage on Linux they probably don't know about SSH or have an appropriate client for it on their (almost certainly) Windows PC.
Windows has a built-in SSH client nowadays, m8.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/ssh
Yeah, a command line client for somebody who doesn't know whether they can plug in USB drives into their Linux PC. I also specified "appropriate" client. They'd need something like WinSCP at the very least.
Currently messing with yuzu in hopes I can finally replace my switch, pokemon arceus runs fine in the hour or so I've played so far, but the real test will be BoTW2 if it ever releases.
Also if you don't already own GTAV on steam and want to buy it for the steam deck, don't. Its DRM just fricking refuses to work offline for me a lot of other people apparently. Just pirate it.
>Get microSD card
>Format it on the steamdeck from the KDE disks app as BTRFS (you have to go to the desktop mode), not ext4 as there aren't any native ext4 win drivers iirc
>Install WinBTRFS on your windows PC
Tada you now can use the same SD card on your PC and deck without messing with network stuff, and it'll work fine for games. You can't do NTFS without fricking with some terminal shit and even then proton is wonky with the NTFS drivers from what I've tried. FAT32 is also an option but the 4GB file limit will restrict what games you can play off the microSD by a lot.
what if you're only using the btrfs formatted micro sd as a vessel to transfer files to your internal? can there really be that much risk?
At that point, just grab a GNU/Linux live environment, boot your PC up with it, stick the SD card in, and use it to do your file transfer.
It'll work better.
The live environment will be able to mount and read your Windows disks as well as write to the SD Card.
ah sure, thanks
screen is abysmal. If it had the screen of a Switch OLED I'd have two already.
In what way? Just because it's LCD?
It's an LCD with 68% sRGB coverage and piss poor black levels. It's worse than my TN panel from 2017.
>sRGB
Nice meme metric
But if it helps you cope, have at it.
Valve pretty much said they made "too many" compromises to get it down to a low price point. If I were them I would release a Deck Pro in a year or so with better hardware (Zen 4, bigger battery, etc) and a better screen. It's not like console generations where the previous iteration is incompatible with the next-generation games, both devices will be able to play the same games in the future.
They’ve already said they’re looking into making a more expensive model, they weren’t expecting the most expensive one to also be the most popular
given the choice i buy the switch oled every time
Another Valve hardware failure, just like Steam Machines, Steam Controller and Steam Link.
>Steam Controller
Great controller, taken off the market due to bullshit patent. Patent was invalidated opening door to a new 'Neptune' controller.
>Steam Link
Cool device made obsolete by Smart TVs.
>Steam Machines
Weren't made by Valve, Microsoft used their patent license agreements with the OEMs who were making them to force them off the market.
This is why the Deck is first-party Valve hardware, and why it avoids every Microsoft patent possible.
I'm good. I don't need some Steam wannabe Nintendo Switch.
I'm getting mine delivered tomorrow 🙂
Reminder to transfer files via NFS instead of FTP. It's much faster and only works with Linux machines, which is fortunately what the steam deck is.
>nfs
real men use 9p you homosexual
I was going to say nc but you had bested me already.
i could never get NFS working, writing whole configs is just too much.
systemctl enable --now sshd and scp file steamdeck:/home/deck/Games/ is my speed
I use it in my office at work when I'm bored
I wanted to use it while I got my tire fixed but that would be too autistic and cringe
when i install emudeck it seems to hang forever on "backing up xemu data"
is this normal
nvm didn't seem the prompt for terminal password
I just got mine bros, what games are super comfy on it?
Ive been playing Kentucky Route Zero in bed
Stardew Valley, emulating Animal Crossing, low-effort tasks in MMOs like crafting and gathering, Atelier series.
I haven't checked to see how the controls are yet, but Recettear may also be great on the deck.
>Recettear
holy shit I forgot I had that game, enjoyed it alot.
I was gonna throw FF14 on it, considering if a m1 Mac can run the fricking thing at good frames, I don't see why the deck couldn't
FFXIV runs great. Some people have trouble launching, but the game itself runs smooth once you get into it.
If you have problems with the launcher not working or getting an infinite loading screen after data center selection, try running it with a different version of Proton (options cog to the far right of the Play button when you select the game -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Force specific compatibility tool, then select a different version of Proton, repeat until you find one that works). Trying this process will get almost any Steam game to work in my experience, even those that say they're unsupported.
Bit of a hassle but once you've got it working you don't need to worry about it anymore. Some people have no problems at all and it runs perfect first try.
Peglin
Pirate, dont buy it.
Ill shill for the game all day long as its really fricking good, but its way too expensive for how short it is.
How does Miku run on the Steam Deck?
imagine a video game
now imagine it running on the steam deck
you got your answer
Project diva mega mix was fine, ran under 10W IIRC, didn't play it much though. I didn't think it was worth the 30gb it took up when I could have about 5-10 older games in its place.
Thank you.
As far as framerate goes, it runs at full speed.
You have Denuvo DRM to contend with on the miku game that released on steam though, and on a handheld you're going to take out and about, that's gonna be a problem. If you wanna play something like project diva that won't give you that kind of bullshit, look up Project Heartbeat. That even has a native linux version and you won't need to run it through proton to run it on steam deck, and best part is: No denuvo.
>Project Heartbeat
This looks really cool, thank you for the recommendation.
No problem, it's got steam workshop support too so easy modding, meanwhile on the official miku game you have to hack in songs.
Is it still a bad idea to buy over a 500gb microsd or has the technology improved?
What are you talking about? 512GB microSDs were fine from the very beginning, same as 1TBs.
By the way, micron is going to be making a 1.5 TB SD card soonish. Prepare your fricking wallets, men.
256 should be the best value for money
512 are also pretty good and fast
1tb ones might be more questionable
It's been 4 days
it'll probably ship monday, you'll have it by wednesday.
here's hoping
so how many of you are using it for h games
as much as i trust valve, i don't trust them that much.
I am.
I would STRONGLY recommend against using winbtrfs. Every time I've used it it has irreversibly corrupted my btrfs partitions.
When was the last time you tried? I've converted all my drives to BTRFS and regularly play fortnite in my windows VM on a BTRFS drive. Its only been 6 months though so maybe in the long run its a bad idea?
I want to say three years ago? It destroyed the filesystem on my external 4TB disk so badly that it actually caused Linux to kernel panic when attempting to mount it read-write.
Its definitely gotten better, but peeking at the github issues some people are still getting corruption issues.
Technically with WSL2 updates you can use a ext4 mSD on windows, but its not just plug and play like btrfs would be. It wouldn't have the corruption issues of winbtrfs though. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk
woops bottom part was meant for
ssh is piss to set up
watching trek while I farm mounts on the deck.
It's can't run The Quarry
just watch it on YouTube
>The Quarry
>game
Did I fricking say it was a game homosexual?
This is the video games board. Go to >>>Ganker to talk about movies
WHERE
IS
THE
DOOOOOOCK
Might just be waiting on the release of the version of SteamOS that just entered beta that supports scaling when hooking up to a TV.
Or if the rumors are true, waiting on availability of a new Steam Controller with the Deck's Neptune layout.
There is this if you can't wait: https://www.jsaux.com/products/upgraded-docking-station-for-steam-deck
Hope it comes soon and hopefully the stocks aren't completely fricked. I had to move out of Canada and am now in a country that Valve doesn't sell the Deck, so I'll probably have to go through ebay or something to get my dock.
Why couldn't Valve add a usbc on the bottom as well so we could have a dock like the Switch where you just plop it down?
>Steam Controller with the Deck's Neptune
A new controller would be really nice.
are there any good Linux android emulators?
The typical android "emulator" is waydroid. And that's not actually an emulator, it's a LXC container.
does steam deck use xorg or wayland?
Game mode is Wayland.
Desktop is X.org.
The reason I ask is because I wanna know if anyone's had any luck running Waydroid on SteamOS.
Welp. I searched around for a little and it's fricking ridiculous that there's no good Android emulator for Linux.
Waydroid is good, though. It's not an emulator because an emulator is needless overhead on Linux.
Waydroid is completely borked on the Deck/SteamOS
Not just on SteamOS it's currently fricked on every single RDNA2 gpu period
>This seems to be a issue related to Mesa version in the waydroid image not being new enough
lol that's pretty stupid, so they're shipping their own graphics drivers in a container and it's too old to support RDNA2
I love that non-Steam Workshop mods work, but I hope a more streamlined process for installing them is coming soon.
Any emulation bros have suggested settings for pcsx2? Wwe, mc and some games have slight lag and audio slowdown. Im already playing at 2x res without any other hacks etc enabled manually
No but I can tell you to download The Punisher
I will, just wish I could fix audio issues, im sure its some hacks in cobfig
I was having audio issues with Need for Speed Underground 2 and couldnt figure it out either, but im not very well versed in emulation tweaking
Its usually releated to game speed, if its not stable, you can get those issues
Check each individual game's PCSX2 wiki to see recommended settings, that's how I was able to run Shadow of the Colossus at full speed.
>Rule of Rose
Confirmed anon has good taste
>pre-order shit deck for the low low price of $599 and wait 12 months before it gets shipped so the delivery Black person can steal it
>walk into store and buy switch lite today for $150
Gee, that’s a hard choice
My deck cost $650 and I already own a Switch
Who doesnt own a switch by now?
>walk into store and buy switch lite today for $150
to play what lol
are you a real poster or just a bot that posts to any thread that mentions the term 'deck'? It's a completely different use case with a larger and arguably more comfortable interface with the same battery life. It's not worth spending all this time on a hebrew dental care website being upset about.
I’m not upset I just pity people who get scammed by valve israelites
You are upset, or you wouldn't post the same thing so consistently for weeks.
I am playing FFXIV at 60fps on a fricking handheld. I don't give a frick what you think. You can take your 7 year old tegra and shove it up your ass.
Then why are you upset, anon? :^)
I'm not. I'm regularly blown away by this thing every time it sinks in just how well games run even with harsh power constraints. The only reason I've ever considered owning a switch would be the novelty of playing modern games on a handheld, and this absolutely obliterates it. Rise is one of the only games I really wanted from the switch's library and patiently waiting has paid off because now I'm playing it at slightly over 10W with 60fps and native resolution where the switch is sub-540p dynamic resolution upscaled + 30fps. It's no contest. It's not even close.
>Rise on switch runs slightly below the resolution of a handheld that is a DECADE old.
I get an issue with my steam deck where it will randomly downclock to 400mhz on the CPU and games will run like shit until I reboot it. Anyone else get this?
Did you accidentally set some per-game TDP settings?
any insight as to why i can transfer things like roms and keys files but not a zip file through my shared network folder?
also i can't seem to 'refresh' the network folder that is being shared. i've tried renaming the zip file in question to something simple but it's still appearing as the original name.
i've botched it all again somehow.
for a moment in time i was able to transfer a few files. but now when i go to network and the windows user folder, no folders are being shown.
truly cursed techlet
Has anyone played Library of Ruina on the Deck yet? It's listed as "Playable", and I'm curious what issues it has
The main problem with Ruina is that you use the touchpad for basically everything.
Kind of annoying, but not so surprising I guess. They really should do a console port of it, can't be that hard
I mean, they were supposedly working on an Xbox port but it just kind of fell off.
Anon the Xbox port came out 9 months ago.
yeah have fun with a tiny ass lcd screen
Thanks, I'm looking forward to it!
Is it possible to make your own stylus for it?
Do you need to? I imagine most standard ones would work just fine
Fun. Been playing it a ton since I got it a month ago.
is emudeck using the app image for yuzu now or do you still need to grab the EA one?
either way just grab
then remap steam rom manager. You can stick the AppImage anywhere. In rom manager set executable to /path/to/yuzu-x86_64.AppImage and command line arguments: -f -g "${filePath}"
>Euro Truck Sim 2 is Verified
No fricking way
its kino
>We've initiated the RMA process for your Steam Deck.
How bad is the RMA process?
what was wrong with yours?
Touchpad is grinding against something when pressed and feels like shit compared to the other one.
Ever since Deck got the 40hz/fan fix update, I sort of regret selling my Deck. My two biggest complaints were solved by Valve there and then.
What dafuq is that?!!
Does anyone have any issues with how vertical/horizontal movements are with the sticks in some games? Trying to use eggs without moving the camera in Banjo Kazooie was a nightmare while in AM2R if you nudge the joystick in anything other than the exact left or right you begin to diagonal aim.
>using a stick for AM2R
What the frick is wrong with you?
are you supposed to be playing yuzu in desktop mode?
I don't think it matters. Just add it as a non-steam game.
It's just the weird thing where Desktop Mode uses 4C8T and the SteamOS interface treats it as 8C8T. I think the latest Yuzu build solved that or something but that is a prevailing issue on why some emulators don't perform as well without Desktop Mode.
>Its STILL up
I guess jannies like your wiener bro
anyone manage to get emusak working with yuzu on deck? doesn't seem to be hooking for me
>the one guy who insists on ryujinx but only ever shows the literal first 3 seconds of the game
i can get games running in desktop/mode in yuzu if i boot it through yuzu, but the emudeck shortcut to the games just insta-crash
is there some rom manager thing i should be doing
>decide to try some games that it list as outright not working
>they work great
>that it list as outright not working
where?
Barring stuff with anti-cheat that's incompatible with Linux, I've been able to make absolutely everything work. Proton is amazing, and those Deck Verified ratings are incredibly modest. Almost all my "incompatible" games have worked fine.
They really do seem to be very modest about it. Sometimes the only thing keeping it from being "great on steam deck" is having to manually activate the keyboard at launch or something.
Fricking everything works with Proton. I was worried that Linux would suck for Steam Deck but it was absolutely smarter choice over Winshit 10.
just grabbed powertools
in general use should i have CPU SMT and CPU boost toggled on? or is this doing some kind of harm
CPU boost should stay on unless you're trying to save power.
SMT should be left on unless you have a game that performs worse with it on and some do.
valuable intel, cheers
is there a way to do this on linux?
Damn, that's awesome. Anyone with a toaster can play literally anything with you without even having the game, and on wifi instead of over internet remote play probably looks decent too. That makes this insanely appealing for hanging out with friends.
seriously impressed with the switch emulation on this
i feel like everyone has had a really shit impression from old videos or people not using the right version of yuzu/settings or w/e
everything i have thrown at it has been full speed so far, only jitters from shader caches being built but you can also pre-load shaders to avoid that
How do I get my ps3 games to show up in emulation station? I got rpcs3 working, but they don't show up in emulation station.
TOO BIG
best handheld ever
I'm enjoying mine. Currently playing tales of arise
>mfw GBA games on the Deck
It looks so fricking good bros
wouldn't they be too big
You would think so but the image is really crisp, and the filter they added in Emudeck looks great in my opinion
We need to go deeper
I really like mine. I've Been playing monster hunter rise: sun break. Runs smooth. Going to play modded half life on it next.
>80 minute battery life
>awkward as frick to play
>not even hd screen
its like tech from 1989
You don't own a Deck. You never even held one.
>80 minute battery life
>Why yes, I do run my nonexistent Deck at above maximum TDP at all times
Just paid for it on Thursday. Still no shipping details though.
I love my Deck
>people buy a deck to play indie and emulate old Nintendo games
>the deck weighs 3x more a normal handheld, is massive and bulky, and is as portable as a laptop;
I don't get it
Show me another handheld that allows me to competently play factory-building games like Factorio or Mindustry as well as RTS games.
>wrong
>wrong, wrong, wrong
0/10 apply yourself
>those games
>without mouse and keyboard
Any suggestions for comfy turn-based dungeon crawlers like Orcs & Elves or Might & Magic 3-5 to play on my Deck? Not exactly looking for real-time blobbers like Dungeon Master or Grimlock nor games with autistic combat like Wizardry or Etrian Odyssey, but I'm flexible.
Was hoping to finally finish my playthrough of M&M 3 when I get my Deck, but I became too used to the "WhereAreWe" automapper and I'm not sure if it's worth finagling it to work under WINE.
Itll be my first experience with pc gaming when mine turns up sometime this Q3
Im hoping to play m&b warband and mods like viking conquest, no mans sky, dayz modded maps, Holdfast, gta 4 and other comfy games to play in bed at night.
Shits gonna be so cash
I discovered mine had stick drift today. Pushing the right stick left or right causes it. Pretty much every game is unplayable like this. I've probably played less than 50 fricking hours on this thing. It's spent more time in its case than my hands. How does this shit happen? Why are modern controllers so prone to this? Save your money people.
That sucks, you can try RMAing it.
Did you try calibrating it/ messing with the deadzone?
This is the state it returns to when pushing to the right. Nowhere near the center.
I did put in a support ticket though so hopefully they help me out.
Go into the calibration and run through that. Also Steam input lets you see your dead zone so you could tell exactly where it's happening at or if it's set too low for some reason. I normally set mine lower than default as low as whatever controller I'm using will let me on regular Steam games.
Good ergonomics for me, fits the hands well. Not a fan of some of the default configurations for it and the battery life is a bit on the weak side.
When my Deck arrives what is the checklist of things I need to look at to determine if it's faulty and I need to RMA? I know the fans and buttons are common sources of problems, but is there anything else that isn't so obvious?
You won't get an RMA for a noisy fan sadly. The good news is that with the new fan curve you'll rarely if ever notice it.
Other than that there's a menu in the settings where you can check all the buttons. Also check touchscreen, gyro, bluetooth, microphone, if stuff show up properly with usb, the sd card and the 3.5mm jack. See if all the pixels light up. You can also check if the battery drains at the expected rate and if it charges fully. Then run some heavy game for a while to see if you get an OS crash or something.
Much of that functionality can be checked out while playing aperture deskjob
>Much of that functionality can be checked out while playing aperture deskjob
Good idea, completely forgot that game existed.
>completely forgot that game existed.
Many do. There's youtube reviews were the "reviewers" are unaware of half of the device's functionality, that could have found out, if they played the game for half an hour.
You can buy the quieter non-Delta fan on iFixit.
The hardware is solid enough. It's just in typical Valve fashion they fumble the bag with Linux.
>Firefox is outdated
>People REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE about it
>We'll make it a flatpack instead of keeping repos up-to-date like we should be doing lmao
Not a good sign for their fork of Arch.
>after Q3
i just one to play my indie games on the couch