Just got mine today, I'm just fricking around trying different things. Running demanding games, trying out mouse control games with the touchpad, emulation, etc. Having a lot of fun with it so far, and really impressed with it.
Think the first thing I'll really play is Trails in the Sky. Been wanting to get into that series.
the etched glass has the same effect that a screenprotector would apply. by putting a protector on the 512 you are essentially adding a second layer of blur and your image quality will suffer
i can understand the sentiment to want to protect the screen, but this isn't nintendo. if your screen truly gets scratched and fricked out of orbit you can just buy a new part from ifixit and put it in yourself.
Why get one? I'm not going to lugg it around without the case. I can't scratch it with my nails or stylus. A protector would do the opposite and accumulate dust on its edges and look like shit.
I'd use one for a game boy or phone which you have in your pockets, but not the deck
Yeah, I usually get one for this sort of device just as a precaution. I don't really see why not, they can be had for almost nothing and will help avoiding accidental scuffs or scratches on the screen.
>Switch is $300 >Buy two games >Now more expensive than steam deck >Buy steam deck >Install cemu >Play every nintendies games for free >Then play every other game I want too
wew lad, really boils my noodles
Sometimes it is humbling to go on a similar experience as that of the lower class of gamers, it puts how good we have it in perspective >Never mobile gaming though we have our limits
except it wont run well. they lag by design caching in new zones every time u go somewhere new ingame. on every fricking game,. switch emulation is a joke and all demo vids are pre-cached.
>switch emulation
Give them a bit more time to optimize them for the deck. The Dolphin Emulator Devs are busy optimizing the emulator for the Steam Deck.
I don't get it, it's the heaviest, bulkiest and unwieldy handheld ever and they play indie games and emulate old nintendo games.
I just don't understand the appeal.
People only emulate nintendo games to laugh at tendies. Nobody actually plays that shit for real. If they gave enough of a shit, they'd probably just buy a switch.
I'm putting emudeck on it right now. It downloaded all the stuff but now I need to move my bioses and yuzu keys to it, so I had to download something called anydesk so I can just remote into my deck from my desktop since the on-screen keyboard is ass and doesn't work for me sometimes.
What's the first thing I should emulate? I was thinking Xenoblade Chronicles
If you're talking battery time, you're highly underestimating the extend that df will murder it through the cpu, with a sufficiently large colony.
And the cpu is not the deck's strong point.
>DF >Running for longer than 4 hours
lol, lmao even. DF is going to bend that CPU over and frick it in the ass. You might get more than 5 hours if you are playing adventure mode, but fortress mode is going to kill that battery quick
>512GB
Enjoy your shitty "anti-glare" screen. Getting 256GB version with normal screen and then upgrading the storage if needed was much better choice.
dragons dogma dark arisen $5
titan fall 2 $5
RE4HD $5 (get texture mods and shit)
i think stacklands is pretty fun to play with touchpad controls if you're into tabletop kind of stuff
stalker bundle for anomaly mod
ff9 for moguri mod
https://sites.google.com/view/moguri-mod/home
was hesitant to drop $15 on this game but it's fricking golden.
runs great on deck, can use community controller profiles for gyro on touch as well.
https://gg.deals/game/neon-white/
switch oled is only worth it if you dont have a switch, but even then i would still go for a deck
significant boost in power, lack of hacks needed (its a pc and it gives you that freedom. piracy, emulation, and save file migration are all extremely simple), better speakers, better battery life on games with similar graphics, larger library, and better controls >>>> slightly better display quality
go for the deck, and if you really want an oled portable, get a used vita
The first models were. They released a revision that was thinner, rounder, cheaper, used a micro usb port instead of a proprietary port, had some on board memory, and did not have a OLED screen.
The original vita 1000's sticks were hall effect based and using magnets. The stick assembly looks identical to the 2K potentiometer sticks but the internals are completely different.
2 years ago
Anonymous
immune to drift
Why aren't they used in everything then?
2 years ago
Anonymous
The sticks are small and they're not a random chinese part but a Sony-manufactured part. They're not produced anymore.
Yeah this, even with the 64GB it isn't unusual to have an SD card laying around to expand it, that and the Nintendo tax on game prices is ridiculous they never go down either, digital BoTW cost is still what $70?
baffles me how well games run off of just SD cards
i assume its because of the cached shaders on the SSD which is probably way shittier on the 64 version
Yeah maybe, I went middle of the road with my choice but a few days back bought a 1TB ssd to swap out when it arrives, I'm notoriously bad for data hoarding so if I don't fill this thing with everything it can take I'll be pissed
>I'm a poorgay
So buy the console you can pirate with.
You would have to hardmod the Oled switch, and the modchips are getting scarce since ninty shut a bunch of sellers down.
In 2022, the Switch is basically worthless and has zero interesting upcoming releases. Want a better experience, more games, better performance, and free online with cloud saving?
Get a Deck.
switch oled not close
We have resident Switch shills that spam (its clearly a child) so just ignore that shit.
Steam Deck is higher value because you can get more out of it, steam games actually go on sale and you can emulate plenty of older games on it for free, so I'd definitely say its worth more for you if you're a poorgay.
Unless you really want to play particular switch games you're going to get a lot more out of it.
Their games go on sale frequently enough. A few times a year. The main issue with the switch is its just an android port machine with a storefront that is constantly abused by people who know how to game the system.
I resold mine for $300 more than I paid.
Didn't buy it with the intention to scalp, I just realized that I don't like video games anymore once I got it. That, and I have a gaming desktop which is sufficient for me.
Been playing >Billy Hatcher >Pokemon Crystal Clear >Elden Ring >Dark Souls >Oblivion
Steam sale >Turok bundle >Control >Star Wars Episode 1 Racer >Morrowind >Duck Game >Forsaken
Upcoming projects >Modding Dragon Age Origins >Setting up Mod Organizer 2 for Skyrim >BOTW on CEMU >Kid Icarus Uprising with touchpad controls >Ascension WoW private server >See if I can use settings to make Demon Souls run without the FPS tanking when physics objects break
Nothing yet. I got fricked over on the order process. Submitted my order at 10:02am PST on opening day, payment processor froze, and it went through at 11:32am which charts show is right after the orders died down. So all you frickers got your orders in "before" me and got the 4-lane NVMes while I'm gonna be stuck with 2.
I'm beginning to wish I had this piece of shit. There are games I wish I could play in the bed that I don't want to buy again or they don't even have a port to a different platform. I feel like I made fun of Gabe's vision without giving it a chance as a form of cope...
My knew jerk reaction in the first 5 minutes of it being announced was what in the absolute frick is gabe thinking but the more I thought about it the more I began to want one. Really glad I put down a reservation on day 1 now.
I didn't doubt at all and immediately bought it, but I also had a VAIO UX back a while ago and knew what I was getting myself into. Hardware and software have come a long way since 2006.
Shaders? Do you mean CUs? The Steam Deck has 8 CUs. To give you an idea of how that stacks against other hardware of the same type, the AMD RX 6700 XT has 40 CUs.
what's the point of having that weak of a GPU in a game system? That's the same layout that all of AMD's laptop processors already have. Why didn't steam order a custom processor with more GPU power. How many games run at 60 fps on it?
>Why didn't steam order a custom processor with more GPU power.
They did, lmao. This thing is stronger than current laptop processor offerings. The integrated graphics on current-gen APUs have 4 CUs.
2 years ago
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>The integrated graphics on current-gen APUs have 4 CUs.
>what's the point of having that weak of a GPU in a game system?
Preserving battery life and thermals you dummy. Handhelds are always a compromise. You'll never see the performance of contemporary desktop graphics cards in one.
2 years ago
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>You'll never see the performance of contemporary desktop graphics cards in one.
how about contemporary laptop cards? There's no reason it couldn't have 1280 or 1536 shaders like the last gen Vega M GX or GL
2 years ago
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You realize those are intended to run at 30W and overheat in most laptops regularly when gaming, right?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Ever seen the battery life and thermals of gaming laptops? Also those pieces of garbage are infamous for crapping out after a few years.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Also those pieces of garbage are infamous for crapping out after a few years.
And the Steam Deck won't?
2 years ago
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I don't know, let me get my crystal ball.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Unlikely. The thing has extremely well-managed thermals. It shits almost all the heat straight out the vent.
2 years ago
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No. It has the seal of quality and a ten year warranty.
RDNA and RDNA2 are completely different from Vega.
Second scalar unit, major instruction changes, 2x32SIMD vs 4x16 in Vega and older GCN iterations, etc.
>Why didn't steam order a custom processor with more GPU power.
They did, lmao. This thing is stronger than current laptop processor offerings. The integrated graphics on current-gen APUs have 4 CUs.
They have 4WGPs, which is 2CUs. Renoir and Cezanne have 8 Vega CU.
Gotta say, as cool as linux is, modding is definitely not its strong suit. The flatpak version of lutris is broken and doesn't have its dependencies.. Had problems getting mod managers to run through proton. Finally decided to get a stable mod setup working on Windows and then just transferring the entire game over. It almost worked, but half the mods are broken. I realized quickly that OBSE just plain does not want to work on linux so I had to try some gay work around to patch obse_loader to ignore complaining about being on linux and patch oblivionlauncher to start obse instead of the game. It still didn't work so I had to settle for a minimal mod setup of basically just unofficial oblivion patch and a few others. Huge pain in the ass, would not recommend even bothering with mods unless you are already competent enough with linux that you don't need to hear some recommendation in the first place.
No. This is a do-it-once-on-proton-files-as-root thing. Essentially, WINE doesn't obey normal Linux process hierarchy and it needs extra privelleges which are insecure.
No. This is a do-it-once-on-proton-files-as-root thing. Essentially, WINE doesn't obey normal Linux process hierarchy and it needs extra privelleges which are insecure.
Could you be a little more specific on what I need to do? I don't really know much about WINE. Is this something I should be setting in winecfg through protontricks?
That's mostly an issue with Bethesda games as the mods do some pretty fricked up shit to fix those broken-ass games. With games that aren't broken by default modding isn't much of an issue.
if your playing oblivion theres a script to install mod manager 2 for it fricking moron also no shit the flatpak version sucks dick flatpaks are awful not that it matters since lutris is terrible even when it does "work" just use wine and userscripts manually lutris is homosexual bloatware that only makes things harder 99% of the time
If lutris is bad, but other non-steam, oldest games work so well... I am interested to know the alternative lutris. Suggest? I tried "bottles", it works, but bloatware af.
I'm new to linux as well and had big issues getting OBSE to work on my deck. After patching the obse and replacing the Oblivion Launcher I still didn't get mods like Northern UI to work, but I installed SkyBSA and suddenly all mods using OBSE started working. I think it has something to do with file timestamps but I'm not sure.
This is just a straight up lie, the worst problem with flatpak is the bloat, but usually something "just werking" has been my experience with it to make up for that.
Oh frick no. It took so long to get to me in the queue I realised the mistake I was making and didn't buy that shit. Looks like a lot of people here fell for it though. I see so many people so proud to be playing basic indie titles on it which can be played on an easily modded secondhand switch for half the price. And there are literally thousands of them so you'd never play them all.
Still, sure can't wait for that one guy who totally wants to play elden ring as it was meant to be played: 30 fps for an hour on a six inch screen on a bus. Frick. David Lynch was right.
I havent touched my modded switch since my deck showed up.
The control scheme and ergonomics (despite being a bit heavier) just curbstomp the frick out of the switch.
Its night and day how nice the deck is to play, and by contrast how fricking terrible the switch is.
Consolewar shitposting aside, im unironically going to sell my switch because of it. It actually makes the switch redundant.
I'm sure now you have it, it DOES make the switch redundant. It plays more stuff by default. But my point is that when I considered all I wanted to do was play indies and older emulated stuff, it made more sense to just buy a switch and put atmosphere or whatever the troony cfw is called on it. Cost me like 150 bucks too. Frick Nintendo, didn't give them a penny.
Its amusing to see anons saying 'finally! After a year of waiting, I can play [indie title that's been on switch for five years]. To many this is a waste of money, a novelty bound to gather dust when they realise that.
> To many this is a waste of money, a novelty bound to gather dust when they realise that.
Video games are inherently a waste of money, so thats not really a valid point.
There have been over 90million switches sold over the last 6 years.
By this point people know whether they want a large hand held console to play games, its not like this is an unknown form factor. Almost everyone owns a switch, or at least has used one at this point.
You know exactly what you are getting when ordering this thing
Nobody is buying this and just letting it gather dust, the people who are interested in this are the ones who bought and used a switch but didnt want the limitations of the switch.
Also lets not pretend that a hacked switch is a great alternative.
They were unpatched for right under 2 years.
So if you were to buy one today its at LEAST a 4 year old console, maybe up to 6 years old.
There is no coldboot, there is no native DS emulation, it cant emulate 3DS for shit.
Yeah you only spent 150 bucks, but you got way less of a console thats got 4 years of wear on it.
There are no exclusive indies, all those indies are fricking multiplats.
Pretty much anyone who has burnt through the 10 first party games has nothing else exclusive to play on it.
It really isnt hard to supplant the switch nowadays.
I'm in exactly the same boat as you, a decent PC and a hacked Switch. I keep clicking on these threads because I really like the idea of the Deck, and I definitely appreciate the work Valve is doing with proton and Linux, but when I think it through the Deck would just be pure novelty for me, not something I actually need. I'd like to wait a bit longer to make sure Valve doesn't just drop the whole thing and forget about it like they tend to do with pretty much everything else that isn't steam itself. I hope the Deck is successful because I like the idea, but it would be a waste of money to me right now.
The deck is the very definition of a novelty item. A way for people to play the games they already own in a slightly different, less comfortable, way. It might be nice for "clearing a backlog" , but a backlog exists because we get tired of having too many games, and once the novelty wears off, that backlog grows once more. It has no other use.
Valve and Nintendo are now both so guilty of stagnation. Of giving us 'new ways' to play the games we already have, which are always some garbage gimmick.
That's a problem with the industry in general honestly, for example, I no longer see any value in console gaming, used to be when you bought a console, it was plug it in the back of your CRT TV, press a button/flip a switch, and it just werked, now every console has updates, bugs out, requires internet connections to do fricking anything important, charges you for the privilege of playing your own games online, etc. and all run on x86 architecture, to me they're just shittier PCs when they used to have actual value. I think the only place LEFT to go in this industry is diversifying the ways we play games we already have, outside of VR, which is cool, but VR is expensive and thus too many people have sour grapes about it and on top of that Meta is currently in the process of trying to monopolize that space which is shitty cause I'm never gonna make a facebook account no matter how much they dangle over me in terms of exclusivity deals, so we're not having that revolution we need in gaming to make it interesting again, plus AAA games seem to have graphics that get better and better but the gameplay more and more boring and tedious, so as far as I'm concerned, the logical next step is throwing my hands up and going "frick it I just wanna play the games I'm already playing on the go"
2 years ago
Anonymous
I am excited for gaming because I know a crash is coming, and I am actually old enough to remember the first one. The whole "Nintendo saved the industry" line is a desperate con. The truth is, home computers and the indie scene flourished. I want that again, without big business trying to tell us that we need to buy THEIR special control scheme to enjoy things.
2 years ago
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Ironically to the "saving the industry" meme, Nintendo is the company I hate the most right now. I can just not play Actiblizzard, EA, and Ubisoft games because I genuinely have no interest in their cookie cutter open world games, FPS games, and dopamine + wallet farm RPGs, but Nintendo games are near and dear to me, and nintendo preserves them like absolute dogshit + fricks with ROMsites that host games that have absolutely nothing to do with their first party publishing so once they get their eye of sauron on them games that mean a lot to me but are no longer sold anywhere outside of ebay scalpers who won't give a cent to the original IP holders or original devs if I buy a physical copy from them just go poof, and they treat fangames, genuine labors of love, like AM2R, as if they're made by pests who are meant to be squished under their boot.
Nintendo is the disney of the video game industry. Family friendly image, beloved by hardcore almost cult like fans, used to output amazing shit, nowadays however it's apparently they're a hollow corporate soulless shell that wants to bank off their recognizable IPs yet would rather you not celebrate the original pillars that built their modern empire to begin with. I can't fricking stand nintendo, cause when EA, Ubisoft or Activision does something shitty, it's usually contained to their modern games (except for Ubisoft with their recent shutdown of older game services, that's a recent development), but when nintendo is on the warpath, they straight up destroy history near and dear to me, and the absolute worst part of it all is I have to watch their cult like fans who only have a baseline appreciation of video games that does not extend beyond "don't ask questions just consume new product and get excited for next product" defend it. I'm probably going to get a few (You)s that REEE at me for saying this too.
2 years ago
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>apparently
*apparent
2 years ago
Anonymous
Talking about AM2R in a Steam Deck thread, anyone know where one can still find the Linux version?
2 years ago
Anonymous
I didn't even know it HAD a linux version. I have the patched version of the windows one though.
Good Post. Nintendo is circling the drain like the rest of them. They'll just take longer. Disney outlived their rivals, but you look deeper and all the signs of life you see is maggots infesting the corpse. Same with nintendo.
Buy a hard drive.
Pirate everything.
Play indie platformers and metroidvania, which are basically better than Nintendo games anyway.
Break the stranglehold they have on you.
Same applies to valve too. They're not the saviours of gaming. They just want their chance to wear the shiny boot that kicks gaming to death. I think Bobby still has it on..
I already do break off from valve a bit, I buy stuff from GOG and Itch.io and play stuff that isn't on steam like SRB2/SRB2Kart, The Dark Mod, etc. But the issue is that valve are like the only competent ones right now. GOG refuses to make an official galaxy launcher for linux and they let shit like Hitman 3 onto their store when they are supposed to be a DRM free service (plus GOG doesn't have the same quality control in general that they used to when it came to patching up older games to run on modern hardware, they used to include digital scans of game manuals and shit and it was awesome but they don't do that so much these days), itch.io is fantastic but mostly for small, novelty projects that you just simply can't find on steam, and I could write a 9 post long thesis on all of the problems I have with Epic Games Store so I'm going to spare you from that.
I would say Valve is the "Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing" of the game industry, but they don't do nothing, Steam has every feature I want out of a game launcher, even niche ones I never knew I wanted till I had them like remote play together, in home streaming, the SteamVR backend, linux support, steam curators, and following game pages for patchnotes and activity in one webpage feed. They also inform me if a game has Denuvo DRM or some other third party bullshit I don't want to deal with on the store page.
You won't catch me saying some reddit bullshit like "lord gaben" or whatever because I haven't forgotten about paid mods, their neglect of Team Fortress 2 and Half Life (Alyx was pretty good but I had to wait 13 or so years to play it and it didn't even move the plot also nobody gives a shit about artifact) or how shitty steam was on launch, but holy shit man to say that their competition stacks up is to be either disingenuous or willfully ignorant.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I didn't even know it HAD a linux version
iirc they released it shortly before it was taken down. I even had it, but it got lost at some point and now I can't fricking find it anywhere. Thanks Nintendo.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Good Post. Nintendo is circling the drain like the rest of them. They'll just take longer. Disney outlived their rivals, but you look deeper and all the signs of life you see is maggots infesting the corpse. Same with nintendo.
Buy a hard drive.
Pirate everything.
Play indie platformers and metroidvania, which are basically better than Nintendo games anyway.
Break the stranglehold they have on you.
Same applies to valve too. They're not the saviours of gaming. They just want their chance to wear the shiny boot that kicks gaming to death. I think Bobby still has it on..
I'm in exactly the same boat as you, a decent PC and a hacked Switch. I keep clicking on these threads because I really like the idea of the Deck, and I definitely appreciate the work Valve is doing with proton and Linux, but when I think it through the Deck would just be pure novelty for me, not something I actually need. I'd like to wait a bit longer to make sure Valve doesn't just drop the whole thing and forget about it like they tend to do with pretty much everything else that isn't steam itself. I hope the Deck is successful because I like the idea, but it would be a waste of money to me right now.
>I'd like to wait a bit longer to make sure Valve doesn't just drop the whole thing and forget about it like they tend to do with pretty much everything else
They 100% will not drop the deck form factor in the short or medium term.
Getting SteamOS into the hands of gamers, creating Proton and getting devs to build native linux games is of the utmost importance to Valve and their long term outlook.
The failed Steam Machines and the Steam Deck are not about selling hardware, but about weening players off of Windows.
>They 100% will not drop the deck form factor in the short or medium term.
I hope so, like I said I want the Deck to be successful. But I think I'm going to give Valve some time to prove they want this thing to go somewhere; I am immune to FOMO, I can wait.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I don't understand why people are like "valve must do shitz!!!1!"
This thing is just a fricking PC. Install some other flavor of Linux or Windows if you're that concerned about software longevity. I sure did.
You are flat out moronic or coping if you think they would sink multiple millions into these projects for the sake of what amounts to their own toy linux distro. 'it's not about the deck' might be comforting to think considering the current state of the deck, but it's not true. And if it was? Frick they failed hard. The main problem people have with the deck is the shitty undercooked os
2 years ago
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>You are flat out moronic or coping if you think they would sink multiple millions into these projects for the sake of what amounts to their own toy linux distro
kek
Do you know how much money they stand to lose if Microsoft has their way, forcing steam onto the Windows Store and siphoning money off the top for every steam purchase?
They are selling the decks at near cost.
Its pretty obvious you havent paid attention to Valve at all in the last decade.
Gaben has come out publicly denouncing Windows after they introduced the Windows Store with Win8.
He straight up called it "dangerous" to steam, and then went crazy dumping tons of money into Proton and the Steam Machines.
They never stopped work pushing Vulkan and Proton, but now they are pushing SteamOS again by selling hardware people might actually want.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Imagine thinking that valve wasted hundreds of millions just to get people to use their Linux distro. Genius. >the deck doesn't NEED to succeed!
2 years ago
Anonymous
You're an idiot. Valve has been pouring money into Linux in general not out of desire to see Linux succeed, but to hold a metaphorical gun to Microshat's head and prevent them from going full moron lockdown.
The Deck is an experiment to try and create a market for UMPC devices that they can make more money off. The deck is just a test. Nothing more, nothing less.
2 years ago
Anonymous
If this was true then valve is absolutely brain damaged to do it. Literally fricking wasting hundreds of millions making a Umpc just to advertise their Linux distro.
Lmao
2 years ago
Anonymous
The point was never about their Linux distro. It was about Linux in general needing to actually threaten Microsoft. Are you actually moronic?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Imagine thinking that valve wasted hundreds of millions just to get people to use their Linux distro
Its blatantly obvious with their actions and their statements over this last decade
>the deck doesn't NEED to succeed!
It doesnt need to make a large profit with the hardware**
They have talked about licensing out SteamOS to OEMs to make their own Steam Deck variants, just like they did with the Steam Machines.
Success with the Steamdeck = getting an sizable linux userbase on Steam
If this was true then valve is absolutely brain damaged to do it. Literally fricking wasting hundreds of millions making a Umpc just to advertise their Linux distro.
Lmao
>Literally fricking wasting hundreds of millions making a Umpc just to advertise their Linux distro.
Because they stand to lost hundreds of millions a year to microsoft charging them platform fees.
Are you stupid?
Do you just not understand the situation here?
>Its amusing to see anons saying 'finally! After a year of waiting, I can play [indie title that's been on switch for five years].
It's more amusing to see Switchbreasts get excited for PS3 era games they were bashing on Ganker decade earlier during the wii era. >"hurrrr who cares its about gameplay" *waggle* *waggle* PEW PEW! >8 years go by >"holy crap KOTOR!" *ONIONS FACE*
And what isn't a port from the ps3/360 era is a 17FPS version of a game that has been done before. Have you ever played STRIDER from 2014? Put that side by side with Dread.
Nintendo's GAMEBOY philosophy isn't working on the Switch. Have you seen fallguys? its a slow loading mess.
>Nintendo's GAMEBOY philosophy isn't working on the Switch. Have you seen fallguys? its a slow loading mess.
More like...Nintendo has tried to back to the gamecube philosophy, but they've forgotten what that was and are now poorly emulating themselves ha ha
Nothing till I get mine MONTHS from now, since I'm "After Q3"
I'm basically going to be playing the same shit I play on my main PC, since I don't buy games with Denuvo DRM, and I don't play games with EAC outside of Halo MCC which I barely touch anymore anyway, so I'll have no problems playing stuff like Inscryption, Warframe, Fights in Tight Spaces, Tetris Effect: Connected, Madness: Project Nexus, GZDoom, Unreal Tournament 2004, etc.
It's just a shame it won't be viable to play Killing Floor 2 on the steam deck. Not because it won't run, it will run fine, but because it takes 10 minutes to start that game up meaning it's hardly a good fit for a portable console, tripwire are hacks. Won't stop me from playing the better KF1 though, but with who is the question since the servers for that game are dead.
If I have any complaints with the steam deck based on the on paper stats, it's the immutable file system, this means I can't load ani-cli onto it which is one of linux's strongest applications in my eyes. But I get it, it's supposed to be moron-proof so the filesystem is there.
starting to really dig this battery pack set-up
keeps your deck topped off the entire time you play and as soon as you see it drop below 99 you can pull the pack off and go charge it while your deck uses the rest of its full battery.
it takes me 50 minutes to charge the battery pack back to full using the deck's charging cable which essentially converts to 100% uptime for my deck now.
right now just bouncing between neon white and death stranding director's cut.
NW = 4-5 hrs, DS = 90m (no battery pack attached)
i might be able to juice neon white to 6 hours i just haven't bothered.
That doesn't make it too heavy for long play sessions? Don't have a Deck myself, but one of the complaints I kept seeing was that without a surface to rest it on, long play sessions would get uncomfortable.
Getting my deck soon. Will I be able to run stuff like Metroid Prime out of the box on it? Or do I need to like reformat/install windows on it or something?
running a basic rom in dolphin sure
but what you really want to be doing is running prime hack, takes a little more effort
(widescreen, all 3 games, fps controls etc.) https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/u8748j/metroid_prime_trilogy_primehack_a_steam_deck_guide/
Can we admit the deck flopped hard? Even the most easily-hyped normies don't care now..
https://www.t3.com/features/my-steam-deck-has-finally-been-made-available-so-why-am-i-not-smiling
>I wanna be an early adoopter >I don't want it if it doesn't make me feel special anymore >I'm going to use my money for CONSOLE VR instead
Legitimate brainrot
If you listened to me when I recommended the addicting-as-hell rogue-lite game "Vampire Survivors," then believe me when I say this:
"Nomad Survival" is equally awesome.
A clone of sorts, but it stands on its own and is dripping with quality and fun, and longevity. It is another great cheap vampire Survivors styled game - Less than $3.
Honestly I hate how people call new or out of the ordinary things "gimmicks" or "clones", to me VampSurvs are a genre that I want to see more of, just like these $3 auto attack games with cool builds. I hope the people who make these are under no illusions that their game is worth more than $3 though.
I remember owning a high-end PC when GTA IV came out and was unable to get a consistent 60FPS in that damn game. Now it's running at 60FPS on a fricking handheld, times change.
Cant post now since Im not home. But native res. Mix of medium-very high settings. Shadows are main ones at medium, water reflection too. Density etc sliders around 25-30%
I havent, ill try. I have modded other games, when its regular stuff like replacing data files, enb etc, that works good. I havent tried other game modding where you need specific launchers etc
Q3 cucks we truly got assfricked. At first we thought the Q1s would get shit prototype hardware but instead they get good fans and 4 lane SSDs....................
Normally I'd say "suck it" since I have an x4 and a quiet fan, but truth be told the deck can't even use the full bandwidth of an x2 so it literally does not matter.
It's a grab bag. You either get a delta fan or a Huaying(?). Both generate about the same level of noise decibel-wise but the quality of the Delta's sound is significantly worse with a whine to it.
Q3 cucks we truly got assfricked. At first we thought the Q1s would get shit prototype hardware but instead they get good fans and 4 lane SSDs....................
Im a late Q2 512 and just checked, I got an x4 SSD
Spin Rhythm XD
You can play entirely with the trackpads. Feels like a game made for the system.
Today I tried out some custom songs. To save space on the internal I tried linking the custom song folder to the SD card through dolphin. It didn't work. Does anybody have experience with getting a game folder to work with an SD link?
WINE/Proton prefixes are just windows directory tress but self contained. You'd just go to the >steam/steamapps/compatdata/[gameidnumber]/pfx/drive-c/users/steamuser/Appdata/LocalLow/Super Spin Digital/Spin Rhythm XD/Custom
folder in this particular case. If you wanna frick with modding in any further scenario, remember it's like this for every game, everything past >/compatdata/gameidnumber/pfx/drive-c/
is just windows filesystem territory in proton.
When did you guys reserve and manage to get yours? I reserved at the end of July last year so I'm supposed to be able to get mine sometime between now and September, and I'm antsy for it
I've got my deck coming in on friday, but it just came to me that I should probably get a screen protector, as I always do for devices like this. The problem is, are there any screen protectors that don't completely invalidate the anti-glare screen on the 512?
Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on easing people into it while neglecting to work on the OS because you decided to dev hardware instead, then remaining a laughing stock because you don't have the capacity to make them so everyone loses interest?
Yeah ah, they really should have just made a deal with umpc makers to use it, for a traction of the cost and make hl3 native to it
You can keep grasping at straws, but youll still be wrong. There is a worldwide chip shortage that affected literally everything, nobody is "laughing" at steam for having shortages when you still cant even buy a graphics card of a new car because of the shortages.
This is the same SteamOS that they have been building and working on since the old Steam Machines. They have greatly improved Proton to the point it pretty much just werks with most games.
The growing pains of the OS were deck specific implementations, not the OS itself.
You do realize the SteamDeck has only just been released, and in small quantities. But the decks custom APU is the #1 on the list of GPUs in the linux category, as is the SteamOS
~10% of all Linux users on Steam are using the SteamDeck
As production ramps up, (which they say has more than doubled already) its only going to become a much larger
This is the exact reason no developers make games Native on linux, because there isnt a userbase.
Guess what all the small Developers have been doing these last few months?
They have all been making mad dashes to update their games to get Deck Verified, because it might squeeze a few more sales out with little effort.
You know, sometimes its ok to say "wow I didnt realize steam has spent a decade trying to take market share from windows, learned something to" instead of tripling down on your moronicness grasping at anything you can to try and not feel stupid.
>Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted
Steamdecks sold out immediately and the list is huge.
Im not sure id call that "wasted" as people are buying them in droves.
Does anyone else think these controllers suck? Sometimes the button inputs don't register, the sticks have big dead spots in the center, the track pads are inconsistent and the capacitive touch screen is noticably worse than any phone I've had.
Everything works for me. >dead spots
Did you go into the settings and decrease the dead zone? They come configured by default with like 1/4 dead zone which isn't really necessary until the sticks start failing.
>not part of bindings
Yes they are, just check stick settings for any game. There's a dedicated dead zone section for every binding, per stick, in addition to the general purpose one in the settings.
The point about current draw stands. I hope you properly measured power consumption of the one you installed.
I get it that Valve is saying shit to cover their asses in case of something happening, but I really can't see NVMe power draw as a problem. Nothing you will really do on a Deck will get even close to maxing out the performance of the SSD so it's not like the thing is going to be chugging max power while in use anyway. The most "stressful" use case is probably going to be game installation and in that case you're going to be bottlenecked by WiFi performance most likely, even if you use a cable to download games to avoid WiFi you're still going to bottleneck on the CPU before the SSD, because Steam install/decompression are very CPU heavy, you're not going to get more than say 100MB/s.
And, subjectively, I put my finger on each one while I was mirroring the original drive to the 1tb. One did not feel particularly hotter than the other.
How did you handle the transfer process? Just image the small SSD to the big one, then extend the /home partition? Does that just werk? Any idea if it could break the automatic update process in some way?
Sure, but that alone doesn't give you any extra space without extending the partition
I used a Linux USB livedisk, the new drive in a usb3.0 m2 enclosure, and a USB C hub. Booted the Linux livedisk on the steam deck, used 'dd' terminal command to mirror internal drive to new one. Then used 'parted' to extend the home partition to fill all the extra space. Then used 'resize2fs' to extend the filesystem to fill the newly sized home partition.
Then powered it down, put the new drive inside the deck, booted right up. Didn't have to reinstall install jack shit.
With a USB 3.0 enclosure the total drive cloning took about 1 mins to copy the entire 256gb drive over.
Where did you get the SSD from, and how much was it? I've been looking myself for upgrade options. So far the best I've seen seems to be a Kioxia 1TB drive, for about 200 EUR, but I've never thought to check for "2280" drives that can just be cut down to 2230 size.
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I got lucky with an ebay listing.
It seems like people have caught on so these particular cuttable 2280 models are scarce.
Here are the 3 I know of:
SK Hynix BC711
Western Digital SN520
Samsung PM991a (least recommend, it doesn't look like you can drill the screw hole)
2 years ago
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Oh and $85 USD for mine.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Damn that's a steal, unsurprisingly I can't seem to find any of those models.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You can probably find an already 2230 512GB in the meantime if you are needing more space and want to be tided over until you find a listing. Those are not ludicrously priced (I can find ple ty for $50 USD)
2 years ago
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Nah I'm not in a hurry, I'm just looking around. I've got a 256GB Deck and a 128GB SD card I had laying around and this is good enough for me, I'm mostly considering an upgrade for dual booting Windows when Valve finally releases that option. I assume a dual-boot setup would need separate space for game storage, not just the OS, since Windows won't see Linux partitions and I doubt using some NTFS partition via SteamOS is going to be a good idea.
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And lastly, when you cut it, make sure you have a high grit file/sandpaper on hand. Sand down the cut edge well to make sure any lingering traces aren't touching each other. Then I suggest covering the cut with kapton tape, in case the exposed cut on the new screw hole is not just Ground signals. The screw not touching ground in your new screw hole due to tape is not a problem, there are enterprise Lenovo workstations that only use a plastic tab instead of a screw and those don't seem to blow up.
I used a Linux USB livedisk, the new drive in a usb3.0 m2 enclosure, and a USB C hub. Booted the Linux livedisk on the steam deck, used 'dd' terminal command to mirror internal drive to new one. Then used 'parted' to extend the home partition to fill all the extra space. Then used 'resize2fs' to extend the filesystem to fill the newly sized home partition.
Then powered it down, put the new drive inside the deck, booted right up. Didn't have to reinstall install jack shit.
With a USB 3.0 enclosure the total drive cloning took about 1 mins to copy the entire 256gb drive over.
Weird, wonder why it is listed as being unsupported.
Thanks anon.
Because its just valve who hasnt checked. Half my library says unsuppirted(not verified) and it runs fine
I remember owning a high-end PC when GTA IV came out and was unable to get a consistent 60FPS in that damn game. Now it's running at 60FPS on a fricking handheld, times change.
Ye. The game port is fricked. It stutters on my ryzen 3600 with 3060 ti and 32gb ram no matter the settings, but on my deck it runs beautifully. Go figure
>It stutters on my ryzen 3600 with 3060 ti and 32gb ram no matter the settings, but on my deck it runs beautifully. Go figure
Strange, I wonder then if Proton is working some magic which makes it run well.
>It stutters on my ryzen 3600 with 3060 ti and 32gb ram no matter the settings, but on my deck it runs beautifully. Go figure
Strange, I wonder then if Proton is working some magic which makes it run well.
Shader cache my friends.
Unreal Engine games are notorious for shader cache stutter yet it doesn't happen on deck because it has pre cached shaders. Same for Elden Ring, minor stutter on my 5800x/3080 yet no stutter on the deck.
I really hope valve comes back with a high end steam machine /w steam os, would solve all the shader cache problems on a desktop.
It's not about being a pussy, it's about the charging circuit not making proper contact with the thermal pad and higher current draw.
You've confused the 2280-cut-to-2230 mod with shoving in a 2242. Using a cut down 2280 does not require removing thermal pads or bending heat shroud in any way.
The point about current draw stands. I hope you properly measured power consumption of the one you installed.
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I didn't measure shit but power draw seems the same in every game I play so good enough for me. If it's different it's probably by maybe .1W at best I would guess. Utterly negligible.
What wattage is your system drawing while downloading games? That's probably the highest disk use a deck will see. Mine draws 9.8 W during downloading, if you'd like to compare.
2 years ago
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And, subjectively, I put my finger on each one while I was mirroring the original drive to the 1tb. One did not feel particularly hotter than the other.
2 years ago
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Kingston 512GB from Steam Deck sticker: 3.3V 3A
SK Hynix BC712 1TB sticker: 3.3V 2.5A
Looks good to me. You could kvetch saying "b-but maybe the 1tb will spike higher than the Kingston!!" but you are just coping and seething at that point
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Nah, that's fine. Actually impressive, the power consumption is lower. That's an upgrade in multiple ways. It might be worth it to switch 512GB SSDs if you can get one with lower power consumption for that matter.
>looking through games that are supported >check tabletop simulator >has native support for linux but doesn't work on deck
Anybody know what the deal is?
>looking through games that are supported >check tabletop simulator >has native support for linux but doesn't work on deck
Anybody know what the deal is?
Started immediately after downloading. Didn't have to set up anything. Cheers anon
My gyro just suddenly stopped working in all my games, is this an issue that needs to me RMA'd? Can anyone help? I can't find anything online about this.
Sonic 3 AIR
Thinking about installing the Jak decompilation.
Wishing there was a Ratchet Decompilation, because from what I remember that game emulates like ass.
Also:
How long has the Dolphin libretro core not been fricking shit? This makes things way less complicated
>How long has the Dolphin libretro core not been fricking shit?
Since you realised that there is no other option on Linux other than to build dolphin up yourself so had to settle for a shit libretro core or eat crow for buying crap that doesn't work properly.
If you're using SteamOS like the rest of the morons in this thread you're stuck with flatpaks and appimages, fricking deal with it. If you don't want to deal with them, install Gentoo like me
Why not? The real answer is that on the deck specifically, with an underpowered CPU, squeezing out extra performance with native optimizations and LTO is desirable.
Notice how "what games are you playing on PC" threads were non-existent up until the Deck's presale/release
Deckchuds are just as bad as your average console war fanboy, with the same techno-gizmo reverence of an Apple drone to boot
Anon, the Deck is basically a single concrete hardware platform and came out literally this year. Of course people would be talking about what they're playing on it.
I get for some reason you have a problem with it, but be rational here.
>Notice how "what games are you playing on PC" threads were non-existent
there's a thread every friday and saturday for people to say what they're playing
>Notice how "what games are you playing on PC" threads were non-existent up until the Deck's presale/release
lmao what the frick are you smoking my homie there have been threads like that for over a decade.
You just gotta tweak it. Find the range of your natural movement (eg where it will usually end up after a quick fling turning it left or right) Then adjust the gyro sensitivity until that range is mapped to the edge of the screen. As in a natural flick to your left will aim at whatever was at the left edge of your screen.
Basically I find every profile has way too high sensitivity by default. I turn it down to 50 almost always
You just gotta tweak it. Find the range of your natural movement (eg where it will usually end up after a quick fling turning it left or right) Then adjust the gyro sensitivity until that range is mapped to the edge of the screen. As in a natural flick to your left will aim at whatever was at the left edge of your screen.
Basically I find every profile has way too high sensitivity by default. I turn it down to 50 almost always
Use stick aim for a fast turn & to 'get you in the ballpark', and gyro for actually aiming.
>80 minute battery life >clunky awkwrd form factor like 1991's game gear 37 years ago >slow speed >plays high tech games but at low graphics settings, so pointless
I'll stick to the switch, and its 8 hour battery life and fun games.
>preordering first generation hardware >ever
hahaha fricking morons, why wouldn't you just wait for version 2? Really just can't wait to play your shitty anime visual novels on the toilet, can you?
You'll learn when you're older that time is a lot more valuable than money, I'm sure you'll have a great steam deck 2 in 5 years or so, and so will I.
I'll also have the original to play till then.
>time is a lot more valuable than money
While this is true, I'm not sure it applies to getting a videogame console sooner so you can hurry up and waste time on bing bing wahoo faster.
>wow a product is coming out why don't you wait 3 years for the next one and then 3 years for the next one and then 3 years for the next one and then...
Waitgays are moronic
Anybody have good experiences using Moonlight or Steam In-Home Streaming to play games from a more powerful desktop? What sort of wireless router is the minimum required for a good experience given the Deck is on wi-fi and the PC is hardwired to the router with a Cat7?
steam overlay:
-airplane mode (wifi/bluetooth off)
-40hz refresh rate
-framerate limit to 10hz
-TDP limit to 3w
-GPU limit 200mhz
-screen brightness level to taste (max can consume more than 1.8 watts than the min)
power tools settings:
-4threads -SMT on
-GPU SlowPPT and GPU FastPPT both set to zero
(2C4T @ 400mhz is usable but the Steam Deck GUI will be slow to respond. also 2C2T doesn't seem to make a difference wattage wise)
what is that attachment that you have to put the battery pack on the deck?
my set-up
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1209916250/steamclip-for-baseus-20k-65w-steamdeck
(need to select V2 steamclip on checkout for a total of $55)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THCNNCS
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SN9DJ5G
Gothic 1 with the gamepad mod. I had been filtered by the movement of the game, but I've found it way more fun with the gamepad controls than KBM somehow.
By the way, is there an easy way to cloud sync games that don't have Steam Cloud? Too many lazy devs don't add Steam Cloud to their games.
I just use Syncthing. Supposedly Warpinator is easier to use, but I could never get it to work
And I'm sure there are many programs on teh interwebs that'll do it for you. Ext2read, Diskinternals Linux Reader came up as a result of my google search
Got mine yesterday. Got one with a x4 nvme, but judging by other videos, I think I have the whining delta fan. An easy $25 repair, so I ain't gonna play the RMA lottery with it
One of the two fans they can come with is rather whiny, I ended up getting the same model myself.
It's a lot better with the updated fan curve, I'll probably just keep it since I don't want to open mine up.
q3 cuck here. how is the battery life assuming you're dropping the settings? I really want to play my PC save file of MHR portably. I'm horrified of just being tethered to a plug near my couch anyway
1 and a half hours if you are pushing absolutely everything
roughly 2 hours or more on AAA games
about 4-5 hours with most games at full performance
6 hours or so with some emulators and with the least intensive games
>At least you didn't buy a gaming laptop November 2019 with the intention of being at school and work most of the timelike I did.
Same here, frick gaming laptop batteries. Ended up buying an Xps 9500 for school this year
If you're going to pirate it (like I did) make sure you add Launcher.exe instead of AI.exe as a non-steam game. You'll have to use the fullscreen mode, otherwise the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen keep changing colours. Very distracting
>built in showcase tool for a screenshot/picture >"Why are you using the showcase? I can't make false claims about the performance of the thing when you do that."
Yakuza 0 runs like a charm on my Linux desktop + Steam Controller. Which is basically the same setup as the Deck. Also, it has low system requirements so 60 fps shouldn't be a problem
Keep in mind this is from my time using EndeavourOS on my desktop but this will basically carry over to steam deck cause both SteamOS and Endeavour are arch based.
Ryza 1 works fine in game, but the intro video had no audio, even on GE-Proton.
Yakuza 0 runs perfectly. Unless something gets fixed further with proton however you're gonna run into issues with Yakuza 5 or 6 cutscene audio I hear, I forgot which one of the two it was, but people said they had some issues with that.
That is my first line of attack when something like that happens, hence my explanation about Ryza 1. I'm just going by what I heard, I haven't played Yakuza 5 or 6 yet.
just installed a windows exe install file through proton, when it was asking to select a directory ir all looked like windows directories, installed in program files or something, I am trying to find the exe that was installed but have 0 idea where the frick these windows program files are located, any ideas? tried searching the name of the game and it can't find anything, but it seems I have lost the correct amount of storage, just no fricking idea where it is
You should be able to find it through the shader cache or comapibility layer folder in the steam directory. I can't remember which but I had that same issue and it was in one of those
You'll have to frick around with proton/wine files. They're located somewhere deep in the steam directory. Just google it
t. Had to change some files to get FXIV to run
For proton there's a folder directory inside of steamapps called compatdata, inside of that is /pfx/, if non steam games have their own dedicated steamID of sorts it will be in there, otherwise idk. You're really supposed to use WINE for non steam games though instead, proton is mostly for just steam games.
I have never tried to use Proton for non steam games so idk. The thing about proton is that every single steam game you download has it's own "prefix", which is like if you containerized an entire windows directory into a folder. Each of the numbers inside of steamapps/compatdata/prefix correspond to a game's SteamID, which is the number you see at the top of a URL on the game's store page.
I presume there's a specific prefix for non steam games that everything non steam gets dumped into, but when it comes to non steam games, I mainly use Bottles or Lutris for that instead.
How do you quantify that though for non steam games, what would they be called if they have no steamID number of their own?
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it'll be a vastly different number from other appids
I forget how to find it since I don't have any non-steam games currently added on my arch install
2 years ago
Anonymous
See I just use bottles mostly these days, that keeps things neat and tidy to my liking. I'd use Lutris instead on steam deck obviously especially since that's designed to be visually consistent with KDE Plasma instead of GNOME like bottles is, but the flatpak version is apparently in beta so I'd rather just use a known quantity. On my linux laptop I used Lutris instead though obviously.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>since that's designed to be visually consistent with KDE Plasma instead of GNOME
Lutris is based on GTK dude
2 years ago
Anonymous
I said what I said based on the fact that Lutris adopted my KDE Plasma global themes just fine, while bottles never did.
2 years ago
Anonymous
bottles uses my gtk/qt theme setup just fine (I use the Nordic GTK theme anyway) but still has the menubar on top like a typical gtk app so I dislike its look
🙁
2 years ago
Anonymous
My biggest complaint with GNOME and it's apps are the fat ass window bars and how hard things are to customize in comparison to KDE global theme manager. I would prefer GNOME to KDE if they just put more effort into letting me customize GNOME's look easier with an inbuilt Global Theme Manager-like app instead of with a web browser but everyone I say this to says some dumb shit like >"UHM, GNOME IS MEANT TO BE USED AS IS, WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO CUSTOMIZE IT, I AM SILLY BECAUSE MY OPINION IS IN ALL CAPS"
Just got mine today, I'm just fricking around trying different things. Running demanding games, trying out mouse control games with the touchpad, emulation, etc. Having a lot of fun with it so far, and really impressed with it.
Think the first thing I'll really play is Trails in the Sky. Been wanting to get into that series.
>Just got mine today
>Trails in the Sky
are you me?
I was just about to sit down and figure out how to install the voice pack on it. Enjoy your playthroughs bros
>playing something a toaster could run as your first game
Yeah but this way you get to give money to daddy corporation
playing heroes of might and magic 3
with the HD mod?
That's disgusting.
Holy fricking based. That will be the first thing i play when i get my deck in 2023.
using mine for an hour makes me wish Holo was available for me to daily on my main computer
It is but it's pretty jank right now.
Anon look up HoloISO.
or winesapOS
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/07/winesapos-is-another-way-to-get-something-like-steamos-on-desktop/
got scarlet nexus in a bundle
turned off in-game frame limiter, shadows and textures to medium
overlay lock at 60
performing really solid atm
>GPU 78c
>CPU 80c
Yeah if you continue playing games like that you're going to go through hardware so quickly.
mobile chips are designed to run at those temps
Playing Into the Breach for the first time
Pretty fun game
Daily reminder
Trash-quality partial disassembly of pre-release hardware
While Demon's Souls performs well, the audio is rather crackly and some sound effects don't play. No solution to this is apparent to me.
You guys get a screen protector for yours?
512 chad so no
I have a 512, but I saw that durability test in youtube was was wondering if it needed one.
the etched glass has the same effect that a screenprotector would apply. by putting a protector on the 512 you are essentially adding a second layer of blur and your image quality will suffer
i can understand the sentiment to want to protect the screen, but this isn't nintendo. if your screen truly gets scratched and fricked out of orbit you can just buy a new part from ifixit and put it in yourself.
The etched screen glass is stronger ?
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Why get one? I'm not going to lugg it around without the case. I can't scratch it with my nails or stylus. A protector would do the opposite and accumulate dust on its edges and look like shit.
I'd use one for a game boy or phone which you have in your pockets, but not the deck
Yeah, I usually get one for this sort of device just as a precaution. I don't really see why not, they can be had for almost nothing and will help avoiding accidental scuffs or scratches on the screen.
>You guys get a screen protector for yours?
can't see the point if I don't have one on my iPad either. I'll just be careful
If just to add anti glare, yeah, it should be arriving today.
>payin all that money just to emulate nintendo shit
What a fricking joke
I haven't been playing any Nintendo shit though
Sure, that's on the table, but I've been mostly playing PC shit
I mean I've heard some jokes in my time, but this one takes the cake!
>Switch is $300
>Buy two games
>Now more expensive than steam deck
>Buy steam deck
>Install cemu
>Play every nintendies games for free
>Then play every other game I want too
wew lad, really boils my noodles
>payin all that money just to emulate nintendo shit
Sometimes it is humbling to go on a similar experience as that of the lower class of gamers, it puts how good we have it in perspective
>Never mobile gaming though we have our limits
>Sometimes it is humbling to go on a similar experience as that of the lower class of gamers
That would explain wanting to play games on a Steam Deck
except it wont run well. they lag by design caching in new zones every time u go somewhere new ingame. on every fricking game,. switch emulation is a joke and all demo vids are pre-cached.
Its not that bad
>switch emulation
Give them a bit more time to optimize them for the deck. The Dolphin Emulator Devs are busy optimizing the emulator for the Steam Deck.
Is Cemu any better on it than switch emulation?
>install emulators
>still buggy
>still unreliable
>still can’t play. every title
>still cranky
Naw
lmao you can't play switch games with cemu, you dumb frick
I don't get it, it's the heaviest, bulkiest and unwieldy handheld ever and they play indie games and emulate old nintendo games.
I just don't understand the appeal.
Its ok to be filtered every once in a while anon.
>it's heavy, bulky and unwieldy
>y-you got filtered
Oh no. What a great comeback.
Yeah, I don't think so.
>Oh no. What a great comeback.
Black person if i wanted to give you my comeback i'd tell you to scrape it off your moms chin
and you never will
no one gives a frick about garbage nintendo games, Switch games are shit
>no one gives a frick about garbage nintendo games
>half the posts ITT are about emulating Nintendo games including BotW
I see
It causes asshurt which is why its so fun to talk about
People enjoy the asshurt you generate, most games outside of Nintendo are ALWAYS better. So shut the frick up and move on.
As someone that owns a Switch, yes, it has no games. Its why I intend to sell mine when I get my Deck this month.
>As someone that owns a Switch, yes, it has no games
Thanks for repeating it.
>T-thanks
Ok
Hit a raw nerve I see. Try not to cry, lil' guy.
People only emulate nintendo games to laugh at tendies. Nobody actually plays that shit for real. If they gave enough of a shit, they'd probably just buy a switch.
all that money just to emulate PS2 shit
fixed that for u
nintendo makes the best games...
I'm putting emudeck on it right now. It downloaded all the stuff but now I need to move my bioses and yuzu keys to it, so I had to download something called anydesk so I can just remote into my deck from my desktop since the on-screen keyboard is ass and doesn't work for me sometimes.
What's the first thing I should emulate? I was thinking Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles 1/2 is currently unplayable due to some mesa-related frickery even on EA. Pick something else.
Oh, that sucks. I guess I can try out Smash Ultimate then
Wtf are you talking about? XC1 runs perfectly.
>almost 7 hours of non stop dungeons of dredmor
Peak comfy. Can't wait till dwarf fortress releases. That thing will probably run for 12 or 15 hours
If you're talking battery time, you're highly underestimating the extend that df will murder it through the cpu, with a sufficiently large colony.
And the cpu is not the deck's strong point.
df?
Dwarf Fortress
i think even in "vn mode" the most battery life that is possible is a little over 8 hours
i can't find thephawx's tweet at the moment
>DF
>Running for longer than 4 hours
lol, lmao even. DF is going to bend that CPU over and frick it in the ass. You might get more than 5 hours if you are playing adventure mode, but fortress mode is going to kill that battery quick
Q3 bros, where are you at? Anyone got an email yet?
loads of q3 bros got emails the past week or two
gabe dumping his fat load rn
>Old calculator website said I'd get my email on July 25
>New site now says I'll get it tomorrow
bros...should I get my hopes up?
Better to expect the worse so if it arrives earlier then it is a nice suprise
>512GB
Enjoy your shitty "anti-glare" screen. Getting 256GB version with normal screen and then upgrading the storage if needed was much better choice.
The antiglare screen is far superior to the glossy one side by side
>-t someone who has access to both IRL
Same here. I compared mine (512GB) and my wife's one (256GB). They are same indoor, but mine is much better outdoor.
>q3 bro
>got my email June 30
>get my deck today
Can't stop winning
noice, what will be the first game you play?
>pic rel
Thanks
Have fun anon, Deck is cool
So, should I expect my email within a week or so?
got mine in the 2nd Q3 batch, now just have to wait and hope it survives FedEx
I hoping to get an email this month, but it'll probably come early next month
I got my email in July 4 but didn’t see it and purchase it until July 5. Hasn’t shipped yet.
you'll get tracking info in like 11 hours
seems like everyone gets tracking info 3 days after the initial invite window
Nothing because it has no games
Uh, Steam Deck bros? Did we just lose?
steamies............................................................................................................
steams*
Any sale recs for the Deck? Currently playing:
>DQ11
>Halo Wars
dragons dogma dark arisen $5
titan fall 2 $5
RE4HD $5 (get texture mods and shit)
i think stacklands is pretty fun to play with touchpad controls if you're into tabletop kind of stuff
stalker bundle for anomaly mod
ff9 for moguri mod
https://sites.google.com/view/moguri-mod/home
was hesitant to drop $15 on this game but it's fricking golden.
runs great on deck, can use community controller profiles for gyro on touch as well.
https://gg.deals/game/neon-white/
I'm a poorgay, should I get this or the switch oled?
switch oled not close
switch oled is only worth it if you dont have a switch, but even then i would still go for a deck
significant boost in power, lack of hacks needed (its a pc and it gives you that freedom. piracy, emulation, and save file migration are all extremely simple), better speakers, better battery life on games with similar graphics, larger library, and better controls >>>> slightly better display quality
go for the deck, and if you really want an oled portable, get a used vita
The vita's were oled? I totally skipped that generation of handhelds
The first models were. They released a revision that was thinner, rounder, cheaper, used a micro usb port instead of a proprietary port, had some on board memory, and did not have a OLED screen.
Not only were the first models OLED, they also had magnetic sticks instead of potentiometers.
>magnetic sticks instead of potentiometers.
QRD?
The original vita 1000's sticks were hall effect based and using magnets. The stick assembly looks identical to the 2K potentiometer sticks but the internals are completely different.
Why aren't they used in everything then?
The sticks are small and they're not a random chinese part but a Sony-manufactured part. They're not produced anymore.
immune to drift
deck as a poorgay. just pirate all games and no online fee.
Yeah this, even with the 64GB it isn't unusual to have an SD card laying around to expand it, that and the Nintendo tax on game prices is ridiculous they never go down either, digital BoTW cost is still what $70?
baffles me how well games run off of just SD cards
i assume its because of the cached shaders on the SSD which is probably way shittier on the 64 version
Yeah maybe, I went middle of the road with my choice but a few days back bought a 1TB ssd to swap out when it arrives, I'm notoriously bad for data hoarding so if I don't fill this thing with everything it can take I'll be pissed
>I'm a poorgay
So buy the console you can pirate with.
You would have to hardmod the Oled switch, and the modchips are getting scarce since ninty shut a bunch of sellers down.
In 2022, the Switch is basically worthless and has zero interesting upcoming releases. Want a better experience, more games, better performance, and free online with cloud saving?
Get a Deck.
We have resident Switch shills that spam (its clearly a child) so just ignore that shit.
>In 2022, the Switch is basically worthless
>zero interesting upcoming releases
Steam Deck is higher value because you can get more out of it, steam games actually go on sale and you can emulate plenty of older games on it for free, so I'd definitely say its worth more for you if you're a poorgay.
Unless you really want to play particular switch games you're going to get a lot more out of it.
Not even a question, if you're a poorgay why would you ever pick Nintendo, the homosexuals who never put their games on sale?
Probably still holding out from the Wii Era when it was actually a half decent thing to grab with the wide selection of actively developed homebrew
Their games go on sale frequently enough. A few times a year. The main issue with the switch is its just an android port machine with a storefront that is constantly abused by people who know how to game the system.
STOP DELAYING MY ORDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
If I reserve one now? how long until I would actually get one?
2023 at minimum by the looks of things, valve has stopped putting definite dates on orders now
Omari, using Xcloud streaming with my xbox gamepass
Its quite nice
I resold mine for $300 more than I paid.
Didn't buy it with the intention to scalp, I just realized that I don't like video games anymore once I got it. That, and I have a gaming desktop which is sufficient for me.
w-who is that?
looks like ass implants
source
got my email and ordered mine yesterday, planning on kicking things off with some comfy jet set radio when it arrives
Don't forget Future runs on it too.
Been playing
>Billy Hatcher
>Pokemon Crystal Clear
>Elden Ring
>Dark Souls
>Oblivion
Steam sale
>Turok bundle
>Control
>Star Wars Episode 1 Racer
>Morrowind
>Duck Game
>Forsaken
Upcoming projects
>Modding Dragon Age Origins
>Setting up Mod Organizer 2 for Skyrim
>BOTW on CEMU
>Kid Icarus Uprising with touchpad controls
>Ascension WoW private server
>See if I can use settings to make Demon Souls run without the FPS tanking when physics objects break
I love this little miracle machine
b a s t e
what game?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1173400/Futa_Fix_Dick_Dine_and_Dash/
frickin ten outta ten game it has penises in it and theyre attached to women
I watched Clint Stevens in bed last night
Won't be getting mine for months, because I was unsure if I wanted one and waited like a fool.
I can't imagine that's very pleasant since you need to input text regularly.
Imagine trying to play uplink or hacknet on this thing.
Its actually not bad at all.
The decks virtual keyboard is easy to bring up and using the twin stick typing is fast and intuitive to type with.
>get mine tomorrow
I am so excite
>futa, no balls
pass
Great taste, mate
Nothing yet. I got fricked over on the order process. Submitted my order at 10:02am PST on opening day, payment processor froze, and it went through at 11:32am which charts show is right after the orders died down. So all you frickers got your orders in "before" me and got the 4-lane NVMes while I'm gonna be stuck with 2.
Mine gets here tofrickingmorrow.
I'm beginning to wish I had this piece of shit. There are games I wish I could play in the bed that I don't want to buy again or they don't even have a port to a different platform. I feel like I made fun of Gabe's vision without giving it a chance as a form of cope...
just stream to your phone. i do it on my vita.
The decks touch pads would make mouse games play nicely
The vita doesn't have enough buttons for most stuff sadly
Always makes me laugh when a Switch port comes out 2 years later, runs and looks like shit, and they charge full price.
My knew jerk reaction in the first 5 minutes of it being announced was what in the absolute frick is gabe thinking but the more I thought about it the more I began to want one. Really glad I put down a reservation on day 1 now.
I doubted and waited a full day, ended up having to wait a year to get one. Cool.
I didn't doubt at all and immediately bought it, but I also had a VAIO UX back a while ago and knew what I was getting myself into. Hardware and software have come a long way since 2006.
I have modded sonic adventure 2 battle in the palm of my hands anon
Ive literally just been playing Slay the Spire and For the King before bed, and its quite nice
how many gpu shaders does the deck have?
Shaders? Do you mean CUs? The Steam Deck has 8 CUs. To give you an idea of how that stacks against other hardware of the same type, the AMD RX 6700 XT has 40 CUs.
Does RDNA still use 64 shaders per CU?
RDNA2, but yes.
what's the point of having that weak of a GPU in a game system? That's the same layout that all of AMD's laptop processors already have. Why didn't steam order a custom processor with more GPU power. How many games run at 60 fps on it?
>Why didn't steam order a custom processor with more GPU power.
They did, lmao. This thing is stronger than current laptop processor offerings. The integrated graphics on current-gen APUs have 4 CUs.
>The integrated graphics on current-gen APUs have 4 CUs.
AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800U
Graphics Capabilities
Graphics Model
AMD Radeon™ Graphics
Graphics Core Count: 8
https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-5800u
>what's the point of having that weak of a GPU in a game system?
Preserving battery life and thermals you dummy. Handhelds are always a compromise. You'll never see the performance of contemporary desktop graphics cards in one.
>You'll never see the performance of contemporary desktop graphics cards in one.
how about contemporary laptop cards? There's no reason it couldn't have 1280 or 1536 shaders like the last gen Vega M GX or GL
You realize those are intended to run at 30W and overheat in most laptops regularly when gaming, right?
Ever seen the battery life and thermals of gaming laptops? Also those pieces of garbage are infamous for crapping out after a few years.
>Also those pieces of garbage are infamous for crapping out after a few years.
And the Steam Deck won't?
I don't know, let me get my crystal ball.
Unlikely. The thing has extremely well-managed thermals. It shits almost all the heat straight out the vent.
No. It has the seal of quality and a ten year warranty.
RDNA and RDNA2 are completely different from Vega.
Second scalar unit, major instruction changes, 2x32SIMD vs 4x16 in Vega and older GCN iterations, etc.
They have 4WGPs, which is 2CUs. Renoir and Cezanne have 8 Vega CU.
>Why didn't steam order a custom processor with more GPU power
What are you talking about? RDNA2 is like 50% more performant than vega.
bout tree fiddy
waiting for v2
>pre-ordered two days after announcement
>still haven't been emailed about my copy
>two days after
You fricked up.
Imagine people preordering now.
Didnt they say that production is ramping way up?
I know the chip shortage is pretty much over at this point, so it may not be as bad as it has been.
I was there the second orders opened up, the site crashed and I got my order in 15 minutes late
I just got my deck like 2 weeks ago.
Just wait
Gotta say, as cool as linux is, modding is definitely not its strong suit. The flatpak version of lutris is broken and doesn't have its dependencies.. Had problems getting mod managers to run through proton. Finally decided to get a stable mod setup working on Windows and then just transferring the entire game over. It almost worked, but half the mods are broken. I realized quickly that OBSE just plain does not want to work on linux so I had to try some gay work around to patch obse_loader to ignore complaining about being on linux and patch oblivionlauncher to start obse instead of the game. It still didn't work so I had to settle for a minimal mod setup of basically just unofficial oblivion patch and a few others. Huge pain in the ass, would not recommend even bothering with mods unless you are already competent enough with linux that you don't need to hear some recommendation in the first place.
You have to setcap cap_sys_ptrace+eip on wineserver and wine-preloader if you want DLL injection to work.
can I just set that as a steam launch option somehow?
No. This is a do-it-once-on-proton-files-as-root thing. Essentially, WINE doesn't obey normal Linux process hierarchy and it needs extra privelleges which are insecure.
Could you be a little more specific on what I need to do? I don't really know much about WINE. Is this something I should be setting in winecfg through protontricks?
I just set WINEDLLOVERRIDES for games that have used dinput8.dll for mods
That's mostly an issue with Bethesda games as the mods do some pretty fricked up shit to fix those broken-ass games. With games that aren't broken by default modding isn't much of an issue.
UBER HAXOR
nice arm homosexual
if your playing oblivion theres a script to install mod manager 2 for it fricking moron also no shit the flatpak version sucks dick flatpaks are awful not that it matters since lutris is terrible even when it does "work" just use wine and userscripts manually lutris is homosexual bloatware that only makes things harder 99% of the time
If lutris is bad, but other non-steam, oldest games work so well... I am interested to know the alternative lutris. Suggest? I tried "bottles", it works, but bloatware af.
I'm new to linux as well and had big issues getting OBSE to work on my deck. After patching the obse and replacing the Oblivion Launcher I still didn't get mods like Northern UI to work, but I installed SkyBSA and suddenly all mods using OBSE started working. I think it has something to do with file timestamps but I'm not sure.
Are you using OBSE or xOBSE?
xOBSE
>flatpak version of lutris is broken
Don't use flatpak/snap anything, they are always broken
Actually, it usually just tends to be permissions associated with the software not being sufficient.
This is just a straight up lie, the worst problem with flatpak is the bloat, but usually something "just werking" has been my experience with it to make up for that.
Flatpak works really well in my experience.
Oh frick no. It took so long to get to me in the queue I realised the mistake I was making and didn't buy that shit. Looks like a lot of people here fell for it though. I see so many people so proud to be playing basic indie titles on it which can be played on an easily modded secondhand switch for half the price. And there are literally thousands of them so you'd never play them all.
Still, sure can't wait for that one guy who totally wants to play elden ring as it was meant to be played: 30 fps for an hour on a six inch screen on a bus. Frick. David Lynch was right.
I havent touched my modded switch since my deck showed up.
The control scheme and ergonomics (despite being a bit heavier) just curbstomp the frick out of the switch.
Its night and day how nice the deck is to play, and by contrast how fricking terrible the switch is.
Consolewar shitposting aside, im unironically going to sell my switch because of it. It actually makes the switch redundant.
I'm sure now you have it, it DOES make the switch redundant. It plays more stuff by default. But my point is that when I considered all I wanted to do was play indies and older emulated stuff, it made more sense to just buy a switch and put atmosphere or whatever the troony cfw is called on it. Cost me like 150 bucks too. Frick Nintendo, didn't give them a penny.
Its amusing to see anons saying 'finally! After a year of waiting, I can play [indie title that's been on switch for five years]. To many this is a waste of money, a novelty bound to gather dust when they realise that.
> To many this is a waste of money, a novelty bound to gather dust when they realise that.
Video games are inherently a waste of money, so thats not really a valid point.
There have been over 90million switches sold over the last 6 years.
By this point people know whether they want a large hand held console to play games, its not like this is an unknown form factor. Almost everyone owns a switch, or at least has used one at this point.
You know exactly what you are getting when ordering this thing
Nobody is buying this and just letting it gather dust, the people who are interested in this are the ones who bought and used a switch but didnt want the limitations of the switch.
Also lets not pretend that a hacked switch is a great alternative.
They were unpatched for right under 2 years.
So if you were to buy one today its at LEAST a 4 year old console, maybe up to 6 years old.
There is no coldboot, there is no native DS emulation, it cant emulate 3DS for shit.
Yeah you only spent 150 bucks, but you got way less of a console thats got 4 years of wear on it.
There are no exclusive indies, all those indies are fricking multiplats.
Pretty much anyone who has burnt through the 10 first party games has nothing else exclusive to play on it.
It really isnt hard to supplant the switch nowadays.
The deck is the very definition of a novelty item. A way for people to play the games they already own in a slightly different, less comfortable, way. It might be nice for "clearing a backlog" , but a backlog exists because we get tired of having too many games, and once the novelty wears off, that backlog grows once more. It has no other use.
Valve and Nintendo are now both so guilty of stagnation. Of giving us 'new ways' to play the games we already have, which are always some garbage gimmick.
That's a problem with the industry in general honestly, for example, I no longer see any value in console gaming, used to be when you bought a console, it was plug it in the back of your CRT TV, press a button/flip a switch, and it just werked, now every console has updates, bugs out, requires internet connections to do fricking anything important, charges you for the privilege of playing your own games online, etc. and all run on x86 architecture, to me they're just shittier PCs when they used to have actual value. I think the only place LEFT to go in this industry is diversifying the ways we play games we already have, outside of VR, which is cool, but VR is expensive and thus too many people have sour grapes about it and on top of that Meta is currently in the process of trying to monopolize that space which is shitty cause I'm never gonna make a facebook account no matter how much they dangle over me in terms of exclusivity deals, so we're not having that revolution we need in gaming to make it interesting again, plus AAA games seem to have graphics that get better and better but the gameplay more and more boring and tedious, so as far as I'm concerned, the logical next step is throwing my hands up and going "frick it I just wanna play the games I'm already playing on the go"
I am excited for gaming because I know a crash is coming, and I am actually old enough to remember the first one. The whole "Nintendo saved the industry" line is a desperate con. The truth is, home computers and the indie scene flourished. I want that again, without big business trying to tell us that we need to buy THEIR special control scheme to enjoy things.
Ironically to the "saving the industry" meme, Nintendo is the company I hate the most right now. I can just not play Actiblizzard, EA, and Ubisoft games because I genuinely have no interest in their cookie cutter open world games, FPS games, and dopamine + wallet farm RPGs, but Nintendo games are near and dear to me, and nintendo preserves them like absolute dogshit + fricks with ROMsites that host games that have absolutely nothing to do with their first party publishing so once they get their eye of sauron on them games that mean a lot to me but are no longer sold anywhere outside of ebay scalpers who won't give a cent to the original IP holders or original devs if I buy a physical copy from them just go poof, and they treat fangames, genuine labors of love, like AM2R, as if they're made by pests who are meant to be squished under their boot.
Nintendo is the disney of the video game industry. Family friendly image, beloved by hardcore almost cult like fans, used to output amazing shit, nowadays however it's apparently they're a hollow corporate soulless shell that wants to bank off their recognizable IPs yet would rather you not celebrate the original pillars that built their modern empire to begin with. I can't fricking stand nintendo, cause when EA, Ubisoft or Activision does something shitty, it's usually contained to their modern games (except for Ubisoft with their recent shutdown of older game services, that's a recent development), but when nintendo is on the warpath, they straight up destroy history near and dear to me, and the absolute worst part of it all is I have to watch their cult like fans who only have a baseline appreciation of video games that does not extend beyond "don't ask questions just consume new product and get excited for next product" defend it. I'm probably going to get a few (You)s that REEE at me for saying this too.
>apparently
*apparent
Talking about AM2R in a Steam Deck thread, anyone know where one can still find the Linux version?
I didn't even know it HAD a linux version. I have the patched version of the windows one though.
I already do break off from valve a bit, I buy stuff from GOG and Itch.io and play stuff that isn't on steam like SRB2/SRB2Kart, The Dark Mod, etc. But the issue is that valve are like the only competent ones right now. GOG refuses to make an official galaxy launcher for linux and they let shit like Hitman 3 onto their store when they are supposed to be a DRM free service (plus GOG doesn't have the same quality control in general that they used to when it came to patching up older games to run on modern hardware, they used to include digital scans of game manuals and shit and it was awesome but they don't do that so much these days), itch.io is fantastic but mostly for small, novelty projects that you just simply can't find on steam, and I could write a 9 post long thesis on all of the problems I have with Epic Games Store so I'm going to spare you from that.
I would say Valve is the "Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing" of the game industry, but they don't do nothing, Steam has every feature I want out of a game launcher, even niche ones I never knew I wanted till I had them like remote play together, in home streaming, the SteamVR backend, linux support, steam curators, and following game pages for patchnotes and activity in one webpage feed. They also inform me if a game has Denuvo DRM or some other third party bullshit I don't want to deal with on the store page.
You won't catch me saying some reddit bullshit like "lord gaben" or whatever because I haven't forgotten about paid mods, their neglect of Team Fortress 2 and Half Life (Alyx was pretty good but I had to wait 13 or so years to play it and it didn't even move the plot also nobody gives a shit about artifact) or how shitty steam was on launch, but holy shit man to say that their competition stacks up is to be either disingenuous or willfully ignorant.
>I didn't even know it HAD a linux version
iirc they released it shortly before it was taken down. I even had it, but it got lost at some point and now I can't fricking find it anywhere. Thanks Nintendo.
Good Post. Nintendo is circling the drain like the rest of them. They'll just take longer. Disney outlived their rivals, but you look deeper and all the signs of life you see is maggots infesting the corpse. Same with nintendo.
Buy a hard drive.
Pirate everything.
Play indie platformers and metroidvania, which are basically better than Nintendo games anyway.
Break the stranglehold they have on you.
Same applies to valve too. They're not the saviours of gaming. They just want their chance to wear the shiny boot that kicks gaming to death. I think Bobby still has it on..
I'm in exactly the same boat as you, a decent PC and a hacked Switch. I keep clicking on these threads because I really like the idea of the Deck, and I definitely appreciate the work Valve is doing with proton and Linux, but when I think it through the Deck would just be pure novelty for me, not something I actually need. I'd like to wait a bit longer to make sure Valve doesn't just drop the whole thing and forget about it like they tend to do with pretty much everything else that isn't steam itself. I hope the Deck is successful because I like the idea, but it would be a waste of money to me right now.
>I'd like to wait a bit longer to make sure Valve doesn't just drop the whole thing and forget about it like they tend to do with pretty much everything else
They 100% will not drop the deck form factor in the short or medium term.
Getting SteamOS into the hands of gamers, creating Proton and getting devs to build native linux games is of the utmost importance to Valve and their long term outlook.
The failed Steam Machines and the Steam Deck are not about selling hardware, but about weening players off of Windows.
>They 100% will not drop the deck form factor in the short or medium term.
I hope so, like I said I want the Deck to be successful. But I think I'm going to give Valve some time to prove they want this thing to go somewhere; I am immune to FOMO, I can wait.
I don't understand why people are like "valve must do shitz!!!1!"
This thing is just a fricking PC. Install some other flavor of Linux or Windows if you're that concerned about software longevity. I sure did.
You are flat out moronic or coping if you think they would sink multiple millions into these projects for the sake of what amounts to their own toy linux distro. 'it's not about the deck' might be comforting to think considering the current state of the deck, but it's not true. And if it was? Frick they failed hard. The main problem people have with the deck is the shitty undercooked os
>You are flat out moronic or coping if you think they would sink multiple millions into these projects for the sake of what amounts to their own toy linux distro
kek
Do you know how much money they stand to lose if Microsoft has their way, forcing steam onto the Windows Store and siphoning money off the top for every steam purchase?
They are selling the decks at near cost.
Its pretty obvious you havent paid attention to Valve at all in the last decade.
Gaben has come out publicly denouncing Windows after they introduced the Windows Store with Win8.
He straight up called it "dangerous" to steam, and then went crazy dumping tons of money into Proton and the Steam Machines.
They never stopped work pushing Vulkan and Proton, but now they are pushing SteamOS again by selling hardware people might actually want.
Imagine thinking that valve wasted hundreds of millions just to get people to use their Linux distro. Genius.
>the deck doesn't NEED to succeed!
You're an idiot. Valve has been pouring money into Linux in general not out of desire to see Linux succeed, but to hold a metaphorical gun to Microshat's head and prevent them from going full moron lockdown.
The Deck is an experiment to try and create a market for UMPC devices that they can make more money off. The deck is just a test. Nothing more, nothing less.
If this was true then valve is absolutely brain damaged to do it. Literally fricking wasting hundreds of millions making a Umpc just to advertise their Linux distro.
Lmao
The point was never about their Linux distro. It was about Linux in general needing to actually threaten Microsoft. Are you actually moronic?
>Imagine thinking that valve wasted hundreds of millions just to get people to use their Linux distro
Its blatantly obvious with their actions and their statements over this last decade
>the deck doesn't NEED to succeed!
It doesnt need to make a large profit with the hardware**
They have talked about licensing out SteamOS to OEMs to make their own Steam Deck variants, just like they did with the Steam Machines.
Success with the Steamdeck = getting an sizable linux userbase on Steam
>Literally fricking wasting hundreds of millions making a Umpc just to advertise their Linux distro.
Because they stand to lost hundreds of millions a year to microsoft charging them platform fees.
Are you stupid?
Do you just not understand the situation here?
>Its amusing to see anons saying 'finally! After a year of waiting, I can play [indie title that's been on switch for five years].
It's more amusing to see Switchbreasts get excited for PS3 era games they were bashing on Ganker decade earlier during the wii era.
>"hurrrr who cares its about gameplay" *waggle* *waggle* PEW PEW!
>8 years go by
>"holy crap KOTOR!" *ONIONS FACE*
And what isn't a port from the ps3/360 era is a 17FPS version of a game that has been done before. Have you ever played STRIDER from 2014? Put that side by side with Dread.
Nintendo's GAMEBOY philosophy isn't working on the Switch. Have you seen fallguys? its a slow loading mess.
>Nintendo's GAMEBOY philosophy isn't working on the Switch. Have you seen fallguys? its a slow loading mess.
More like...Nintendo has tried to back to the gamecube philosophy, but they've forgotten what that was and are now poorly emulating themselves ha ha
Has anyone tried streaming to YouTube or Twitch with this?
You can't become a streamer with the deck.
If I order one in a few months when I have money what will my wait time be bros?
The preorder is $5. Put it in now and start saving.
Nothing till I get mine MONTHS from now, since I'm "After Q3"
I'm basically going to be playing the same shit I play on my main PC, since I don't buy games with Denuvo DRM, and I don't play games with EAC outside of Halo MCC which I barely touch anymore anyway, so I'll have no problems playing stuff like Inscryption, Warframe, Fights in Tight Spaces, Tetris Effect: Connected, Madness: Project Nexus, GZDoom, Unreal Tournament 2004, etc.
It's just a shame it won't be viable to play Killing Floor 2 on the steam deck. Not because it won't run, it will run fine, but because it takes 10 minutes to start that game up meaning it's hardly a good fit for a portable console, tripwire are hacks. Won't stop me from playing the better KF1 though, but with who is the question since the servers for that game are dead.
If I have any complaints with the steam deck based on the on paper stats, it's the immutable file system, this means I can't load ani-cli onto it which is one of linux's strongest applications in my eyes. But I get it, it's supposed to be moron-proof so the filesystem is there.
Playing 2k and GTAIV, a little bit of dragons dogma too.
Pretty comfy but the battery should be improved.
Haven't decided on if I'll scalp it or not. Just got my first big boy job out of college so its not a big difference, but money is money.
playing neon white, any one happen to be a action layer/valve controller genius?
basically i'm imagining some way in which i can make my right track pad convert to a flick stick temporarily so that i can quickly turn 180 degrees.
but i'm not really sure how to go about doing this
starting to really dig this battery pack set-up
keeps your deck topped off the entire time you play and as soon as you see it drop below 99 you can pull the pack off and go charge it while your deck uses the rest of its full battery.
it takes me 50 minutes to charge the battery pack back to full using the deck's charging cable which essentially converts to 100% uptime for my deck now.
What do you typically play and how many hours would you guess you get on average?
right now just bouncing between neon white and death stranding director's cut.
NW = 4-5 hrs, DS = 90m (no battery pack attached)
i might be able to juice neon white to 6 hours i just haven't bothered.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THCNNCS
That doesn't make it too heavy for long play sessions? Don't have a Deck myself, but one of the complaints I kept seeing was that without a surface to rest it on, long play sessions would get uncomfortable.
>heavy
yeah there's added weight for sure, just depends on your position. i'm mainly playing standing up so i feel the weight on my forearm/wrist
it does have a built in kickstand (and a sd card holder slot) though so you don't have to bear all of it if you don't want to
Which battery pack is that?
what is that attachment that you have to put the battery pack on the deck?
Getting my deck soon. Will I be able to run stuff like Metroid Prime out of the box on it? Or do I need to like reformat/install windows on it or something?
running a basic rom in dolphin sure
but what you really want to be doing is running prime hack, takes a little more effort
(widescreen, all 3 games, fps controls etc.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/u8748j/metroid_prime_trilogy_primehack_a_steam_deck_guide/
slick
The deck is the only console that caught my attention in the past 10+ years.
Unfortunately the pre-order is not available in my country.
>Unfortunately the pre-order is not available in my country
is it US only for now?
I love my deck so much bros
Can't wait for my 512gb SD card to come in the mail so I can put even more stuff on it
>after Q3
test
>Your expected order availability: Q3 (July-September) 2022
>yfw you get the invite today
Bro
At least you're not from Russia
Can we admit the deck flopped hard? Even the most easily-hyped normies don't care now..
https://www.t3.com/features/my-steam-deck-has-finally-been-made-available-so-why-am-i-not-smiling
steamies.................................................................................................................................................
>exactly a minute between posts
here as a (You) now go be a moron somewhere else
literally who the frick is T3 and why should I care about some glorified blogger's opinion?
>I wanna be an early adoopter
>I don't want it if it doesn't make me feel special anymore
>I'm going to use my money for CONSOLE VR instead
Legitimate brainrot
Redundant. ALL early adopters have brain rot
If you listened to me when I recommended the addicting-as-hell rogue-lite game "Vampire Survivors," then believe me when I say this:
"Nomad Survival" is equally awesome.
A clone of sorts, but it stands on its own and is dripping with quality and fun, and longevity. It is another great cheap vampire Survivors styled game - Less than $3.
nomad survival is aight, kinda too easy and i sort of have no motivation to play it again after getting most of the achievements
definitely check out 20 minutes till dawn if you want something a little more challenging
also holocure on itch.io is probably better than both vamp/nomad survival
gunlocked is pretty cool if you want more of a shmup flavor
all run on deck
Honestly I hate how people call new or out of the ordinary things "gimmicks" or "clones", to me VampSurvs are a genre that I want to see more of, just like these $3 auto attack games with cool builds. I hope the people who make these are under no illusions that their game is worth more than $3 though.
I remember owning a high-end PC when GTA IV came out and was unable to get a consistent 60FPS in that damn game. Now it's running at 60FPS on a fricking handheld, times change.
>11.2W
damn, that's nice. What settings are you using?
Cant post now since Im not home. But native res. Mix of medium-very high settings. Shadows are main ones at medium, water reflection too. Density etc sliders around 25-30%
nice
did you mod back in the patched out music and if so was it easy on linux?
I havent, ill try. I have modded other games, when its regular stuff like replacing data files, enb etc, that works good. I havent tried other game modding where you need specific launchers etc
Q3 cucks we truly got assfricked. At first we thought the Q1s would get shit prototype hardware but instead they get good fans and 4 lane SSDs....................
You didn't even know what a PCIe lane was until a week ago.
So? I'm getting 2 less of it than Q1meter wiener thick cummy daddies.
Normally I'd say "suck it" since I have an x4 and a quiet fan, but truth be told the deck can't even use the full bandwidth of an x2 so it literally does not matter.
>mfw X4 and quiet fan too
Does this imply some models have shit fans?
yes, there is a fan lottery. There are two different fan models and one of them is whiny.
It's a grab bag. You either get a delta fan or a Huaying(?). Both generate about the same level of noise decibel-wise but the quality of the Delta's sound is significantly worse with a whine to it.
I have 2 decks and both the good and bad fan.
It is whiny, but its not THAT bad.
People trying to RMA over it are blowing it out of proportion.
>I have 2 decks
Why?
>quiet fan
Didn't they stop using the noisy fan?
No. They use whatever is available currently in production.
Im a late Q2 512 and just checked, I got an x4 SSD
Spin Rhythm XD
You can play entirely with the trackpads. Feels like a game made for the system.
Today I tried out some custom songs. To save space on the internal I tried linking the custom song folder to the SD card through dolphin. It didn't work. Does anybody have experience with getting a game folder to work with an SD link?
>XD
frick off
Anon...that's the title.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058830/Spin_Rhythm_XD/
fricking newbies
I knew what you were referencing, but it was annoying then and it's annoying now
Same.
Next time try and actually look into the game title before you sperg out
WINE/Proton prefixes are just windows directory tress but self contained. You'd just go to the
>steam/steamapps/compatdata/[gameidnumber]/pfx/drive-c/users/steamuser/Appdata/LocalLow/Super Spin Digital/Spin Rhythm XD/Custom
folder in this particular case. If you wanna frick with modding in any further scenario, remember it's like this for every game, everything past
>/compatdata/gameidnumber/pfx/drive-c/
is just windows filesystem territory in proton.
When did you guys reserve and manage to get yours? I reserved at the end of July last year so I'm supposed to be able to get mine sometime between now and September, and I'm antsy for it
~21 minutes into sales. I got mine a third through June.
Frick, so I'm probably not gunna see shit until October
>When did you guys reserve
Day 1, it took 10 minutes to get the order to go through
>manage to get yours?
June 10th
~1-2 minutes and I got mine in April.
I've got my deck coming in on friday, but it just came to me that I should probably get a screen protector, as I always do for devices like this. The problem is, are there any screen protectors that don't completely invalidate the anti-glare screen on the 512?
I was in the same boat, so I just said frick it and am running without a screen protector.
>half life 3
>available this October, only on SteamOS
there, I just saved valve hundreds of millions and two years of embarrassment.
How to piss everyone off in one simple move.
Yeah because 'pissing people off' matters? How much has diabolo immortal made now?
Gamers, rise up!
Why piss people off when you can just ease them into it instead?
Bad business practice that will hurt you down the line
Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on easing people into it while neglecting to work on the OS because you decided to dev hardware instead, then remaining a laughing stock because you don't have the capacity to make them so everyone loses interest?
Yeah ah, they really should have just made a deal with umpc makers to use it, for a traction of the cost and make hl3 native to it
You can keep grasping at straws, but youll still be wrong. There is a worldwide chip shortage that affected literally everything, nobody is "laughing" at steam for having shortages when you still cant even buy a graphics card of a new car because of the shortages.
This is the same SteamOS that they have been building and working on since the old Steam Machines. They have greatly improved Proton to the point it pretty much just werks with most games.
The growing pains of the OS were deck specific implementations, not the OS itself.
You do realize the SteamDeck has only just been released, and in small quantities. But the decks custom APU is the #1 on the list of GPUs in the linux category, as is the SteamOS
~10% of all Linux users on Steam are using the SteamDeck
As production ramps up, (which they say has more than doubled already) its only going to become a much larger
This is the exact reason no developers make games Native on linux, because there isnt a userbase.
Guess what all the small Developers have been doing these last few months?
They have all been making mad dashes to update their games to get Deck Verified, because it might squeeze a few more sales out with little effort.
You know, sometimes its ok to say "wow I didnt realize steam has spent a decade trying to take market share from windows, learned something to" instead of tripling down on your moronicness grasping at anything you can to try and not feel stupid.
>Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted
Steamdecks sold out immediately and the list is huge.
Im not sure id call that "wasted" as people are buying them in droves.
That would be fricking hilarious. Force people to use Linux.
Does anyone else think these controllers suck? Sometimes the button inputs don't register, the sticks have big dead spots in the center, the track pads are inconsistent and the capacitive touch screen is noticably worse than any phone I've had.
My deck has none of those issues, its all extremely responsive.
While I could have some issues with my unit, the sticks were definitely designed that way. It makes me want to just mount it and use a PS5 controller.
Everything works for me.
>dead spots
Did you go into the settings and decrease the dead zone? They come configured by default with like 1/4 dead zone which isn't really necessary until the sticks start failing.
Had no clue that was an option, I'll try that out
Shut up and frick off
No, haven't had any issues. Maybe whatever config you're using has huge deadzones configured for the sticks, that's an option in the binding.
Deadzones are actually a system setting, not part of bindings.
>not part of bindings
Yes they are, just check stick settings for any game. There's a dedicated dead zone section for every binding, per stick, in addition to the general purpose one in the settings.
I get it that Valve is saying shit to cover their asses in case of something happening, but I really can't see NVMe power draw as a problem. Nothing you will really do on a Deck will get even close to maxing out the performance of the SSD so it's not like the thing is going to be chugging max power while in use anyway. The most "stressful" use case is probably going to be game installation and in that case you're going to be bottlenecked by WiFi performance most likely, even if you use a cable to download games to avoid WiFi you're still going to bottleneck on the CPU before the SSD, because Steam install/decompression are very CPU heavy, you're not going to get more than say 100MB/s.
How did you handle the transfer process? Just image the small SSD to the big one, then extend the /home partition? Does that just werk? Any idea if it could break the automatic update process in some way?
>How did you handle the transfer process
Not that anon, but I'd just dd the entire drive to another drive, switch the SSD and dd it back personally
And to add, yes the user readwrite partition is the last one on the drive so you should be able to just extend it with gparted or whatever
Sure, but that alone doesn't give you any extra space without extending the partition
Where did you get the SSD from, and how much was it? I've been looking myself for upgrade options. So far the best I've seen seems to be a Kioxia 1TB drive, for about 200 EUR, but I've never thought to check for "2280" drives that can just be cut down to 2230 size.
I got lucky with an ebay listing.
It seems like people have caught on so these particular cuttable 2280 models are scarce.
Here are the 3 I know of:
SK Hynix BC711
Western Digital SN520
Samsung PM991a (least recommend, it doesn't look like you can drill the screw hole)
Oh and $85 USD for mine.
Damn that's a steal, unsurprisingly I can't seem to find any of those models.
You can probably find an already 2230 512GB in the meantime if you are needing more space and want to be tided over until you find a listing. Those are not ludicrously priced (I can find ple ty for $50 USD)
Nah I'm not in a hurry, I'm just looking around. I've got a 256GB Deck and a 128GB SD card I had laying around and this is good enough for me, I'm mostly considering an upgrade for dual booting Windows when Valve finally releases that option. I assume a dual-boot setup would need separate space for game storage, not just the OS, since Windows won't see Linux partitions and I doubt using some NTFS partition via SteamOS is going to be a good idea.
And lastly, when you cut it, make sure you have a high grit file/sandpaper on hand. Sand down the cut edge well to make sure any lingering traces aren't touching each other. Then I suggest covering the cut with kapton tape, in case the exposed cut on the new screw hole is not just Ground signals. The screw not touching ground in your new screw hole due to tape is not a problem, there are enterprise Lenovo workstations that only use a plastic tab instead of a screw and those don't seem to blow up.
I used a Linux USB livedisk, the new drive in a usb3.0 m2 enclosure, and a USB C hub. Booted the Linux livedisk on the steam deck, used 'dd' terminal command to mirror internal drive to new one. Then used 'parted' to extend the home partition to fill all the extra space. Then used 'resize2fs' to extend the filesystem to fill the newly sized home partition.
Then powered it down, put the new drive inside the deck, booted right up. Didn't have to reinstall install jack shit.
With a USB 3.0 enclosure the total drive cloning took about 1 mins to copy the entire 256gb drive over.
Sorry, 10 mins, not 1 mins.
No. 0 issues
Because its just valve who hasnt checked. Half my library says unsuppirted(not verified) and it runs fine
Ye. The game port is fricked. It stutters on my ryzen 3600 with 3060 ti and 32gb ram no matter the settings, but on my deck it runs beautifully. Go figure
>It stutters on my ryzen 3600 with 3060 ti and 32gb ram no matter the settings, but on my deck it runs beautifully. Go figure
Strange, I wonder then if Proton is working some magic which makes it run well.
Shader cache my friends.
Unreal Engine games are notorious for shader cache stutter yet it doesn't happen on deck because it has pre cached shaders. Same for Elden Ring, minor stutter on my 5800x/3080 yet no stutter on the deck.
I really hope valve comes back with a high end steam machine /w steam os, would solve all the shader cache problems on a desktop.
Got ScummVM, got Dos games bought from GOG working through Retroarch. Emulation station for PSP, PS1, PS2 etc, everything runs great
Who /1tb/ here?
I hope you're using a 1TB 2230 and didn't chop down a larger SSD.
Don't be a pussy
Nice ratchet Gramps
Thanks
You've confused the 2280-cut-to-2230 mod with shoving in a 2242. Using a cut down 2280 does not require removing thermal pads or bending heat shroud in any way.
The point about current draw stands. I hope you properly measured power consumption of the one you installed.
I didn't measure shit but power draw seems the same in every game I play so good enough for me. If it's different it's probably by maybe .1W at best I would guess. Utterly negligible.
What wattage is your system drawing while downloading games? That's probably the highest disk use a deck will see. Mine draws 9.8 W during downloading, if you'd like to compare.
And, subjectively, I put my finger on each one while I was mirroring the original drive to the 1tb. One did not feel particularly hotter than the other.
Kingston 512GB from Steam Deck sticker: 3.3V 3A
SK Hynix BC712 1TB sticker: 3.3V 2.5A
Looks good to me. You could kvetch saying "b-but maybe the 1tb will spike higher than the Kingston!!" but you are just coping and seething at that point
Nah, that's fine. Actually impressive, the power consumption is lower. That's an upgrade in multiple ways. It might be worth it to switch 512GB SSDs if you can get one with lower power consumption for that matter.
It's not about being a pussy, it's about the charging circuit not making proper contact with the thermal pad and higher current draw.
>he wants to spend $300 instead of $70 for 1tb
Why would you do that?
>looking through games that are supported
>check tabletop simulator
>has native support for linux but doesn't work on deck
Anybody know what the deal is?
Does it say unsupported or just unknown?
Let me install it myself and I'll let you know how it goes
Says unsupported
A lot of the "unsupported" ratings are complete nonsense, honestly. I'd recommend ignoring the compatibility ratings entirely and just trying shit.
Started immediately after downloading. Didn't have to set up anything. Cheers anon
Weird, wonder why it is listed as being unsupported.
Thanks anon.
Just kill me already.
>ordered it almost a full month after it went up
Yeah sorry mate, that one is all on you.
the new gwent roguelike game that just came out
name?
gwent rogue mage, it's on steam/gog/android/ios
My gyro just suddenly stopped working in all my games, is this an issue that needs to me RMA'd? Can anyone help? I can't find anything online about this.
Tried a reboot?
Multiple times.
Thought about it. Did a shutdown instead of restarting. Somehow restarts arent reboots.
Yes I believe restart just logs out of Linux and back in.
That's awful, but good to know. Thanks.
Civ V
XCom
City Skylines
I'll probably wait to upgrade my SSD until 2TB 2230s come to market
Nothing. It's been collecting dust under my bed since March.
>have a gaming PC right there at your desk
>choose to hold up a 1kg laptop instead
And my gaming PC has a 3080 Ti with a 4k 120Hz screen too! What are you going to do about it, b***h?
>hey guys look I’m stealing from Nintendo
Fricking end yourself
Where can you buy metroid prime from nintendo right now?
Die groomer troony. YWNBAW.
You're right, I will never bing a wahoo because I'm not a moron like you
>I will never bing a wahoo
Too good to be true?
It doesn't say that it works.
Tell them to post a picture of the zipper on the case.
There's a rather sophisticated-looking zip tie binding the zippers together.
Item description too. I'm not American, but why would a Hong Kong listing mention sending via UPS?
Also, they've only sold 3 other items on their account (2 being $1 wedding rings, and 1 being a negative feedback item).
>hong kong
They didn't even sell the Steam Deck to Hong Kong. Red flag, anon.
I wasn't sure if they proxy'd it over or not tbh. Honestly, I'm gonna pass on it anyway. The whole things looks too suss.
I'd do it, but I'm not sure how.
>why would a Hong Kong listing mention sending via UPS?
Why not? UPS operates internationally. Is Hong Kong special in some way?
>256GB
>Premium anti-glare etched glass
fake af
the ebay gamble is the biggest fricking risk anon
so many people have been getting fricked out there
That's over $300 more than MSRP for that model
Oh of course, but I'm an Ausgay, so we have no options right now. Who knows if we'll even get it at this rate.
Aren't there proxy mail services you could use?
Hourly reminder that no one cares about this flop outside of neckwear and that support will die in a year.
Vita of this gen.
Said the nervous tendy for the 100th time this year
Anyone tried Deep Rock Galactic? How does it run?
Perfect
>trying to install japanese locale
>after hours actually manage to make it work
>it breaks after every update
Make a script to do it, so you can just click it
There's a thread for making this easier on the feature request discussion board for the deck if you want to add a +1 sticker to it.
Sonic 3 AIR
Thinking about installing the Jak decompilation.
Wishing there was a Ratchet Decompilation, because from what I remember that game emulates like ass.
Also:
How long has the Dolphin libretro core not been fricking shit? This makes things way less complicated
>How long has the Dolphin libretro core not been fricking shit?
Since you realised that there is no other option on Linux other than to build dolphin up yourself so had to settle for a shit libretro core or eat crow for buying crap that doesn't work properly.
Dolphin has a flatpak you silly boy.
>flatpak
Hahahaha okay anon
Anon, do you know what you're talking about or is this an attempt at Trolling?
If you're using SteamOS like the rest of the morons in this thread you're stuck with flatpaks and appimages, fricking deal with it. If you don't want to deal with them, install Gentoo like me
>install Gentoo like me
for what purpose
Well to run Gentoo, obviously.
Why not?
The real answer is that on the deck specifically, with an underpowered CPU, squeezing out extra performance with native optimizations and LTO is desirable.
What? Dolphin is available via discover, and it's a nightly build.
AHHHHHHHHH
you have nobody to blame but yourself
you'll get it next year
Notice how "what games are you playing on PC" threads were non-existent up until the Deck's presale/release
Deckchuds are just as bad as your average console war fanboy, with the same techno-gizmo reverence of an Apple drone to boot
Anon, the Deck is basically a single concrete hardware platform and came out literally this year. Of course people would be talking about what they're playing on it.
I get for some reason you have a problem with it, but be rational here.
Yeah I'm sure you're a tech savant with your Switch and your prebuilt PC running Windows 10
>Notice how "what games are you playing on PC" threads were non-existent
there's a thread every friday and saturday for people to say what they're playing
>Notice how "what games are you playing on PC" threads were non-existent up until the Deck's presale/release
lmao what the frick are you smoking my homie there have been threads like that for over a decade.
it's a consolized pc, what do you expect
Reserved 1 yesterday. How likely is it I'll get it this year?
kek no chance
people from the first week are still waiting
bump
Clearing my backlog of pirated VNs and replaying ff
I thought I would like gyro aiming for first-person games but holy shit is it annoying. More of a hindrance than a help.
You just gotta tweak it. Find the range of your natural movement (eg where it will usually end up after a quick fling turning it left or right) Then adjust the gyro sensitivity until that range is mapped to the edge of the screen. As in a natural flick to your left will aim at whatever was at the left edge of your screen.
Basically I find every profile has way too high sensitivity by default. I turn it down to 50 almost always
Use stick aim for a fast turn & to 'get you in the ballpark', and gyro for actually aiming.
>80 minute battery life
>clunky awkwrd form factor like 1991's game gear 37 years ago
>slow speed
>plays high tech games but at low graphics settings, so pointless
I'll stick to the switch, and its 8 hour battery life and fun games.
>switch, and its 8 hour battery life
What game are you playing to have this be the case? It can barely go an hour and a half on MHRise
It averages 3-5 hours, it’s comfortable to hold and it plays games at native res 60fps that the switch struggles to run at 30fps 360-540p upscaled.
I ordered mine in July 26. When am I going to get mine you think?
~2 months
has anyone tried to install fitgirl repacks on the decker?
I reserved in February and mine says "after q3"
>He opened the preinstalled Firefox in the desktop mode
OH NONONONONO
>preordering first generation hardware
>ever
hahaha fricking morons, why wouldn't you just wait for version 2? Really just can't wait to play your shitty anime visual novels on the toilet, can you?
You'll learn when you're older that time is a lot more valuable than money, I'm sure you'll have a great steam deck 2 in 5 years or so, and so will I.
I'll also have the original to play till then.
>when I'm older
I'm 35, moron.
You must be a slow learner then.
>time is a lot more valuable than money
While this is true, I'm not sure it applies to getting a videogame console sooner so you can hurry up and waste time on bing bing wahoo faster.
Then why are you on this board?
If you don't think games are worth your money or time, why are you wasting time on them already?
>moronic jumps to absurd extremes because his feelings were hurt
Are you seriously that dumb, and weak of ego?
>wow a product is coming out why don't you wait 3 years for the next one and then 3 years for the next one and then 3 years for the next one and then...
Waitgays are moronic
and in the end they end up caving in and buying it 3 months before the new version releases
Anybody have good experiences using Moonlight or Steam In-Home Streaming to play games from a more powerful desktop? What sort of wireless router is the minimum required for a good experience given the Deck is on wi-fi and the PC is hardwired to the router with a Cat7?
Hold up a sec, I'll give it a try. (Steam In-Home Streaman)
Kinda runs a bit assy with both the host PC and the Deck on wifi, I'll try hooking my pc up to ethernet
for anyone who is curious, it doesn't seem that you can order a second deck after getting your first. at least not for a while
how to get 10 hours of battery life:
steam overlay:
-airplane mode (wifi/bluetooth off)
-40hz refresh rate
-framerate limit to 10hz
-TDP limit to 3w
-GPU limit 200mhz
-screen brightness level to taste (max can consume more than 1.8 watts than the min)
power tools settings:
-4threads -SMT on
-GPU SlowPPT and GPU FastPPT both set to zero
(2C4T @ 400mhz is usable but the Steam Deck GUI will be slow to respond. also 2C2T doesn't seem to make a difference wattage wise)
>-40hz refresh rate
>-framerate limit to 10hz
human eye can't see above 10fps anyway
forgot pic
my set-up
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1209916250/steamclip-for-baseus-20k-65w-steamdeck
(need to select V2 steamclip on checkout for a total of $55)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THCNNCS
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SN9DJ5G
God bless my friend, thank you.
that's based, i wonder if power tools will have per-application performance profiles much in the same way the steam overlay has them for games
Gothic 1 with the gamepad mod. I had been filtered by the movement of the game, but I've found it way more fun with the gamepad controls than KBM somehow.
By the way, is there an easy way to cloud sync games that don't have Steam Cloud? Too many lazy devs don't add Steam Cloud to their games.
ABObawdELY NOTHING GABE YOU FAT FRICK HURRY UP I WAITED A YEAR FOR THIS
With microSD being ext4 format, what's the ideal way to transfer files to it from Windows?
warpinator, syncthing, BTRFS format microsd
I just use Syncthing. Supposedly Warpinator is easier to use, but I could never get it to work
And I'm sure there are many programs on teh interwebs that'll do it for you. Ext2read, Diskinternals Linux Reader came up as a result of my google search
go into desktop mode on deck
go to snapdrop dot com
open snap drop on the windows pc
transfer files over wifi
*dot net no dot com
this seems too good to be true
what's the catch?
not tried any huge files myself so maybe it could drop out but as far as I know it's all good
Warpinator worked great for me for two days then stopped connecting. Switched to feem and no issues for two weeks.
>feem
lmao frick off shill
NTA, what's wrong with feem again I'm out of the loop
It's negative in the freedom dimension.
Oh, proprietary, gotcha. What's your preferred file transfer software then?
syncthing of course
just got an update mine is ready and i've paid 256gb lets fricking go
git hype homie
>reverse image search leads to Reddit
go back
I'm truly sorry for all the americans getting this shit shipped with fedex.
Got mine yesterday. Got one with a x4 nvme, but judging by other videos, I think I have the whining delta fan. An easy $25 repair, so I ain't gonna play the RMA lottery with it
>whining delta fan
the what now? got a link to a vid that shows this?
One of the two fans they can come with is rather whiny, I ended up getting the same model myself.
It's a lot better with the updated fan curve, I'll probably just keep it since I don't want to open mine up.
late june order, i will never get a steam deck 🙁
Mostly Sunbreak at the moment, but occasionally other games. I think the Deck might be what finally gets me to finish TTYD.
Steam Deck is basically a mid/high end handheld gaming PC. It's only low end if you insist on only playing games released since 2020.
M.A.S.S. Builder is the perfect mobile game. Slowdowns during cutscenes but it's good with FSR.
q3 cuck here. how is the battery life assuming you're dropping the settings? I really want to play my PC save file of MHR portably. I'm horrified of just being tethered to a plug near my couch anyway
1 and a half hours if you are pushing absolutely everything
roughly 2 hours or more on AAA games
about 4-5 hours with most games at full performance
6 hours or so with some emulators and with the least intensive games
So when do I actually pay for it after reserving?
They'll send you an e-mail once your unit is available, and then you have 3 days to make the payment
I'm playing Grandia II on Flycast core in RetroArch.
>tfw 5mbps wifi
WHERES THE FRICKING DOCK I NEED AN ETHERNET PORT FOR BETTER SPEEDS
if you dont want to buy a hub, could always grab some cheap usb-c ethernet thing like this
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XTGKP5M/
good idea thanks
Chinksects and tendies seething till bump limit
This is ofiicial GPD indiegogo page, lol
>the comic sans
every time
https://gpd.hk/gpdwinmax2
>just a laptop with a pair of dual sticks and buttons smooshing the keyboard
these chinks man
should i reserve one now, or am i better off waiting until the next iteration?
production is ramping
i dont think it will be hard to obtain one in 2023
you should make sure to save those 5$ by making sure you can never get a deck until the hypothetical deck 2 that might never come
The Deck is making me wonder why I wasted money building a PC back in December
At least you didn't buy a gaming laptop November 2019 with the intention of being at school and work most of the timelike I did.
>At least you didn't buy a gaming laptop November 2019 with the intention of being at school and work most of the timelike I did.
Same here, frick gaming laptop batteries. Ended up buying an Xps 9500 for school this year
So you could play bideo james with the biggest graphics and shitpost on Ganker with the optimal setup
Already posted in the VN bread, might as well post it here too
noice, im playing the first game atm
glad to see the sequel runs as well
If you're going to pirate it (like I did) make sure you add Launcher.exe instead of AI.exe as a non-steam game. You'll have to use the fullscreen mode, otherwise the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen keep changing colours. Very distracting
gonna deck klonoa tonight
Me too, hope it works with Proton
>Deck picture
>Always has the system monitor on it like you guys dont trust the hardware
It's probably more to show that the game is running at a good framerate
>built in showcase tool for a screenshot/picture
>"Why are you using the showcase? I can't make false claims about the performance of the thing when you do that."
>tfw took 6 weeks from signing up with Sony to get my PS5
>tfw Deck will never arrive
It's all so tiresome
Won't be getting mine until September.
Does anybody have any experience with how Atelier Ryza 1 and 2, and Yakuza 0 run on the deck?
I've only played about an hour of Yakuza 0 on mine but it seemed fine
Yakuza 0 runs like a charm on my Linux desktop + Steam Controller. Which is basically the same setup as the Deck. Also, it has low system requirements so 60 fps shouldn't be a problem
Keep in mind this is from my time using EndeavourOS on my desktop but this will basically carry over to steam deck cause both SteamOS and Endeavour are arch based.
Ryza 1 works fine in game, but the intro video had no audio, even on GE-Proton.
Yakuza 0 runs perfectly. Unless something gets fixed further with proton however you're gonna run into issues with Yakuza 5 or 6 cutscene audio I hear, I forgot which one of the two it was, but people said they had some issues with that.
>cutscenes/audio
90% of the time the issue is fixed by using proton-GE. Have you tried that?
That is my first line of attack when something like that happens, hence my explanation about Ryza 1. I'm just going by what I heard, I haven't played Yakuza 5 or 6 yet.
>bites off penor
cysted wiener chew
You gotta dig the hair our of your navel or it'll start funking up.
just installed a windows exe install file through proton, when it was asking to select a directory ir all looked like windows directories, installed in program files or something, I am trying to find the exe that was installed but have 0 idea where the frick these windows program files are located, any ideas? tried searching the name of the game and it can't find anything, but it seems I have lost the correct amount of storage, just no fricking idea where it is
You should be able to find it through the shader cache or comapibility layer folder in the steam directory. I can't remember which but I had that same issue and it was in one of those
You'll have to frick around with proton/wine files. They're located somewhere deep in the steam directory. Just google it
t. Had to change some files to get FXIV to run
For proton there's a folder directory inside of steamapps called compatdata, inside of that is /pfx/, if non steam games have their own dedicated steamID of sorts it will be in there, otherwise idk. You're really supposed to use WINE for non steam games though instead, proton is mostly for just steam games.
I added the setup.exe as a non steam game and scrolled through every proton option until the last one worked and it installed, am I doing it wrong?
I have never tried to use Proton for non steam games so idk. The thing about proton is that every single steam game you download has it's own "prefix", which is like if you containerized an entire windows directory into a folder. Each of the numbers inside of steamapps/compatdata/prefix correspond to a game's SteamID, which is the number you see at the top of a URL on the game's store page.
I presume there's a specific prefix for non steam games that everything non steam gets dumped into, but when it comes to non steam games, I mainly use Bottles or Lutris for that instead.
it generates a prefix for each
How do you quantify that though for non steam games, what would they be called if they have no steamID number of their own?
it'll be a vastly different number from other appids
I forget how to find it since I don't have any non-steam games currently added on my arch install
See I just use bottles mostly these days, that keeps things neat and tidy to my liking. I'd use Lutris instead on steam deck obviously especially since that's designed to be visually consistent with KDE Plasma instead of GNOME like bottles is, but the flatpak version is apparently in beta so I'd rather just use a known quantity. On my linux laptop I used Lutris instead though obviously.
>since that's designed to be visually consistent with KDE Plasma instead of GNOME
Lutris is based on GTK dude
I said what I said based on the fact that Lutris adopted my KDE Plasma global themes just fine, while bottles never did.
bottles uses my gtk/qt theme setup just fine (I use the Nordic GTK theme anyway) but still has the menubar on top like a typical gtk app so I dislike its look
🙁
My biggest complaint with GNOME and it's apps are the fat ass window bars and how hard things are to customize in comparison to KDE global theme manager. I would prefer GNOME to KDE if they just put more effort into letting me customize GNOME's look easier with an inbuilt Global Theme Manager-like app instead of with a web browser but everyone I say this to says some dumb shit like
>"UHM, GNOME IS MEANT TO BE USED AS IS, WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO CUSTOMIZE IT, I AM SILLY BECAUSE MY OPINION IS IN ALL CAPS"
So close, found the windows dummy files in the comp data folder, found the exe file, just this one last hurdle do jump...