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Dramicus posted:I'm excited for this thing for all sorts of reasons, but one of the biggest is that whenever travel goes back to some sense of normality, I'll be able to cut my travel kit down to a steam deck, an ipad+keyboard and a phone. I used to lug a powerful laptop everywhere and it was always a pain having to get it out every time I passed through security. It will be sweet to have this on flights and then dock it hotel tvs or whatever. we'll have a steam deck 2 before travel ever goes back to any sense of normal lol
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Im hoping ff14 will run on it
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Im hoping ff14 will run on it
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Barreft posted:we'll have a steam deck 2 before travel ever goes back to any sense of normal lol Well so long as this kind of device class is firmly established by then, all's good.
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Why bring the ipad? The steam deck is all the tablet you'll ever need Indeed, it is all you'll ever need, full stop
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So this thing is just a Switch but with worse games?
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Regarde Aduck posted:So this thing is just a Switch but with worse games? extremely low effort troll. you can do better than this
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dont see how posting facts is a troll
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Stux posted:dont see how posting facts is a troll Name one good switch game. I値l wait.
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Stux posted:dont see how posting facts is a troll Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:extremely low effort troll. you can do better than this Here I'll try with the same amount of effort: Nintendo is for babies, Genesis rules
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Name one good switch game. I値l wait. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/hentai-vs-evil-switch/
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Im hoping ff14 will run on it It will run it just fine. I run it on the neo and it works great.
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flavor.flv posted:Why bring the ipad? The steam deck is all the tablet you'll ever need iPad has better graphics
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:extremely low effort troll. you can do better than this You would think but he posted that through awful app for switch. Thing costs 60 bucks.
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flavor.flv posted:Why bring the ipad? The steam deck is all the tablet you'll ever need Typing emails and occasionally showing stuff to clients. Mostly work-related laptoppy stuff. You are right about the deck being the only thing that I'd need for personal stuff.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Im hoping ff14 will run on it I read up on this a little. The non-steam version seems to run ok on Linux via Lutrix. Some minor issues with a few specific cutscenes. The steam version has other issues that I imagine will be ironed out officially or worked around by fans. People also play the game on lower-end hardware and portable Windows machines. It will run, but the real questions are how well, and what the performance difference is between Steam OS and Windows 10/11.
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Heran Bago posted:I read up on this a little. The non-steam version seems to run ok on Linux via Lutrix. Some minor issues with a few specific cutscenes. FWIW, I don't recall any problems playing* non-Steam FFXIV on Pop!_OS w/Lutris around a year ago. In my experience with Linux gaming, if an MMO is reasonably popular and not completely broken, hiccups are resolved quickly. Players are really motivated to get back into their grinding.  * Getting it installed required maybe an hour of reading and fiddling.
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There's a new official Twitter account showing footage of games running on the thing. https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1448754721733308435 https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1448788812318973953
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Do we know if it's possible to replace the emmc module with an m.2 nvme ssd as I understood that both emmc and ssd use the m.2 form factor/inteface?
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Yes it is possible.
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Replacing the drive it ships with won't be a super simple process, though it is possible, yes. The storage drive it ships with is specially chosen for low electromagnetic interference and has an EMI shield placed around both sides of it, attached to the drive's PCB. I'm not sure if the shielding will be reusable or how that works. The drive is placed directly on top of the wifi module, so wireless connectivity could be impaired depending on the drive you choose.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Replacing the drive it ships with won't be a super simple process, though it is possible, yes. The storage drive it ships with is specially chosen for low electromagnetic interference and has an EMI shield placed around both sides of it, attached to the drive's PCB. I'm not sure if the shielding will be reusable or how that works. The drive is placed directly on top of the wifi module, so wireless connectivity could be impaired depending on the drive you choose. Cool, maybe could just use something like this then. https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b00041293/ https://www.amazon.com/Fabric-EMI-Shielding-Grounding-Block-Anti-Radiation-Electromagnetic/dp/B07N4RBCBN?th=1 Was afraid my plans with the 64gb emmc version were totally boned when I head it was either emmc OR m.2 ssd
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Valve seems to be really emphasizing that micro SD cards will be fast enough. I知 cautiously optimistic that will be the case. If not, I知 sure there will eventually be aftermarket shielded NVMEs that come out if the deck really takes off.
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e.pilot posted:Valve seems to be really emphasizing that micro SD cards will be fast enough. I知 cautiously optimistic that will be the case. If not, I知 sure there will eventually be aftermarket shielded NVMEs that come out if the deck really takes off. I'm expecting them to be about HDD speed, which is good enough for plenty of games, but quite slow for many others.
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When I downloaded Metroid Dread it was on the SD card at first, load times improved dramatically when I moved it to the Switch. Monster Hunter had the same thing going on IIRC. Is there reason to believe the Deck will have better SD performance than the Switch does?
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Nah. SD stanks
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FBS posted:When I downloaded Metroid Dread it was on the SD card at first, load times improved dramatically when I moved it to the Switch. Monster Hunter had the same thing going on IIRC. itll be like playing off a platter drive on pc, which is worse
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I知 planning on just using the 512gb model痴 built-in drive for pc games and an sd card for emulator roms.
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That痴 what most people should do unless your one of those people who love having multiple games installed at once. Which even with how big games are now can put you at three and that is a large amount
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How is N64 emulation going on the Deck these days?
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e.pilot posted:Valve seems to be really emphasizing that micro SD cards will be fast enough. I知 cautiously optimistic that will be the case. If not, I知 sure there will eventually be aftermarket shielded NVMEs that come out if the deck really takes off. They work perfectly fine on the Switch. Perhaps some load times will be a couple seconds longer than on the SSD, but I don't think it will be noticeable most of the time.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:How is N64 emulation going on the Deck these days? how would we know
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Dramicus posted:They work perfectly fine on the Switch. Perhaps some load times will be a couple seconds longer than on the SSD, but I don't think it will be noticeable most of the time. it will be the same as a platter drive. you are not loading switch games, youre loading pc games.
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CharlestheHammer posted:That痴 what most people should do unless your one of those people who love having multiple games installed at once. if you play indie games though, you'll be fine. I've got 38 games installed and 20-some demos installed and my steamapps folder is 140GB.
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I'm a bit out of the loop on Linux stuff, but doesn't filesystem compression work much better on Linux than it does on Windows? That might be an option to squeeze out a bit more capacity
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Quantum of Phallus posted:how would we know
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Does the steam deck support ufs microsd cards? If so, that'll be why valve is deeply suggesting microsd with minimal loss. UFS has a data rate of 500 mb/s. Which doesn't sound amazing until you realize that normal microsd cards are generally around 40mb/s with some special ones that peak at 120mb/s. Right now, the only company offering them far as I could tell is samsung. And at least from amazon, only the 64 and 128gb models are available. The 256gb model isn't available. I've been looking but haven't seen any other option. For me, the research was originally triggered as the framework laptop supports ufs on the microsd reader and was thinking of using that as a boot drive for linux.
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You mean UHS? It supports UHS-I, which maxes out at 104MB/sec officially or up to 180MB/sec with some extensions that bend the standard a bit (unclear if the Deck supports that part)
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  its a platter drive.
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