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I love to sit and play games on my couch on my iPad, so I'm hoping it's great for couch PC gaming.
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noob question, will you be able to install Win11 on this thing?
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Nov 4, 2021 17:44
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Quantum of Phallus posted:noob question, will you be able to install Win11 on this thing? Yeah, it's just a PC with the steam OS loaded by default. May not be ideal for use with windows but it should work fine and that's part of the pitch.
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Nov 4, 2021 17:48
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Does Win11 not have some weirdly specific CPU requirements though
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I thought the big issue was TPM modules and I think most computers made in the last like 5 years have one.
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it should work considering its zen 2 but i have no idea why you would do that when win 11 cuts performance on amd cpus so heavily
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There was word back in Summer that Steam was working with AMD to get it officially Win 11 compatible. It's a strong "maybe" at this point. Really hope it does. Windows 10 isn't the best for small touch screens. Stux posted:it should work considering its zen 2 but i have no idea why you would do that when win 11 cuts performance on amd cpus so heavily Oh dang, didn't know.
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Heran Bago posted:Really hope it does. Windows 10 isn't the best for small touch screens. I’ve got Win 11 running on my win 3 and have some bad news about it on small touchscreens too.
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The thing has a mouse on it, and steam controller bindings are reasonably good for making windows usable with a gamepad. I don't think you'd ever want to use the touch screen to actually Use Windows on the steam deck.
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e.pilot posted:I’ve got Win 11 running on my win 3 and have some bad news about it on small touchscreens too. Oh no 
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Nov 4, 2021 21:49
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Just use Win 10. There's no reason to use Win 11 on it.
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I haven't used it yet but Aya Neo has a windows skin program that seems to emulate the steam deck experience a bit. Seems like it could be a good option if you want to run windows. Edit: I don't recommend running windows TBH. Like it works... but its far from ideal. Once you have things set up you don't really have any issues though.
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Nov 4, 2021 22:16
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v1ld posted:I'm not a "is it here yet?" or hype person usually, but I am for the Deck. I've caught myself going "I'll wait on the Deck to buy/play that game" many times of late. I stopped buying games on the switch if they’re also on PC specifically because I’ll have the deck for them, hopefully.
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Nov 4, 2021 22:20
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The United States posted:Just use
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Nov 4, 2021 22:50
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The only reason I'd want to use windows on it is because of FFXIV. I don't own the steam version and it is its own separate account system so I couldn't play it.
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Nov 4, 2021 22:59
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I don't need the Windows UI to run particularly well, as long as I can get into Steam and Xbox then I'm good. I'm probably going to try Windows out of curiosity if nothing else, plus Game Pass would be very nice to have.
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MarcusSA posted:The only reason I'd want to use windows on it is because of FFXIV. I don't own the steam version and it is its own separate account system so I couldn't play it. FWIW, I played FFXIV quite a bit on Linux and it worked fine. I’m PS5-only on it now, but that’s just because I’ve grown to prefer couch gaming.
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I’m mainly thinking windows for Destiny 2 unless they get the anti cheat stuff sorted.
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Insanite posted:FWIW, I played FFXIV quite a bit on Linux and it worked fine. OK that is good to know. I honestly hadn't investigated it yet because its pretty far out. Quantum of Phallus posted:I’m mainly thinking windows for Destiny 2 unless they get the anti cheat stuff sorted. I have to imagine they will since its a pretty big deal.
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Stux posted:it should work considering its zen 2 but i have no idea why you would do that when win 11 cuts performance on amd cpus so heavily They already fixed all of the bugs that were hobbling AMD performance. Zen 2 and 3 now run faster on win 11 than win 10, though only slightly so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av7D5YPpbow
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well thahts good news. now they just need to make the os good
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Stux posted:well thahts good news. now they just need to make the os good Lol as if that’s gonna happen. They’ve been trying since windows 7 at least.
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JuffoWup posted:I forgot to add one other bit of news too. Apparently some reddit people on r/steamdeck are proclaiming their pre-orders moved up from q1 to december. Mine is unchanged with q2 though. Sweet, this was the case for me. December is very soon!
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https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/3104663180636096966 Starting to see some movement anti-cheat wise now, ARK and M&B2 have opted into Battleyes Proton support There's still a lot of games to go, and I doubt all of them will opt-in, but it's a start
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repiv posted:https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/3104663180636096966 Destiny 2 
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Nov 6, 2021 14:10
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Any news or rumors about when next month order forms start opening up? Mine still just says December.
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Nov 6, 2021 19:08
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Soul Glo posted:Any news or rumors about when next month order forms start opening up? Mine still just says December. Did they ever give a date for the first shipment besides December?
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MarcusSA posted:Did they ever give a date for the first shipment besides December? Naw, but we’re closer today than when preorders went up, so thats why I’m asking!!!
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My guess is that the dates are still in flux considering hold ups with shipping containers and any other hold ups with tsmc among others. So I'm expecting people to not hear anything about being billed or being asked to fill in the final details for billing and shipping until december itself. Possibly mid to maybe even late december. Would love to be wrong, but that would be my expectation for wave one.
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Nov 6, 2021 19:46
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Valve is probably waiting for the boat with the first shipment to arrive.
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Azubah posted:Valve is probably waiting for the boat with the first shipment to arrive. They probably aren’t on boats. They are definitely being flown in like pretty much every other major electronic device. They also might get drop shipped like the Apple devices are.
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Please don't drop my Deck, Valve 
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Might be a bit of a silly question but would buying something like CrossOver be a good idea for running windows games on this? I know the Mac version works really well and I'm curious if it would be a good solution for the Deck?
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MarcusSA posted:Might be a bit of a silly question but would buying something like CrossOver be a good idea for running windows games on this? Crossover is pretty good, but you'll want to check that it runs the software you're looking to use it for. It's relatively cheap, but you can usually apply the same fixes they catalog for individual applications if you are willing to spend the time doing the research and mucking about with winetricks.
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MarcusSA posted:Might be a bit of a silly question but would buying something like CrossOver be a good idea for running windows games on this? Valve has been working on an equivalent for a while called Proton, some of the CrossOver devs are involved as well. You can see compatibility reports for games at https://www.protondb.com.
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Rimjob Rodeo posted:Valve has been working on an equivalent for a while called Proton, some of the CrossOver devs are involved as well. Ok thanks but maybe my understanding was incorrect in that this was only for games that were on steam. So like my non steam copy of FFXIV wouldn’t be able to use this. Would be pretty awesome if I was incorrect though.
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MarcusSA posted:Ok thanks but maybe my understanding was incorrect in that this was only for games that were on steam. So like my non steam copy of FFXIV wouldn’t be able to use this. Would be pretty awesome if I was incorrect though. Often online games have other problems relating to anti-cheat. There's also https://lutris.net/ which is another way to get games running on Linux in a mostly user-friendly way. You could check to see if FFXIV works through Lutris.
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MarcusSA posted:Ok thanks but maybe my understanding was incorrect in that this was only for games that were on steam. So like my non steam copy of FFXIV wouldn’t be able to use this. Would be pretty awesome if I was incorrect though. You can add external games to your steam library and they'll use proton, but compatibility can be spottier than using something like Lutris, which has game specific profiles and tweaks.
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