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It absolutely depends on the game and settings. Something like Stardew Valley will last forever, while Cloudpunk drains the battery like there's no tomorrow. Stuff like lowering details in game or capping frame rate/refresh rate with deck settings can then be used to find your sweet spot in performance/details/battery.
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Did you happen to have anything downloading in the background? I don't think Desk Job is too intensive, but I didn't pay attention when I played it.
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Mm that could be, my library was downloading and I'm sure there were some going on in the background. I guess I'll be docking most of the time anyways and if I'm going on a plane or something I can just bring a battery pack
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Opopanax posted:So first real chance I got to play with the deck I tried Desk Job, that took about half an hour and by the end the fans were loudly blasting hot air out the top and the battery was halfway down, is that more or less normal? It didn't seem super hot, but definitely noticeable, but I'm more concerned with the battery, I was hoping for more than an hour This tracks with my experience and apparently a few other people's experience as well. Desk Job has an option in the main menu for battery optimization, so it's likely Valve knew it takes a toll but wanted to default to having the game look as nice as it can to make a good first impression on Deck owners. If you're like me, you probably also played through it before messing with system-level battery optimizations like setting the refresh rate to 40Hz, so that's another thing to take into consideration.
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Yeah I've also done no real optimization. I'm not great at computers so I don't mess around with that stuff unless I have to
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Kaddish posted:After turning down pedestrian density I’m getting a smooth 60 fps in Sleeping Dogs. It defaulted to extreme for some reason. Haven't reached that part, yet. Please don't break my heart/make me file a bug report. 
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Opopanax posted:Yeah I've also done no real optimization. I'm not great at computers so I don't mess around with that stuff unless I have to
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yeah, I haven't tweaked mine much, but the first thing I did was bring down the refresh to 40. I'll tweak other things later, but I feel like that is a good base start for anyone.
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JuffoWup posted:yeah, I haven't tweaked mine much, but the first thing I did was bring down the refresh to 40. I'll tweak other things later, but I feel like that is a good base start for anyone. Yeah I was just going to suggest this. I don’t even mess with 60 anymore at this point.
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Jul 15, 2022 21:53
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I cannot discern a difference between 50 and 60.
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Jul 15, 2022 21:56
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It's so easy to switch I usually just keep it on 60 and drop it down if I'm in a situation where I need to start sipping battery. The novelty of playing a lot of these games at 60 on a portable is still powerful to me.
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Nearly a year after ordering this drat thing as fast as I could I got a steam pop up asking me to confirm my order! How long does it generally take to ship once you’ve paid?
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Nuts and Gum posted:Nearly a year after ordering this drat thing as fast as I could I got a steam pop up asking me to confirm my order! How long does it generally take to ship once you’ve paid? You should have it in about a week give or take.
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MarcusSA posted:You should have it in about a week give or take.  Can’t wait to finally dig into disco Elysium while in bed
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Warpinator / Winpinator has been a pretty easy way to get files to my deck, for me.
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Joining in on the general excitement / mindless discussion. Slightly larger and warmer than I expected, but enjoying it way more than I thought I would, find myself exploring parts of my steam library that otherwise went untouched. Any complaints I've been hearing about fans or screen quality seem like pointless nitpicking, the device is by far one of the most enjoyable I've used, unexpectedly usable form factor reminiscent of using the Game Boy SP for the first time with all the "Oh boy I'm gonna mod this bad boy" of the original PSP.
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I kind of love the size because the screen is huge and it fits what I'd consider average adult hands well
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Anyone having problems starting Arkham City? It’s labeled ‘Great on Deck’ but it doesn’t start, I can hear the intros but the Steam logo keeps spinning perpetually. Tried a reinstall, and tried the Proton Experimental compatibility homeless snail posted:It's so easy to switch I usually just keep it on 60 and drop it down if I'm in a situation where I need to start sipping battery. The novelty of playing a lot of these games at 60 on a portable is still powerful to me. Same. I can’t not play MGSV at 60fps. It’s amazing.
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I've really need to figure out settings for Tokyo Jungle in RPCS3 on this, it keeps crashing as I get to the end of the tutorial.
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Animal posted:Anyone having problems starting Arkham City? It’s labeled ‘Great on Deck’ but it doesn’t start, I can hear the intros but the Steam logo keeps spinning perpetually. Tried a reinstall, and tried the Proton Experimental compatibility Posts on ProtonDB say you have to set it to windowed mode in the launcher.
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kdrudy posted:I've really need to figure out settings for Tokyo Jungle in RPCS3 on this, it keeps crashing as I get to the end of the tutorial. I really need to take the time and see if I can get Metal Gear Solid 3 HD working properly on RPCS3, but right now it just seems to lag a bit. Granted, I really haven't poked the settings much yet, been having too much fun fiddling with the deck and installing random stuff
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Jul 16, 2022 02:26
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I forgot that cheap key stores exist and just loaded up on a bunch of games, hell yeah
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caldrax posted:Warpinator / Winpinator has been a pretty easy way to get files to my deck, for me. I discovered this as well while setting up some emulation stuff. I'm a little sad it doesn't seem to support drag and drop, but aside from that it's handy enough that I think it's going on my list of utilities that gets installed on any machine I own.
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I finished downloading and installing Shadow of War, which was shy of 100GB. Here's hoping it runs and plays well on Deck.
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ShaneB posted:I forgot that cheap key stores exist and just loaded up on a bunch of games, hell yeah Have a care - some of those are extremely sketchy and you could lose your games. As a rule of thumb anything that shows up on isthereanydeal is legit.
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Yeah, there's a small number of key seller sites that are actually legit and get the savings from bulk key purchases but some of them (most notoriously G2A) are basically there for money laundering as people sell keys bought with stolen credit cards. Some developers have even said they'd rather you pirate their game than buy it through G2A because it can end up costing them more money in refunds and chargebacks than they got from the original sale. Personally I've always used Green Man Gaming, they often have pretty good deals on new releases and their sales are good too. njsykora fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Jul 16, 2022 |
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i’ve never had a game get cancelled from G2A or anywhere else
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Quantum of Phallus posted:i’ve never had a game get cancelled from G2A or anywhere else Same. I get stuff from cdkeys as well, never had an issue. I suppose it could happen but I’ve done it for years and never had an issue.
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I've had beta keys get cancelled, but the only time I got an actual key cancelled is when I got Arkham Knight refunded from GMG after they offered no-question refunds because of how bad the PC port was. Although I think it took them like a month or two to cancel the keys.
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I had a $70 deluxe edition of Forza I bought on g2a invalidated after a month of use. Never again.PowerBeard posted:I finished downloading and installing Shadow of War, which was shy of 100GB. Here's hoping it runs and plays well on Deck. I did the same, seems to run at 60fps during the initial scenes, but I haven’t reached the open world. Capped it at 40hz for lower wattage and feels great pseudorandom name posted:Posts on ProtonDB say you have to set it to windowed mode in the launcher. This was it, thanks. Making changes to that setting screen was very annoying, just switching it to full screen took me like 30 seconds fiddling with the touch screen, then another 30 seconds trying to save it. If the game is marked as ‘Great on Deck’ isn’t it supposed to work without changes.? Animal fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Jul 16, 2022 |
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Anyone got any good indie game recommendations for the Deck? I've already got stuff like Dead Cells, Slay the Spire and Into the Breach on there, but I know there's more good stuff out there that plays well on the deck
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Quantum of Phallus posted:i’ve never had a game get cancelled from G2A or anywhere else me either. cheap games ftw
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Tibbeh posted:Anyone got any good indie game recommendations for the Deck? I've already got stuff like Dead Cells, Slay the Spire and Into the Breach on there, but I know there's more good stuff out there that plays well on the deck Hyper light Drifter
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Tibbeh posted:Anyone got any good indie game recommendations for the Deck? I've already got stuff like Dead Cells, Slay the Spire and Into the Breach on there, but I know there's more good stuff out there that plays well on the deck I've been playing a fair bit of Nova Drift (currently on sale!) and 20 Minutes Till Dawn (a run in Vampire Survivors usually overshoots my commute time by a hair). I've also been meaning to replay Hollow Knight ahead of Silksong, and the deck is giving me a good excuse.
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Crystal Project was a surprisingly good time if you like JRPG mechanics and 3D exploration. Into the Breach gets a big ol' free update on Tuesday.
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Into the Breach is excellent. I already have it on Switch but with this update maybe it’s time to play it on the Deck, I’ll be happy to give the devs more money.
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I just don’t find G2A/Kinguin/etc. to be so much cheaper than what I can find on IsThereAnyDeal that it’s worth the risk of it getting ripped out of my library.
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Pirate Jet posted:I just don’t find G2A/Kinguin/etc. to be so much cheaper than what I can find on IsThereAnyDeal that it’s worth the risk of it getting ripped out of my library. I've used cdkeys a bunch and had no issue. Other sites have stats (who knows how reliable) on key issues and a bunch of the resellers have like 100k sales with .5% issues, so I'll gladly buy Dead Cells for 5 bucks and take my chances. I do hope that's not actively hurting other people though. But ethical consumption capitalism etc etc
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Deck owns. Started Into the Breach and it owns. I keep feeling like I have the game figured out and it's going to be easy and then I do dumb poo poo on the second or third island and lose.
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