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unruly posted:There was an interesting breakdown of the chips and performance of the SteamDeck's internals that I saw on HN today. As with all articles talking about this, they don't take heat and battery life into the equation. This one sentence sums it up quote:Perhaps Valve did so in order to extend battery life at the expense of responsiveness. After all, the Steam Deck is designed for long running tasks like games.  e: nevermind I can't read Vic fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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unruly posted:Edit: I'm wondering if a eGPU is something that is possible on the SteamDeck. USB3 has lots of bandwidth, but I don't know if it's enough to make it worthwhile. Nope
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unruly posted:
Yeah it’s not exactly easy. https://youtu.be/ue0A2Sxr5Fc It works though!
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MarcusSA posted:Yeah it’s not exactly easy.
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if your fonts get pixely you turned on half-rate shading
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Ah, that might be the issue I had with Pathfinder WotR having unreadable text even while using the zoom feature. I think I already uninstalled it, though, and don't feel like downloading it again to check.
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Mescal posted:if your fonts get pixely you turned on half-rate shading This is the way.
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I’m surprised that the memory is a bottleneck given that they opted for DDR5. (I assume that AMD still lets you mix and match memory support for semi-custom.)
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I think I want to try streaming from my laptop to the Deck, what solution do people like best? Moonlight?
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I think I want to try streaming from my laptop to the Deck, what solution do people like best? Moonlight? Parsec
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I think I want to try streaming from my laptop to the Deck, what solution do people like best? Moonlight? Steam remote play is fine but not great over wifi Moonlight is apparently really good but I haven't used it.
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Cowman posted:Steam remote play is fine but not great over wifi I'll show you how to set it up in the discord
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You know what doesn't need setting up? That's right, Steam Remote Play
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homeless snail posted:You know what doesn't need setting up? That's right, Steam Remote Play Moonlight's pretty quick and painless to set up and it works pretty well. I never really had trouble with Steam Remote Play but Moonlight is a pretty good option too. Once I get my dock I'm going to try streaming some more demanding stuff to it.
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Cowman posted:Moonlight's pretty quick and painless to set up and it works pretty well. I never really had trouble with Steam Remote Play but Moonlight is a pretty good option too. Once I get my dock I'm going to try streaming some more demanding stuff to it. Yeah that was really painless, even if I was scatterbrained, sorry Barreft fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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Moonlight worked better (vs steam remote) for me over WiFi and was easy to set up.
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Remote Play is garbage
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Works fine on my network + allows me to use all of the buttons on this thing
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Back when I was still using a cellphone with a Razer Kishi to play portable games and emulation, Remote Play was pretty amazing over wifi. The game felt like it was running natively for most of it and the few times there were drops, they were never game breaking.
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homeless snail posted:Works fine on my network + allows me to use all of the buttons on this thing Not sure what you mean? I use the R5 as mouse click, and L5 as F11 (fullscreen/windowed) All the buttons work fine
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My Steam Deck seems to lose power when connected to the JSAUX dock, even when it says it's charging. I'm using a 65W USB C cable. Anyone else seen this?
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Hiro Protagonist posted:My Steam Deck seems to lose power when connected to the JSAUX dock, even when it says it's charging. I'm using a 65W USB C cable. Anyone else seen this? Sounds like you shouldve gotten the official one.
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Barreft posted:Not sure what you mean? I use the R5 as mouse click, and L5 as F11 (fullscreen/windowed)
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homeless snail posted:If you're not using Steam Input, which Moonlight isn't compatible with, you're gaming like a caveman on this thing I'm using Steam Input... I think you're unsure what you're talking about
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homeless snail posted:Me hit A button with rock 
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My Steam Deck’s been acting too funky with the JSAUX Dock lately, so I’ve stopped using it. Gonna have to get an official one soon.
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The only issue I've had with the JSAUX deck is having to plug my controller back into the cable every time it turns on before the Deck will recognize its existence, otherwise it's worked perfectly for me.
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Super No Vacancy posted:anybody tried ‘greenlight’ which is apparently a dedicated client for gamepass streaming? is it considerably better than the edge setup? No, but the edge setup works pretty well.
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I got my deck yesterday woo woo, time to start getting through that backlog... I have some questions about various tweaks and things. Is cryotools the second coming it's made out to be? I did the bios tweak to up the minimum gpu memory and it took cyberpunk up to a solid 30fps on balanced FSR which is nice but do I actually need to do the paging changes? Does anyone have any recommended racing games for this thing? Something that I can just pop into every now and then when I want to go fast for a bit. There's a lot of "oh you need to do this or it's unplayable" stuff flying around like installing proton-ge and all that sort of thing but I guess that's more of a "if you can't get it to hit 30/40 then maybe give this a try" situation? I love it so far, I am excited to finally put some time into the Yakuza series and maybe finish Cyberpunk (lol). I'm just worried about getting the most out of it and not breaking it because spending this much money on myself was a big ole anxiety trigger.
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LeFishy posted:Does anyone have any recommended racing games for this thing? Something that I can just pop into every now and then when I want to go fast for a bit. Wreckfest is good fun and runs great. For something a bit more top down and casual, Art of Rally and Absolute Drift are good time killers.
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To that goon who wanted a compatibility testing site that included performance as a metric, Steam Deck HQ (very 00's name) has SD-specific evaluations of games including actual FPS and the settings used: https://steamdeckhq.com/game-settings/
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I’ve been chewing through snow runner on my deck it’s a great before bedtime game and runs really well in the deck
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LeFishy posted:I have some questions about various tweaks and things. Is cryotools the second coming it's made out to be? I did the bios tweak to up the minimum gpu memory and it took cyberpunk up to a solid 30fps on balanced FSR which is nice but do I actually need to do the paging changes? As a general statement, SteamOS is constantly in flux and while updates aren't as frequent as they used to be, they still happen and when they do sometimes they resolve issues that previously required community workarounds. A big one right now is you need to use PowerTools to disable SMT to get optimal performance in emulators require high per-thread performance, but this is something that should no longer be required as of SteamOS 3.5. LeFishy posted:There's a lot of "oh you need to do this or it's unplayable" stuff flying around like installing proton-ge and all that sort of thing but I guess that's more of a "if you can't get it to hit 30/40 then maybe give this a try" situation? Honestly you don't need to do anything on the Deck despite some guide or, frankly, myself telling you to. If the experience is enjoyable for you as is, don't sweat it.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Honestly you don't need to do anything on the Deck despite some guide or, frankly, myself telling you to. If the experience is enjoyable for you as is, don't sweat it. This is honestly the answer I expected but it's still good to ask. I definitely felt the difference from doing the BIOS UMA Memory change for example. I'm coming from a switch being my primary gaming device (and a surface laptop go 2 lol) so playing Cyberpunk in 30~fps FSR blurrovision is an improvement on pretty much anything either of those have offered in terms of performance or visuals. And my beloved Train Sim World 3 runs relatively well too hooray. So far I'm loving this little thing, really opening up the backlog that got seriously shut down when I changed jobs and had to give back my powerful "work" desktop, just need Bungie to pull their heads out their arses and I'll be golden.
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LeFishy posted:This is honestly the answer I expected but it's still good to ask. I definitely felt the difference from doing the BIOS UMA Memory change for example. there's stuff you can use to tinker like Decky (which is a must imo) and EmuDeck (also a must) but in reality the deck is great out of the box with no tinkering required.
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Cowman posted:there's stuff you can use to tinker like Decky (which is a must imo) and EmuDeck (also a must) but in reality the deck is great out of the box with no tinkering required. Yeah I grabbed decky straight away for the protondb link in library plug-in. I actually have no interest in emulation at all right now honestly. I got this thing instead of a cheap gaming laptop to try and let myself be a bit excited about games news. Like I say I’m coming from switch so even playing something modern at 30fps with all the settings turned down is gonna be great! Any other decky plugins to grab? Vibrantdeck sounds interesting.
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LeFishy posted:Yeah I grabbed decky straight away for the protondb link in library plug-in. I actually have no interest in emulation at all right now honestly. I got this thing instead of a cheap gaming laptop to try and let myself be a bit excited about games news. Like I say I’m coming from switch so even playing something modern at 30fps with all the settings turned down is gonna be great! pretty much anything that sounds interesting or worthwhile is worth grabbing, go nuts!
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