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I simply cannot get BG3 to work! Heck! It just crashes on startup every single time. Everything is updated, running proton experimental (or any other proton) doesn't work. I just want to be a literally handsome devil.
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I feel blessed that BG3 just works on my Steam Deck. What settings are people using? I’m trying to run it at a consistent 30 and am mostly there at medium-ish to low.
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Aug 10, 2023 00:34
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How does that there System Shock remake hold up on yon Deck? Anyone know?
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Aug 10, 2023 01:10
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Little difficult to read and navigate inventory on handheld but I dig it docked.
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Aug 10, 2023 01:26
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Minotaurus Rex posted:How does that there System Shock remake hold up on yon Deck? Anyone know? Haven't played it since launch but it ran like a dream. Controls were slightly iffy as they were clearly mouse+keyboard first but they were perfectly functional, not sure if any patches have come out since.
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Aug 10, 2023 01:27
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Nice! Might have to pick it up then
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Aug 10, 2023 02:11
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Time posted:I didn’t know people had data caps in 2023 My ISP has no data caps but my phone data most certainly has. Are there no data caps on cell data in the EU?
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Weedle posted:just wrapped up deus ex: mankind divided. this was the first aaa game i played start to finish on the deck and it was honestly the exact experience i was hoping to get from this handheld. the game works perfectly and performs great, and i wouldn’t have been able to have this experience on any other device. a+ Mankind Divided is straight up one of the best immersive sims ever made. I loved it.
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Aug 10, 2023 02:23
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Random question, but how did "immersive sim" become the term for games like Mankind Divided/Hitman/Dishonored? The first time I heard the term I got super confused, because I expected it to be referring to something like, I dunno, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator, or the older (non-horizon) Forza games.
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Aug 10, 2023 03:08
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Annath posted:Random question, but how did "immersive sim" become the term for games like Mankind Divided/Hitman/Dishonored? IIRC Warren Spector used the term to describe his initial vision for Deus Ex (then called "Troubleshooter", i think) and the term stuck e: just skimmed through Spector's excellent GDC talk https://youtu.be/tffX3VljTtI and he attributes the term to Doug Church who was one of the original Looking Glass guys Voodoo Cafe fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 03:13
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I vaguely remember it being a term Warren Spector coined around the Thief series. He's certainly used the term himself a fair bit in various articles and talks.
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Aug 10, 2023 03:14
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tango alpha delta posted:My ISP has no data caps but my phone data most certainly has. Are there no data caps on cell data in the EU? There are caps, but it’s pretty affordable to have an unlimited plan. Though it looks about comparable? I don’t really know what’s best in the US market but I hear MintMobile on podcast adverts. Their regular price looks like $30/mo for “unlimited” data on a 12 month contract. ThreeUK is £27/mo ($34, but our prices already include 20% tax) for similar. Ours has fewer clauses though; the Mint one drops the speed after 40gb of usage and only allows 10gb of hotspot, where ours is truly unlimited in both respects. We also used to get roaming in other countries for free but since we Brexited our way out of the EU the carriers are slowly revoking those perks.
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Aug 10, 2023 03:21
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Or you could go to a civilized country like South Korea or Taiwan where there are no caps at all and they look at you funny if you ask what the monthly limit is. Lots of people have no home internet connection and just use their phone hotspot at home. Last time I was there I bought a sim for the month and used something like 1.2 TB through my phone data connection.
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Aug 10, 2023 05:15
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Several years back the uk suppliers tried to argue that hotspotting should be a separate charge from data use but got soundly thrashed by whichever regulators.
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Aug 10, 2023 06:22
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Annath posted:Random question, but how did "immersive sim" become the term for games like Mankind Divided/Hitman/Dishonored? Bad term made up by nerds who thought they were above “first person shooters”
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Aug 10, 2023 07:29
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jokes posted:I simply cannot get BG3 to work! Heck! It just crashes on startup every single time. Everything is updated, running proton experimental (or any other proton) doesn't work. It’s verified now so you shouldn’t need to force a proton version at all.
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Aug 10, 2023 07:36
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Annath posted:Random question, but how did "immersive sim" become the term for games like Mankind Divided/Hitman/Dishonored? It's because of Warren Spector, the dude behind Deus Ex calling it that back then. It only makes sense in the context of the time, and the idea is to simulate the world and let the player accomplish the goal in any way they can figure out how... IN FIRST PERSON FULL 3D!
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Aug 10, 2023 07:52
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SFTPing Doom Eternal to my Deck from my PC because I keep getting write errors directly downloading to the Deck. Trying this workaround.
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Aug 10, 2023 07:59
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tango alpha delta posted:SFTPing Doom Eternal to my Deck from my PC because I keep getting write errors directly downloading to the Deck. Trying this workaround. By directly downloading you mean the steam's local download thing?
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Vic posted:By directly downloading you mean the steam's local download thing? I used to be able to download locally from my PC to the deck but that feature has mysteriously stopped working. it's somehow routed through Valve's servers via Remote Play and both the Deck and the host PC have to be on the same subnet for it to work. I've verified that all those settings are correct, but the transfer local files feature does not activate at all. e:lol, Doom Eternal goes through the motion of launching but drops me back to the play button. Hilarious. I guess I need to do more research on how Proton works or something. Disk write error every time I try to launch the game. Weird. I'll try disabling updates? Hey, I'm learning how Linux works. update:I fixed Doom Eternal with find .local/ -name "782330" -exec rm -rf {} + I think this cleans up old files so that the game starts like a fresh install. Please teach me, Linux experts, because I really would like to get better at troubleshooting this stuff. tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 08:12
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Time posted:I didn’t know people had data caps in 2023 I heard if you're in the south and you have Cox you're incredibly hosed in this regard.
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sigher posted:I heard if you're in the south and you have Cox you're incredibly hosed in this regard. I'm in the midwest and I have Cox and my cap is 1.25 Tb a month. I'm on the highest tier. You can get an unlimited data add on, but it's like $50 and I only rarely ever reach the cap.
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Aug 10, 2023 10:52
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The gnashing of teeth over immersive sim as a term is dumb. Role Playing Game, what, you mean how you play the role of Doom Guy? What does Real Time Strategy actually say about the game being played, outside our assumptions based on prior knowledge that you control little dudes on the screen from top down with a mouse cursor? How is Metroidvania useful for someone who hasn't played Metroid or Castlevania? It's the word for games that put you into a story, using a pastiche of familiar gameplay loops to lower friction (immersive) and provide you with options, including ones that the developers didn't necessarily account for, in a limited sandbox (simulation). Or it's the games where you choose shooty or stealth and jam 451 into the first numpad you come across.
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SCheeseman posted:The gnashing of teeth over immersive sim as a term is dumb. Role Playing Game, what, you mean how you play the role of Doom Guy? What does Real Time Strategy actually say about the game being played, outside our assumptions based on prior knowledge that you control little dudes on the screen from top down with a mouse cursor? How is Metroidvania useful for someone who hasn't played Metroid or Castlevania? Nah. It's all about the primary verb of the gameplay. Role Playing, Strategizing in Real Time.. it all tracks on face value. Doom isn't about you playing a role, it's about shooting. Same reason it's not called a key hunt game. The "game-clone-like" genre definition works on you knowing about that one game. If it was Deus-Ex like, or Tactical Espionage Action RPG it would work. Immersive Sim is weird nowadays because: Immersive as "being first person/over the shoulder" or "well realized" is now a common part of a wide genre of games and Simulator implies bigger depth than ImSim games are "simulating". I'm not gnashing teeth, it's my favorite genre but the term stopped being a useful descriptor and is kinda grandfathered in. Honestly I think it's because Due Sex Likes sounds salacious.
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Aug 10, 2023 12:17
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tango alpha delta posted:
Wine/Proton use the notion of a 'prefix' that contains the virtual C: drive used by whatever application you're trying to run. On Linux, Steam stores these prefixes under code:code:code:
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Aug 10, 2023 12:37
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Hi, can anyone who uses sunshine and moonlight with their deck for streaming advise on best settings (for both sunshine and moonlight). I have an nvidia gpu. I have left the sunshine settings basically the same. On moonlight I've left the resolution at 720p as apparently that's correct according to a video I watched even though the deck is obviously 800p. I still get black borders on desktop mode either way.... It works pretty well but text is quite jaggy, any tips to improve things?
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Aug 10, 2023 12:49
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I haven't changed any of the Sunshine settings but I bumped Moonlight's output to 1080p, same settings I use with Chiaki. Supersampling makes things a bit nicer.
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Aug 10, 2023 12:51
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I'm about to take the plunge on a 2tb AliExpress SSD so I won't have to worry about it again. Does anyone know any currently valid coupon codes to take the edge off, or isn't that really a thing on Ali? I found a few sites claiming to list them but none I tried actually work.. Also worth sanity checking that this is still the thread's recommendation? I bookmarked it from here a while back.
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Debuffed posted:Hi, can anyone who uses sunshine and moonlight with their deck for streaming advise on best settings (for both sunshine and moonlight). I have an nvidia gpu. I have left the sunshine settings basically the same. On moonlight I've left the resolution at 720p as apparently that's correct according to a video I watched even though the deck is obviously 800p. I still get black borders on desktop mode either way.... The black bars are good and correct because otherwise you'd get stretched image (16:9 vs 16:10 aspect ratio) 720p is the correct Deck pixel to pixel resolution (with the black bars), going to 1080p might help with the text as PC games usually don't optimize fonts for under 1080p
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Aug 10, 2023 13:05
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sigher posted:I heard if you're in the south and you have Cox you're incredibly hosed in this regard. Getting hosed by Cox is something only some people have endured. Hey, some people even like it 
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Getting hosed by Cox is something only some people have endured. Hey, some people even like it I have Cox, and other than paying like $112/mo for "Giga Blast" or whatever (real speed around 750-930Mbps down, 50Mbps up) I haven't had any issues. I wasn't aware of any data cap, but I looked at my account and I typically use a couple of TB/mo between Steam game shuffling and sailing the high seas. Never heard a peep from them.
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thanks both of you for the moonlight / sunshine tips 
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Debuffed posted:thanks both of you for the moonlight / sunshine tips oh actually while we're talking about it, what bitrate do people tend to use?
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Annath posted:I have Cox, and other than paying like $112/mo for "Giga Blast" or whatever (real speed around 750-930Mbps down, 50Mbps up) I haven't had any issues. It was a sex joke.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It was a sex joke. Oh 
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Vic posted:Nah. I don't disagree that's it's no longer a useful descriptor on its own, but neither are most other genre names. Role Playing Games are everything now, Doom (1993) might not be a "RPG", but Doom (2016) introduces mechanics that skirt close and Eternal is filled with them, with a story that is very much about about the "Doomslayer" (who shoots things). Games have become pastiches of pastiches, you need a tag cloud to properly categorize them (like: Tactical Espionage Action RPG), but in that case Immersive Sim is still useful for describing a design ethos. Prey isn't a Tactical Espoionage Action RPG, but it has more in common with Deus Ex than a typical Tactics game, an Espionage game, an Action game or an RPG. The original meaning has become somewhat redundant but so have most of the others and there is clearly a common thread through Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief and Deus Ex with spiritual successors like those from Arkane a part of it too. So I'm gonna keep using it, it's useful! SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 14:10
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For some reason BG3 on my Deck isn't saving my anti-aliasing settings and is resetting to None each time I start the game again. Every other setting appears to save fine. Any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it?
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Aug 10, 2023 14:12
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I got BG3 to work! No issues at 40 with medium ish settings and 12 TDP. Looks pretty dang good!
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PantsBandit posted:Mankind Divided is straight up one of the best immersive sims ever made. I loved it. i liked the original and human revolution more but mk was still really good. it did end super abruptly though, i really thought there was gonna be another mission after what turned out to be the final one
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Supposed Quake II remaster coming today for quakecon. Gonna deck that up so fast
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