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Beve Stuscemi posted:Right, I am clearly talking PC VR, a thing you would need windows for on the Deck (not that it could really run it anyway), or any PC for that matter Someone on Reddit posted a video of HL: Alyx running off a Deck onto a Quest. It was running at like 30 frames though.
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I used desktop mode to add custom art for Cyberpunk as a non-steam game I stream to the deck. What else is it good for? Leaving game mode seems like wanting to access the code on a Gameboy. I’m sure someone wants to and would have fun but I can’t imagine why, personally.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:24
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It's good for tinkering with things you can't do easily, or at all on the Deck's game mode proper. Also you need it for things like Decky and Cryotools as those are CLI only.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:28
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Someone posted a shortcut a page or two ago to get to a terminal from game mode, so you technically don't need desktop mode for that.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:31
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I used desktop mode to add custom art for Cyberpunk as a non-steam game I stream to the deck. What else is it good for? Occasionally updating emulators or other packages from the Discover package manager and doing unnecessary-but-helpful tweaks like setting up cryotools I guess?
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Oct 26, 2023 18:32
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Xreal announced the Air 2s ($400) and the Air 2 Pro ($450), with the only real upgrades being the new audio and on the Pros you get an electrochromic filter to shade the glasses instead of needing to use the cover. Other than that you're getting the same experience so definitely not worth the upgrade if you have the Airs. I was hoping we'd have a more "visor" like thing with a larger FOV so we could have bigger screens.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:36
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Anything with power pass through and 1080p60 output will be fine. ConanThe3rd posted:Generally speaking any given dock will work fine. Really your choice is between about 40 bucks using your own charger or 100 to get valves and get a second charger. Thanks guys I'll probably just grab the official - I remembered some grumblings about it and some third party one being better, but all I'm really gonna use it for is stepmania so if it works fine for that I'll just roll with it.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:47
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sigher posted:Xreal announced the Air 2s ($400) and the Air 2 Pro ($450), with the only real upgrades being the new audio and on the Pros you get an electrochromic filter to shade the glasses instead of needing to use the cover. Other than that you're getting the same experience so definitely not worth the upgrade if you have the Airs. I was hoping we'd have a more "visor" like thing with a larger FOV so we could have bigger screens. Is it odd the fact I see YouTube channels doing full ads on this makes me lose more interest?
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Oct 26, 2023 18:54
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I use the Deck a lot as a gaming desktop since my laptop is useless for gaming, so the desktop mode gets a lot of use because it's fun to just dick around with stuff like Dosbox. I just did a Win98 install into PCem just to see if it worked. (It does!) There's very little black magic involved, it's just a functional desktop like Windows without the bullshit.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:55
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I mostly use desktop mode to get non-steam games working (which I can then launch from game mode once they’re set up). Most recently I started using Lutris to install old junk from my GOG library.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:59
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I used desktop mode to add custom art for Cyberpunk as a non-steam game I stream to the deck. What else is it good for? installing massive modlists for bethesda engine games and then never playing them as is the tradition
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Oct 26, 2023 19:14
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I wonder what Steam Deck performance for Alan Wake 2 will be like.
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Oct 26, 2023 20:04
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sigher posted:Xreal announced the Air 2s ($400) and the Air 2 Pro ($450), with the only real upgrades being the new audio and on the Pros you get an electrochromic filter to shade the glasses instead of needing to use the cover. Other than that you're getting the same experience so definitely not worth the upgrade if you have the Airs. I was hoping we'd have a more "visor" like thing with a larger FOV so we could have bigger screens. I thought they were getting 120hz screens too?
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Oct 26, 2023 20:05
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I've actually ordered a pair of the Pro 2's along with the Beam and will be trying them out on Deck and phone when they arrive. Will post impressions here when I've taken them for a spin.
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Oct 26, 2023 20:23
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EVIL Gibson posted:Is it odd the fact I see YouTube channels doing full ads on this makes me lose more interest? No, I feel the same. Like man you sure are paying a lot of Youtubers to show use cases for these.
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Oct 26, 2023 21:33
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Detective No. 27 posted:I wonder what Steam Deck performance for Alan Wake 2 will be like. extremely bad i'd imagine
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Oct 26, 2023 21:40
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Beastie posted:Someone on Reddit posted a video of HL: Alyx running off a Deck onto a Quest. It was running at like 30 frames though. I'm usually good with 30fps, but in vr, isn't that completely not workable? I seem to recall some article talking about how low framerates in vr affect the player far more than on a regular screen. Then again, back in 1994, I played Dactyl Nightmare at what seemed like 6fps, and I loved it (at the time).
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Oct 26, 2023 21:47
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even 60fps for VR is wretched, 30 is nightmare stuff
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Oct 26, 2023 21:58
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30 is sickeningly bad in VR, Quests start at 72hz and thats like, the minimum that's comfortable. Any decent headset reprojects frames though so you can still look around comfortably even if the game isn't generating frames fast enough.
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Oct 26, 2023 22:01
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Trying to replace my hard drive, I missed two screws on the bottom when trying to separate the shell. Every other screw came out fine, these two though are now stripped -_- Anyone have tips for getting these bastards out. They are recessed in a tight space and I can't really get a rubber band or duct tape in there.
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Oct 26, 2023 22:21
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So how is MGS1 on Deck? Was it just 2 & 3 that were borked?
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Oct 26, 2023 22:34
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Bumhead posted:So how is MGS1 on Deck? Was it just 2 & 3 that were borked? It's as good as the normal PC version, which is to say not great. I also had crashes whenever I tried to play it docked but didn't look into it too much. Also the fix for MGS2 / 3 is super simple, download one missing DLL and set a launch parameter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jYOoCxp_U4
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Bumhead posted:So how is MGS1 on Deck? Was it just 2 & 3 that were borked? It might be better to just play it in duckstation emulated to be honest, just to get a higher internal resolution than what's in the collection.
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Oct 26, 2023 23:00
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MGS3 delta looks sick at least.
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Oct 27, 2023 00:37
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I dunno, it looks like every other UE5 “Konami hire this man”’crap youd see on YouTube to me. Imho
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I just got titanfall 2 on the sale and it runs and looks incredible on deck. I’ve played it loads over the years on PS4 and Series X but it’s always worth another run through. Great great FPS for under a fiver.
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Oct 27, 2023 00:48
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I'm not going to give Konami a single cent for trying to squeeze the last bit of money out of a franchise they already killed.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I just got titanfall 2 on the sale and it runs and looks incredible on deck. I’ve played it loads over the years on PS4 and Series X but it’s always worth another run through. Great great FPS for under a fiver. It started working for me like three nights ago on Experimental (thanks EA Launcher!!) and I was amazed by the amount of effects that were present on PC that did not make it to Xbox. Also saying that Spider-Man looks loving amazing on deck and even runs amazing if you tweak it to the 40hz 40 frames sweet spot.
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vaginite posted:What's the consensus good steam deck dock? I've heard mixed reviews on the official one. I want to hook up a dance pad to it and play stepmania, and being able to set up a little station in a spare room that I could hook my deck into would make my life a lot easier. i mean, don't valve themselves sell one? id probably use that
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Oct 27, 2023 02:18
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Yeah the official one is fine and gets firmware updates to fix edge cases which you probably will never get from a third-party one.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I just got titanfall 2 on the sale and it runs and looks incredible on deck. I’ve played it loads over the years on PS4 and Series X but it’s always worth another run through. Great great FPS for under a fiver. i just finished the campaign and can confirm that it fuckin rips
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Drowning Rabbit posted:Trying to replace my hard drive, I missed two screws on the bottom when trying to separate the shell. Not sure how you miss 2 out of about 8 screws that are all plain to see, yikes. Some people swear by a rubber band on the screw between it and the screwdriver. Also super glue to the screwdriver but I've never tried that. Seems too easy to glue the shell to things in that tiny of a space. I've always just drilled out stripped screws. Smaller than the head of the screw, for the bit size (about the size shank of the bolt if not slightly smaller). Left hand drill bits ideally that may catch the screw and unthread it for you. Depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go... Or just live with less storage space and a big sd card.
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If you're drilling out stripped screws absolutely make sure you pull the battery first. You don't want metal shavings shorting something out and burning out the board. Also make sure you give the board a good blast of air to make sure you clear away anything before you repower it.
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Beastie posted:It started working for me like three nights ago on Experimental (thanks EA Launcher!!) and I was amazed by the amount of effects that were present on PC that did not make it to Xbox. I didn’t need to do any Proton changes to get it working!
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Nitrousoxide posted:If you're drilling out stripped screws absolutely make sure you pull the battery first. You don't want metal shavings shorting something out and burning out the board. Good luck pulling the battery while the case is still sealed because you stripped the screws you’re about to drill out.
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if the screw is soft enough just use a hammer and a screwdriver to dent a new slot into it
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I just got titanfall 2 on the sale and it runs and looks incredible on deck. I’ve played it loads over the years on PS4 and Series X but it’s always worth another run through. Great great FPS for under a fiver. I've never played a Titanfall (and until recently, I kept getting it mixed up with Titan's Quest, which is QUITE different). Genuinely asking, what's great about it? I may pick it up. Edit: ok, now I'm confused... What's that indie game, top down, 8-16bit aesthetic, where you only fight bosses? Because I thought that was Titan's Quest, and it is not. I'm so confused.
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Commander Keene posted:Titan Souls? Yep, that's the one, thanks!
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I've never played a Titanfall (and until recently, I kept getting it mixed up with Titan's Quest, which is QUITE different). Genuinely asking, what's great about it? I may pick it up. Titanfall 1 is some absolute nothing online shooter. Titanfall 2 on the other hand has one of the best singleplayer FPS campaigns in forever. It's made by ex-Infinity Ward devs. The story, as it where, is basically FPS Shootman gets control of a big mech. You go around doing really fun combat in and outside of the mech. There's really fast traversal (think Doom Eternal or BLOPS3), you can wallrun, double-jump, slide etc... They cribbed all the movement and shooting for Apex Legends. The story is great, there's really fun time-jumping missions and it looks incredible, it runs on teh Source engine that Valve made. It's easily one of the best FPS campaigns in years. I'd rate it up there with HL2
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