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Chas McGill posted:Where the reviews at? Tomorrow at around 1 PM EST.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Because they literally don't have a choice. They cannot afford to commission AMD to design them a custom SoC like Valve did, so they're forced to use off-the-shelf parts, and are bound to whatever configuration those use. Intel and AMD both favor CPU over GPU in their products, so that's how it goes. Boutiques still won't be able to compete with the Deck on price, but won't the new mobile Rembrandt APUs outperform Van Gogh in both CPU and GPU?
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Mar 21, 2022 00:51
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Can you set up an FTP server or SMB network share on your Windows computer? Steam OS should be able to connect to both of those.
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This is an honest question. Why would someone suggest setting up intermediately complicated solutions like SFTP instead of a SMB share, which is trivial on Windows? Is it a security issue to make sure nobody is hacking into your WiFi network to access your ROMs?
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Mar 22, 2022 16:56
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untzthatshit posted:Deck has arrived and it's great! Having the thing in my hands has risen a couple questions tho.. You can plug in a dongle, you can connect a Bluetooth kb/m, or you can buy any old usb-C hub and plug the kb/m into that.
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I know they'll never do it because it'll just provide more opportunities for disappointed nerds to rage out at them if they can't deliver, but it'd be nice if they could narrow down the Q2 delivery dates to April/May/June now that they're starting Q2 shipments next week.
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Apparently the e-mails went out a little early this week, because I just received mine.
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch to desktop mode, or at least to bring up the power menu so I don't have to hold down the power button?
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Has anyone successfully hooked up a Steam Deck to two external displays? I tried hooking up a 1440p@60/75 hz monitor (through DP) and a 1200p@60 hz monitor, trying both HDMI and VGA to this hub: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FN1YK92/ref=dp_cr_wdg_tit_nw_mr Hooking up the first monitor through DP works fine, but the second monitor either works, but causes the Steam Deck to stop connecting altogether to the 1440p monitor (when I try through HDMI), or it sees the second monitor, but the monitor doesn't get a signal (through the VGA port). I also tried disabling the internal display in case there was a 2 screen limit overall, but that didn't do it. I tried the first monitor at both 60 hz and 75 hz. Both monitors are getting power from the wall and not the hub. Unfortunately, I don't have another device to easily hook up to the hub to see if it's a problem with the hub or the Deck, so I was curious to see if anyone has gotten a two monitor setup working, since I've seen absolutely zero documentation about it online.
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.Ataraxia. posted:Saw this on Reddit today, but of course the OP doesn't explain what they used to do it. Thanks, you're right that it was extremely uninformative. I remembered that I have a laptop with a tb3 port despite it being a few years old and plugged that in. I had the same problem with not being able to use the DP/HDMI ports at the same time, but Windows did recognize the second monitor through the VGA connection, although it was only letting me max out at 1024x768 for that one. Maybe it's a problem with the monitor, since it's probably 15+ years old: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/572816-REG/Samsung_T260HD_Touch_of_Color_T260HD.html And maybe I should just return this dock and wait for the official one, since I only bought it for the dual-monitor support.
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And it's only a refundable $5 deposit to get a spot in line. If your turn comes up and you decide it's an early adopter beta test piece of poo poo, you're not out any money (even putting aside the fact that you'd definitely turn a profit reselling it).
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They're shipping from Illinois, so you can probably find a map somewhere that shows the various Fedex shipping zones and estimated ship times.
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Framboise posted:Genuine, honest question from someone who lives in a state who has largely been back to "normal" for over half a year now: why are the delays still so bad? Are other areas just that locked down still? Is it a shortage of actual supplies or workers? China has had major lockdowns recently, but even if the world was now running at full throttle, the global supply chain is still backed up from when everything was broken.
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Pirate Jet posted:It's not going to replace the Switch for people or anything, the Switch still has a lot of features as a console that the Deck just doesn't replicate (docked mode offering a power increase, downloads not being a pain in the rear end, an OLED screen, etc.) and frankly to get maximum potential out of this thing you are going to be doing a lot of tweaking, especially if you want more than an hour and a half of battery life. But it is indeed what Valve promised, a handheld gaming PC with a ton of customization options, a surprising amount of power, and a way of opening up games that haven't been playable portably ever before. I've yet to come across a game that runs disappointingly on this thing, though I'll admit I haven't tried Cyberpunk. I don't really agree with your first point at all, since a docked Switch still performs badly when compared to a Deck, so if anything, it's a minus and not a plus that you can have two differing performance profiles that are both much worse, "Ugh, guess I have to play this game docked since I get 10 FPS in handheld mode." You should've just mentioned the hassle-free, plug and play docking experience, which the Deck definitely doesn't have, although hopefully it'll be remedied by the standardized dock and accompanied OS updates when it's released. And I haven't had any problems with downloads, although I haven't used an SD card yet, so maybe that adds a pain point.
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veni veni veni posted:Ha. It has a nice looking style for a little Zelda clone. Might check it out. Not sure how I never heard of it in the last decade. Nothing is stopping Microsoft from releasing a native Linux Gamepass client if they really wanted to.
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I don't think Microsoft would ever do it, I was just pointing out that the Steam Deck is a Linux PC and not a Valve console, so Valve isn't stopping Microsoft from releasing anything.
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woke kaczynski posted:Quoting this in the desperate hope someone here has figured out how to get Desktop Dungeons functioning instead of immediately quitting out Have you tried running it in windowed mode? https://www.protondb.com/app/226620
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Dramicus posted:Obviously, its just an indication of what might be going on, especially since Sony groups all their global PS5 sales numbers with PS4 numbers. Japan is one of the few places where we can get clear numbers as to what's selling on which platform. Japan has always been mobile-centric, so the Switch basically took Nintendo's already dominant handheld hardware sales and rolled up its "console" sales into it. So you can't extrapolate anything about global PS5 sales from Famitsu sales charts.
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Nuts and Gum posted:Opening the Deck felt like a premium product, but then I started getting into it and remembered this is a really experimental device that requires you check video and control settings for each game, which seems absurd when you’re coming from a Switch. Even when the Deck matures beyond being an "experimental device," you're still going to have to fine-tune controls and video settings, because it's a PC and not a console, and developers aren't targeting a single hardware SKU.
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This may be a little OT, but does anyone have recommendations for 2D top-down action-adventure games (basically A Link to the Past)? I have a surprisingly low amount of that type of game in my Steam library (only Chronicon, CrossCode and Cubetractor). I'm also good with something that has a little more RPG (something like Crystalis).
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Thanks for all of the recommendations, everyone. I think I'll pick up Blossom Tales immediately, since it's on sale, but I've wishlisted a bunch of others.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:OLED burn-in hasn’t been a thing in years I don't know how long "years" is, but my s8+ had massive, obvious burn-in by sometime in 2019. Edit: I don't even know whether it would be considered burn-in or burn-out but it caused patterns all over my screen that were 100% obvious whenever lighter colors were displayed. Quixzlizx fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Aug 10, 2022 |
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Animal posted:The panel would have to support those arbitrary refresh rate settings. I’m not sure how much of that would be a problem with small OLED screens, but I hope it’s a non issue since most high end smartphones these days use OLED panels with variable refresh rates. I would definitely be surprised if the average PC developer is targeting OLED screens, considering OLED displays make up a minuscule percentage of PC displays.
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The $5 deposit was also refundable as Steam credit, so zero-risk unless you were never again planning on purchasing anything on Steam.
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untzthatshit posted:So how big can we go on a monitor with this thing? It's the resolution that matters, not the screen size.
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untzthatshit posted:See thread title. Even 1080p is pushing it, considering the Deck is natively 800p. You could always scale down the display res on your monitor and see how ugly it looks.
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Coffee Jones posted:trip report: arch linux and Steam Deck SteamOS has an immutable filesystem, which is why disabling readonly will cause changes that require it to be reverted when SteamOS updates. Discover is for flatpak packages, which don't get overwritten. I'm not the one to ask about this, but maybe you could possibly use Flatseal to fix your issues with the Discover/flatpak version of VSC, if it happens to be some sort of permission/access problem?
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veni veni veni posted:Yeah but I just meant, like a no hassle way to access it right through the steam OS menu where you could, DL, play games etc. I meant it seems like Valve would be unlikely to want that on there, especially accessed directly through steam. It sounds like you are confusing/conflating Steam and SteamOS. You can install a program from desktop mode and add it to Steam. Desktop mode is still SteamOS.
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1. I just received a 512 GB SD card from Amazon today (definitely sold by Amazon and not a 3rd party seller). The Steam Deck formatted it fine, but it's showing up as 468.9 GB free instead of ~477 GB. Is that a bad sign, or does SteamOS have some overhead that could cause this? It's a Samsung Evo Select, if that matters. 2. I don't have an SD card reader for my laptop, so is there any flatpak software I can install on the Deck itself to test the card? 3. I noticed when loading the Discover store that there are system updates to things like the KDE Application Platform and Mesa drivers. Is there a reason why Steam isn't automatically bundling those in system updates, and should I be leaving them alone instead of updating? Thanks.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:The ext4 filesystem that the Deck uses preallocates metadata (inode tables), so with the default inode ratio you do lose quite a bit of space. Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't upset about the "missing" GB so much as I was worried about the card being genuine or not.
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Sapozhnik posted:Flatpak uses pretty much its own separate isolated operating system image for its applications, including GPU drivers. Flatpak apps use those drivers, Steam uses SteamOS drivers. Makes sense, although for some reason I thought each individual Flatpak app had its own container of libraries, in case two different apps in your OS require different versions of the same library.
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Mescal posted:is there a sudo on the desktop? like when windows prompts you to do something as admin? Yes, but you have to set the password in a terminal with passwd.
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The people who think a Switch is more comfortable to hold must have much smaller hands than I do, and I'm a beanpole with skinny hands.
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sigher posted:Also maybe jump into the Preview build of SteamOS and you can turn Screen Tearing off (it's on by default on Deck) which will lower the input delay. I think it's turning on "Allow Screen Tearing."
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njsykora posted:If they just took the Deck controls and slapped them into a controller shell with no changes I’d still be happy tbh. You definitely don't need a 3070 to handle 1080p60. Next year's Phoenix Point APUs are going to be around that level of performance. Remember that any Steam Machine APU isn't going to be handicapped by the Steam Deck's power/thermal limits.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:I just updated my steam deck and the two apps I had installed in Desktop mode suddenly stopped working (just Firefox and a vpn, but I’m in China, so basically nothing is usable, including discover, without the vpn). What happened there? It’s not a really big deal, it’s just a little annoying since I had to install dependencies through the console to get the vpn client working and I forget what they are. SteamOS has an immutable file system, so if you start installing dependencies, there's a good chance they'll be wiped out with each OS update. That's why the Discover store is just displaying flatpaks, because flatpaks (with any dependencies they need) are installed in their own siloed off containers.
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The left analog stick on a DS4 is perfectly usable, while the dpad on an Xbox controller is loving worthless. I guess if you only play 3D AAA games on Xbox, the dpad doesn't matter at all.
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