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So far re: Deck, since the SMT update I'm really, really impressed at how many games run at an almost steady 60fps when upscaled/whatever to 1080p. Unrelated, I tried installing the Plex flatpak, as the only thing id really like is a way to open that in gaming mode (hopefully with support for gamepad, like it's an Official app or whatever, but  if that's not supported) without switching to desktop and back constantly. The downside is this means that instead of using the native resolution I've set (1080p@75fps), it seems to render in 1280 and try to upscale, which... is really blurry. and hiccuppy. is there like, any way to solve this outright?
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ExcessBLarg! posted:If you got into Steam's properties for Plex you should see an option for "Game Resolution" which you should set to 1920x1080 or Native. Also when you connect an external monitor it will add an option for "Set resolution for internal and external display" which you should enable, but that won't appear unless you have an external display connected. Argghh, I'd looked in properties for something like that, and conveniently looked straight past it  Thanks fellow goon! Also, this isn't really the place to ask, but what's the difference between the HTPC Plex and the Plex-normal?
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Apr 12, 2023 00:03
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History Comes Inside! posted:It’s like saying “getting better at a game is a difficulty option” which to be honest is the most Soulsbrain opinion possible, so sure, have at it. To be fair the entire point of souls games is that they are a stand in for real life struggle and the joy of overcoming it. So while i think accessibility options absolutely should be provided, the guy who designs the games iirc wrote a thing about how the games are supposed to convey or represent his (or someone he knew) rise from being homeless to having a job and stability (paraphrasing a LOT), so I can totally understand why he feels its antithetical to just put a giant "make it easier!" slider. he doesnt want to let you beat the game easy because the entire game is about the struggle and the overcoming, not the winning
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Apr 24, 2023 02:12
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If you play souls games and have actual real life struggle, welp, good on you but the intended audience i think is people who, uh, don't have any struggle
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Apr 24, 2023 02:13
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I said come in! posted:Literally every single modern day mobile device, except the Steam Deck, has the feature to do stuff in the background while in sleep mode. none of them run a desktop operating system and all of them have specific SoCs designed for this purpose
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Apr 24, 2023 02:35
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I mean like there are *some* chipsets that support low power modes but usually that means cutting off the biggest drains — screen, wifi, etc. It is entirely possible that the chipset chosen for the deck supports this, too, but they don't support it in-kernel. If so, someone could write a module to do it. Like — the ps4 and 5 and I'd kind of wager the Xbox too are all BSDs, etc But, that's a lot of IFs, and the tradeoff doesn't really sound beneficial tbh.
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Apr 24, 2023 03:13
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Mescal posted:if chipset supports it but they turned it off its probably for a reason Not what I meant. Again, they're running a full desktop OS, so not only are they already, within the linux world, the main team writing the firmware and drivers for the thing, but they are likely the only paid team writing the firmware and drivers for the thing. So, why delay launch 2 extra months squeezing in support for an extra mode that the rest of the software stack wouldn't understand, rather than waiting until after launch, or for some rando Xtremely agile cowboy developers to do it
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Apr 24, 2023 08:33
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Antigravitas posted:FWIW, Valve is mostly using standard components and upstream sources. There are some Valve-sponsored code contributions to the graphics stack (mostly Collabora afaik) and to KDE Plasma (Blue Systems), but the hardware itself isn't particularly exotic and neither is the underlying OS. To get sound working, a Collabora employee contributed a single-line patch that added the PCI ID of the sound chip to the existing cs35l41 driver, for example. I mean, yes, but, no. A friend of mine has been working for the past 6 or 7 years, for a subsidiary of Valve, but his work has been on mesa and other linux graphics drivers, as well as on an open sourced secret project valve had to speed up GPU driver compilation on Linux Like, you can say that it's all upstream, and that's true, but don't ignore the billions of dollars Valve is pouring into maintaining that upstream
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Apr 28, 2023 20:26
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Like as someone who's been a distrohopper since the mid 2000s poo poo only started getting "good" graphics and gaming-wise after Valve started funding cool projects like Proton and funding advancements in mesa, etc.
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Apr 28, 2023 20:52
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.desktop files are like .lnk files not .exes
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Apr 28, 2023 23:23
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tuyop posted:Can you set up the metadata on those things to be like, visually interesting instead of just grey cards? Yes. Icon=(path to a png) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries
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Apr 28, 2023 23:30
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History Comes Inside! posted:Lots of people really wanting something to be possible isn’t going to magically make the deck any more powerful buddy ive heard of people getting 30 fps on jedi survivor on the deck. thats more than it gets on like half of consumer pcs like, last year my workplace paid 850£-ish for a pretty powerful computer for me to do work with. I bought a deck sometime last year and this thing plays cyberpunk with an almost steady 50-60fps, im pretty sure it would make my computer explode. that's impressive for something that's 1/3rd of the price. I tried to pick a machine that would go for games too. Deck gets 60fps on doom, my computer struggles to get 25 alexandriao fucked around with this message at 23:50 on May 6, 2023 |
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May 6, 2023 23:47
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Subjunctive posted:I reinstall my desktop periodically just for that fresh-new-notebook/September-in-a-new-grade sense of reinvention. Every time—every time—I forget to back something up and lose some game configuration or a working directory for a dumb project that I didn’t push to github, but I keep doing it for that dopamine. partitions, my child... partitions... (use a separate home partition for your user directory and then you can wipe the system and reinstall
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May 6, 2023 23:58
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History Comes Inside! posted:You have to go business-end first because trying to go the other way makes it snag. Hammer Bro. posted:Truer words were never spoken.
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May 8, 2023 01:56
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we stay silly :3c
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May 10, 2023 16:34
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its so easy to crack open the deck i might shell out for the hall effect sensors too
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May 10, 2023 16:35
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Mescal posted:I posted before about getting Konsole in gaming mode. I just tried it and it opens a tiny unusable window. Is there a way to autodetect resolution and fill screen when launching in gaming mode? Properties > Game Resolution > Native / whatever size you want Mescal posted:You also can't win+arrow or alt-f to mess with the window, is there a hotkey to allow such input, like shift allows ctrl-C as copy, which also reboots my Deck btw. If I could launch fullscreen and disable the software keyboard, which comes up when I don't want it and is glitchy, that would be wonderful. Anybody know? Control-C is not Copy within Konsole, it's "End running task". You might like to check out the handbook  https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/konsole/konsole/index.html
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May 10, 2023 16:56
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Got my replacement for the spicy deck today. I will say, they got that RMA turned around quick. how many hours was it 
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May 10, 2023 22:58
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negativeneil posted:I just really want quieter cooling. Playing anything demanding on the deck in bed is loud enough that I feel self conscious next to my partner. my fan is pretty silent and i dont notice it, maybe it's an issue with the fan being clogged or yours isnt seated on the ball bearings properly?
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May 10, 2023 23:39
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Paradoxish posted:here's to hoping someone else will eventually come around with a decent handheld with functional trackpads and less of an obsession with numbers. lol
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Khanstant posted:I like Windows, it's where my programs and files are maybe you should keep them inside before it rains
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May 12, 2023 22:16
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CBD Corndog posted:its got a fuckin crank! the components to make the playdate are maybe $5 - $10 at mass market rates. My guess is they've spent so much money on staffing and hype that they'll barely break even despite that lmfao e: that's assuming it's a high quality plastic mould. If it's metal it would be a fair bit higher but ABS plastic molding is 2 for a penny in China
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May 16, 2023 02:43
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MarcusSA posted:So genshin impact runs at a locked 40 and you’ll get roughly 4 hours of battery life on mostly medium settings. Do you prefer the thigh highs that come with the deck or the ones that come with genshin impact? alexandriao fucked around with this message at 21:00 on May 30, 2023 |
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May 30, 2023 20:57
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Kwolok posted:Someone better with budgeting help me, my family is starving. i paid 300ish for a steam deck and now i can play AAA games at 60fps instead of a smooth 15fps nobody gives a poo poo about your views on whatever it is you are talking about, this is a lame rear end gimmick and i hope they probe you for months when you finally run through everyones patience and run it into the ground
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Hey folks, whats a chill controller-friendly 4x game? Something like Civ 5 or maybe Risk/Diplomacy-like? I've been hunting for some on my own but while both Final Theory and Halfway look amazing and like a great fit, they lack actual controller support in favour of a pissy "your controller is a mouse now!!  " half assed solution.What pissed me off most is Final Theory would be a GREAT fit if it had Dorfromantik's controls, and from a development perspective the framework is clearly all there for it. If Steam cancels my refund request then I'll work on modding it I guess (I think Steam Input could also be jury rigged to support something that's a bit like I want, but ugh)
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Mescal posted:The "official" script to run desktop mode nested within gaming mode So, I don't think ill be using this for desktop mode in Steam. BUUUT if it's doing what i think its doing (im phoneposting so i havent read the script yet) it might be useful for running applications under steamos properly? I always end up with some of the weirdest rear end resolution changes when running e.g. discord For applications, I made a custom ROM patcher using the fuzzy find tool in the EmuDeck thing where it adds all the programs to Steam. I made a dir ~/steam-manifests and dumped some JSON files in there (copied from the application launcher to make sure i was shoving the right options to flatpack). So e.g. i have ~/steam-manifests/discord.json and it looks like this: JavaScript code:And then to add them to steam I just run the parser, and then in steam I just go down and set the resolution to like, native or whatever
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The only problem is i think discord starts with a tiny rear end program size and steam goes "oh! im accomodating of resolutions " and then i have to deal with Big Improperly Sized Discord. And then I can fix that but it doesnt fix it across monitors
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I've now got almost 400 hours in GTA Online, exclusively on the Steam deck. Somehow, when I hit the Steam button to try and do literally anything in a mouse-controlled app like Discord, the touchpads won't respond. Does anyone know what I could do to make this behave normally? Any other game allows me to control any app I switch to (well, Discord is the only one I have installed that I run at the same time.) i also have had this weird problem
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Normal apps continue to be a nightmare under game mode Here it is hooked up to a 1080p screen. the screenshot itself is 1080p, but plex itself is acting like its a 600x420 screen. Bleh  Like, I even set it up so it displays like its 1080p, which seems to work on the native display on my steam deck for e.g. discord.  (Yes i tried toggling the button that says "internal and external", no, it didn't do poo poo)
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Like, some games i dont give a poo poo if it's actually 1280x800 scaled up. Doom, etc. still looks great like that, and it's the right thing to do based on the power of the graphics card. But it just sucks for some things (esp. indie games where like, the pixels get blurry and weird under FSR and it's not a strain to render it)
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Mescal posted:There's a good chance it's the same bug as my ctrl-c to SIGINT KDE + reboot bug. It's also when you're under certain circumstances then hit the Steam button. IDK if you have also had a problem where the mouse just straight up disappears when accessing the social mode thingy? Like, I can move the mouse to select the buttons, but GTA V isnt rendering it.
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njsykora posted:Try using the HTPC client for Plex, it scales much better to different resolutions. You just need to map the arrow keys, enter and escape to the controls manually to navigate. I thought HTPC was only for plex pass?
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Mescal posted:Never heard of it. Thanks for the tip! FYI: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Persistent_block_device_naming https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/fstab https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:SwifT/Complete_Handbook/Configuring_the_system#File_system_information
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shitton of options there that might help out Its interesting that IPC is failing, hm
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njsykora posted:Nope, it's basically just the Plex app for using on TVs. Same as you'd get on a smart TV or console instead of the browser interface. I don't have a Plex Pass and use it just fine. Thank you so much for this omfg the experience is SO GOOD
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Has anyone tried the star wars game after the updates? Same q for TLoU
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Weird issue in game mode: When running Discord, a notification from someone freezes the whole app for up to a minute or two
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VelociBacon posted:Hi, looking for recommendations that might be a little specific, basically something very accessible, along the lines of Dredge or Dave the Diver. Anything else super creative and interesting like that around? Presume this is for someone who has never really played games - no shooters or anything like that. Thanks! itch.io
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njsykora posted:After you've played a verified game on Deck for a while it'll pop up a thing on the game page asking if you think its status is correct. if its still within the refund period refund it saying it doesnt work on deck
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im redownloading miles morales from scratch because this loving game hasnt worked once and my deck is basically stock for all intents and purposes no wait it DID work at some point and then it never worked again 
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