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Since the Circuit Superstars threads are all pretty dead and would require a necro bump, I'll just ask it here:
Can you custom select tracks for your little GP? Looking at the store page, it almost seems like in that GIF that the 60s F1 cars are racing on an oval track? With the stock settings, that never happens. Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the game. But can you select the 4 tracks to make up a GP?
Can you custom select tracks for your little GP? Looking at the store page, it almost seems like in that GIF that the 60s F1 cars are racing on an oval track? With the stock settings, that never happens. Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the game. But can you select the 4 tracks to make up a GP?
I watched the valve tear down of the deck and they warned depending what ssd you put in it that it could cause over heating, more battery drain, and interference with wireless
What SSD's are safe and won't cause all 3 of these things
What SSD's are safe and won't cause all 3 of these things
Man, that's kind of odd to me. It's been 10 days nows, maybe after the holiday today in the US I'll hear something about it this week.
It's just them covering their ass. Use an SSD that's fits and stick the shielding on it and you'll be fine.
I tried Stellaris out on the Deck over the Free Weekend they had recently and it ran really well, but the UI was indeed a tad too tiny. However, I'd never played it before so I had to stop and read what everything was and what the icons were and so on. I imagine if you've put time into it, you'd fair better - but yeah, it's tiny. Legible, but tiny.
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My Steam Deck in now on the vehicle for delivery. Been watching this tracking page like a hawk lol. First Games I'm going to play/download are
- Elden Ring (been playing on PC but going to finish it on deck)
- BallisticNG
- Redout
- Test our some emulator stuff.
Really? Most computers let you upgrade the storage without voiding the warranty.
Oh I may have been hasty, reading around suggests "as long as you don't break something while it's open your warranty is still good", so replacing the SSD doesn't void the warranty but if you break your deck doing so you're out of luck.
Please report back how ballisticNG does, far as I'm aware that hasn't been reviewed yet
Everspace 2 run terribly on Deck. Kind of disappointing considering the first game runs like a dream.
It runs great, either native Linux or through Proton.
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Looking over my library (backlog) on Vita, it seems there's not a lot of games left for it once I get a Steam Deck
- Mortal Kombat 9 - Kratos is exclusive, might run in RPCS3.
- Midnight Club LA Remix - I've seen videos of it running via RPCS3 or Xenia, but the speed doesn't seem to be there.
- Shovel Knight - Kratos exclusive content, would be surprised if it doesn't run in RPCS3.
- Touch My Katamari - No clue if this version is worthwhile or unique compared to other entries.
- Uncharted Golden Abyss
- LittleBigPlanet Vita
So I've had my Deck for about a week and a half. Some notes:
- The Deck runs games better than I was expecting. I'm amazed how many titles can run at 60FPS locked, and modern / graphically intensive games have been easy enough to run at 30/40FPS. PowerTools has been nifty for programs that can benefit from SMT disabled and higher single core clock speeds, particularly older titles and emulators. The ability to change the screen's refresh rate (for 40hz mostly) is also an absolutely killer feature. As a primarily PC gamer, the fact that I can make these sort of tweaks to a handheld is very appealing to me and the visual quality you can pump out of this thing at 40 or 60hz native resolution is crazy.
- The SteamOS software is still obviously a work in progress. I've had some occasional issues with button controls no longer responding after summoning the virtual keyboard, one time where the inputs freaked out on the Steam interface and constantly registered face button presses, and a few times where there have been issues closing games and I've had to restart the Deck to 'clear' it out. I lost the fan lottery so the recent updates to the fan curve have impacted my experience a bit --- I'm considering buying a replacement fan from Ifixit to remedy the noise issues. All that said, I'm impressed at how much of my Steam library works out of the box, hassle free. Also, I have experience with Linux so the desktop mode has been useful for installing programs and making tweaks.
- My unit unfortunately came with a minor defect. The "B" button on my Deck had a tendency to be sticky and would catch when returning to its neutral position and sometimes get stuck when depressed. I learned that this issue was due to a manufacturing defect in the plastic mold, where a small lip at top of the button hole can collide with the "B" button and cause stickiness or getting the button stuck. Rather than rolling the dice on an RMA, I looked up a guide and carefully sanded down that lip myself. This completely resolved the issue, but I feel that this sort of problem is unacceptable to have happen on retail hardware, particularly if Valve wants to expand the accessibility of PC gaming to the masses. They are highly fortunate that many of the early adopters of Steam Deck are reasonably tech savvy and they aren't shipping millions of units yet.
After using the Steam Deck for a couple of months my thoughts go like this:
Before Steam Deck:
Do I really need a Steam Deck? I have a gaming computer already. The games doesn't magically become more fun to play on the Deck. I like portable devices, but it looks pretty heavy.
After Steam Deck:
Do I really need a gaming computer?
After they release the Dock I think I will use the computer even less. Of course there's some games that still need a bit more power to run well.
My biggest wish for a new Steam deck is better cpu and bigger screen. I'm pretty happy with it otherwise.
Before Steam Deck:
Do I really need a Steam Deck? I have a gaming computer already. The games doesn't magically become more fun to play on the Deck. I like portable devices, but it looks pretty heavy.
After Steam Deck:
Do I really need a gaming computer?
After they release the Dock I think I will use the computer even less. Of course there's some games that still need a bit more power to run well.
My biggest wish for a new Steam deck is better cpu and bigger screen. I'm pretty happy with it otherwise.
The bugs and OS issues are pretty annoying. Got mine last night and ran Crazy Taxi and gave Most Wanted a whirl just to see if it would fare better than the PC version at not having wonky controller support. Did an update and now it looks like I will already have to make a recovery drive for it due to getting a black screen.
Yeah replacing drives in devices is super common, I would have been surprised if it affected the warranty.
If you follow a guide it shouldn't be much harder than working on a laptop or something.
Hey folks. Just got my email that I can finally purchase a 512GB. It's been that long since I pre-ordered it, I kind of forgot everything tbh.
Couple of questions, if y'all wouldn't mind.
Couple of questions, if y'all wouldn't mind.
- Is the 512GB worth it over the smaller versions?
- Does it have any resale value right now?
1. My friend got the 512 and I got the 64. The only thing outside of storage you get on the 512 is the anti reflective etched glass screen. I didn't like it when I saw it on my friend's console. But to each is own.
2. Yes. I'm seeing between $900-$1300 from US sellers on eBay for brand new or "slightly" used units that are 512.
Just fyi, I upgraded my 64 storage to 512 in less than an hour. Super easy to do.
The 512GB is worth it if you're not planning on replacing the SSD. The screen is also slightly better - I can't really tell a quality difference between my 512GB and my brother's 256GB (I'd just say any differences were manufacturing variances if I didn't know the screens were different) but the glare is much better with the anti-glare screen.
Resale value is there. You'll be able to make a profit if you want to - just today they've sold for between £600 and £1200 on eBay. The highest 512GBs seem to be higher than the highest 64GBs and 256GBs, but overall they seem to all have similar resale value.
Thanks - I'll buy it today and give it a shot. Been waiting awhile now.
Anyone been using Yuzu? It runs great, but if I ever try to Exit from it, or put my Steam Deck into sleep mode, it freezes. The only way to get out of it seems to be to do a hard shutdown of the whole Steam Deck.
It's funny, I don't think the Steam Deck replaces a gaming PC, but I am shocked by just how far it can go towards replacing a gaming PC. There are still some heavy-duty games I'm glad I have the big PC for, and some stuff that really cries out for either a big screen or a real keyboard (stuff like Gemcraft comes to mind), but otherwise... yeah, you can play a lot of stuff on the thing without significant compromises.
Does anyone know anything about this fan? Just wondering if the iFixit fan is much more quiet. I hear this one sometimes but can't say it bothers me that much.
That's the Delta (high pitched one). If it's not bothering you much then I wouldn't worry.
This is so true. I haven't touched my gaming PC (for gaming) since I got the Deck...and that's with a 3080.
I played doom just now and I could barely hear it on the latest update. But when I update a game in steam itself its absolutely insane how noisy it gets. Very weird? Do you control the new fan curve at all or is just toggling it on under system enough?
Anyone with a good fan I am really curious how updating a game sounds.
You have to, from experience, go back to the 'Library' version of the game/emu on the OS itself, then click the X next to play a few times. It's a bit cumbersome, but that tends to work.
Aw yiss. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is now fixed on the Steam Deck.
Previously it had messed up button icons, now they just rolled out an update to fix it.
A round of applause for the devs.
Previously it had messed up button icons, now they just rolled out an update to fix it.
A round of applause for the devs.
So I've been playing doom 2016 on the deck and despite running it with vulkan and putting the settings at medium the frame rate is very unstable.
Jumping from 30 to 60 all over the place.
It's odd because I've heard people saying it runs smooth as butter with vulkan.
Jumping from 30 to 60 all over the place.
It's odd because I've heard people saying it runs smooth as butter with vulkan.
I'm pretty sure Steam is doing a lot of decrypting when it's installing stuff. So that's not weird at all. Mine is like that too. Even for system updates, which you wouldn't think would be decrypted. But maybe it is. All I know is I don't even need an OS updating screen, because if the screen is black, but the fan is screaming, I know it's performing some kind of system update.
I don't think Doom uses that much power. For me, even 15 watts is basically silent. It's when you really start pushing to the extreme that it revs up for takeoff.
You don't actually toggle it. In the BIOS you can revert to the original fan profile, but that's the only real control you have. Old/new in the BIOS.
Assuming you installed Yuzu via EmuDeck, use the Start + Select button combination ("Options" + "View" buttons in the upper right/left) to exit a game. For sleep mode, you need to pause the game using Select + "B" button before entering the Deck's sleep mode. Unpause with the same hotkey once you're ready to resume. If you didn't use EmuDeck to set up Yuzu, you will need to set up the hotkeys in Yuzu's settings and then map those to your Steam Deck controller layout settings.
Any help on Proton compatibility for Red Dead? Like I know it's stable 6.3.8, but I've installed too many things through that launcher for a fresh install on C. Any other Proton version seems to cause a memory leak and those crashes brutal hard resets of the deck. I wish Rockstar would just allow us to run the older Proton version without screaming about new instances :/
Thank you! I'll try this and see if it works better.
Wipe your savegames and config, that's the only way I fixed this issue.
According to another user, changing anti-aliasing to anything that's NOT FXAA or SMAA also works, maybe you should try that first.
How is everyone's triggers holding up? I've noticed my L2 start to squeak - almost like the spring is wearing out or something.
Darksiders 1 Warmastered runs well in-game, but sadly it doesn't play any cutscenes.
I looked it up and there's a way to get them working, but it seems like more effort than it's worth (I've played the game several times through, but it's still kind of a bummer).
I think it'll probably just be easier to pause anytime there's a pause for a cutscenes and just watch it on YouTube.
I looked it up and there's a way to get them working, but it seems like more effort than it's worth (I've played the game several times through, but it's still kind of a bummer).
I think it'll probably just be easier to pause anytime there's a pause for a cutscenes and just watch it on YouTube.
How do I do that without losing my progress?
Oh nvm lmao switching AA to TSAA fixed everything, weird lol
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Digital Foundry did a video and with God of War on the Deck and it is able to run at 30fps with PS4 settings at 800p.
Using emudeck - I'm trying to apply a basic CRT shader for SNES games and it just... won't save? I've tried each of the override options - game, directory and core, but no matter what I do, it just won't be there the next time I launch.
Disabling the border overlays and then saving the override does work, so I'm not sure what's going on? Does anyone know how to make the shader settings stay put? Most other settings stay put - for example I've enabled GBA colour correction and interframe blending and the overrides are fine there. But shaders? Can't change them.
Disabling the border overlays and then saving the override does work, so I'm not sure what's going on? Does anyone know how to make the shader settings stay put? Most other settings stay put - for example I've enabled GBA colour correction and interframe blending and the overrides are fine there. But shaders? Can't change them.
yea emulationstation and retroarch saving stuff has been a huge hassle for me for the deck and other devices... Had more success with video shader tweaks though?
Did you try global? My CRT shaderr settings don't save for MAME, but work for other systems. I've done saves for system override, global overrides, but MAME is like... "Eh, I'm good without it." To me, it's par for the course with Retroarch. It's the most feature rich so you need to use it, but it does what it wants, when it wants. And deal with it.
Where is the global setting? Overrides menu in quick menu on has core/game/directory.
Good question. I swear I found it the one time. It was after my CRT shaders stopped saving on everything. And then I found global, hit apply, and now it mostly auto-loads (minus MAME). Just spent 5 minutes looking, though, and I can't find it either.
Nope, this has been the white whale for me - I was in the very first shipment and have spent many hours trying to get this game to run but it won't. Literally one person on Reddit says that he did but his details were unclear.
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