Valve introduces Steam Deck

PotatoInMyAss said:
Anyone buy one of these to find out it’s the only device that you are PWM sensitive? I’ve never had a device nor screen hurt my eyes and head like the Steamdeck. And the symptoms started after the return period expired.

I’ve tried to turn up the brightness to 100% and lower the refresh rate. Nope, nothing works that i’ve tried so far.
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Are you sure your screen's not malfunctioning? Can you show it to anyone else in your life and see if they have trouble looking at it?
 
Do we have any performance estimates for the AMD Z2 Extreme? I know that handhelds with it are supposed to have better battery life but I wonder how much of a graphics boost they get.
 
Battlefield42 said:
Handhelds that cost well over what Steam Deck OLED goes for? No thanks
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If it has a docking station I would probably make it my desktop, then pull it out of its cradle and into my bag when I go on trips. I'm ok paying more for better performance.

Also I wouldn't be buying one until next year, and my new job pays well.
 
Pissmaster said:
Are you sure your screen's not malfunctioning? Can you show it to anyone else in your life and see if they have trouble looking at it?
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There’s some information on the flickering of the OLED model. Thought about giving it to someone else for a day to see if they report the same problems I am, but mine didn’t start until after i’ve owned it for a few months.

Here is a issue that was raised on github.

 
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Gotta say the deck is quite nice now that it's my primary gaming device. With the dock I display in 720p and games still look great on a 60in 4k tv. I played Alien Isolation and I could still see the skin pores rendered on Ripley's skin. The 720p gaming makes it nostalgic during the early ps3 days.
 
Picked up Sunless Skies to play on mine the other day. Looks awesome on the OLED and at least while my lives are short lends itself really well to quick sessions on a handheld.
 
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All you have is $700 and your mum's credit card. Which one will you choose?
 
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I'll probably splurge on the Deck 2 depending on the specs and presence of an OLED display. I would love for it to have a Zen 4 silicon for that sweet AVX512 gaming power, maybe bump the resolution just a little?
 
The Steam Deck exists because of Nier Automata.

Had some weeb not wanted better performance for this game on windows we'd never have gotten dxvk and proton would have never have been as good as it is. (Pure speculation, grain of salt, blah blah)

I'm an old head and look at all modern games, especially anime games with a side eye. Got a steam deck, and for a gag thought "Ill buy Nier Automata, the game that made the steam deck possible, imagine being so anime coomer brained you wrote an entire directX vulkan translation layer."

Its a beautiful day and I've been playing it all day. Game is actually good. Fuck.
 
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hog cranking frog said:
The Steam Deck exists because of Nier Automata.

Had some weeb not wanted better performance for this game on windows we'd never have gotten dxvk and proton would have never have been as good as it is. (Pure speculation, grain of salt, blah blah)

I'm an old head and look at all modern games, especially anime games with a side eye. Got a steam deck, and for a gag thought "Ill buy Nier Automata, the game that made the steam deck possible, imagine being so anime coomer brained you wrote an entire directX vulkan translation layer."

Its a beautiful day and I've been playing it all day. Game is actually good. Fuck.
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The Steam Deck’s existence is owed to an autistic programmer that got annoyed with that game’s mostly functional but still off port? Really? Please tell me you have more info on that.
 
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The Steam Deck’s existence is owed to an autistic programmer that got annoyed with that game’s mostly functional but still off port? Really? Please tell me you have more info on that.
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The developer for DXVK which translates dx9-dx11 calls to vulkan was made by someone dissatisfied with wines own d11 to opengl translator, wanted to stop having to dual boot, and also wanted to run Nier Automata on linux. A lot of people don't know that wine was pretty decent even back in 2018 when DXVK started taking off, the only issue was translating DirectX games sucked in terms of performance. Valve contacted him to become a contractor for Valve after an article was made saying that nier automata was playable on linux through DXVK.
 
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The amount of emulation stuff you can do on a Steam Deck is crazy. You can pretty much play up to PS3 on it. If has all the touch controls so it covers systems like WiiU and 3DS with most touch requirements. Hook that thing up to any TV and have a couple of wireless controllers on hand and you'd probably wouldn't need any thing else to do most emulation.
 
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