Valve introduces Steam Deck

foam rolla said:
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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What's the performance like for newer systems? PS3 and the Xboxs seem like it would tax the system a bit much.
 
foam rolla said:
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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That's currently my setup. I slapped a 2tb drive in there with a 500gb sd card and have space for days.
 
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What's the performance like for newer systems? PS3 and the Xboxs seem like it would tax the system a bit much.
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Depends on what you're trying to run. There's games that run near perfectly, then there's hopeless cases like MGS4.
 
PotatoInMyAss said:
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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I had the same problem a while back. Playing for more than like an hour made me feel like my eyes were overinflated and about to explode inside my skull.

I haven't had that problem in a while. I downloaded some mod that seems to have fixed it. I wish I could tell you what it was. All I know is it lets you dick around with the screen settings. I turned the brightness way up but then lowered...I think the gamma? And then I increased the color to compensate. Looks the same, but because the brightness is maxed out you don't get the flickering that's just on the edge of perceptibility that allegedly causes the symptoms.

If you can't find what I'm talking about, let me know later and I'll go check.
 
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I had the same problem a while back. Playing for more than like an hour made me feel like my eyes were overinflated and about to explode inside my skull.

I haven't had that problem in a while. I downloaded some mod that seems to have fixed it. I wish I could tell you what it was. All I know is it lets you dick around with the screen settings. I turned the brightness way up but then lowered...I think the gamma? And then I increased the color to compensate. Looks the same, but because the brightness is maxed out you don't get the flickering that's just on the edge of perceptibility that allegedly causes the symptoms.

If you can't find what I'm talking about, let me know later and I'll go check.
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I’ll look for that mod. Do appreciate the post. I’ve noticed a difference after taking a break for a few days and started playing Marvel vs Capcom collection when it came out.

Playing in a well lit room seems to help and not playing in bed when the lights are off. Haven’t done that in a while.
 
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Custom touchscreen shortcuts for emulation QoL. The program is called PalmTime VirtualGamepad.

Concept: place a shortcut on the touchscreen, select its icon/color/size/opacity, and the corresponding keyboard key. Example: add F5/F9 to the touchscreen. Now in PCSX2, set quicksave/quickload to F5/F9. And there you go, shameless savescumming a quick tap away.

Many emulators in Android allow you to do this, so it's a habit I picked up quickly, as far back as 2015 with MyBoy and ePSXe.

For whatever reason I believed Steam Input for the Steam Deck had that functionality, but I dropped the idea after realizing my mistake (cost me a few hours of frustration) and settled for the back buttons.

But after that I got the AOKZOE. It has no macro buttons at all, which forced me to finally find a proper solution, and I found this program via dumb luck.

As I understand the guy stopped working on the program, so he made it free, refunded everyone who bought it (kudos), and left it as is for anyone to pick up. Clearly that didn't happen, the UI is more convoluted that it needs to be, hence why I included my own preset in the zip.

The ROG Ally has macro buttons but I don't use them at all for emulation, touchscreen shortcuts are the kind of before/after QoL that spoils you rotten.

As far as I can tell it only works on Windows. My preset is intended for 1080p but it will work on 1200p too.

Download here. Includes the program, my preset, and short instructions. Should that link expire, get the program from their website and make your own preset.
 
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I used d8vk (was a fork of dxvk) to play Battlefield 1942 on Windows.
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Happily d8vk is now merged into dxvk.

Rololowlo said:
Custom touchscreen shortcuts for emulation QoL. The program is called PalmTime VirtualGamepad.

Concept: place a shortcut on the touchscreen, select its icon/color/size/opacity, and the corresponding keyboard key. Example: add F5/F9 to the touchscreen. Now in PCSX2, set quicksave/quickload to F5/F9. And there you go, shameless savescumming a quick tap away.
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This is why ill never touch any other handheld outside the steam deck and maybe others running steamos. The ability to make simple binds alone makes the steam deck worth it. No steam input = no buy.

foam rolla said:
How did you find it installing a new drive? Was it fairly straight forward?
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Its no different than opening a laptop, the only issue is that the nvme is a weird size that not a lot of companies make.
 
foam rolla said:
How did you find it installing a new drive? Was it fairly straight forward?
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It was easier to do after watching an ifixit guide. I recommend to triple check if you have an sd card in the deck before you open it up. I have seen too many broken sd cards being posted on deck subreddit.
 
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This is why ill never touch any other handheld outside the steam deck and maybe others running steamos. The ability to make simple binds alone makes the steam deck worth it. No steam input = no buy.
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Not sure how that relates since Steam Input is available for Windows and even without that, basic macro combos are perfectly functional with the Ally software; it's just that I prefer the touchscreen hotkeys as a personal preference.

Unless you're saying that nowadays Steam Input lets you create simple touch shortcuts ("tapping this spot means pressing [X]")? Back when I had a Steam Deck that wasn't possible, as far as I can tell the menus you can create need to be brought up and/or used by physical buttons or the trackpads.

If Steam Input could do it I would ditch the above software instantly. It's a life-changer for me but it's janky as all hell to create a basic setup.
 
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Not sure how that relates since Steam Input is available for Windows and even without that, basic macro combos are perfectly functional with the Ally software; it's just that I prefer the touchscreen hotkeys as a personal preference.

Unless you're saying that nowadays Steam Input lets you create simple touch shortcuts ("tapping this spot means pressing [X]")? Back when I had a Steam Deck that wasn't possible, as far as I can tell the menus you can create need to be brought up and/or used by physical buttons or the trackpads.

If Steam Input could do it I would ditch the above software instantly. It's a life-changer for me but it's janky as all hell to create a basic setup.
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Screen with fingerprints vs clean screen.
 
Something interesting to point out, the 512GB LCD model that was part of the latest sale, (what used to be the premier model before the introduction of the OLEDs ) is completely sold out, That',s it, that tier is gone forever as the 64 and 512 LCD models are being phased out.

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Kinda shitty that the 256GB LCD model is still being made as the bottom tier product now instead of just making a 256GB version of the OLED.
 
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I just put Kodi on my steam deck. I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. Docked, plugged into TV, works just fine. Now I can repurpose that one raspberry pi for something else.
 
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I just put Kodi on my steam deck. I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. Docked, plugged into TV, works just fine. Now I can repurpose that one raspberry pi for something else.
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Tried it, Steam OS gets in the way and put itself to sleep while I was watching videos and screwed up syncing display hz to video hz.

I bought a cheap beelink mini PC instead and its been great.
 
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Bought Digimon Cybersleuth to play on the deck, now this game isn't verified at all so there's some slight fuckery with it, the game launches in windowed mode which is just a blank screen with sound. You have to go into desktop mode, launch the game, change the settings to fullscreen, then relaunch it again in gaming mode. Game works perfect other than that
 
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Bought Digimon Cybersleuth to play on the deck, now this game isn't verified at all so there's some slight fuckery with it, the game launches in windowed mode which is just a blank screen with sound. You have to go into desktop mode, launch the game, change the settings to fullscreen, then relaunch it again in gaming mode. Game works perfect other than that
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For anyone with a Deck, I recommend installing the Proton DB Badges plugin for Decky.

It adds the compatibility badge to the top of the banner when viewing a game in your library, and can be navigated to so you can see if there's fixes or tweaks for it. It'll work for non-Steam games as long as they're named properly since it's running of name queries.

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