|OT| Valve's Steam Deck (OLED)- coming to Straya in Nov 2024
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God, I need one soon. Was playing Deltarune with my Steam Controller and it was a nice nostalgic experience (The first time I played Undertale was with the same controller).
valve seems to knock it out of the park with when it comes to comfort and all the impressions so far sound like this'll be the perfect portable companion.
valve seems to knock it out of the park with when it comes to comfort and all the impressions so far sound like this'll be the perfect portable companion.
Woah, Linux really has come a long way.It's fine, Linux has an emulator for that.
bsod(1): Blue Screen of Death emulator - Linux man page
The bsod program is the finest in personal computer emulation.linux.die.net
Nekopara developers got it too, yup, VNs are big, quite big!
The VN market has been growing in the west recently but VNs on portable devices have been/are a HUGE market. The Vita was helped greatly by getting a lot of VNs and niche games and i can see the SteamDeck being many people's VN Machine for sure. The portability helps as you can just open the game quickly, read it on the bus, some have games in them but there's usually minimal controller input required and the small, more personal screen means you can get caught up on the activities of your favorite Catboys in relative privacy compared to a big monitor.
Playing Nekopara on the bus?
I will put my whole VN backlog onto the Deck. But I am NOT playing them in the public. Nope. Never.
I will put my whole VN backlog onto the Deck. But I am NOT playing them in the public. Nope. Never.
AMD Developer Discusses New Linux CPPC Drivers For Ryzen, Steam Deck
A much-needed optimization for Linux Gamers
www.tomshardware.com
Durante should have requested one and spill ALL THE BEANS right here.
Seems like the lower idle CPU frequencies are the most important news here, as it will increase the battery life of a handheld device significantly without any loss in real performance.AMD Developer Discusses New Linux CPPC Drivers For Ryzen, Steam Deck
A much-needed optimization for Linux Gamers
I have requested one, we just haven't gotten one
As in, it hasn't arrived yet, or you weren't picked? How does that work anyway?
I wonder how many of these devkits Valve sent out/plans to send out. Few thousand? I was surprised to see even guy like Dylan Fitterer, who to my knowledge hasn't released anything in half a decade already got one.
Michael Larabel has benchmarked the new driver, with significantly lower performance, but also lower wattage, it's interesting to see: An Early Look At The AMD P-State CPPC Driver Performance vs. ACPI CPUFreq - PhoronixAMD Developer Discusses New Linux CPPC Drivers For Ryzen, Steam Deck
A much-needed optimization for Linux Gamers
Sekai Project kit, more videos in the thread.
This should give you some idea about potential compatibility issues, quite a number of their games doesn't work in Proton:
Steam Deck Compatibility Testing
Steam Deck Compatibility Testing
I'm really curious to see how Proton will handle "real world" scenarios with a less hardcore crowd once the Deck is out. It the big question mark because Valve appears to have nailed everything else.
But so far everything I'm reading is getting me optimistic, even with the expected hiccups.
Which is why I guess it's a good thing that they don't sell it on my Country. I don't really need one and it would be really expensive over here... but I probably would buy it anyway...
But so far everything I'm reading is getting me optimistic, even with the expected hiccups.
Which is why I guess it's a good thing that they don't sell it on my Country. I don't really need one and it would be really expensive over here... but I probably would buy it anyway...
Yeah, this is where I wonder now what Valve is planning on doing with these sort of cases, will they help get them to run or will they leave it up to the developers? I am hoping they are sending out dev kits to get feedback on compatibility issues and solve them, but time will tell I suppose.
That might actually be a focus with who they are shipping the Steam Deck dev kits to, to also cover developers of games they know are not yet compatible with Proton to work with them to either improve Proton, or understand what the developers might need to do to more easily be compatible with Proton.
Looks like Bloody Spell developers got a dev kit too and they recorded a 10 minute video not only showing the game but also a bit of the UI (Spoiler: it is the same we already saw hehe) as I don't know about Windows optimization I don't know if those dips are due Linux or the hardware, HOWEVER, I think it's running quite well if we keep in mind that visually it looks a bit demanding.
(Video inside Reddit thread, no embed, sorry)
(Video inside Reddit thread, no embed, sorry)
I wish Valve could hide this part of game loading because it doesn't look too elegant and instead just show game art until the game is loaded.
I think System will keep improving visually the more it advances, I don't mind the loading screen (most likely proton layer) but yeah, looks less elegant.
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BIG NEWS, EVERYONE!
dev.epicgames.com
EASY ANTI-CHEAT WORKS ON STEAM DECK!
Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
Easy Anti-Cheat now supports all major PC operating systems, including Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck.
EASY ANTI-CHEAT WORKS ON STEAM DECK!
Thanks Tim & Epic!BIG NEWS, EVERYONE!
Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
Easy Anti-Cheat now supports all major PC operating systems, including Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck.
EASY ANTI-CHEAT WORKS ON STEAM DECK!
What kind of timeline is this? Tim did something good for Linux userbase? That can't be right!BIG NEWS, EVERYONE!
Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
Easy Anti-Cheat now supports all major PC operating systems, including Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck.
EASY ANTI-CHEAT WORKS ON STEAM DECK!
Now we just need battle eye to workBIG NEWS, EVERYONE!
Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
Easy Anti-Cheat now supports all major PC operating systems, including Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck.
EASY ANTI-CHEAT WORKS ON STEAM DECK!
Good guy Epic, saving PC Gaming one exclusive at a time.
Craftopia developers got a kit too (thanks for heads-up PC-tan) and they uploaded 2 videos for Craftopia and Overdungeon.
OP
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One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound
Update: BattlEye is coming too
- EAC
- BattleEye
That's gotta be two of biggest potential issues gone.
Chet got a kit too, yay, his game is in the same style as L4D so it's nice to check FPS + MP
Ok, more Tweets!
Gamera Games (btw, Deck officially in Akihabara haha)
And Cliffski showing Production line.
Gamera Games (btw, Deck officially in Akihabara haha)
And Cliffski showing Production line.
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These are all very cool and they show that most devs are very excited for the device but I still want something more meaty in terms of coverage. Hopefully it won't be long before PC tech channels or someone like Digital Foundry get the chance to really put Steam Deck through its paces.
I'm guessing people like LTT will get it closer to the release as review units, however, we don't really know if this will be the case as the NDA is very specific about only showing their published content and I don't think media will get units until both EAC and BattleEye so they don't face errors that final users won't face.That we know of, at least. It's possible that some outlets have received kits and are testing them ahead of a future embargo lift. Or maybe it's just my wishful thinking because I want more coverage
Cyan Inc playing Riven and Myst
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Honesty I wouldn't be shocked if Valve had to pay them for the development support for Linux.
