|OT| Valve's Steam Deck (OLED)- coming to Straya in Nov 2024

[Mor]

Oh yes!

Lots of cool stuff here too, this appeared on SteamDB an hour ago at max (thanks lashman for heads-up)

https://steamdb.info/app/943760/

https://steamdb.info/app/935870/

 

[CommodoreKong]

I joined the Q2 club after enjoying my time hanging out in the Q1 party.

 

[Parsnip]

Smh Valve forcing starving devs to buy bananas for deck testing.

 

[madjoki]

Who ate bananas for scale?

 

[Alexandros]

 

[Mor]

Dr Pepper for scale. Banana was eaten earlier.

 

[MomoVideo]

Benchmarks for that machine are already out there on the internet. Steam Deck and this machine should be close enough according to Valve, but Doom Eternal in LTT video about Steam Deck ran at 800p with dynamic resolution off and medium settings at 60 fps while this device runs 720p with low settings and dropping constantly to 50% resolution scale to reach that target of 60 fps.

 

[Alexandros]

Benchmarks for that machine are already out there on the internet. Steam Deck and this machine should be close enough according to Valve, but Doom Eternal in LTT video about Steam Deck ran at 800p with dynamic resolution off and medium settings at 60 fps while this device runs 720p with low settings and dropping constantly to 50% resolution scale to reach that target of 60 fps.

Yeah I watched that review too and the GPU was constantly clocked at around 800-900 mhz as the reviewer points out (I am guessing due to thermal/power throttling?) so Steam Deck's GPU should perform better than that. In any case I hope we get more detailed previews soon because I'm dying to know more about how it performs. Volvo plz

edit: Valve actually updated the article with this according to the Steam Deck subreddit:

edit - Previously this article stated that performance would be comparable - this has been updated after discussing more with the team. This is the one of the closest PCs we could find that is still generally available for purchase, but is still a bit underpowered compared to Steam Deck."

 

[Mor]

Benchmarks for that machine are already out there on the internet. Steam Deck and this machine should be close enough according to Valve, but Doom Eternal in LTT video about Steam Deck ran at 800p with dynamic resolution off and medium settings at 60 fps while this device runs 720p with low settings and dropping constantly to 50% resolution scale to reach that target of 60 fps.

as the note documentation says, if it runs here, it should run perfectly fine on S.Deck as CPU is stronger on Deck but GPU is a bit weaker, which makes sense.

Also, keep in mind that Deck CPU is something completely new and there's nothing on the market that matches perfectly it, so, it's tricky to know.

 

[madjoki]

 

[Alextended]

Looks like some nuts razer type thing, like that gamer tablet they had prototyped at one point.

 

[Mor]

All sessions have been uploaded to Youtube so you can check all individual ones. There's a lot of interesting stuff in here.

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In positive news Lawrence and Scott confirmed in the Q&A that they are working hard to make the device available in more regions, however they specifically mentioned Japan and Australia as priority ones due to logistics (most likely shared process and that's why they are priorities)

 

[prudis]

you missed

 

[MomoVideo]

The end of the Proton Support video caught my attention because the host says that aside from Proton they will have a lot more to say about native Linux support for games. I thought that Proton was the golden solution for Linux games where the devs don't need to port their games to that platform, but it sounds like Valve is not giving up on native Linux versions of games. Maybe they have another card in their sleeve or something?

 

[Phawx]

Yeah I watched that review too and the GPU was constantly clocked at around 800-900 mhz as the reviewer points out (I am guessing due to thermal/power throttling?) so Steam Deck's GPU should perform better than that. In any case I hope we get more detailed previews soon because I'm dying to know more about how it performs. Volvo plz

edit: Valve actually updated the article with this according to the Steam Deck subreddit:

I just want to point out that 1.,1Ghz on Vega will give roughly 80-90% of the performance that 1.7ghz Vega will give (using LPDDR4x).

Still 800mhz Vega will get absolutely crushed by RDNA2. Like 800mhz Vega vs 1.6ghz RDNA2 should be double perf ez

 

[Mor]

News have slowed down a bit since delay, but that doesn't mean they are stopping, NO NO, NOTHING IS STOPPING THIS TRAIN!!!!

 

[Le Pertti]

Curious to see how a game like kingdom come really runs on the deck. It seemed to be quite smooth running.

 

[prudis]

 

[Le Pertti]

Game pass on the deck please!

 

[Paul]

Ok, Kingdom Come seems it will run great, I have no doubt about rock stable 30fps on some medium/high mix.
I love that game so much, that will be one of the first things I will install on my Deck.

 

[Mor]

A bit more of multi-player gameplay between two devices.

 

[Phoenix RISING]

Game pass on the deck please!

OMG this would break the industry.

 

[Mor]

More kits in the wild.

Project Zomboid kit in another picture, this time on Twitter.

 

[Le Pertti]

Man Project Zomboid seems such a perfect game for the deck.

 

[Mor]

 

[fantomena]

Game pass on the deck please!

It already is. You just need to install windows on it.

 

[Le Pertti]

It already is. You just need to install windows on it.

Not what I mean

 

[Mivey]

Not what I mean

If you put windows on an SD card, you could easily switch back and forth OSes and use Gamepass whenever you like. I doubt a reboot should take more than a minute at most.

 

[fantomena]

Not what I mean

If game pass happens on Steam it will most likely be MS 1st party only, anything else will be a legal license nightmare for both Valve and MS.

 

[Mor]

More dev kits in the wild, this time is "My time at portia" and "sandrock" developers.

 

[Mor]

AAAAAAAAAAA chicory

 

[Mor]

What about some in-engine development? yeah, let's see Godot engine on deck.

 

[Alexandros]

I was really hoping we'd get more in-depth previews in November

 

[Mor]

I was really hoping we'd get more in-depth previews in November

After delay, planning most likely changed as we should have really get some more previews by now, if you noticed, their OnDeck account also slowed down a bit, it must be a chaos right now for them to reestructure the initial timing.

 

[Mor]

 

[Gintaro]

Is Capcom the only third party developer that use the Steam Deck logo animation at the end currently? If so seems like Capcom might be a close partner with Valve for the Steam Deck

 

[MomoVideo]

I want more vids like that.

 

[Mor]

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Looks like Capcpom are... Motivated.

Yeaaaaaaaah!

 

[Mor]

 

[Mor]

 

[Mor]

MORE GAMES!!!!

 

[prudis]

Steam :: Steam Deck Deposit :: Steam Deck - Final Packaging + Dev Kits

Hi, here's a quick Steam Deck update for you all - We’ve recently completed our DV (Design Validation) manufacturing build of Steam Deck, and we'll be using these units for additional testing and developer kits. DV is the final prototype build before production, and it includes improvements from...

steamcommunity.com

 

[moemoneyb1]

Steam :: Steam Deck Deposit :: Steam Deck - Final Packaging + Dev Kits

Hi, here's a quick Steam Deck update for you all - We’ve recently completed our DV (Design Validation) manufacturing build of Steam Deck, and we'll be using these units for additional testing and developer kits. DV is the final prototype build before production, and it includes improvements from...

steamcommunity.com

Simple and clean

 

[Parsnip]

Simple and clean

Kingdom Hearts on Steam Deck?

 

[Arc]

Kingdom Hearts on Steam Deck?

In about 4 months.

 

[meschio94]

In about 4 months.

Finally, then i will wait to buy the first 2 for 15/20€<
And i'm generous

 

[prudis]

In about 4 months.

well dént forget this is square enix .... the release will happen on random day out of nowhere after exclusivity expries

 

[Mor]

Excellent news, everyone, 3 more BattleEye games are compatible with Proton.

Steamworks Development - Update on BattlEye + Proton support - Steam News

As we mentioned previously, BattlEye on Proton integration has reached a point where all a developer needs to do is reach out BattlEye to enable it for their title. No additional work is required by the developer besides that communication. Partners have started turning on BattlEye support for...

store.steampowered.com

List:

• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Arma 3
• DayZ
• Unturned
• Planetside 2

Excellent, funnily enough no EAC games have been announced so far AFAIK

 

[LEANIJA]

Excellent news, everyone, 3 more BattleEye games are compatible with Proton.

Steamworks Development - Update on BattlEye + Proton support - Steam News

As we mentioned previously, BattlEye on Proton integration has reached a point where all a developer needs to do is reach out BattlEye to enable it for their title. No additional work is required by the developer besides that communication. Partners have started turning on BattlEye support for...

store.steampowered.com

List:

• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Arma 3
• DayZ
• Unturned
• Planetside 2

Excellent, funnily enough no EAC games have been announced so far AFAIK

its still the case that devs have to manually switch on Linux support in EAC/BattlEye, correct? I

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For me personally, Im wondering when Valve will fix the video codec incompatibilities in Proton, rather. Those affect me more. Fatal Frame still doesnt run, for example.