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This Year's Gamescom Showed Us A Ton of Devs Care About Steam Deck Support - SteamDeckHQ
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2024
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I’m not surprised. The steamdeck is the only way that I game any longer. I think their approach to hardware upgrades not being frequent is a great idea. It lets devs have target hardware for the games to work on.
I couldn’t be happier with my steamdeck and will get the next one on day one.
I just got the OLED last week. My PC couldn't run baldurs gate so this was my ez fix for that, and I wanted a new toy for remote play.
I've been really enjoying it. A few bugs (offline reboot got stuck looking for updates, and BG3 seems to have issues with controller connection?) but overall really fun. The handheld feels nice too, better than my switch.
Bg3 runs pretty good on it. There are some slowdowns, but it doesn’t really matter in this kind of game.
I got obsessed with that game, but kind of burnt out after I finished act 2.
Yeah, I played through the whole thing on my steam deck and it was mostly a great experience.
The last act was, performance wise, pretty rough though. Maybe there was some setting I could have changed to make it smoother, but the framerate was only about half what I got during the other acts.
I think the stable hardware is a bigger deal than people realize. Windows is already a moving target for devs with all of the different hardware options. Linux just compounds that with the multitude of distros. Having something that the devs can target makes their job easier, but it allows those of us who are willing to get into the guts of it something we can tweak to work on just about any distro and hardware.
That’s really true. I agree 100% Valve is playing the long game and is really doing a great job bringing Linux to the average user.
Im sorta the same but got the first one when the price was cut and it will likely be the same with the next.
I think Steam Deck is great and a huge impact on both Linux gaming and handheld gaming. My only gripe with the Steam deck is trying to use it in docked mode. I'm not sure if it's the TV or the official dock but the only way I could get it working is when I disconnect all the wires from the dock and then connect them in the right order. I think it was 1) connect deck to the dock 2) Connect HDMI to the dock and finally 3) connect power to the dock. If I don't connect it the right way the signal from the dock to the TV gets fucked up and I either get some really crappy resolution that doesn't even get properly aligned, weird almost white noise or just straight up black screen. Not really a big issue for me since I mostly use the deck when away from home, but it still that using it at home is such a hassle (at least for me).
It’s too bad you’re having trouble with it. I’ve had almost 0 trouble with the dock. There was one instance where I couldn’t get video out, but it was fixed after restarting it twice.
Yeah, it's definitely more of a case of being just unlucky because it's not a common issue with the dock. Took me quite a while to find that wire trick.