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Steam Deck ~ PC Switch

Will you buy one?

  • Yes, take my jew scheckles!

    Votes: 62 36.3%
  • No, this is consolitis creeping into a PC.

    Votes: 63 36.8%
  • Kingcomrade

    Votes: 46 26.9%

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Steve is so much better than Linus lmao.
Depends on what you like.

Linus gives you just the Tip, but is entertaining.

Steve gives you the whole thing, he goes deep but sometimes it's more than you want to handle. And he's a bit dry.

Personally, I like Aussie Steve best. A well-oiled machine.
 

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Not really surprised with AAA games getting good numbers, between the 800p display and beefed up iGPU.

Low resolution is a miracle solution that isn't exploited enough, the FPS gains can be enormous.

That's true even if you intend to dock it: in most cases I'll gladly pick 720p over 1440p if that's what it takes to get 60FPS, or much higher like 144, even on a 32" monitor. As long as you get integer scaling it's still perfectly serviceable, and with tools like ReShade still operating at 1440p you end up with a much cleaner result than you'd expect.

I don't know, 720p looks rather pixely on my 27" screen, even with integer scaling.
 

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Steam Deck: Replacement Parts
Hi all,

Hope everyone’s doing well – 10 days and counting until launch day! We have some exciting news to share. If you watched our Take a look inside Steam Deck video (aka the “please don’t do this” video), you may remember we said certain Steam Deck replacement parts would be available for purchase.

Today, we’re announcing that
iFixit
will be one of the authorized sellers of Steam Deck replacement parts – as well as replacement parts for the Valve Index VR products. We are still hammering out the details, and will be sharing more info on this soon.

And in case you missed it, don’t forget to check out iFixit’s teardown of Steam Deck just posted today.

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image via ifixit.com

 

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So when can we start not being able to buy this because the 3 units Valve makes per month is woefully inadequate?
 

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Not really surprised with AAA games getting good numbers, between the 800p display and beefed up iGPU.

Low resolution is a miracle solution that isn't exploited enough, the FPS gains can be enormous.

That's true even if you intend to dock it: in most cases I'll gladly pick 720p over 1440p if that's what it takes to get 60FPS, or much higher like 144, even on a 32" monitor. As long as you get integer scaling it's still perfectly serviceable, and with tools like ReShade still operating at 1440p you end up with a much cleaner result than you'd expect.
Game engine implementation of FSR and RSR post-processing should both serve as a pretty nice boost to any kind of upscaling.
 

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Steve is so much better than Linus lmao.
Depends on what you like.

Linus gives you just the Tip, but is entertaining.

Steve gives you the whole thing, he goes deep but sometimes it's more than you want to handle. And he's a bit dry.

Personally, I like Aussie Steve best. A well-oiled machine.

I find refreshing to have ONE tech review site that doesn't treat me like an idiot.
 

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The L*nus one is total clickbait. He's generally positive about it in the actual video.
 
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Not really surprised with AAA games getting good numbers, between the 800p display and beefed up iGPU.

Low resolution is a miracle solution that isn't exploited enough, the FPS gains can be enormous.

That's true even if you intend to dock it: in most cases I'll gladly pick 720p over 1440p if that's what it takes to get 60FPS, or much higher like 144, even on a 32" monitor. As long as you get integer scaling it's still perfectly serviceable, and with tools like ReShade still operating at 1440p you end up with a much cleaner result than you'd expect.
Game engine implementation of FSR and RSR post-processing should both serve as a pretty nice boost to any kind of upscaling.
there's a patch to implement FSR at the wine level so it works for any game
 

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The L*nus one is total clickbait. He's generally positive about it in the actual video.
He is positive towards the concept and the hardware, but half of the video is about the flawed things. But he is optimistic about the improvements to come.
 

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The consensus seems to be that the hardware is amazing for the price, but the software still has a lot of rough edges. Luckily, the software can be patched.

The built-in MangoHud is pretty nice. They should incorporate that into Steam proper in the overlay or something.
 

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The big takeaway, as that long-haired dude put it, is that the Deck is basically a miniature PC.

You can even connect a keyboard and mouse to it.

It certainly has a lot of potential.
 

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The big takeaway, as that long-haired dude put it, is that the Deck is basically a miniature PC.

You can even connect a keyboard and mouse to it.

It certainly has a lot of potential.
The first thing I would do is to make a dual boot Linux-Windows 10 system, then it would be a great system.
 

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pretty sure you won't want to install windows because there won't be drivers for most of the custom hardware...
You might be right, but that would be a big missed opportunity for the Deck. Linux gaming is getting there, but still only a fraction of games are running on it.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck/mygames
Checked out the page above, and I got the following results:
Out of my library 12 games are verified as Deck compatible, 10 games are playable, 4 are unsupported and 131 are untested.
Yeah, Linux gaming has a long way to go.
 
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pretty sure you won't want to install windows because there won't be drivers for most of the custom hardware...
You might be right, but that would be a big missed opportunity for the Deck. Linux gaming is getting there, but still only a fraction of games are running on it.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck/mygames
Checked out the page above, and I got the following results:
Out of my library 12 games are verified as Deck compatible, 10 games are playable, 4 are unsupported and 131 are untested.
Yeah, Linux gaming has a long way to go.

More games than that are playable on Linux. Those are just the games officially verified by Steam.
 

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That's good to know.

If you're looking specifically for Linux playable, https://www.protondb.com/ is a better place to check.

I'm not sure what criteria Valve are using for determining which games to test first. It's odd that ATOM RPG Trudograd shows up as playable, but not ATOM RPG which has a native port that runs flawlessly.
 

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