Comment on [Review] DeckHD: 1200p Screen Upgrade
steve228uk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is zero chance I’m flashing a bios from a third party company onto my Steam Deck in order to install a different screen.
Yep, completely fair.
They mention:
How long will DeckHD support the custom BIOS firmware?
We plan to continue providing BIOS firmware support for the foreseeable future. We are also optimistic about having the opportunity to work together with Valve to release official BIOS which natively support the DeckHD screen.
Which sounds to me like they haven’t reached out to Valve and there’s pretty much no chance of that ever happening.
MF, you would flash a bios from a shady dude in a back alley if it meant 2% more fps.
alley address???
It’d be cool if coreboot supported the Deck. Hopefully OpenSIL will help with that.
This is the dealbreaker for me. I was looking at earnestly upgrading the screen despite the effort/patience needed to do the swap, potential battery drain, etc. But the fact you need a third party bios flash is the bridge too far. I just want to make sure I don’t run into a situation where they stop support and now I’ve got to swap the screen again.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
And without doing a better GPU what’s really the point? Slower frame rate and a bit more resolution? Not what’s important in a portable console for me.