Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - August 2025
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Colin McRae Rally 04 - I finally set it up on my deck 2 or so weeks ago and that has been my main game on the device since then. It required a little bit of control tweaking but other than that it runs and plays great.
Awesome battery life too though that’s to be expected with such an old game.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How is that one compared to other rally games? I have a copy but haven’t gone through the trouble to figure out the install. With regards to comparisons, I currently have:
I’ve really enjoyed WRC 7 and 10 on the Deck. 4 is decent but kind of arcade, very easy. Sebastian Loeb Rally should be sim, but the physics are a bit wonky. And V-Rally 4 is sort of simcade, leaning arcade, but rather fun.
Most of these, orther than WRC 4 can be a bit hard on the battery, so something that looks and plays well without being a battery hog would be nice.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I haven’t played most of the games on your list (either at all or in a while), doubly so on the Deck, so my perspective is a bit limited. Sorry.
CMR04 is on the simcade side of things. Definitely more realistic than Old School Rally, should be relatively close to Rush Rally 3 or Richard Burns Rally (maybe slightly less realistic than those). I think Codemasters found a nice middle ground in terms of driving model with this game. It’s definitely one of the best rally games from that era at least.
In terms of battery life, I’m able to squeeze between 5 and 6 hours on full charge with this one.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nice. If you’re interested, WRC 7 and 10 play surprisingly well on the Deck. 7 has excellent controller support out of the box, and 10 has very good control but needs some tweaking in the settings for better control.
All the games I mentioned except for RBR have run well on the deck and handle fine on a controller. Might want to check if any are on sale, since Steam has the Racing Fest on right now. I also can’t recommend New Star GP enough, it’s arcade F1 style racing, and really fun.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just to get it running? Not really, I think setting WINE version to WINE-GE-8-26 was the only requirement.
Personally I also:
With this setup everything works perfectly fine for me.
I did browse the themed sale a bit actually and tried the previously mentioned RR3 (demo). Unfortunately for me it doesn’t play well with multiple monitors and that’s a no-go for when I play on desktop. I want to try Richard Burns Rally some day, especially after seeing the huge RSF mod adding tons of tracks and cars to the game. Need to clean up my hard drive for that though as I’m a bit swamped in games at the moment.
I’ll probably won’t be jumping into anything else new for now as I have DIRT Rally sitting in the backlog pile, waiting for its turn in the spotlight. Thanks for the recommendations though, I’ll keep them in mind!