on a deck for me a microsd is for old emulated games. Everything else I’m fine deleting and restoring over the local network from my desktop or from a NAS especially when I plug the thing straight into the router
With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.
Submitted 1 day ago by sundray@lemmus.org to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
https://www.theverge.com/games/818602/valve-steam-deck-machine-frame-microsd-card-game-cartridges
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commander@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not cloud. I love it.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
The biggest problem with microsd cards is they’re stuck in 2013, yeah microsd express technically exists but nobody produces cards so no OEMs are willing to support it (except Nintendo)
cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 1 day ago
correct me if im wrong but you don’t have to use this feature if doesn’t suit you
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Yeah you can use the internal storage and if you still wanted to copy the games across you can always do it over the internet (or LAN). I think Steam does have a built in way to do this now as well or you can just send it yourself as a file with rsync or what ever tool you feel like copy/pasting with.
jokro@feddit.org 1 day ago
I can also just download them on each device and have better load times?
UltraMagnus@startrek.website 5 hours ago
It’s good for rural areas and areas without many internet options. Even my internet isn’t really that bad, and it would still take a few hours to download a game that large. It would be convenient to just take an SD card from one device and put it into another.
I’m glad that they’re thinking about these edge case scenarios. Valve is good about this- for example, I’ve never needed any of steam’s accessibility options, but I’m glad they are there.
scala@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Correct. You can also share the download from one machine to another on your WiFi. And even across your friends(for faster torrent-like download).
You can also use your PC as a cloud host and the frame/machine streams the game off that PC rather than needing all the graphics powered the device itself.
anguo@piefed.ca 1 day ago
You consider 150GB small?!?
The biggest games I have downloaded were around 80GB, and I found that excessive.sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
jokro@feddit.org 1 day ago
I dont think it’s small, but small enough so that several of them fit on the 512GB SSD
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
call of duty player, probably?
mereo@piefed.ca 1 day ago
1 Gbit internet connections are not yet universal. And some parts of the world still have slow internet.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Copy it over the network instead so its on the internal memory of both devices. Uses your fast LAN instead of slow internet.
ashughes@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Yup! Sitting here on 70 down / 18 up, fastest money can by around here. If I’m going to play a game I haven’t downloaded yet I usually have to plan a day in advance.
ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Steam supports local network transfers, they added this feature a few months after the Steam Deck was announced.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Or if they implement a copy feature, move the SD card over and copy a game to internal, so you can more quickly transfer over a game without removing it from the SD card.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Pretty sure Steam also supports local file transfers for game downloads. Like if your PC has a game downloaded and you start to download it on your Deck, the Deck will ask if you want to download it directly from your PC. It means your download speed is primarily limited by your LAN hardware, (which is probably at least gigabit these days), instead of whatever arbitrary speed cap your ISP has implemented.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 1 day ago
Is there a Steam Frame community on the fediverse?
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I think this one is the default. You could make one, though
vinnymac@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Given the size of communities hear, it might be better to start a steam hardware community, rather than a niche one that will surely have few contributors.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 day ago
This is peak but at the same time i hate SD cards. Idk how to feel about it 🥀
lavenderleague@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I feel that. When I got my 512 deck I was worried about SD cards and game performance for my more demanding games. I haven’t tried it yet but I’ve seen those NVME enclosures with PD pass-through. Have you ever considered those before? I know it’s capped at what USB-C ports can deliver but I’m pretty sure it’s better than an SD card…
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 hours ago
Seems interessing, i should give a look
Kushan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s an option that you do not have to use.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 day ago
Yeah and? I am not making a critique about using it, i am making a critique to SD cards themselves because they are not very reliable and slow
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My experience with playing games off an SD card in Steam Deck was… lackluster, shall we say (performance-wise).
I share your feelings about SD cards.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’ve had issues with installing games being slow, but I don’t think I’ve ever noticed any difference in performance during actual gameplay.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 day ago
I hope someone make something tiny but as good as a SSD in future, SD cards are absolute shit
moonburster@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
My deck got a new hard drive and ate my SD. Which is my fault, but I just never bothered to get a new one. SD card load times were insane
lambda@programming.dev 3 hours ago
It depends on the game. I typically don’t do AAA games on my Steam Deck. So, most of my games go on an SD Card. The games that need lots of HD assets, I put on my SSD.