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- Comment on Decksight, an OLED screen replacement for LCD decks, is now in crowdfunding 1 week ago:
The steam deck really can’t do 1080p
When docked, I use 1080p all the time.
- Comment on Decksight, an OLED screen replacement for LCD decks, is now in crowdfunding 1 week ago:
A drop-in low power OLED display upgrade for LCD model Steam Decks
DeckSight requires a custom BIOS
future updates may temporarily disrupt DeckSight functionality until re-flashing is performed.
So, not drop-in after all.
- Comment on Looks like Valve is working on a SteamOS device codenamed fremont. Maybe a standalone Steam Box 1 week ago:
Could Waydroid have anything to do with this device?
No, not specifically. The embedded controller is just a piece of hardware, apparently optimized for low power consumption and it is already compatible with Linux, so it makes sense to reuse that instead of making your own.
My guess is Waydroid will be used to bring Quest VR games to the stand-alone VR headset.
- Comment on Looks like Valve is working on a SteamOS device codenamed fremont. Maybe a standalone Steam Box 1 week ago:
Valve hasn’t even announced their own steam machine yet have they? I’d be betting on ASUS to be first to market with whatever’s in the pipe from OEMs.
Valve didn’t announce anything. They technically didn’t even announce Deadlock. I think whatever will be announced, we’ll see next month at CES any my personal opinion is that a new generation ROG Ally with a SteamOS option is at the forefront (no way Asus isn’t also making a Windows one but perhaps with less fanfare).
- Comment on Looks like Valve is working on a SteamOS device codenamed fremont. Maybe a standalone Steam Box 1 week ago:
theverge.com/…/valve-steam-machines-steamos-steam… Sounds like they really are working on a standalone console
That’s about devices by 3rd party hardware OEMs.
- Comment on Looks like Valve is working on a SteamOS device codenamed fremont. Maybe a standalone Steam Box 1 week ago:
It could be reference hardware for 3rd parties looking to make SteamOS devices. We at know that’s happening.
- Looks like Valve is working on a SteamOS device codenamed fremont. Maybe a standalone Steam Boxwww.reddit.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 10 comments
- Comment on Looks like Valve is preparing to release SteamOS to the public (or at least to third-party hardware manufacturers) 2 weeks ago:
They promised to release a generic version of it targeting more devices in the past, and this post hints that that day is closer.
This post says that Valve is talking about hardware by Valve partners with SteamOS developed in collaboration with these partners. It says nothing about it being generic.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 weeks ago:
As you wrote yourself, the controller acts as a mouse, not as a regular Xbox controller.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 weeks ago:
I fear that, just like the Steam Deck’s controller, it won’t be usable without Steam running. IMO by default and without any special “driver” running in the background, the sticks and buttons should just behave like a Xbox controller.
- Comment on Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that handhelds need games that are easy to get and out of. PC has tons of those games while the PS4/PS5 has very few of.
No idea what you’re talking about. The top charting games on Steam Deck are mostly also available ob PS4/5.
Also while some people want to play console games on the go it’s less fun on a smaller screen.
- Comment on Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable 3 weeks ago:
IMO for this to have any chance against the Switch 2 it needs to be able to run PC games. Ps5 is already struggling with very few games (with most of them likely not working in such a handheld format), it needs something to sell on.
A handheld in development now will have at least launch-PS4 level of performance. Also, PS5 games just need to ship a Low Graphics preset most game developers make for PCs anyway.
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- Comment on SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ 1 month ago:
Always porting not-yet-upstreamed patches to new release kernels is additional work to the upstreaming work towards the latest development tree. The Valve engineers interviewed around the very first Steam Deck announcement said their goal with moving from Debian to Arch was to minimize the patchset maintenance burden. Their approach surely has that goal in mind. There are only two variants of Steam Deck with minor differences between them. If backporting patches from newer kernels is less work than forward porting their patches, they just stay with that version for a while. Updates to drivers for hardware they don’t use and filesystems they don’t use aren’t relevant to them anyway.
- [News] Steam developers can now select which Steam for Linux runtime to use for native titlesstore.steampowered.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
When a normal person talks about a topic, they don’t have to continuously clarify that they still talk about the same topic, it’s assumed.
It’s a new statement in a new paragraph.
Oh, now we interpret according to the intent of the author?
Accept that you misunderstood and move on.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
The guy said he bought games, and those don’t work as well natively.
No, he didn’t say “those”. He made a statement about commercial Linux games in general.
if he didn’t buy them it won’t change his experience.
Shouldn’t make a generalized statement like that then.
Yeah, fuck those Linux users! Only sell those games to Windows users!
No idea how you get to that from my statement that’s advocating to make unmaintained games free. 🤷
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
Proton is the gateway drug to us getting more Linux native games.
It’s not when Win32 apologists keep making insane claims how stable Proton is… “Proton is great, it just runs all the Windows games” is the mess that got us to the place where games we buy just start crashing suddenly because nobody of those developers realizes that each major release of Proton must be treated like its own OS with proper QA targeting that. Proton works great for old games because these old games no longer change. For modern games that still get updates Proton is a gamble because a reverse engineered version of the Windows API just isn’t stable.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
Linux is a total pain in the behind to write applications for, because of API and ABI instability.
Flatpak
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
Not a single commercial game runs as well natively as it does through Proton.
It’s funny when people like you make such statements because someone needs to literally name just a one commercial game and you’re already being proven a liar. OK, I start: Selaco.
But the sad reality is that it costs money to maintain software.
So what? They should stop taking money for unmaintained games then.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
Win32 has somehow become the most stable Linux API.
Windows is a moving target. Wine/Proton is a reverse engineering chase of a moving target. WINDOWS GAMES ON PROTON BREAK ALL THE TIME! Stop making stuff. It’s great that Proton exists but it’s not like Java. What does not break? Flatpak Runtimes and Steam Linux Runtime.
- Comment on Valve Snuck In Three New Game-Themed Steam Deck Startup Movies Based on God of War, The Last of Us, and Harry Potter Quidditch 2 months ago:
I know that I can (I did with another one) but that’s not what being a paying customer is about.
- Comment on Valve Snuck In Three New Game-Themed Steam Deck Startup Movies Based on God of War, The Last of Us, and Harry Potter Quidditch 2 months ago:
The God of War one is the boot video with the most obnoxious sound I’ve ever encountered. Too bad Valve still didn’t care to add a mute option for boot videos.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 2 months ago:
I am almost certain that steam keys are actually free to developers, which is the whole reason for the policy.
Yes, they are. That’s what many of the Kinguin etc. keys are. People/bots pretend to be game reviewers/streamers and ask for free keys. I have a “Game Press” license for a game because back then I didn’t know of that method. I was under the impression those were keys sold by the developer in foreign markets for adjusted prices. Now I know better.
- Comment on Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck 4 months ago:
Weird that the drivers are that dramatically different for the OLED version.
The WiFi and BT modules are completely different (the OLED’s product page says this since the announcement), hence new drivers required.
- Comment on Waydroid installer for SteamOS, lets you run Android apps on Deck 4 months ago:
I’m convinced that is about bringing Oculus/Meta Quest VR games to the next Valve VR headset which is rumored to be stand alone and run SteamOS.
- Comment on [Help] I get beta client updates but I'm on the stable update channel 5 months ago:
I’ll try that, thanks