MentalEdge
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
- Comment on [Game] God of War Ragnarök released and Steam Deck Verified 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be waiting for a crack that circumvents this. If I get the game someday.
- Comment on Random Crashes 3 weeks ago:
That sounds like exactly what I was getting
- Comment on Random Crashes 3 weeks ago:
Like complete freezes followed by a reboot? Or straight to complete reboot?
I had that on my first unit, RMAd it and hasn’t happened again on the new one. I assumed it was some kind of faulty hardware component. Like the RAM or GPU.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably not worth the effort. It’s one of the more complex mods, and the screen with additional resolution comes with a bunch of drawbacks, and the anti-glare coating isn’t that big a deal.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 3 weeks ago:
You cannot put an OLED screen in an LCD model.
They have different internals. The screen upgrades that exist for the LVD are to swap in the anit-glare coated version, or a higher resolution.
- Comment on Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat 3 weeks ago:
Either way, making all the software developers who insist on messing with the kernel on windows, stop, will be a good thing.
- Comment on Adding gog games to steam deck 4 weeks ago:
Bottles is really just a really nice UI for managing wine/proton. If you already know what you want/need to run something, it’s a breeze to set up in bottles. And even if you don’t, trying the various tricks that exist to get something running is made easy.
I can’t say the same for lutris. It can do all the same things and even more, I just don’t like the UI/UX, at all. It can do tons, but IMO it’s not the best tool for any of it.
On bottles, the more you actually understand about how wine/proton can be configured, the more sense bottles will make.
- Comment on Adding gog games to steam deck 4 weeks ago:
IMO Heroic is currently the best option for managing GOG games.
I find the GUI and user experience of Lutris to be atrocious, but it does work.
Personally, I’ve likes Bottles best to set up and run anything that steam/heroic can’t manage.
- Comment on Adding gog games to steam deck 4 weeks ago:
Note that you can enable a setting in heroic to do that automatically. Then you just install all your gog games and heroic will make sure they show up in steam.
- Comment on Deadlock, Valve's new multiplayer shooter, now has a barebones Steam page 1 month ago:
If you didn’t get one from this person, someone over on !deadlock@sopuli.xyz should be able to sort you out.
- Comment on Deadlock from Valve has very quickly risen up the most played list on Steam 1 month ago:
You can ask over on !deadlock@sopuli.xyz, there are a couple threads for inviting and getting invited, that’s how I got in.
- Comment on How do you download your game on SD OLED? 2 months ago:
No.
Those features are part of the desktop environment, which doesn’t run at all in game mode.
- Comment on How do you download your game on SD OLED? 2 months ago:
Yeah.
There’s a youtuber who’s had a static image on the switch oled on ever since it came out. He makes a yearly check-up video showing the progress on the burn-in.
Suffice to say in normal use OLED burn-in is essentially a thing of the past. It’s only still a thing on extreme brightness TVs where the panel is pushed to the very limit in terms of how much voltage it can handle.
At dimmed brightness, downloading some games, it won’t be an issue.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds many more Game Recording improvements 2 months ago:
My monitor is ultrawide. It’s cropping off the top and bottom, fitting it into the horizontal resolution of 1080p, which is 1920. Vertical hence ends up at 804.
Why would the line about encoding on the GPU suggest AV1 is supported? Are your files AV1?
My card does support AV1, and I use it in OBS, but it also supports H264 and HEVC and even older formats. In OBS you choose whatever supported encoding you like.
Steam seems to just use H264 with no option to use something newer.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds many more Game Recording improvements 2 months ago:
I’d really like AV1 support, and a resolution setting. Right now it records my 3440x1440 ultrawide as 1920x804.
- Comment on Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games 3 months ago:
That’s nice. But I think most people literally just hook up the big screen with an actual display cable.
- Comment on Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games 3 months ago:
There were apparently several, now that I look into it. I didn’t know that.
They seem to try to mitigate other issues, like asset streaming and other general bad practices in the code of the game.
It seems there are many things wrong with how Elden Ring was coded.
- Comment on Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games 3 months ago:
I suspect most people who buy one already have another gaming device. If I’m gonna play couch co-op games, I’m just switching the video output of my desktop to the projector, not docking my deck.
- Comment on Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games 3 months ago:
Yes. That’s how all games work on linux.
With Elden Ring in particular, it didn’t precompile shaders before gameplay and then when it did compile them, it wouldn’t cache them, so it would happen non-stop.
On linux they are cached by VKD3D, eliminating the stutter except when a shader is used the first time. On the deck, Valve will deliver the shaders precompiled with the game download, but this isn’t unusual. They do it for all games.
- Comment on Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games 3 months ago:
It is.
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- Comment on Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam 3 months ago:
Immersion, yes, but also haptics is another avenue for feedback.
Lots of games use it tell you things, like when your health is low, when to time something, when you took damage vs blocked successfully, when you’re close to secret…
Used right, it’s another sensory input channel in addition to sound and visuals.
- Comment on What do you use the back buttons for? 3 months ago:
I set up !ballisticng@sopuli.xyz as I’ve seen the game mentioned all over lemmy now.
Hoping to eventually organize some online tournaments, but we’re gonna need players :D
- Comment on What do you use the back buttons for? 3 months ago:
I set up !ballisticng@sopuli.xyz as I’ve seen the game mentioned all over lemmy now.
Hoping to eventually organize some online tournaments, but we’re gonna need players :D
- Comment on Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam 3 months ago:
50?
So they left out vibration so it wouldn’t be the usual 60?
Those savings don’t take the price down to “will buy” they take down the feature set down to “will never buy”.
- Comment on EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones 3 months ago:
Criminals will encrypt anyway, what’s one more crime, while the rest of us lose the ability to legally communicate privately ever again.
It’s such a backwards argument, this particular power if given to the government, is far more useful for doing evil, than preventing it.
- Comment on What do you use the back buttons for? 3 months ago:
Dude. Put it in 2280 mode and it’s the best “Modern WipEout” homage there is, too.
It’s literally the “get yourself a girl that does both” of WipEout games.
- Comment on What do you use the back buttons for? 3 months ago:
Oh I have to try that.
- Comment on What do you use the back buttons for? 3 months ago:
god I wish omega was on PC
- Comment on What do you use the back buttons for? 3 months ago:
Or games where you don’t want to take your finger off the left stick to hit a direction bound to some action on the D-Pad.