SquirtleHermit
@SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 1 month ago:
How much of a problem it is will vary by how much it impacts and upsets a customer. For you, sounds like it’s not that big of an issue. But
the fact that they pulled out the “review bombing” exscuse means that it qualifies as a problem to a significant percentage of customers.
- Comment on Modding Fallout New Vegas 2 months ago:
Seconding this. And as another lemming said, moving a working setup from a Windows system can make your life easier. But once you have MO2 running, most mods can just be installed in it like normal. Though SteamOS makes it more trouble than its with to auto download mods via mod manager. Easier just to use the manual download option and then manually install it.
Also, there is a Linux specific version of the 4GB patch. You have to make it executable and run it in the terminal to actually get it to patch.
You can run things like the BSA decompressor using proton tricks.
Or you can just run the 4GB patch and the BSA decompressor on a windows install and then copy the whole FNV folder over to your deck (overwriting files). That works too.
If you are a TTW kind of guy, do that on Windows, making it an installable mod, and then just copy that over. And do it before the BSA decompressor, or you will need to make a clean install of FNV.
Honestly, if you install MO2 using the link Headbangerd17 linked above, you can pretty much just follow the Viva New Vegas gude. Just use protontricks for the BSA decompressor and the Ultimate ESM fixes things, and the linux specific 4gb patch. Or again, do all of it on Windows and copy over the game folder and the MO2 folder.
- Comment on Moonlight PC for game streaming via Sunshine gets HDR support for Linux / Steam Deck 5 months ago:
Weird, seems like we had the opposite experience. On my home network SteamLink is usually about 30-40ms for me, where Moonlight is around 10ms.
Remotely SteamLink is usually about 50ms higher than Moonlight.
This is true when connecting to my Windows and Linux machines.
- Comment on I used to be a frame rate snob but owning a Steam Deck has made me realise the error of my ways 7 months ago:
There are numerous factors to this. First off, the natural motion blur caused by film allows for the brain to track the information better and gives an illusion of fluidity. Games on the other hand render images statically, one by one, often inconsistently. And depending on the motion of the camera in game, the next frame may be dramatically different. (This is partially why some games can run at 24~fps looking smooth, while others look choppy even up to and past 60fps).
And while you are right that folks who played GTA IV, and other games that rendered at a usually smooth 24-30 fps, didn’t often complain about motion sickness, this is a biased sample. The reality is that we know frame rates and frame times are linked to motion sickness. This has been a very prevalent problem with VR headsets that, in which the proximity to the screen exacerbates any issues. But folks playing GTA IV at the time were not likely to be part of the group that was susceptible to the motion sickness induced by low but consistent frame rates.
Compared that fact to now though, where it’s very possible to run games at a higher frame rate, which means that people who would experience motion sickness at lower frame rates can join everyone else in the glorious hobby. Also, if you are having low frame rates on a PC nowadays, it’s more likely to be paired with inconsistent frame rates, increasing the choppy feeling.
Fwiw, just googleing “games cause motion sickness” and adjusting the search date range to '06 to '13 brings up no end of results, including the forms post about GTA IV causing motion sickness for at least one gamer.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 11 months ago:
Man, feels like we played totally different games regarding Morrowind and Starfield. Most of Morrowind’s dungeons are the smallest of any Bethesda game, and honestly it had the least amount of quests that even sent you to dungeons. Still, if you found them tedious you found them tedious. Still, I think the story is by far Bethesda’s magnum opus.
And while I find exploration in Starfield to be extremely tedious, I will say they employed a “Skyrim/FO4” style sensibility where each dungeon should roughly take 10-20 minutes, making for nice bite sized chunks of gameplay.
I completely agree that NV had stellar use of dungeons that almost never overstayed their welcome.
Though if you want real tedium, in both winding dungeons and exploration, give Daggerfall unity a try. Great game, but my god does it go on and on and on.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 11 months ago:
Assuming you haven’t already, you should give Morrowind a shot. If you can get past the dated graphics and mechanics, the story is by far Bethesda’s best work imho.
- Comment on Did you receive your Deck OLED? 11 months ago:
I’m jealous of y’all. Mine just hit shipped today, and won’t arrive until next Tuesday thanks to the holiday weekend. Got it 41 minutes after launch too. Not LE though, so maybe they prioritized those?
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
Honestly, I think you are just using a very specific (and pretty inaccurate) definition of a personal computer. Saying a device that the manufacturer artificially locking out users from installing non approved software is somehow related to the definition of a PC is simply a lie.
You can install Linux on smart phones, so by your definition, a phone is a PC. You can install Linux on first gen switches without modifying the hardware, so by your definition, first generation switches are PC’s. You can even install Linux on modern switches just by soldering on a special chip, so “modified switches” are PCs.
ATM’s often run Windows as the base OS ffs, of course you could call them a PC. As you said, "the owner of the hardware “running arbitrary software” to control what someone else can do is completely irrelavent.
If account restrictions are the owner of the hardware preventing the end user from “running arbitrary software”, then all that means is Nintendo owns your switch. Not that the switch is incapable of running arbitrary software.
You’re strange definition of PC simply does not hold up to scrutiny. I get that you are trying to say that “because a Switch is a device manufactured for the express purpose of running games only accessible through Nintendo’s official channels, it is a far different user experience than what we think of as a traditional desktop”. But to say it isn’t a personal computer, when it is a personal device that runs using a processor, ram, storage, a graphical processor, all connected by a central print circuit board is simply absurd.
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
The ability install “arbitrary software without restriction” is what defines a PC? Now that is complete and utter horseshit. A Chromebook isn’t a PC? A laptop with account restrictions to prevent the end user from installing software isn’t a PC? A desktop running an immutable linux distro isn’t a PC? Quit your bullshit.
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
Just because the switch runs a proprietary OS does not mean it isn’t a personal computing device. It can run Linux, it has a CPU and memory, it runs software, its a personal computer for sure.
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
You have a weird definition of platform “ecosystem”. How is buying a computing device (gaming or otherwise) that locks you down to only running software purchased from the manufacturer’s store not forcing you into their ecosystem?
I guess if you mean no one is forcing you to buy a switch sure. But if you own a switch, you have to procure software through Nintendo. That’s being locked into an ecosystem by definition.
- Comment on feat. coffee mug, standard case and microsoft foldable keyboard. 1 year ago:
Nah brah, I meant verses cuz the SteamDeck spits mad bars…
jk, thanks
- Comment on feat. coffee mug, standard case and microsoft foldable keyboard. 1 year ago:
Fair enough, I was like 90% just memeing about the “haters gonna hate” anyway. Though you might be suprised how much the Steamdeck can do verses a comparably priced laptop. And if your usecase is like 75% controller oriented gaming, I’d say Deck is the way to go. For what a personal anecdote is worth, I use my Deck far more than my laptop. Setting up the laptop is a bit inconvenient in bed, or on the couch, or at the airport, or on the bus, or blah blah blah.
Anyway, keep on keeping on.
- Comment on feat. coffee mug, standard case and microsoft foldable keyboard. 1 year ago:
Haters gonna hate.
Got a laptop, use it for laptop shit. Got a Steamdeck, rarely need to do heavy typing on it, but when modding games I have to connect a keyboard and mouse to do so efficiently. Saw this solution and thought “hell yeah, great idea!”. Bringing a keyboard around for occasional use is way better than bringing a laptop and controller around when all you want to do is some gaming.
- Comment on DeckHD early bird sold out within seconds, did they even have any for sale? 1 year ago:
Point well taken about the dangers of swapping the screen and flashing the BIOS. But performance being maxed is super relative. I stream to my steam deck regularly, and there are multiple games that I play that run on max settings with ease that I really wouldn’t mind the extra pixels on.
Beauty of the Steam Deck is choice afterall.