bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Remote Play - HEVC stutter 3 days ago:
I never use Moonlight directly with Steam. I connect to the Desktop so that I can see and use everything like if I was at the PC.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 6 days ago:
And uh also no, no, the SteamOS Benchmarks came out less than a week before this announcement.
I meant that they maybe used SteamOS (or a similar distribution) on whatever prototype they had to make some benchmarks to compare against stock Windows or their own Windows build.
But you seem to have better insight into the way they work.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 1 week ago:
It’s so cool to play the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter games and be able to control them with some custom HUDs.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 1 week ago:
I dunno, I kind of believe them when they claim they seriously debloated Windows. I bet they actually used SteamOS benchmarks to sway the higher ups to be allowed to do this. It will be interesting to see benchmarks when this thing is released.
Although I also believe that they would lock down the bootloader. And not release this mode to the general public. They haven’t been very lenient with the media people testing these things. They weren’t even allowed make their own videos of the interface or games running on them.
- Comment on Remote Play - HEVC stutter 1 week ago:
I use Sunshine and Moonlight for PC streaming. Steam’s own solution always had some problems for me. Sunshine and Moonlight just work. And if they get one bug fixed it should even work in the other direction.
- Comment on Spicy pillow 🧐 2 weeks ago:
Should crosspost to !spicypillows@lemmy.world.
- Comment on Do I have to start BG3 through desktop mode for mods to work? 2 weeks ago:
How do you launch it in desktop mode? Do you just click on play in Steam?
- Comment on Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
Not for all launchers. It’s enabled by default for select titles but should work with everything using standard Win32 controls.
- Comment on Your experience streaming to twitch/youtube with the SD? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t tried it but considering the weak CPU it might not be a pleasant experience.
But if you want to try it OBS is available in the software store and should at least work in desktop mode. Probably not in gaming mode.
- Comment on [Help] Gamepad input gone in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after standby 5 weeks ago:
See my edit. It’s a bug in Proton 10. Don’t use Experimental or Hotfix at the moment.
- Comment on [Game] Doom the Dark Ages will not run well on steam deck at release 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t they manage to get Indiana Jones working after a while? That’s on the same engine, right? I’ll be patient. Don’t have the energy for Doom at the moment anyways.
- Comment on [Help] Gamepad input gone in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after standby 5 weeks ago:
Yes, that was it! It’s a bug in Proton 10.
- Comment on [Help] Gamepad input gone in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after standby 5 weeks ago:
That sounds like it may very well be the issue. I think I’m running Proton Hotfix at the moment.
I wish there was a way to see what Valve did to fix a problem with SteamOS. I’m also interested in their solution for low memory slowdowns.
- Comment on [Help] Gamepad input gone in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after standby 5 weeks ago:
It helped when I ran a pirated copy through Heroic. I have since bought the game and use Steam Input, so I only get the controls recommended by Steam.
I will try replicating the desktop setup. Maybe switching out of the game and back helps.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on SteamOS 3.7.5 for Steam Deck now in Beta with big upgrades and initial support for more hardware 5 weeks ago:
Improved responsiveness of system when running into out-of-memory crash situations.
I’d really like to know what they did there. I recently added earlyoom to my non-SteamOS Deck for much the same reason. Expedition 33 sometimes seems to run into a memory leak which makes the whole Deck unresponsive.
- Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 1 month ago:
If you have a drive enclosure or a large enough backup drive you can clone the old SSD with
dd. - Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 1 month ago:
Honestly, you can half ass that shit. As long as you don’t go hacking away at everything you’ll be fine.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 1 month ago:
So far every area seems to be relatively small. Like Doom 2016 arenas. Dungeons seem to be self contained and the Overworld is zoomed out, so it’s not so large either. Only stutters I have noticed where shortly after resuming from standby but they are gone after a minute. But I don’t play with an FPS counter visible so that’s only based on my feelings.
At the beginning there are huge crowds of people but that doesn’t seem to influence FPS at all. And at some points I was astonished at how good a cut scene looks, thinking it was pre recorded but then I noticed the characters wearing my custom clothes
In the end FPS are only important in the fights to hit the QTEs. And they are very limited in scope. Only effects could be a problem, that’s why they are most important to keep at Low.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 1 month ago:
I’m playing Clair Obscur. It runs at about 30 fps if you put everything on Low and use TSR with 60% resolution.
- Comment on This modder stuck a 13-inch OLED USB-C monitor on his Steam Deck 1 month ago:
- Comment on What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos? 1 month ago:
Ext4 can be converted to BTRFS without data loss. The only downside is that you lose ext4’s capability to have case insensitive folders.
- Comment on What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos? 1 month ago:
There’s an easy tool to do that. The beauty of ext4 is that it can be converted to BTRFS without any data loss.
Can’t remember what the tool is called and by now I don’t use SteamOS any more. But a search engine of your choice should find it.
- Comment on What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos? 1 month ago:
Heroic, Lutris or Bottles have to be installed to easier manage non-Steam games.
And BTRFS with compression and deduplication are great to save space.
- Comment on Alternative OS? 1 month ago:
In that case you should really try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I used the Gnome based live image to install (although I wanted KDE) because it’s the only one with a usable on screen keyboard.
You should instantly have a usable system. Then you just need to install Steam.
- Comment on Did someone here play "high on life" on the deck? 1 month ago:
Half rate shading is in the Deck’s menu on the right.
- Comment on Alternative OS? 1 month ago:
At least the mouse is emulated by default in the gamepad’s “lizard mode”. And when you run Steam you get the same functionality as on the Deck.
- Comment on Alternative OS? 1 month ago:
Just about any distribution should work out of the box. At least on the LCD model. Don’t know how far the kernel sources are upstreamed for the OLED model.
I run OpenSUSE on my Deck. I did some tinkering to get it to a state I like. Unfortunately I don’t have the energy to list everything. For many things I have created posts on Lemmy, should be my older stuff.
At gitlab.com/evlaV you can find all the sources from Valve’s changes. If you have an OLED model you should be able to get a fully working kernel from here. For my LCD I created DKMS modules for the fan and controller.
- Comment on Did someone here play "high on life" on the deck? 1 month ago:
Do you have half-rate shading or FSR turned on?
- Comment on [Help] Failing power button 1 month ago:
don’t remember. At least a few months. I think I had even forgotten about it when I sent it in.
