Fubarberry
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- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 1 day ago:
Currently, swapping the battery is one of the most complex repairs on the Deck,
Is it really? I know there’s some glue holding the battery itself, but otherwise my understanding is that the battery is really easy to access.
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- eXtremeRate's Steam Deck OLED Shells and Buttons Are Now up for Pre-Order - Steam Deck HQsteamdeckhq.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 3 days ago:
It happens to the best of us.
- Comment on Big increase of rubber-banding while playing online multiplayer games in the past week. 4 days ago:
First, I would go to packetlosstest.com on your deck in desktop mode and see if it shows any issues. They have some game presets you can pick to hopefully test network connections similar to what you’re having issues with.
Once you have a baseline test of how your internet is performing, some basic things to try to improve it are:
- Reboot deck and wifi router.
- Switch between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz
- Try playing closer to the router and see if the lag goes away.
- Disable the wifi power management setting on the deck
Even if nothing has changed with the Deck and router, it’s possible another device in the house is causing interference, especially on 2.4Ghz networks. If the problem is something else causing interference, it can be really confusing to troubleshoot from the network side of things because the problems will be very intermittent.
- Comment on [Discussion] SteamOS 3.6 is nearly here, with Valve focusing on bug fixes before release. What are some bugs you've encountered (on either Stable or Beta) that you're hoping to see fixed? 4 days ago:
Oh my bad, I accidentally skipped over that.
- Comment on [Discussion] SteamOS 3.6 is nearly here, with Valve focusing on bug fixes before release. What are some bugs you've encountered (on either Stable or Beta) that you're hoping to see fixed? 4 days ago:
The default scroll settings now is circular scroll (where you move your finger in a circle on the track pad). If you don’t know it’s circular it will make it seem like it changes directions at times.
It used to default to swipe up/down to scroll, and the change in defaults has confused a lot of people.
- Comment on GE-Proton 9-16 released with mod support for various Bethesda games 5 days ago:
If you have GE-proton installed, you can easily select it for any steam game by opening the game properties, checking “force compatibility tool”, and selecting the GE-proton version you want.
The tool ProtonUp-qt will also let change the setting per game as long as steam is closed. Just open “game list” and set the proton version per game.
- Comment on GE-Proton 9-16 released with mod support for various Bethesda games 6 days ago:
To be fair, this isn’t normal proton doing it. In general GE-proton exists to do things that go against the design philosophy of regular proton or to include licenses libraries that can’t be normally included.
I don’t see any mention of it in the changelog, but I would expect there to be a launch option to disable this functionality as well.
- Submitted 6 days ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 6 days ago:
Honestly I don’t remember having that issue, but it’s been awhile so it’s hard to say.
- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 6 days ago:
Main downside is that having swappable components adds size and cost, which is why laptops are so much less modular than full size PCs. For something like the Deck, which is trying to be as small and cheap as possible, I doubt we’ll see anything modular for a long time.
Valve could possibly sell upgraded motherboards that you could use with your original screen/etc. However before ifixit sold deck parts, there was a leak of the upcoming parts and prices. At the time, replacement motherboards were planned to be sold, but they planned to sell the motherboard for $350 (when the cheapest deck was $400). Ultimately they ended up never selling the motherboard, which makes sense when considering how expensive it was compared to the overall price of the unit.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 1 week ago:
That’s odd, I played Control on my deck and it ran great. You should definitely be able to run it on DX11, maybe try a different proton version if it’s refusing to launch.
- Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's comingwww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 58 comments
- Comment on That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed 1 week ago:
That’s still for games sold through Steam. Most importantly, that’s for games that the companies agreed to sell through Steam.
If I was Valve, my biggest concern here would be that officially selling a tool for sideloading Epic games could be seen as approving of breaking Epic’s ToS. Epic is also very sue happy when it comes to attacking rival companies.
- Comment on That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed 1 week ago:
It’s available as a open source Decky plugin, but the steam version was going to be a paid closed source rewrite.
- Comment on NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader 1 week ago:
Were they public? I’ve been trying to find them on the homebrew server, and all I’ve seen is that someone joined the server, accused him, got him banned, and then left. I haven’t actually found any examples of what he got banned over yet.
- Comment on NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s got some great additions in my opinion. It’s not as necessary as it used to be thanks to valve slowly adding in many decky plugins into standard SteamOS.
Some nice plugins for usability:
- autoflatpaks: update flatpaks from game mode
- battery tracker: track average power usage of games over time. Good for getting an actual average power use for games with a wide range of battery drains
- Junk store: install epic (and GOG if you spend $6) games from game mode
- KDE connect: get notifications from your phone, use your phone keyboard to type on the deck
- MagicBlack: turn off screen on the OLED version for saving power during downloads/etc
- Pausegames: lets you pause any game, freeing up resources without closing it. Lets you pause games that can’t be paused, run multiple games at once, and can fix audio issues when suspending
- Playtime: tracks playtime per game and per day
- protonDB lets you see what games will run on the deck, even if they’re not steam verified/etc
- powertools: lets you adjust cpu cores/clock speed etc. Lets you get super low power usage in some games (down to 3.5w or so), and fixes some games with bugged cpu speeds
- shotty: moves steam screenshots in pictures folder to make them easy to find in desktop mode
- steamback: makes backup saves of your games everytime you open or close a game.
- volume mixer: change volume balance between programs. Very helpful if you’re using discord/etc while playing.
There’s also a ton of nice customization ones, which I can share if you’re interested.
- Comment on NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader 1 week ago:
So I’ve been reading through the deck homebrew discord trying to figure that out. A user claimed he was racist, and got him banned/kicked out of Decky over it. However as far as I can tell, no evidence of him being racist was ever posted, and the user that got him banned left the server afterwards.
It does sound like he was quick to get into arguments with some other users, but that’s not officially what he was banned over.
There may be better evidence I’m missing, there are a lot of messages discussing it in the server, but I see several people there claiming that banning him without evidence was an overreaction, so I’m assuming there isn’t anything concrete that I’ve missed.
My personal opinion from what I’ve seen is that I think the ban should be reversed, it seems like a shame to deprive the entire deck community from a useful tool unless there’s something more concrete I’m not seeing.
- Comment on NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader 1 week ago:
Yeah, a lot of long term projects have rude maintainers it seems.
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 1 week ago:
It’s probably a year or two out, at least. They want the Steam Deck 2 to be a proper power jump from the original, and there hasn’t been any significant hardware improvements that would allow that yet.
Other handhelds have more power, but they do that by dumping way more power into the chipset for increasingly small returns. It’s not really worth it to make a new Steam Deck with one of those chipsets because you would be trading off most of the battery life for any power increase.
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 1 week ago:
There are unofficial imports, but they cost more and you don’t get Valve’s great warranty coverage.
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- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 1 week ago:
Finally, about time.
- Comment on Junk Store (for installing Epic and GoG games on the Deck) is hopefully coming to Steam store 1 week ago:
The biggest downside right now is the need to boot into desktop mode and install Decky loader. That isn’t hard by any means, but it does go beyond what someone who isn’t tech saavy may be comfortable doing.
The steam store version will make epic and gog games usable without ever having to step past the “console” part of the steam deck.
- Comment on Junk Store (for installing Epic and GoG games on the Deck) is hopefully coming to Steam store 1 week ago:
It’s already available as a Decky plugin.
- Comment on Junk Store (for installing Epic and GoG games on the Deck) is hopefully coming to Steam store 1 week ago:
It’s similar, but it runs in game mode. It’s user experience is a lot closer to having native support for Epic than the heroic launcher.
- Comment on Junk Store (for installing Epic and GoG games on the Deck) is hopefully coming to Steam store 1 week ago:
Yeah, if this is accepted it would set an interesting precedent
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 21 comments
- Comment on Steam Beta fixes up issues with Game Recording, Remote Play and more 1 week ago:
Out of curiousity, do you have hardware acceleration enabled in your steam client? I used to have the same issue with the drop menus on linux, but now they work fine. I’m not sure when they started working correctly, but I know I had to disable hardware acceleration due to some other problems with steam.