Ulrich
@Ulrich@feddit.org
- Comment on Valve is looking to add an optional battery charge limit to the SD, to preserve battery life 2 days ago:
That’s not “being fair”, that’s just making excuses.
- Comment on New Stable Steam Deck Client Update: January 20th 4 days ago:
I noticed the downloads page is new.
- Comment on Name your most played and most surpring game you played on Steam Deck 2024 5 days ago:
Honestly I don’t play any specific games more than others. I usually play them, beat them, move on.
Call of Juarez is a really fun and simple pick up and play game (I hate complicated games). Actually quite an ugly game, despite running at a locked 90/800p. I’m on my third playthrough now.
Adrift was a really visually and audibly beautiful game, but also kinda boring and frustrating (I still don’t understand how to navigate even though I beat it yesterday). The price makes up for it.
I’ll mention Neva and Planet of Lana in the same breath, as they are very very similar games, but both excellent, simple and beautiful. Frustratingly, they do not run at 90 FPS or 16:10. The puzzle aspect made Lana more fun but the battle aspect was way more fun in Neva.
My Friend Pedro is kind of a modern 2D Max Payne style game that I’ve got a lot of hours in.
- Comment on New Decksight update, plus funding time extended 6 days ago:
Install custom BIOS? Nahhhh I don’t think so.
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth – Custom Chocobo Steam Deck 1 week ago:
Ya love to see the Steam Deck getting love from such mainstream publishers…
- Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS 1 week ago:
No, their Micro-compositor was written exclusively for AMD cards.
Because NVIDIA drivers suck. That’s on Nvidia, not Linux or Valve.
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 2 weeks ago:
Yes it does, but as I said, the games that necessitate trackpads are a super minority. That’s why they’re not included in most devices. They take up a lot of space. The Steam Deck is significantly wider than most of it’s competitors.
- Comment on Why are there so many different Proton versions? Proton 8, Proton 9, Experimental, GE-Proton 2 weeks ago:
When you change things you might fix some issues but you might also simultaneously create others.
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 2 weeks ago:
iPads have been overpowered for a long time. Long before Apple Silicon came around.
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never used the touchpads on mine outside of desktop mode. The vast majority of games have controller support.
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 2 weeks ago:
Every other PC handheld runs at 1080+. And while I agree 800p is the ideal resolution there’s clearly a market for higher resolution. Especially for those of us running lighter games.
- Comment on Too loud? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, the OLED model has a more efficient processor, thus producing less heat, thus the fan runs at a lower speed, this making less noise.
- Comment on Might as well get a laptop??? 2 weeks ago:
A laptop does not support attached controllers for hand-holding. Seems pretty obvious.
I cannot hold my hands in the air indefinitely. Even completely empty my arms will get tired after a few short minutes, much less several hours. My Steam Deck gets held on my lap or on a table or something like that.
OneXPlayer has something similar that I actually considered buying (but ultimately didn’t for several reasons) that includes a keyboard and (laptop) trackpad and a pen. If I can buy 1 device that can do both handheld gaming and also laptop productivity, I can save a whole lot of money…
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11 2 weeks ago:
Fuck Denuvo
- Comment on Razer announced the Razer Handheld Dock Chroma for your Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go and more 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if serious
- Comment on What are your favorite accessories for the steam deck? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly in 3 years I never felt the need for any accessories, other than a 1TB SSD.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - January 2025 3 weeks ago:
NEVA. SIFU is up next, got it free a couple days ago! Been mostly playing on desktop lately though (FFXVI)
- Comment on While Palworld enjoys a resurgence Valve dropped the rating to Steam Deck Unsupported 3 weeks ago:
Its less that they’re leanient and more that there’s no clearly-defined criteria for meeting it. Especially in terms of graphical fidelity or FPS.
- Comment on Swapping LCD drive into new OLED 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I did exactly that. It just needs an update afterwards.
- Comment on Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck 4 weeks ago:
Ok 🤷
- Comment on Holiday Deck Bath 4 weeks ago:
Ideally in front of an A/C vent pumping out dried air.
- Comment on The State of Steam Deck survey 2024: The results are in 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know what else you expect me to say.
- Comment on The State of Steam Deck survey 2024: The results are in 4 weeks ago:
You are criticizing the verification system by comparing it to ProtonDB which, again, is a different thing.
Different in some ways but serves the same purpose.
Steam’s verification isn’t “inaccurate,”
Yes it is.
Crowdsourcing something like that would not be a good way for Valve to accomplish its goals.
Yes it would.
- Comment on Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck 4 weeks ago:
I can’t say I’ve ever cared about how a game looks.
Fair enough. Certainly some devs spend a ton of time making games look incredible so there’s obviously a bunch of users like me who do appreciate that, and also many who don’t!
- Comment on [Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve installed all sorts of things on SteamOS without “extra steps”.
I can’t say the same for Bazzite.
- Comment on [Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ? 4 weeks ago:
That’s how all chargers work. The problem is that it’s simply not great to have your battery at 100% all of the time.
- Comment on Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck 4 weeks ago:
Define “fine”. Is it playable? Sure. But it also looks quite bad at 800p/low/30fps
- Comment on [Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ? 4 weeks ago:
it’s not well equipped to handle user packages in the same way OSTree is
Can you elaborate?
- Comment on Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much the same titles over and over again.
I’ll never not be shocked at BG3 because it runs potato quality but to each their own, I suppose.
- Comment on The State of Steam Deck survey 2024: The results are in 4 weeks ago:
How so?