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- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is targeting Steam Deck and other handhelds because players want more "freedom" nowadays 4 days ago:
Or Decky FrameGen / Optiscaler
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Earns The Steam Deck Verified Badge With Impressive Update 6 days ago:
The problem is raytracing vs affordability.
Pick one, basically.
If you make a game on an engine, or in a way where there’s no way to run the game without raytracing on, well, thats not gonna run well on an affordable system.
If you build a handheld that can do realtime raytracing, ok, you can play some more AAA games now, but your device cost to the consumer basically doubles.
We are currently in an economic depression in the US, you probably are not going to do well with a market strategy that relies on consumers generally having a lot of disposable income.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Earns The Steam Deck Verified Badge With Impressive Update 6 days ago:
Eh, 30 fps for a frenetic shooter like this is still pretty not great.
I can get a solid 45 fps on a Deck on Cyberpunk 2077, similar graphical fidelity imo, especially at a lower end output resolution.
The whole problem, from a ‘running on a Deck’ perspective, is that Doom Dark Ages is built on idTech 8… which forces raytracing.
They would have to refactor the whole game / build a whole new variant of the engine that based off the Vulkan-Base branch of idTech8, that has… you know, a lighting engine that can look at least comparable without relying on realtime raytracing.
Not just do some optimization tweaks.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 6 days ago:
You wouldn’t be able to link to … a changelog or something along those lines, for when that older, similar problem got fixed?
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 6 days ago:
If it is a fundamental bluetooth driver implementation problem, it would basically happen no matter what game you are playing, gaming mode, desktop mode, any apps/programs open, etc.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 6 days ago:
Yeah, sorry I can’t be of more help, but I can infodump, lol.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 week ago:
Haha yeah, always good to list out as many possibly relevant variables as you can with a bug report =P
And I’ve been running Bazzite on my Deck for a while now, but I also just don’t use any BT thingies.
But uh ok, so… I am not aware of any significant differences in terms of hardware between the various models of Deck that … would factor in here… the OLED models basically just have a slightly different shell / internal form factor, obviously the OLED screen, and then a bigger battery.
So… given that we’ve got other reports here, of the same thing, … either all of you are getting uh BT linking attempts from neighbors…
… Or, probably, if you’re all on stock SteamOS… its probably just bugged on Steam’s end.
Meaning that unfortunately unless you want to go to the SteamOS github, identify the actual problem with the BT driver, and then fix it… yeah, I dunno lol.
Maybe there is a way to go into Desktop mode, there’s a setting to specifically disable ‘wake on BT activity’?
I don’t know.
The… whole problem with BT in general is that it is a security nightmare to try to implement on linux… to keep everything in the OS secure and also working at the same time.
Like, as best I can tell, Valve would basically have to do I think Wayland’s job for them and solve what has been a long running headache/struggle session for just linux in general… it gets insanely esoteric and complicated when you try to dive into what exactly is even going wrong, who should be responsible to fix it, and then a lot of devs just say no, its not fixable.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 week ago:
Could you give more detail?
I am…assuming you are running the stock SteamOS?
I would say wake on BT activation is a good guess…
If your BT controllers are not on though… could maybe be someone else nearby trying to connect to your Steam Deck with their own BT?
Or … maybe its… something else entirely causing it to wake?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
So, I actually used to work for MSFT a decade ago.
The uh… Xbox people and the corpo business people were, once upon a time, wildly different kinds of people, literally problematic 90s pc gamer dude bros vs ex IBM stodgy walrus people.
Basically, the walrus people won, made all the big boy business decisions, and things rather rapidly went to shit in terms of the business decisions being just insanely corpo.
Like uh, at the time Xbox Live came out… well there was this whole other paradigm for online video gaming set by Valve, but uh… lets just say you shouldn’t talk about Gabe Newell while standing on or sitting in a Microsoft campus.
I didn’t really have that important of a role, but lets just say I knew that half of Xbox 360s were coding 3RR or faulty in some way that necessitated a complete replacement (they’d just swap your hardrive into a new model and claim they refurbed it LOL) … yeah I knew that about a decade before that became wider public knowledge.
But anyway, here we are about 20 years later, Valve is having MSFT’s cake, eating it too, and the remaining husks on the gaming side of MSFT absolutely know they are fucking cooked, and are fully in the ‘suck all the money outta this shit while we still can’ phase, before the entire concept of MSFT gaming basically transitions to more or less a legacy system.
They’re rapidly headed toward just being a B2B oriented company, maybe they’ll use their hoard of IPs to effectively liscense out game dev, but when ‘everything is an Xbox’, fucking nothing is and they know that.
Game server uptime isn’t as profit able as business server uptime, either pump those numbers up or your branch of MSFT goes the way of the Windows Phone and Zune.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint:
Do you remember Xbox Live?
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 3 weeks ago:
The use case for AI is pumping up the stock market.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Ah… damm.
Not… from not Amazon, no.
But maybe you can find this somewhere else?
Behold… I call this thing… the DockStand.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BRXZDWDV?psc=1
Somehow, a kickstand, and a sort of bare bones dock, at the same time.
Currently under $25.
It has worked flawlessly for me.
It is …yeah, barebones, but quite functional.
Gives you an HDMI port, 2 usb A 3 ports, and an additional microsd slot, which only works when the power is run through the dockstand, and also … does not have a spring release mechanism, it is literally just a slot, and the properly seated card just sticks out a little bit.
Janky? Yes.
But also, cheap, and functional.
Particularly if you are like me and spend a lot of Deck time basically just using it as a big phone to watch videos on… the kick stand is good for that lol.
Like, you can find just kickstands alone, with no dock like capabilities… for about the same price.
I ended up pairing this with i think a jsaux replacement power adapter that also came with a 90 degree joint adapter mabob for the usb c power source… I had been using the power adapter that came with the deck so much that i managed to start destroying the cable.
Also, at least with my… I guess average sized hands for a dude? … I have never had a problem with the DockStand getting in the way of my hands and the controls while playing.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Yep, thats definitely a whole very neat thing too hehe!
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Ahhhhhh i need to my ham sandwich or something!
jfc jojo is a fucking fever dream
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Well thats what I get for being in like 5 simultaneous discussions on different parts of lemmy, lol.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Yes!
That is all correct or likely correct as far as I can tell, I was not trying to dispute you, just trying to add in other relevant details/context.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Correct, no notes.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Oh no need to apologize, I too very much prefer the OLED for my own most common use cases…
… but yeah, just wanted to point out that if you maybe want a pretty rock solid mobile gaming device ma bob that is also a laptop when you plug K+M into it, maybe also your existing desktop mon if you have one…
$320 bucks is a fucking steal, if you are maybe, price concscious, in these uh, economic collapse times, yeah, dont go for the premium model, black out your windows and play under the bedsheet like the good ole days rofl!
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
I’ve managed to get BotW working at basically just a bit worse than the performance level of a Switch 1.
Pretty much everything else is gucci, given that you run some games for a bit to allow a shader cache to build up.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, but:
It’s me,
DioRailcar!Yep, yep, I’m never gonna get that baseline level of internet brain poisoning down to zero, am I. -sigh-
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
My guess would be that they are literally just doing a clearance sale to free up some warehouse space somewhere.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I am an OLED Deck owner, and at this price point, if I didn’t already have my Deck?
This is a fucking steal at this price, compare it to non OLED laptops of similar specs/capabilities, then just tack on the price of like a portable membrane keyboard or something.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
It has slightly different internal and external form factors in … basically only esoteric ways that only come into play if you are doing certain kinds of physical mods or upgrades to it.
But yeah, the actual internal performance specs are the same, same chip, same shared RAM amount…
I think maybe the battery might have gotten a slight upgrade, either that or the power delivery / management may have gotten a slight upgrade / tweak, but I am not 100% sure about that.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 4 weeks ago:
Lol, better deal than a Switch 2 if you like playing more than just Nintendo games!
(Also you can play almost every single Nintendo game in existence on it)
- Comment on Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals 4 weeks ago:
When I went to install this latest version of DeckyFrameGen, it only went up to 11, in DeckyLoader.
The version that has the experimental FSR4 stuff is v11.5, could only be installed manually, via first downloading the zip from DeckyFrameGen’s github.
… Maybe this has changed in the last 12 ish hours?
- Comment on Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals 4 weeks ago:
Ok, I misunderstood.
So, yes, if you already have Decky installed, then yes, you can install the plugin via its GUI.
But I am pretty sure you cannot install Decky, DeckyLoader… from game mode.
Thats what I was trying to say.
Also… if you are installing a plugin from a file, into Decky… you would have had to already download that file… and I am pretty sure, you’d have to that in desktop mode.
Anyway… yeah Decky isn’t included in a … holistic instruction set… probably because its generally assumed that if you’ve had a Deck for a while, you’ve already Decky installed for a while.
And because you…can… just link to the other instructions for Decky Loader itself.
Maybe they could change with an update? And then your holistic instructions would also need to be updated.
Also the install process for Decky can be different depending on what OS your Deck is running.
SteamOS? Bazzite? Nobara’s Deck edition?
I’m sure there are more than that.
… Are you really just annoyed that there is not one single set of instructions for you to follow?
- Comment on Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals 5 weeks ago:
Because there is no way to install Decky from the game view itself.
Basically, think of it as a mod, or maybe a mod manager, but for the game view itself.
… Can you install a mod for Skyrim… from within Skyrim?
Probably not lol.
Yeah, you gotta go tinker with things in the background for the foreground to get a bunch of nifty new neat stuff.
- Comment on Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals 5 weeks ago:
=D
- Comment on Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals 5 weeks ago:
Check the optiscaler github for a more detailed list of what games they have working with what upscalers.
- Comment on Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals 5 weeks ago:
FSR is basically part of a software driver for a GPU.
FSR, XESS, DLSS (AMD, Intel, Nvidia) are all their software solutions for taking a lower resolution rendering of a video game, and upscaling it to a higher resolution.
They are all different in how exactly they do this, they all have different visual quirks, oddities, quality.
They are also all designed to work with their own hardware, primarily.
These realtime frame upscaling algos also usually come with an accompanying Frame Generator… which basically makes a ‘fake frame’ in between ‘real frame’ renders.
This can make your fps go up, but it can also introduce… weird kinds of input latency, other visual oddities, which will tend to be much more noticable and much worse for fast paced, competetive games, but is usually not a problem for slower paced, less intense games.
…
What Decky FrameGen does is… short version is that it takes a bunch of that kind of software and essentially hacks it into some games.
Each game is different, each kind of frame upscaler / frame generator is different.
Technically, Decky FrameGen is more or less just a front end to make this work easily on a Steam Deck interface.
Technically, its really pulling from Optiscaler, which is a collection of basically… video game / video driver modders / hackers.
They are writing and tweaking code so that things that should not officially work… do.
…
So… maybe think of this as a kind of very, very complicated mod for a video game… and your hardware.
lol
Also, when I say ‘hackers’ I mean that in the sense of … making things that shouldn’t work, work, not in the sense of bad guy bad person who is intentionally fucking up your shit in one or another.
…
As to how to use a frame upscaler?
The resolution you set for the game is the ‘target’ resolution. Say 1920 x 1080.
What the upscaler does, is render a frame at… 90%, 80% of that resolution, and then ‘upscales’ it to that full 100% resolution.
When you see modes like ‘Quality’ ‘Balanced’ ‘Performance’ ‘Ultra Perfomance’… basically, you’re going steadily downward to a smaller percentage of resolution that is actually rendered, and then upscaled.
So, a 100% … would basically just be equivalent to… not using an upscaler at all.
This all exists so that you can get more FPS than you otherwise could, for what is, in theory, supposed to be only a small degredation in visual quality.
The problem is that the degredation often ends up being fairly drastic, and the other problem is that… a whole lot of game devs just get or already sloppy, and now their answer to ‘why does this game run/look like garbage’ is ‘buy a graphics card that supports the upscaling tech we designed it for.’
…
Now to try to wrap that all around:
If you can hack in support for games and older hardware to run the upscalers, instead… well now, you may not need to actually buy the graphics card, because now, it might kinda work on what you already have.
Apologies for how long this explanation is, but this shit is just actually really complicated.