Romkslrqusz
@Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip
Formerly lemm.ee/u/romkslqusz
- Comment on LEGO The Lord of the Rings gets updated and it's now Steam Deck Verified 1 month ago:
Played it about a year ago, back then I had to use ProtonTricks to install something to fix brightly flashing water and lava.
You can play while marathoning the extended trilogy and see the end credits for both around the same time, the second half of the Two Towers progresses faster than the game but Return Of The King has a ‘slow’ enough start that it makes catch-up time.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
Why not enroll a key for your second OS?
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
There a particular reason you wanted Legacy / BIOS mode?
MBR2GPT makes the conversion easy and can even be run from the OS while it’s running. We get an image backup first, but we’ve never had to use it. There are occasionally complications getting it to actually run, but those are usually when the disk is full when folks have a really weird nonstandard partition arrangement.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
I really don’t understand the aversion to Secure Boot, can somebody share some perspective?
It’s a setting that you toggle in BIOS and is found on virtually every motherboard from the last 12 years. Some platforms are slightly counterintuitive, requiring you the manually switch to custom keys and then back to factory key in order for it to install/activate. For booting alternative OSes, enrolling a custom key takes 5 seconds.
It hardens security of the boot process, and It’s already a requirement for Windows 11, the primary OS that most PC Gamers are already going to be choosing.
I feel like there’s a ton of bitching going on over the most minor of inconveniences that will actually prove to be a net benefit overall.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures 1 month ago:
Been using a Blackwidow keyboard since 2017
Had a Mamba mouse purchased in 2019 start to have issues registering clicks in 2023, but I see that as a failure of the ALPS micro switch. Bought the same mouse because nothing else fills out my hand quite the same way.
Partner’s using a Deathadder mouse I originally bought in 2015.
I still have an Orochi laptop mouse I bought way back in 2008, heavily used for a decade without issue.
One of their headsets has made it as a hand-me-down through two friends.
Their laptops are another story. Challenging to find parts for, and they’ve tried to copy Apple down to the flaws - “flexgate” is just as much an issue on Razer laptops as it is on MacBooks, except that the screens are harder to come by so they cost way more.
Finding and downloading drivers is an awkward and confusing process, and the they’re all years out of date anyways.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
not going to run 120fps with all the trimmings
Requires a separate gaming PC, but with Steam Link / Sunshine / Moonlight it can!
Don’t really see a reason to run games like Cyberpunk on low settings at 30FPS when I can pipe it in from the other room at 60FPS+ high / ultra settings
Came in clutch with the poor optimization of MH:Wilds. It was a struggle to run at my monitor’a resolution, but running at 1080P to send to my deck made for a decent experience.
- Comment on Does anyone know what this part is called? 3 months ago:
The one that you have appears to be intact
I’d be curious to know if it’s the solder joints that failed (less common) or if the pads ripped out of the PCB, which is usually what happens in these cases.
In the latter case, you’re going to have a hard time installing the replacement part. You’ll need to first restore the pads, which falls into “microsoldering” territory that will have a higher tool and skill / precision requirement.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 3 months ago:
Well, in that case just be prepared for certain games to be unsupported or run very poorly. Anything with kernel level anti cheat won’t be available to you. Cloud gaming is definitely a good way to supplement :)
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 3 months ago:
For me, the visual fidelity is better and I found it to be a lot more stable overall, particularly in the framerate / latency department. This was the case over the local network but became even more pronounced when I played from another city. Back when I first set it up, Steam Link didn’t have HDR Support so doing regular navigation on my desktop looked all washed out and awful.
I have a AMD cards in all my desktops, so Moonlight is out.
Moonlight is the client side, it runs on the Steam Deck that is AMD based. Sunshine is what runs on the host - you need both.
MoonDeck is a Decky Loader plugin that lets you run your stream for each game by its appid, letting you keep your controller layouts in order. Normally, you’d be launching Moonlight and then the stream, which means you’d have to have your controller layout for each game associated with the Moonlight appod and then have to manually switch between them depending on what you’re playing.
It’s certainly more involved than the simplicity of running Steam Link, but for me the benefits were well worth it.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 3 months ago:
Is the Deck going to be your first / primary gaming device?
I got my Deck primarily for indie games, 10-30 year old games, or other generally “light” / casual games to play on the go or while watching a show with my partner.
For more demanding games, I’ll run them on my gaming PC and stream to my Deck via Sunshine / Moonlight / Moondeck. This has the added benefit of very low power consumption, meaning that instead of a ~2 hour battery life I get 6 or more.
The added benefit here is that a lot of games seem to be shipping increasingly unoptimized. Things that might have finnicky performance on my 3840 x 1600 monitor run silky smooth when I squish them down to 1920 x 1080 to stream to the Deck, usually with maxed out settings.
In the context of how I’m using it, Steam Deck is probably never going to be obsolete.
If you’re considering it as your primary device and primarily want to play modern AAA games, you should probably be spending at least 2-3x as much on a laptop or desktop. For that use case, Steam Deck is more appropriate as a companion device.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 3 months ago:
Check out out Sunshine / Moonlight and Moondeck if you haven’t already