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- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 5 days ago:
It’s sorta dead - the TL;DR is that Sony cut a deal with the developer during the PSVR2 launch to create a crossplay port with the PC and PS5 players, and an unfortunate consequence of this was that mods had to abide by Sony’s content policies, which nuked steam workshop support from orbit.
It’s slowly been gaining more community content ever since (especially since the communities are split in terms of mod policies now and most PC servers are community hosted), but we haven’t reached the former glory yet. The core gamemodes and fundamentals are as solid as ever though.
Contractors on the other hand, never had this situation happen, but it is crossplay with Meta Quest users (so graphics aren’t the best and you have more squeakers).
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 5 days ago:
Into the Radius and Half Life Alyx would be what you are looking for, along with games like Pavlov VR/Contractors (since you have human opponents).
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 5 days ago:
That’s actually the same case with the Steam Deck, apart from the hardware form factor.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 5 days ago:
SteamVR/OpenXR has been a standard for a long time, so pretty much all headsets can work on the platform (and by extension, there are plenty of vr games that run both on Steam and off of steam using the standard, such as the Vivecraft Minecraft Java edition mod :D). As a happy Valve Index owner for several years I am definitely looking forward to upgrading to the Steam Frame and selling my old headset, although I’m not sure when that’ll make sense for me personally (since the index still works and plays games well).
Oh yeah some recommendations for good VR games:
- Into the Radius 1 and 2 (STALKER/Metro like experience but VR)
- Half Life Alyx (the one and only)
- Pavlov VR/Contractors (if you like Counterstrike/Battlefield style gameplay)
- VRChat (meeting so many cool people and exploring some crazy worlds)
- Way too many good mods that bring VR gameplay to desktop games (best ones are Vivecraft and SPT VR in my current experience)
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 5 days ago:
It is, using SODIMMs (Laptop form factor)
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 5 days ago:
Credit where credit’s due, Valve did that for the Steam Deck’s entry pricing. Although the danger for the Steam Machine would be potential abuse for massive orders (at Valve’s expense) for things like call centers and offices rather than individuals.
- Comment on Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround 1 week ago:
Anna’s Archive, time to step up to the plate?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
Regarding the Nintendo Switch, it’s because of their engineered malicious USB-C protocol design that makes the console “Not behave like a good USB citizen should”. It’s less of an issue with the peripherals as a whole.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
What display are you using as well? That sounds quite unusual.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
The powered adapters are for the other way around. DP has support for HDMI out without additional components, but ofc the HDMI forum makes converting HDMI to DP like pulling teeth.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
Adapting Displayport to HDMI with minimal quality loss is child’s play. It’s the other way around that’s misery.
Any cheap adapter cable that supports Displayport In to HDMI Out should be perfectly fine.
- Comment on Mozilla's Latest Quagmire 2 months ago:
Unfortunately it’s not that simple. At least that’s the message I got from reading Librewolf’s documentation out of curiosity.
- Comment on Mozilla's Latest Quagmire 2 months ago:
WaterFox is just Firefox without the Mozilla parts people don’t like (AI, sponsored content, telemetry). It is not as hardened as Librewolf, which can break sites with it’s anti-fingerprinting techniques. It’s a perfect browser for casual use (and widest compatibility).
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB model on sale until December 1st! 2 months ago:
You’d just be adding additional weight, removing some ergonomics (as seen with how shit the switch grips are in handheld play), and adding many points of failure for things to break.
I would bet my steam library that having detachable controllers for the steam deck would have it fail most of the impact tests they do for QA, and result in more returns due to people accidentally breaking them.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB model on sale until December 1st! 2 months ago:
CAD?
- Comment on External storage on Steam OS is a problem 2 months ago:
The way Valve set up the Deck is that the only storage initialized is the internal SSD and the SD card in big picture mode (home menu) which makes sense if you’re playing on the go - you’re not going to hold an external HDD in your offhand on the plane lol.
I believe using the dock doesn’t have any impact on how the Deck handles drives either, the official FAQ mentions it’s more akin to “plugging an external USB hub”, so that won’t solve the automount issue.
- Comment on External storage on Steam OS is a problem 2 months ago:
The steam deck doesn’t auto-mount external hard drives (you can confirm this by going into desktop mode and seeing the prompt to mount and browse the drive contents). Normally, SteamOS only initializes the internal SSD and the SD card currently inserted (if it’s in the file format that SteamOS expects, they provide a tool in settings).
You could purchase an SD card, place it in the slot, change over to Desktop mode, mount your external drive, and then copy your games over using steam (it’s even a feature outside of SteamOS - offline transfer between storage). That would probably be the best option.
- Comment on Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 released 2 months ago:
saxton_hale
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is targeting Steam Deck and other handhelds because players want more "freedom" nowadays 3 months ago:
I’m sure it’s nothing a bit of cheese-grating the graphics and a little Lossless Scaling VK can’t fix.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 4 months ago:
Rain World (2017)