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- Comment on Has anyone done diy repair on power button (not the outer plastic but the actual button on the mobo) 1 week ago:
I replaced both my trigger buttons. I used these.
It was a bit fiddly, but not terrible, if you’re used to soldering. It’s not a beginners fix though, in my opinion. Need a hot air station too.
I’d call around to local phone repair shops, ask them the cost to replace a button on a bare circuit board. Tell them you’ll provide the button and the board.
I imagine it would be on the order of $20-30, just guessing. It’s not a hard job. Would take them minutes.
The time consuming part is removing the board from the deck and putting it all back together.
Or maybe contact your local maker space. Or go on campus to your local college, find their tech department, walk in and ask them for a hand, or if you can watch them to learn how to do it yourself.
People are generally pretty kind.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 week ago:
Same. I would never buy a quest, and the frame is what I was hoping something like it would come along.
Except I made the mistake of telling this to my buddy, boisterously, in a group. And he had apparently bought one awhile back and didn’t tell anyone 🙃
- Comment on I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get? 1 week ago:
I’ll second this. Great game. Definitely more than playable on SD.
Forbidden West struggles a bit more, definitely on the edge of playable, but I still enjoy it 🤷♂️ When I’m home I’ll usually stream from my PC though, looks better. You really sacrifice a lot for Forbidden West on SD.
- Comment on Can the Steam Deck/Machine also be used for streaming? 3 weeks ago:
4k to 720p is what I’d call a significant reduction.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD production is ending — the budget handheld gaming PC will no longer be available once stock is gone 3 weeks ago:
Sorry you’re having so many troubles. Glad they are taking care of you.
I have two steam decks. One bought on pre-order, the other was aftermarket with a broken screen, so I swapped it to DeckSight OLED. That second one was abused hard by its previous owner, inside and out, but it’s still working great. So for what it’s worth, I think the hardware is solid, if you don’t get a bad one. Every product line has occasional duds
- Comment on Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever 3 weeks ago:
That’ll do something alright
- Comment on Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever 3 weeks ago:
I believe you. But it’s funny, I have both, LCD and DeckSight. I can tell the difference if they’re side by side. But often times I forget the OLED is an OLED 🤷♂️
- Comment on Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever 3 weeks ago:
Same. SO is on 512gb, plenty big for them, depends on what you need I guess. I wanted to never think about it again
- Comment on Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever 3 weeks ago:
SSDs are being affected too. Not as much, and I forget why exactly, maybe because it’s all silicon and shares some manufacturing resources? 🤷♂️
- Comment on Just got my steam deck lcd and need help with wake on bluetooth 5 weeks ago:
I have a steam controller, will it be able to use the same dongle as the steam controller? I imagine not, probably only works with the steam controller 😖
- Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future 5 weeks ago:
Was is biggest flaw? Have you SEEN the other options out there for handhelds? Everyone craps on SD because it feels underpowered, and it kind of is, but watt for watt you get more performance than machines costing several times its price.
The SD is an absolute beast in its class, battery life being best in class, compared to what everyone else is doing.
Though I agree, for heavy loads, it’s not quite enough for proper mobile use. Even better battery life would be preferred, and ARM can hopefully bring that.
- Comment on Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver 1 month ago:
Honestly, I was blown away by beat saber. I almost bought a meta quest, but I hated the required Facebook integration. I won’t do it. This will be a million times better
- Comment on Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver 1 month ago:
100% instant buy, as long as it’s under a certain price point. Even if it isn’t… I’ve been holding off on VR for so long, this is gonna be the thing that does it.
- Comment on DF Direct Weekly #240: Steam Machine - Pricing, Specs, VRAM, ARM Ambitions + More 1 month ago:
Yeah I definitely have no idea who these guys are, and thought that valve has dropped new info
- Comment on JSAUX teases aftermarket mods for Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Gotcha, yeah just 4 little wires, easy to make a custom connection or small cable and hide it away
- Comment on JSAUX teases aftermarket mods for Steam Machine 1 month ago:
It’s not hard to hide wires behind that big screen, even if you have to drill a little hole, no big deal.
Are you picturing a big USB or HDMI cable sticking out the side?
- 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 months ago:
Still irritates me that modern games don’t have this. Surely it’s not that hard to implement in modern games.
And in the case of the master chief collection? They literally just… Turned it off. The code is there, it could work, but they say no.
If you buy it on Xbox, you can do splitscreen. If you buy it on PC? You cannot.
However, if you use alpharing, you can patch the game with literal kilobytes of code, and force activate splitscreen. It’s a little janky, but proves the code is in there, it’s just turned off.
Disgusting.
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
It’s like a teal, blue green ish
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
Extremerate emerald green
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
Changing the screen was easy peasy. The glue is tough to get off, but my screen was already broken. I did my buddies screen too, which wasn’t broken, and he wanted to save it, so I had to be more careful. That took a bit more effort to do carefully.
But that’s the hardest part, everything else is easy.
The hard part for me was changing the front case, that took significantly more time and effort. A million little parts and screws and stuff. Took hours.
But if you’re just changing the screen? Not so bad.
I’d still do it all again though, looks great
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
Thanks! And you should! For $300, it’s hard to beat the performance per dollar.
Other handhelds have more oomph these days, but not that much more, and your battery lasts much less time when your cranking those new chips that hard. None have matched the efficiency of the deck, frames per watt. To me, that’s what counts.
If I’m out and about, I want efficiency, not raw performance. If I’m at home? Well, I can stream from my PC and get all the performance I need. So what’s the point of these other machines?
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
No drama so far, though I admit I STILL haven’t had time to play with it. Busy weekend, even now 🤦♂️
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
Slow Internet users unite!
Mine could be worse, it’s 30/10. Had it for a few years. Before that it was 10/1 though, for like 10 ish years. And before that? For a significant portion of my teenage years, it was 1.5/.5.
Before that, my young childhood was all dialup. DSL existed, we just didn’t have it 😬
Right now they’re putting fiber in my town though! Soon I’ll have access to 8000/8000 if I wanted! That’s way too much though, I’m gonna go for their lowest tier, which costs the same as I’m paying now, but gives me 300/300. Plenty fast for anything I need to do these days. Nice to know the capacity is there if I need more 🤷♂️
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
I mean, it kind of is a toy 😬
To each their own though 👍
See my comment below for advice on an SSD swap, it’s super easy
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
Yeah SSD swap is one of the easiest upgrades, with the most benefit. Plus if you get an external nvme enclosure and take some time to play with RescueZilla, you can clone your old drive to the new one and you won’t have to reinstall anything at all. Pretty slick!
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
Can confirm 🫠
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
Nah, every little button and board are all individually screwed into the front case. So swapping it is literally removing those things one at a time, setting them aside, doing the rest of the work, then putting all those little pieces back in exactly where they go.
The instructions have over a 100 steps, then you do them an in reverse. So over 200 steps to do it all.
I bet you could get fast at it, but first time? Gonna be slow.
But the screen swap is just the motherboard in and out I’m pretty sure.
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
You’re very welcome.
The creator seems to be pretty on top of things, I bet we’ll get some fixes before too long.
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
While not as enticing, it should be much easier for the deck to handle.
People’s concern with the increased resolution is that games that are already marginal, like horizon forbidden West, will slip further down in frame rate.
If hardware accelerated 720p becomes a thing with a software update, I’ll most likely bump it down for a net INCREASE in performance 😬
- Comment on I upgraded my LCD to OLED with DeckSight! Also swapped the case and buttons while I was at it 4 months ago:
I’ve sent a support message to the creator, hopefully he’ll have an answer 👍