Thinking about getting a steam deck. Anything I should know first?

>>713452190 (OP)
Think about it hard, are you REALLY going to use it? If you have your pc and tv/monitor available at all times you certainly won't.

>>713452190 (OP)
My gf (female) and I love it. Make sure to get a dock so you can hook it up to a TV. I like using it for Souls games and emulation mostly.

>>713452190 (OP)
You need to be willing to tinker with things with these PC handhelds. None of them are like the Just Werk console stuff you'd be used too.

You should know that you’re wasting your money on an inferior device.
In case you didn’t notice: the switch 2 just launched and is not only vastly superior to the deck, it’s also the fastest selling console in history.

>>713452835
I'll just wait for switch 2 emulation.

>>713452190 (OP)
I'm waiting on the Deck 2, might as well.

>>713453025
you mean the Xbox Rog Ally X?
there won’t be a deck 2 anytime soon

>>713452835
>the switch 2 just launched and is not only vastly superior to the deck
It's not, it worse in almost every possible way

>>713452190 (OP)
get the cheaper OLED model then pop in a 2TB ssd yourself. it's piss easy to do

>>713452190 (OP)
>Anything I should know
Performance on it is good for what it is but it sorta sucks balls compared to a normal PC.
Battery life on this is comparable to gaming on a regular laptop on a bat which is not a lot, so you better buy a power bank for it (and check if it supports power delivery).
Its a bit heavier than it should be ergonomics wise so after 6 hour gaming session your hands won't thank you.
Lastly I hope you like Linux finagling, cause deck has a lot of it

>>713452190 (OP)
Literally burn the same amount of money you're gonna waste on it. If you feel nothing, go buy one. if you feel remorse, don't. Would say the same about switch 2.

>>713452190 (OP)
>Thinking about getting a steam deck. Anything I should know first?
Ultimately it's a 720p machine. It can run many games at 1080p, but expect to use FSR at 720p for beefier titles.

>>713453250
>Lastly I hope you like Linux finagling, cause deck has a lot of it
if a game doesn't work great on the deck it's in 99.9% of cases solved by just enabling GE-proton which takes all of 2 seconds to do
disingenuous retard

>>713452190 (OP)
if you want less headaches, stick to Steam Deck Verified and Playable titles

now, damn near everything in playable on the Deck, except for games with obnoxious anti-cheats, but those things that arent, mainly only PC games, might require you to do more tinkering than your usual PC game

then again, is there any other way to play X-COM: UFO Defense portable? dont think so

>>713453107
Deck 2 is coming sooner than you think, it's using the next gen Xbox custom low-end AMD APU for handhelds that's going to be sent out to everyone either next year or 2027.

Does the volume keep getting reset to max after sleep for anyone else?

>>713454451
I haven't noticed.
I'm happy to report however that after 2 years, the dock has been fixed. Now it doesn't give me a blackscreen 50% of the time.

>>713454451
I got the same problem but for screen brightness. Doing factory reset once in a while seems to fix it for some time

>>713452190 (OP)
you're adopted

Do NOT get a Steam Deck.

They weren't great before, but after a recwnt Steam update it's almost unusable.

>>713452835
Apples to oranges, plus you have to pay for better graphics on the games you already own on the tendie table 2.
>inb4 don't have 10 bucks to spare, you poorfag?
You don't have to pay to chage the graphics on the Deck :^)

>>713454871
>factory resetting for something that can be done in 5 seconds with the press of a button(turning down the brightness)

>>713454995
>after a recwnt Steam update
did something break?

>made DOSBox mod to add custom border art
>after weeks of working on it, it works fairly well
>try it on steam deck
>runs like total shit, less than 1 frame per second

so close, and yet so far

best machine to emulate everything up to and some including ps3 era

>>713455181
I wouldn't say "broke" necessarily, but it just runs worse. It seems to use more RAM, which makes every game run worse and crash more often, and the thing takes twice as long to boot up or switch to Desktop Mode than it used to.

>>713455272
It's the best machine hands down, regardless of raw power, if you factor in Moonlight streaming.

>>713452190 (OP)
Dumbass at this point wait for the Xbox handheld, it looks sick

>>713454451
no that never happened to me

>>713455412
ehh never really used it cause you cant turn off your pc monitor for it
but sure

>Anything I should know first?
Well first and foremost is that you basically can't buy them right now, they're out of stock.
But as for actual pertinent advice assuming you DO get one.
Emudeck is kind of a meme and it actually kind of sucks to have literally fucking EVERY game you would want to emulate as steam library entries. You can mostly get by just installing retroarch or some other libretro frontend, especially since PCSX2 FINALLY updated stable so the libretro core sucks a lot less now.

>>713455370
I haven't noticed anything different but I don't play heavy titles on it
64GB launch model
if something did go wrong, I'm sure they'll fix it

>>713455587
>fucking EVERY game you would want to emulate as steam library entries
wrong being able to start your emulated game directly from your library instead of fidgeting through the emulator is based

>>713455572
You can, if you use HDMI. Before i upgraded to my current monitor, i found that i could leave the TV i was using previously as my monitor off and it'd still work.

>>713452190 (OP)
Anon the Deck is already struggling to run games released in 2024

>>713452190 (OP)
Linux is the most godawful operating system imaginable. Doing anything with it is a nightmare and it's one of my most regretted purchases.

>>713455856
If the Deck can't handle a game none of the other handhelds will fare much better. The ROG Ally X only gets a gain of 15fps on average.

>>713455636
I say this as someone with hundreds of games, just on steam alone.
I would probably enjoy my steam deck WAY less if on top of my already fuckhuge library of steam games I had to dig through EVERY single catalog of retro games I've backed up over the years.
Them having their own per system pools in a different library is way more preferable.
Hell it'd be annoying if even just the 58 Sega Genesis games I got on steam in 2011 for two TF2 Keys were their own individual entries in my steam library

>paying $550 for a handheld that is shilled as a computer but can't run any modern computer games at playable performance

>>713452687
Worst you'll likely come across is "launch this using X Proton instead of default" unless you move to pirate.

>>713456096
>Them having their own per system pools in a different library is way more preferable.
Bro, that's how it fucking works. Emudeck groups up roms in custom libraries titled from the console they are made for. Have you ever actually used Emudeck?

>>713452353
Do you just not go outside?

>>713456238
>>713442524

>>713456238
>Being paid to cry about a product you can't even buy right now
Or Alternatively, and just as embarrasingly
>Crying about a product you can't even buy for free because you're scared of it

>>713456337
>Have you ever actually used Emudeck?
Yes, and I didn't like it.

>>713456238
This, might as well just get a laptop instead of wasting money on an obsolete "handheld" computer that needs to set everything below minimal settings just to run at all

>>713456551
the deck is a laptop replacement you dummy

>>713456785
>replacing a computer with something several times weaker and missing out every new game
lol

>>713456542
Do you dislike it for any legitimate reason? Because the one you gave it patently false.

>>713452190 (OP)
install proton GE, proton tricks will also help you when you run into non steam games that dont run.

>>713456909
it's literally a computer

Gabe likes it when you swallow after he sticks his fat dick down your throat.

>>713456909
It's a computer built like a PSP. It can do anything you'd be a PC or laptop for

>>713456238
Comparing the raw performance of a 4 almost 5 year old machine to a brand new one is disingenuous.

The Switch 2 still can't compete because it's a locked down console platform vs the Deck which is a mini PC that gets all the inherent benefits of being part of the PC ecosystem


tl;dr you're brown

>>713452190 (OP)
I wouldn't get one in 2025 unless it's like $400.

>>713456919
>Do you dislike it for any legitimate reason?
Are you the one who gets to determine this? If so anything I say is pointless.
>Because the one you gave it patently false.
Having their own per system pools in a different library entirely was an fully truthful description of me having my retro game catalog all pooled in Retroarch rather than making entries in Steam for them.

>>713453250
>it sorta sucks balls compared to a normal PC.
nothing is stopping you from installing Bazzite on the steam deck, it's alsmost as good as steam os for gaming but it's an actual usable OS for everything else.

>>713455636
You can write a simple shell script to load a specific game and then add that script to steam. Takes about as much time and effort as trying to bear with emudeck

Shut the fuck up, Boco.

>>713457480
>script
or you press a button and get the game to start directly from your library

>>713457191
Based but I also love how this pic implies that switch 2 will run cyberpunk better when it struggles to even run some switch 1 games at constant 60

>>713456308
That's considered esoteric computer knowledge to most normalcattle.

>>713457193
OLED is definitely worth it if you can afford one

>>713457742
>Gee, why can't I get X game to work? Let me Google it.
>Okay so last time the problem was X and the solution was Y, maybe Y will work again.

>>713452190 (OP)
It's fine. I've enjoyed my LCD brick for 2 years and had a great time. I use it for moonlight streaming to tv these days from pc. It's a tinkerers device but I'll take it over the bing bing wahoo shitbox 2 any day.

>>713452190 (OP)
>Anything I should know first?
Sure: it's several years old at this point. A ton of games released in the last couple of years are unplayable on it due to its aging (and weak to begin with) hardware. A new iteration could be in the works by now.

>>713457941
We both know that level of critical thinking doesn't exist in normalcattle.

>>713456308
"Ge proton for any cutscene that shows tv colour bars" is all you need

>>713457941
Anon, I get it, but you have to keep in mind Windows and Google are able to keep as much of a market share as they have because it's kind of not really reasonable to expect that kind of trouble shooting out of users and most will run active damage control if anything is wrong with either of those things first.

>>713458020
Which is why the switch sells

I also wanted to buy one then I just figured I only would use it for retro games so I rather just buy a retroid pocket for half the price.

>>713458078
Then they go to bitch on a forum and get told what to do...

>>713458125
I mean the switch sells because it's in stores.
The Steam Deck basically only exists for an extremely niche demographic of people who are willing to buy more than one gaming computer, even if strictly speaking it's a way better device.

>>713458209
Also true

>>713456238
Can I play my Steam, GOG and EGS library on the Switch 2? Can I emulate old vidya too?

Also IMO the dumbest thing about this whole situation is people pretending Cyberpunk is at all worth playing and wasn't exclusively noteworthy for being a horrendously buggy overmarketed piece of shit.

>>713458387
Why is cyberpunk such a big part of this handheld arms race. It looks like shit on any tiny screen and feels awful to play on a gamepad

>>713458478
I agree with you using past tense. It is now playable and good.

>>713456551
>>713456238
You played games like pic related for 8 years and were totally fine with it, just shhhh tendie boy.

>>713458501
It's the Crysis of the modern generation of gaming.

>>713458568
Those were the days

>>713458536
>It is now playable
A very low bar
>Good
Lmao no, now it just doesn't have the funny horrendously broken game angle.

>>713452190 (OP)
it cant run ps3 emulation don't believe otherwise

>>713458536
This. Actually great now. Just not on a shitty handheld screen

>>713458738
Dunno about ps3 but I played through bloodborne using shadps4 on deck at consistent 30

>>713457657
Only Tendies would be excited to play Cyberblur at 30 fps

Switch 2 running Cyberpunk better than the Deck is a such a silly thing to get hung up on since Deckfags are mostly people who already own PCs and wouldn't bother playing a slide show version of it on their Deck anyway. Heavy AAA gaming was never it's strong point, more of a novelty, a "hey it can do this, that's kinda neat". The endless library of lighter/older games + emulation made portable was the real selling point of this thing

>>713452190 (OP)
Don't get it if you want to play older games from pc 90s era outside of the normal and easy methods to install and play games. You can install wine or windows but oof windows on a deck would be a unique experience.

>>713452190 (OP)
Are there PC games you don't feel like sitting at a desk for? I use mine for AA JRPGs, platformers, and console ports like Halo MCC and Shadows of the Damned. I'll also use Steamlink for the games that fit that bill but don't run on the Deck, like CoD Zombies or Rise of Ronin. I'll throw the Nintendo ports on here later, and maybe BotW/TotK if they can run mods.

>>713458851
PS4 emu is easier to run than PS3 emu.
No need for instruction translation and recompilation.
>>713458884
>Only Tendies would be excited to play Cyberblur at 18 fps
Fixed, see >>713458387

>>713457390
I meant that it struggles performance wise. Even some previous gen games top at 30 fps and most recent titles doin the power point. You always need to keep in mind that it is 45 watt peak power consumption device. It's already a miracle that it runs as good as it does

>>713459002
Fair enough. I was thinking of trying mgs4 on it but none of the videos I've seen of mgs4 on deck had good fps

>>713458995
Most games i'd rather play on my Deck, laying in bed or sitting on my couch and playing is unbeatable levels of comfy. The only games i seem to really play on my PC these days are strat games like Bannerlord and MP games.

>>713458884
The novelty feeling never wears off unironically

>>713459087
Deck isn't powerful enough for the more demanding PS3 games. Some early stuff like RR7 or Resistance works pretty well though.

>>713458768
Runs great on 'eck

>>713452190 (OP)
If you have a proper solid gaming rig set-up and are going to mainly be using your Deck at home, look up how to set up Moonlight/Sunshine for your deck. It's like a better Steam Link with no latency and lets you enjoy your deck's portability with your PC's performance. Plus you'll get full 6+ hours of battery life too which is fucking great.

>>713459195
Don't get me wrong, it's fun seeing what you can get away with running on it. But it's not really what I use it for in the end

>>713452190 (OP)
Don't, you're getting ripped off. You can get a laptop better in every way than the cheapest steam deck with money leftover for a controller to boot.

>>713459501
I mean not necessarily graphically demanding games but more stuff that you just think is 'neat'. For example playing a roguelike with heavy kb input like cataclysm dark days ahead and it works really well because someone in the community took the time to make a keyboard layout for this game with contextual radial menus for every kb shortcut and its actually incredibly intuitive. Now you have a great in depth roguelike on the game that games the library for 8 hours. I had a similar experience with starsector. Another great game and perfect fit for deck that works because of shortcuts and radial menus

>>713452835
Shitch 2
>Ass battery, but straight HDMI to TV connection
>Has drifting day1, so you either going to have an ass time fixing it, or you pony up and buy a new joy con
>It also has an exploding battery
>No OLED(yet)
>Did you fart on your microphone(which is a subscription only function) or try to connect it on your pc to try funny things? Enjoy your own console getting bricked by Nintendo
>80+ dollaroo games
>Nintendo's new games are underwhelming(and it seems that this how its going to be from now on), and when it comes to 3rd party AAA games, you should rather play them on big boy machines
>Also if its about backwards comp, why spend so much when you can just buy a Switch 1?
>Shit official emulation capabilities
Deck
>Lots of purchasing options
>OLED is kickass, but that extra dock base is kinda annoying
>Can also work as a portable pc and you can connect whatever peripheral you want
>It might struggle with modern AAA goyslop, but you can play the ENTIRE steam library and more
>Cheap ass or free pc games
>Excellent emulation up to gamecube
>SteamOS is amazing, and the console itself was designed to be easily repaired
>However, since SteamOS is Arch based, there is a learning curve to it. It might be a bit tough at first if you are windows npc, but if you learn the basics there, you can carry that knowledge on your pc and free yourself from the eternal Windows cuckery
Yep, Deck is still better than Switch 2. Only bing bing wahoo retards, Pokefaggots, and nostalgia hostages will buy Switch 2. Deck is a thinking man's console

>>713452190 (OP)
Its not the most powerful but its the best overall.
Other devices have better screens with bad battery and bad ergonomics
Other devices have more power with bad battery and bad ergonomics
Steam deck is the only nigga with a decent battery, decent power, trackpads, and good UX
>UX is a meme
Navigating the windows menu with a fucking joystick is a meme, booting into Big Picture or navigating a DE with a trackpad is hands down the best you can ask for in a handheld

>>713460294
>>However, since SteamOS is Arch based, there is a learning curve to it. It might be a bit tough at first if you are windows npc,
The community is pleasant enough that you can probably find someone who had the same issue/query along the line and get advice. If all else fails can always ask here

>>713460564
SteamOS is so based that the deck community fixed years long issues I was having with Arch. I expected a bunch of faggy redditors to hit you with the ole Ubuntu "Why would you do that dont do that thats stupid" but nope, simple githubs with easy instructions.
Also Emudeck and Retrodeck are trash, get the retroarch cores from the nightly buildbot, drag it onto steams retroarch, and now you have retroarch emulation with cloudsaves
>but syncthing
Is hit and miss, and will sometimes overwrite the wrong save

>>713460294
As someone who owns both, he's right. Switch has the clearer image with its 1080p resolution, but it doesn't have those sweet OLED colors, and the battery life is worse. The deck is also far more versatile of a device having handeld, tv, and desktop pc styles of play.
It doesn't have the tendie exclusives but those don't even seem worth it as of this year. Kart world was mid

>>713460772
I use syncthing sometimes for non steam games outside of emulation. It's fine. My new favourite use case is sunshine/moonlight streaming to tv via dreck

>>713460851
Switch 2 and Deck arent even running the same race. im not rebuying my thousands of steam games just so I can play bingkart and LGBDK

>>713452190 (OP)
With a dock it's essentially a laptop, the Steam Dock ain't that great, you could probably get a better one with HDMI with an usb c connection
You could also just install Windows on it, or get an SD card and put Windows on it, it would be a bit moot though since the read write speed is limited (so don't think about getting anything past A2 SD card type)
Performance is decent but don't expect to play newer stuff on anything but low, I don't exactly care about this but some might

>>713460927
Sunshine and moonlight are great, Valve needs to stop fucking around and use that shit in place of steamlink which doesnt even work a lot of the time

>>713458501
its the only game released in the last 5 years that actually looks like it was supposed to run on modern hardware and not a ps4.

>>713461042
Me personally the only issue I've had with steam link is if my host PC is on the Wifi.

>>713460564
Judging from the post quality on here /v/, you wont get a proper answer here, so its better that a deck user should either ask on Deck or Arch linux forums instead. Or /g/ idk.
I agree that the Deck community is very active and helpful, and even a guy with half a brain could get an solution spoonfed to him if he asks nicely
>>713460851
For me, its all about options. As a hacked vita guy, Deck is pretty much everything I want from a handheld device.
I only wish it was a bit more portable though, but I got used to the size of it pretty quick

Anyone know if the Steam Deck can emulate the Wii U? I want to play Wind Waker HD

>>713458542
that's a $250 console from 2017
steam deck is $550

>>713461149
It does. I play MH3U on mine

>>713461149
Yeah I got mh3u running. Complete with the 1 defence hack and 60fps

>>713461149
Yes, it can actually. It only struggles a bit with ps3/360/switch emulation. Switch emulation would have been perfect on deck right now, if the switch emu devs didnt bend the knee to Nintendo yakuza
https://youtu.be/JNyRfwHZFkg

>>713461425
Ryujinx still works just fine. I play mhgu and couch coop diablo 3 with buddies sometimes

>>713458501
Its the only decent AAA game that has been released(and eventually got fixed) the last 5 years, and that says a lot about the state of the current AAA industry

>>713452190 (OP)
it runs Linux. games like Fortnite and LoL don't work on it.

I use it while chillin in bed.

>>713461859
@NINTENDO @FBI @CIA DO SOMETHING!

>>713452190 (OP)
wait for the steam deck 2

>>713458501
cyberpunk 2077 is this generations crysis, its a benchmark for how powerful hardware when running it at various settings

>>713463734
That's a precious fantasy you have

Why are there more than daily threads about Steam Deck here, shilling it like crazy for over 3 years now despite the fact it sold like shit?

>>713464146
its true though?

>>713452190 (OP)
Get a Rog Ally X instead.

>>713452190 (OP)
Is a console mainly for simulation and indies not for the latest goyslop engine 5 although you can stream it from your pc to the deck and play with no problems if you still want to play the goyslop

>>713464294
Redpill me.

>>713456406
If i do im doing something that won't allow me to play games or carry around some big ass tablet thing. I dont go out and just sit around. Im also not a city slicker who takes the train or bus.

>>713461149
>Anyone know if the Steam Deck can emulate the Wii U?
Yes, I have Xenoblade X and Breath of the Wild there

>>713464754
It's like steam deck minus trackpads and you get like 10fps more in general

>>713452190 (OP)
My only issues 100 hours in are battery life and audio crackling in some games. Both can be fixed with peripherals. Get a cheap third party dock and a screen protector.

>>713465104
That seems like a really bad tradeoff