The steam recovery media let’s you reinstall just the OS while preserving user files.
As long as you haven’t done anything too dramatic like converting your file system to BTRFS
Edit: This will downgrade you to a much older version of SteamOS though, from which you would then have to update back to current. This can be a problem because some early issues (like the OLED deck not being able to connect to wifi 6E networks) can make it frustrating to update.
Presumably the hand grips on the deck keep enough of a gap under the deck to keep this from being an issue.
I have both the Spigen case and the JSAUX modcase, and both will fit inside the carrying case. The modcase one has to have the front cover and kickstand removed to fit however.
That said, I usually only use the modcase with front cover now instead of the original carrying case.
You should definitely use OpenMW instead of vanilla, it’s not a mod but is instead a full engine rewrite. It runs natively on linux, has better performance, and a whole lot of other benefits:
You can install it from the Discover store in desktop mode and then add it to steam, or alternatively you can use a tool like Protonup-qt (also in the discover store) to install Luxtorpeda, which is a tool for automatically launching supported games with rewritten engines. Once Luxtorpeda is installed you can open Morrowind steam properties in game mode, and check the “force specific compatibility tool” box and select to run the game with Luxtorpeda. After that it will automatically run the game through the OpenMW engine instead.
You’ll need to set a password for Cryoutilites I think. In desktop mode you can open konsole and run the command passwd, then enter your password twice. After that you can just run the Cryoutilites installer.
I haven’t played world, so unfortunately I can’t make a comparison. There’s definitely grinding to do though, hopefully someone who has played both can comment about it.
I’ve been playing a whole lot of Monster Hunter Rise. It runs really good, great performance and battery life (which makes sense considering it was originally a switch game). It’s my first real Monster Hunter game and I’m having a great time with it.
Only issues I’ve encountered: switching between docked and handheld play causes a minor fps drop until I restart the game. The game also has a utterly bizarre bug where if you’re playing with a controller designated as the 2nd player controller, any monster roar will drop the fps to 0 for like a minute. Super bizarre, no idea what kind of spaghetti code could cause that.
Edit: for anyone interested, Fanatical has a build your own monster hunter bundle right now that’s an incredibly good deal. Can get MH Rise + it’s big Sunbreak expansion for $11, previous best deal I had seen was $18 for the two. They also have MH World and a lot of other past MH games.
That’s unfortunate, full system freezes like that are sometimes because you ran out of ram/VRAM. If that was what happened, the SteamOS Beta uses zram which should prevent this once the change makes it to stable. In the meantime you could use something like Cryoutilites to increase your swap file size, which should also prevent crashes like that.
Valve pushed a beta client update this morning that among other things fixed a login issue:
Fixed a rare bug that could cause the login page to continuously fail with “error 11” until the client was restarted.
So based on that maybe try restarting the client if you’re already having trouble. Could be completely unrelated issue though.
That actually came up in some of the early ROG Ally reviews. Some reviewers found that old steam games wouldn’t run on it, but they would run on the steam deck.
The top seller chart only covers around 2 weeks of time if I recall right, and the Steam Deck has been near the top of it for years now.
You’re good, no shame in asking questions.
Go to ProtonDB and link your steam account.
WB doubled down, after Suicide Squad failed horribly and Hogwarts Legacy sold fantastically they decided they needed to stop making games like Hogwarts to focus on more live service games.
Huh, that’s super weird. I never realized the Steam flatpak wasn’t official.
That was just the Yuzu/Citra team. Main reason they got in trouble (from what I understand) is that they were making money off of it, specifically people had to subscribe to their patreon to get Tears of the Kingdom optimized builds, when the only copy of TotK available was an illegal pre-release one.
There were some more things like messages they sent that were incriminating, but that was the biggest thing afaik.
Right, I would just assume bringing it to other handhelds is the first step in it having universal hardware support.
Found it, see this reddit post here.
it’s basically setting up a virtual menu where button 1 is: A -> wait 60ms S -> wait 60ms S -> wait 60ms SPACE etc etc.
Here’s a link straight to the controller config: steam://controllerconfig/1966720/3142322044 You can easily open this by sending this link in a steam message, and then clicking on the link from inside game mode.
Edit: oops, replied to the wrong comment.
Truly the end of an era