Nice.
I’m on wifi end to end unfortunately. Because reasons my internet comes into the basement and my main diet is down there. My PC and the Deck are both on the main floor and have decent signal strength but the extra latency and occasional dropped frames make real time games… less fun for me.
Still, I can go play games on my PC when needed. It’s literally less than twenty feet distant…I just really like the Steam Deck. :)
I’ve streamed a few games but I’m on wifi and it’s… fine? Like it works better than it has any right to, but anything that requires fast inputs has been iffy.
Even BG3 I generally preferred playing on the actual hardware instead of streaming.
I do a surprisingly large amount of my gaming on the steam deck these days. My poor PC lies abandoned. Anyway… here are some great games that I’ve played recently on the deck. Some of them are Yellow - usually to use the keyboard for something minor.
A final, hesitant recommendation for
But… the menus don’t work right for me in docked play - the A button is only randomly accepted. … but it works fine in handheld mode. (The controls work fine in-game as well, it’s only menus that have trouble.)
I bought this back before the official dock was released and I’m still using it. It’s worked perfectly for me. I have it connected up to HDMI out for my tv and I used to have two Steam Controller USB dongles, but I switched to using Bluetooth-enabled XBone controllers.
Anyway, +1 for the JSAUX dock.
Eh, looks like a (sorta) fun project. But you can turn pretty much any Linux machine into a home server, so this isn’t really that surprising - and as plenty have pointed out here, there are better hardware choices.
I have a file/dns server in my basement that is built of my desktop upgrade leftovers. Every so often I swap out the mobo/cpu and reinstall a Debian flavor of some sort. Run my setup scripts, start up my docker services and hey, presto! My server abides.
Journey
Ico / Shadow of the Colossus / The Last Guardian
No Man’s Sky
I fiddled with it a fair bit, and ultimately decided to just stick with the “Medium” default. With that, it’s pretty stable, with a few dips, but given the turn-based combat etc, it doesn’t really bother me.
(But that said, I’m an old-school PC gamer. I played DooM on an 8 MHz 386 at sub-10 FPS. I had to “lead” my shots to play. So my personal standards for game performance may be a little low.)
I’m playing it on Steam Deck right now and though I’m still only a few hours in, I’ve only had some very minor issues. The game plays fine!
Issue 1: The graphics settings don’t seem be persisted. I have to manually activate anti-aliasing every time, or deal with jaggies.
Issue 2: On Proton Experimental, my controller didn’t work at the start. I was able to fix it by launching the on-screen KB (Steam button+X), hitting “Enter”, and then switching back to controller mode. Sounds like it’s time to switch to Proton Hotfix.
Otherwise, it’s been great! I left the graphics settings (other than AA) at their defaults and I’ve seen no noticeable lag or stuttering during play.
I have both. I do not think the OLED version is twice as nice, though it is noticeably improved.
If the cost is an issue, but doable, consider getting the LCD deck and putting the extra cash toward a TV dock and Bluetooth controller. The deck is awesome on the go (just took mine on vacation - 10/10) but it’s also a fantastic console in its own right. I play a lot of PC games on my couch, even though my I have a decent desktop PC available.
Either one you purchase though, the Steam deck is the best gaming device I’ve ever owned. Access to the vast Steam library (even if not all titles are compatible yet), access to install whatever else TF I want - even competing stores,
emulationnevermind.It’s just… 🤯