Quoting: GuestIt seems the deck has an ips screen, not tn, right?

The Deck has an IPS screen, yes. Which means that off-axis viewing is fine, which wouldn't be the case with a TN screen. But the colour gamut isn't great as far as IPS screens go - less than 100% sRGB. It seems to be one of the "painful" choices Valve made to hit the price point. In actual use, though, it's not that much of an issue: you aren't using it to see skin tones - games make up their own custom colours. If you hold it side-by-side with a good IPS screen you'll see the reds being slightly orange, but solo you'll only notice the high DPI, fast response, and ability to show a good image even at very low brightness, which are admirable traits for a battery-powered gaming appliance. There is space for a Deck with a better screen but the process of replacing it [External Link] is not a lot of fun. And replacing the screen with one that can't run at an arbitrary refresh rate between 40 & 60 Hz (which the Deck's display can) would be a functional downgrade.

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Quoting: F.UltraImmersion also want the court to forbid Valve from selling more Steam Decks and Index:es.

They want Valve to be prohibited unless they pay the tithe. Some fee on the units they've sold to date is much less attractive than the fee on the (15? maybe?) millions of future units, plus the fees on Deck 2/Index 2/Controller 2 in the future. They want to just kick back and collect rent; the threat of an injunction is the stick to make everyone get a licence.

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Can it do the timing tricks that the Deck's screen can do to run at 40 Hz?

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Removing the graphics settings in Atomic Heart on Steam Deck was a hard decision for us to make

You chose... poorly.

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Quoting: silmethno idea how the log-out or Steam caused this… or if something else happened simultaneously and broke the BT device settings…).

On the Steam Deck Big Picture Mode has to manage Bluetooth (and power settings, fan curve, refresh rate, and all the rest). Valve didn't isolate Steam Deck things from Big Picture things before they rolled out the new Big Picture to people where all of those things are managed by something else.

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Does anyone have a firm grasp on where the issue lies? Some spec that isn't implemented by Nvidia? Some out-of-spec behaviour from Steam that happens to work on Mesa? Deliberately taking a slow path? Since it's been an issue for so long, it seems like no one knows, and they're just blindly poking.

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Quoting: GuestThis is 100% a patent trolling company.

Of course it is. But that's a not-yet-illegal-in-the-US and very lucrative line of business to be in. Although I believe they prefer the term "Non Practising Entity."

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Quoting: MayeulCI believe patents to last way too long for software

Patents on software are prohibited, although that hasn't stopped patent filers and the CAFC from trying to slip them through anyway - generally with the figleaf that a machine that's running software is an entirely different machine to one that's running different software.

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Quoting: elmapuli know that will sound like conspiration theory, but.. who else thinks microsoft is behind this?
that seems like an familiar situation, microsoft funding someone else to sue...

Microsoft have helped out with legal attacks against their rivals before, but it's not really necessary in this case: Immersion are plenty aggressive already. Sony tried to front out that "customers don't really want rumble anyway" with the first PS3 controllers because they were being sued by Immersion, before ultimately caving. At most it would take "that Steam Deck is doing quite well" to some Immersion executive.

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The Deck is definitely hitting success milestones: the Steam Controller and Index didn't hit the levels that were worth suing over rumble (although the Steam Controller hit the level where it's worth suing over back paddles). Onward and upward!

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