Quoting: PixelDrop

Quoting: PixelDropbut on TVs it's weird because very often font will be cleaner, colors will be better, or some other thing that makes me go "how the heck does this make sense?" Especially with LCD/LED TVs since they are literally just big monitors in theory.

I just remembered my old theory on this. I was thinking that maybe* manufacturers actually apply hidden post-processing by default to HDMI because they figure video is going to be played on it and want to snazzy it up somehow, but for the VGA ports they just pass it directly through to the screen and that could be the reason why on so many TVs computer output tends to look so much cleaner through VGA vs HDMI.

Of course totally off the top of my head random theory I came up with, with zero proof whatsoever. Just Something I thought could be plausible to explain it.

I just wanted to write that! :) Modern TVs (should) have some "just display what I give you, freak!"-mode (they might have given it a slightly different name, though), which is not used by default - except if the TV is sure it's connected to a computer. So, VGA. You should be able to find it somewhere in the menus to enable it manually for other selected inputs.

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Quoting: parkerlreedJust tested and a simple
 
touch LauncherPatcher.exe
in the launcher folder along with the launch arguments from the main post is enough to get it working.

:grin:

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Quoting: PixelDropI and the people I know still have a lot of VGA monitors and TVs. I don't like polluting the world unnecessarily either, so until things stop working to the point I can't fix them or I actually have a truly good reason to move on I'll keep using them too.

That's a good thing of course.

Quoting: PixelDropThough VGA isn't even dead. A lot of even newer 1080p TVs and screens still have theme. Which there's quite a lot of people who don't like above 60hz or care about over 1080p, and generally most things that are 1080p and 60hz come with VGA ports.

My trouble with VGA is neither resolution nor frequency, but that it's analogue. I left analogue graphics transmission and display for computer signals 20 years ago for good.

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Quoting: EgonautA crowdfunded game doesn't get a promised Linux port? Wow, that's new! /s

I only backed games where either the devs had made a native Linux game before or had a running native Linux demo for the game to back. Until now, all delivered (although Kotar very late). It weren't very many games though.

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Quoting: RevenantDakI already deleted the game before reading this. Im not sure it's even worth the hassle to try playing it now, since I have a huge backlog. BS Infinite was towards the top of the list, was... but now it'll probably never be played. I wish I could get a refund.

I still absolutely recommend to play Bioshock Infinite.

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Quoting: PixelDropFor me the big ones were VGA + 3mm + Ethernet + at least 2 USB and of course a high enough pass through power rating to keep the deck charged while docked.

For what use case are you still using VGA? Old projector?

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Quoting: LamdarerBut what bugs me the most is that while SteamOS Holo has 13.69% for Linux, the AMD Custom GPU has more 13.72%. Wouldnt that mean that there is a significant portion of Deck users who installed another Linux Distro on it :huh: and even more so if you consider that the Community Holo iso which can be installed anywhere also counts toward SteamDeckOS™.

Another interesting thing...
Resolution 1280 x 800  12.45%
AMD Custom GPU 0405    13.72%

So ~9% of Deck Users had a monitor attached?

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@Liam Don't forget to update https://www.gamingonlinux.com/crowdfunders/

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Quoting: TodCGot on list for the 512G version on Nov 23.
Got invite on Aug 29.
Tracking says it should be here Sep 6.

Got on the list on March and got the invitation on Nov 25.
Not saying I hate you, but... ;)

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Quoting: tonRRelax... Both side won't and never want going to war. Come on, both sides are too busy counting money profiting each other. No one wants to wish anything bad to their business partner.

I think the same. (...though I thought similar for Russia. But yes, there's huge differences.)

Quoting: tonREXCEPT, if some "outsiders" who want to incite them for those "outsiders" profit.

No outsider can make China go on war. If they do it, it's on them and nobody else.

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