Quoting: SparhawkI used to play this so much. The fun was amazing. Not sure if I could get back into it.
But it is cool to see this game still going strong!

Still some of the most fun I've ever had in online gaming. Those clutch moments at match end with the announcer counting down the seconds and both teams converging on the bomb cart at the very end. OVERTIME!

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My SO and I had a lot of fun in this game. It plays well on Deck, too.

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I resolve my issues with remote play by disabling Nvidia NVFBC. Previously with that setting enabled, the game video would not stream, however if I all tab on the host PC the desktop would stream to Deck just fine. All tabbing back into the game the video stream would end. Now with that setting disabled I can stream just fine on stable.

That isn't an option for Radeon cards...

Oh and disable hardware encoding on the Deck. Real shame we have to use software encoding, come on Valve, if the hardware encoding never works just remove that option!

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Quoting: tmtvlI've been working out some builds in Neverwinter Nights 2, looking for a nice OP one which I can use to play through modules without having to get really bogged down in combat. Aside from that I've cleaned out some of my backlog: played through Along the Edge (it's fine), Primordia (it's fine), Shardlight (it's pretty good), and Technobabylon (truly amazing game, I'm so happy I played it, it's fantastic).

Another Technobabylon enjoyer! That game is great and I still think about it years after playing. I also played Primordia but couldn't get into it, and then the game crashed and I lost my save. I should give Shardlight a go...

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I resolved my remote play problem: my deck display would freeze when streaming from my PC, but the display would unfreeze if I alt+tab on my PC and show the desktop. The solution was to disable "Use NVFBC on Nvidia GPU". I can know stream again reliably.

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Quoting: CatKillerI'm hoping that the fix for in-home streaming gets promoted to stable, and they've sorted out the display quality issues, before I get my OLED model soon.

This in-home streaming bugginess has really been crappy for my Deck useage. Either the video freezes entirely, with sound and input continuing, or, I get a green screen error. I tried out the Beta fix but I prefer being on Stable channel. I should really just install Moonlight...

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Quoting: TruckStopSantaClausX11 has been the main thing stopping me form going back to Mint on my new Framework 13, I'll keep an eye on the Framework forums and see how thing are going. But I'm hyped! :woot:

Speaking of Framework laptops, what is the most stable and supported distro for those? I'm only really familiar with Pop_OS, but I'd be fine with basic Ubuntu.
Also, isn't Wayland still fairly experimental when it comes to games support?

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I've been having a hell of a time with Remote Play: if the video doesn't freeze immediately, then I still don't have access to any Steam overlay while streaming. I was using Preview for a while to fix the frozen video but the overlay is still busted.
Normally the fix is disabling hardware decoding, but I would prefer Valve just fix the streaming issue and then allow hardware decoding. Otherwise, just remove that feature -- if software decoding is the only one which works, why have a toggle to a non-functional feature?

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I think you guys are right that Microsoft may be biding their time, while they let the competition release handhelds, to then release their own Xbox-branded handheld which specializes in streaming GamePass (Xcloud), streaming from your Xbox console, and maybe installing and playing Xbox GamePass games locally. Maybe they'll allow Steam and EGS, or maybe they won't.
It's pretty sad that Asus MSI and the rest can't afford to maintain a Linux distro for their device, or even, pool resources to maintain a shared distro that they all use. But Microsoft does that and it's called Windows, even if it doesn't have a good handheld interface yet.
As for this Claw, I suspect it's going to crash and burn. Previous poster is right, 45W is going to get hot, and loud. No trackpads? It's dead in the water.

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These sound appealing. I'm torn on upgrading my rtx2060, as I mostly play on Steam Deck these days. The one game I play exclusively on PC is CP77 where I get 90-100fps at 1080p high, raytracing off, dlss2 quality. So I could spend $600+tax USD to be able to turn on raytracing, or maybe possibly pathtracing... Or I could spend that money on a Deck OLED instead.
All my other titles play absolutely fine on my 2060, so, why bother chasing higher fidelity with cold hard cash?

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