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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Some of y'all who havent played any on that list need to "get out more" :P many of those titles are modern classics.

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Quoting: GetBeanedI contributed heavily to Elden Ring this year, though I've since moved on to Baldur's Gate 3, and that demanded I finally sort my home network out so I can stream it from my PC. Elden Ring is definitely playable natively, but it will be nice to go back to it at some point streaming it from my PC.

Elden Ring streams quite nicely. Note that Preview build has the fix for streaming right now, but the overlay still doesn't come up which is annoying.
Heck, everything streams nicely. FF7R looks great at 40fps but even better streamed at 1440p.

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It's Early Access... Which is a Wait from me, but I'll add it to wishlist as it looks good.

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Quoting: GuestAh, the flashbacks of not being able to sleep last year, having to sleep with the computer running...

At least I had a chance to enter, but this time, they are using Gleam. Bet they would require connecting every single kind of social media account I don't have and won't register.

Giveaways suck. Expect nothing or be disappointed.

Oh god it IS gleam.io with the tell tale "# of entries" box at the top left. Great, so I have to show them I have a twitter, instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn profile with a large amount of followers and a willingness to engage in corporate marketing on their behalf.
And because I have none of those, my entries will be both diminished AND downranked -- why issue me a reward if I'm not going to spread the word to my millions of followers?

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