Quoting: KlaasWindows 7/8 (and macOS 10.13/10.14) no longer supported. That will incite lots of moaning.

Windows 7 and 8 (including 8.1) has technically been unsupported since January 1st this year, but apparently some people were still able to use it. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800A [External Link]

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Is this a joke or something? How can they force everyone to comply to this retroactively when many game studios are long since defunct? What the fuck? Do they have any idea how many old games would simply become unpurchaseable because of this?

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Quoting: KlaasBoth still use Denuvo. Disappointing.

I mean, I played both for a combined total of 449 hours, and a good portion of that on the Deck/Desktop Linux. Never had any issues with it

With that said, I wholeheartedly recommend this bundle. It's fine for me since I own all of these already, but these are some of the best management sims especially if you like dinosaurs. Both work really well on Deck/Linux. However, I don't recommend building massive parks on Deck as it can strain the CPU to a point where the park becomes very laggy

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For years Ubisoft has been going the 'f-you gamers' route, now it seems they are crawling back to us for money. I will not buy any of their games because:

-always online DRM
-as a result, games can be taken down and become unplayable (The Crew 1)
-shitty and useless forced ubisoft connect
-zero integration with Steam
-'You need to get accustomed with not owning games'

So we're just renting stuff right? Only to have it taken away years later with 0 refunds? No thanks. You will not see my money.

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Quoting: ThibugI feel like the price is fair (Since they redid quite a bit of work from what I can see). They could have made it into another game and call it a day (looking at you, Skyrim). Still not sure if I personally want it, might just wait to see if FSR 3.1 can improve performance on the SD (as it stutters quite a bit as of right now)

I'm pretty sure the stuttering is related to texture streaming. The stutters get much worse when you move quickly. I tried to investigate if Proton maybe causes this, but it runs just fine on my Linux desktop. So either the Steam Deck CPU is too weak (when it stutters, CPU usage will spike sharply! ), or the game just isnt particularly optimized for low power CPUs. Or both. Either way, I don't think FSR 3 will solve this problem

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What is there to remaster? It's one of the most beautiful titles on PC and Playstation.
The mandatory PSN account and PS overlay is just a slap in the face for owners of the original, in my opinion. Neither this game nor the sequel released this year has either. Stop ruining perfect titles, Sony!

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Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about x86_64 support? (Steam client is still 32-bit.)

If I understand correctly Steam is still 32-bit at its core for compatibility with legacy 32-bit games

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I think the Steam Deck Verified System is extremely misleading and problematic.

1) it's unclear how valve ultimately ends up at 1 of these 3 ratings,

2) Valve only tests a game once, and then usually never again, which is problematic because proton keeps getting better, but also like pointed out, DRM and anti-cheat get added to games. At the very least they should add the proton version this was tested with

3) It's totally unclear what doesn't work when a game is ''unsupported'' because the descriptions just say "valve is still working on adding support for this"

Of all the games I play, only a single one is completely unplayable, and that is Destiny 2. All the other ones either run fine or only have minor issues. And yes, I've played most unsupported titles in my library and they ran just fine even on the Deck.

Conversely, there's games in my library where I wonder why the heck valve gave it a verified rating. Like Horizon Zero Dawn. It's a total stutterfest on the deck, all over the forums people report that it's a consistently bad experience. The successor, Forbidden West, has an 'unsupported' rating exactly because of bad performance. So why is the first one verified then? I can't help but get the impression their standards when testing games are wildly different.

Honestly, I've had more issues with Verified titles than I had with unsupported ones. I don't pay attention to the rating any more. I just use protonDB which is so much more reliable

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https://steamdeckhq.com/news/valve-rockstar-fix-gta-online-steam-deck/ [External Link]
There may be some hope on the horizon after all

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Good Old Games? More like Good Delisted Games…

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