Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: PhiladelphusI wouldn't be surprised if it's a UI issue. Stellaris, as a newer game, has a(n experimental) UI scaling option so I could see it being playable, but I don't remember EU IV having one (though admittedly it's been a few years since I last played it).

HoI 4 has such thing but the highest ratio of scaling is limited by your resolution. And guess how much you can upscale on 1280x720?

Spoiler, click me

Upscaling is not supported on 1280x720:grin:

Not even on 1280x800? Which is the actual resolution of the Deck.

I think some of the Age of Empire games are 'Verified', might be nice with a touch screen...

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Quoting: GameGrueI have posted a guide to the SteamDeck reddit on how to setup Syncthing to launch automatically even in Game Mode.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/vocyi5/start_syncthing_automatically_on_steamdeck_even/ [External Link]

Might be useful to extend this guide with that information.

It's odd, I've seen others try to enable btrfs on the microsd card simply so they can also install the btrfs driver on Windows and then copy games over... that sounds painful. I tried just copying over something to the microsd card, but there is a weird thing SteamOS does to it, where it marks it as read-only when you shut down the Deck. After the second time trying to copy over Assassin's Creed: Odyssey directly to the SD card, I finally gave up up half way through the second one and just downloaded it directly. Though the partial copy I did seemed to work, and in theory copying over at 40-50mb/s is faster than downloading at 6mb/s :P

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I want to point out a weird random feature on the Steam Deck (I'm assuming this is a case of what would happen on KDE itself as well?)

If you look inside your steam library folder, where all the games are installed, some have put $game.png files in the directories, so the actual folder has an icon / image on it!

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Quoting: GuestAnd here's me thinking Valve were banning third-party launchers on the Deck...

The certification process is a mess that's applied to games arbitrarily, with some that are broken being fully verified (Sonic Generations springs to mind).

Valve said the Deck would be a "console like experience with no tweaking". They have yet to deliver on that.

Well here is one thing I have noticed so far with mine: beta is beta. I seitched back to stable and it is much better. But I do agree their verification seems randomly bad, and defaulting to Proton has caused me multiple issues.

They can't help some launchers especially third party store ones (screw you UbiConnect, which will log you out during your game session, so if you don't put in 'trust this device' for your 2FA, your cloud sync won't work...)

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: mr-victory

Europa Universalis IV (Native Linux)
Unsupported

WUT
Ok, without k&m things will be difficult but plain unsupported? For Linux Native?

Being Linux Native has very little really to do with if it's properly workable on Deck.

So far in my experience, the 'Unsupported' is.. well it depends on taste, I suppose. Considering that it'll still likely load up (especially if it's native Linux), but with the small screen and such, maybe someone that has crap sight said they couldn't read any of the text, and so it was 'unsupported' but someone with better eyes could, and it'd work just fine.

I mean I don't mind trying out Europa Universalis IV on the Deck and reporting back how playable it is.

I want to say Stellaris is marked as playable?

Side note; There's some weird cross over where Steam Button + x is supposed to bring up the keyboard, but it'd bring up the left side menu at the same time... but seems they may have fixed that in the most recent update. I was trying to get Assassin's Creed: Odyssey working (works great by the way, once you can get Ubi Connect to log in.)

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Quoting: setzer22I always get a sentiment of "us vs them" when the Steam Deck is covered in these articles. Rightfully so, perhaps, since Valve is the first company to really put the effort to support Linux handheld PC gaming. But I wouldn't call the competition's prices "ridiculous". The price point of many of these devices is not so bad once you factor in some hidden costs in the steam deck. If I had to choose I would say I still prefer the deck overall, but not by much. It's not like competition is 2x more expensive as some make it out to be.

When compared to the Steam Deck, GPD and Aya Neo ship similar hardware, but their machines often come with 1TB storage and a screen protector. If you factor in the cost of a 500GB SD card plus the d-brand screen protector that's easily an additional 100 bucks on top of the $650 of the high-tier deck. And there's also the dock hasn't been released yet, but I bet that's going to be another $80 on top at the very least. All things considered, that's slightly over $800.

If we're talking about the cheapest Steam Deck model, now that's an entirely different thing. But I've seen too many people complain about the price of the competition while getting the highest tier of the steam deck because "64 GB is not enough" to be a bit skeptical once I hear those comparisons.

GPD Win 3 shipped for $900 during the indiegogo campaign with screen protector, 1TB SSD and **dock included**, so if you're going for the "full premium package", you can really see how the Deck is not that much cheaper, all things considered.

It is more accurate to say that the Steam Deck's price is ridiculously low. Any of the ~1k handhelds that are coming out have only a fraction of the Deck's input options. A motherboard with a display and an xbox controller attached isn't a 1:1 match for what the Deck has.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Also Full HD on a 8" display seems like a potential battery drain and performance killer. This is something else Valve did better by going with 800p right away.

This is what I am thinking.

1920x1200 on an 8" display is ridiculous anyhow.

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Quoting: tamodolo

Quoting: fagnerln

Quoting: tamodoloFedora 36 is the first Linux release that actually solves input delay to be on pair with windows. They did this unintentionaly as it was an issue related to touchpads. I am extremely happy by this fix as FINALY FINALY Linux is starting to move forward instead of just doing sidesteps and go anywhere.

I'm following this release and didn't read anything about this, looks like gnome improved the way that it handles input to be on par to the FPS and not to the refresh rate.

What fedora 36 have to make it different?

You need to search in the complete changelog. A friend pointed they did that after reading it and said probably it was it when I mentioned that DS4 was working on pair with windows now.

Is this the key thing? "DS4 was working on pair with windows now"? So your problem was that the input lag existed when using a Dual Shock 4 controller? I think I've only used it once or twice on mine. I'm guessing this is without a wired connection?

Bluetooth is... still pretty shit on Linux. Though they have miraculously tweaked / fixed it on the Steam Deck.

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This reminds me of Club Drive on the Atari Jaguar! A game which most people hated, but I somehow loved, and wished there were more of. One that's better executed would be phenomenal!

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Quoting: Reusable-BoxSo I've got it working and the MicroSD card is mounted and accessible but it doesn't report the space on the MicroSD card, and instead on the internal drive so I can't install anything bigger than whatever is free on the internal drive.

Is there any fix for this? I could probably download it on PC and transfer and have it locate the install but that is an extra step that I would prefer to avoid.

Update: It does work if you transfer them and locate the installs in Ubisoft Connect. I do wonder what would happen if it wanted to update the game, probably freak out, but I'm playing Watch Dogs 2 which probably isn't going to get an update ever again.

I should try this, maybe I could finally finish the Assassin's Creed games, and get around to Watch Dogs...

Side note, one of the things I have always enjoyed in games is the ability to knock people off ledges to their doom. Kicked a mercenary off a cliff into a pool to watch him drown in AC: Odyssey last night, Spartan style. It was fantastic. Tried it some others, and they figured out how to climb out... shame, really.

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