Quoting: ExpandingManI've had problems in the past, but it's been a while. Perhaps I was being unnecessarily cautious, I'll experiment with 6.1.

Historically, nvidia has been way better at this than AMD. When the FireGL drivers were a thing, you'd upgrade your system and the driver would be broken for months, either from a kernel upgrade or Xorg. I maintain this is the real reason they mainlined it into the kernel / mesa. They just didn't have the manpower to maintain a separate driver. It's also likely the reason they had like 4 different drivers at some point.

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Quoting: BotonoskiI already bought one, but it would make a fantastic Christmas gift, I hope I ain't filtered from the drawing for already having used a Deck on my account.

You know, I think if Valve put actual marketing dollars behind the Deck, get flashy ads on TV and whatnot, it could absolutely be a smash hit. At first I was fairly certain it was going to be a niche thing like my RPi handheld, but with how cleanly it fits into my lifestyle this thing really got potential mass appeal, its versatility gives it potential appeal to everyone, even a coworker of mine who barely games is considering buying it instead of a new laptop. This could be the next step for console gaming, not the portability but the versatility, it's not enough for a console to just play games anymore, much like how at one point, it wasn't enough for phones to just make call.

So far I heard comparisons between Switch and Steam Deck, and most of the people who bought both said: The Switch is more worth for its money.
Also Steam Deck seems to be bit heavy for weak nerd arms and mobile gaming?

Owning both, I really wanted to like the Switch (the concept is awesome) but the controllers it comes with are very cheap feeling and tiny in my hands, so I inevitably have to either buy a third party attachment for it, which most have questionable quality, or I have to play it docked with a controller (I will say the Switch Pro controller is very nice).

On the Steam Deck, the controls are just right, and have more options / configuration possibilities.

Now does this only apply to my Adult sized hands? Maybe, but it is what it is. I've never been able to properly play with the JoyCons. The Steam Deck, as a just 'pick up and play' device is just better.

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Anyone sort out the mod management on the Steam Deck / Linux? The fact they haven't implemented Steam Workshop yet for mods definitely irritates me. Usually the mod makers on Nexus Mods only ever release Windows packages of such things.

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Quoting: einherjarIs the game worth it?
I heard so much about a lot of boring and repetitive tasks in an impressive and nice open world.
But the most important thing to me is an interesting story and characters. And I have not so much trust in Ubisoft.

I haven't played Valhalla yet, but the others have had pretty decent story lines. Granted after the original writer left the team, they definitely have a more generic feel, like 'okay, one more person in the ancient world that has some sort of revenge story against some bad group.

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey actually runs smoother on the Steam Deck than it does on my 3080 under Proton. But then again I am trying to run it at 3840x1200, max settings. This runs fine under Windows though. Irritating to have to boot into Windows...

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Madjo5PM PST / 1AM UTC

What is that in GMT? (don't forget about your European brethren and sistren)

UTC is the same time as GMT.

I'm sure there's a huge astronomical difference, but counted by the hour, that's true... :)

Ha, it's like the only relevant thing left from the British Empire, they are at the center of the time zones!

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: LoftyIm guessing using proton is probably the best way to play this now.

Better for what? I played that game years ago. From the date of my achievements and the screenshots I can determine that I used my GTX970 at 3440x1440 resolution and had no performance issues. That's potato level for current standards. So maybe proton can give you more fps, but it's not really needed.

Stability perhaps. i used to have frequent crashes with the native version.

Native version for 4 seemed to work fine when I last played through it years ago. Didn't beat GooH yet, but last time I played, it was also rather stable.

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I've never ran into this one either, and I've for sure bought stuff on the Deck. Though I tend to not use paypal or anything that'd bring one up.

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Quoting: tamodoloAs no gamepad reviewer measures actual latency and just limit itself to report one's own perception of the product I must say that this misleading type of non cientific review deceaved me greatly. I bought a SN30 pro+ 2 years ago. While I used at the time (and now) the awesome DS4 as main gamepad for everything that can be used with, I wanted a gamepad that was more friendly to remember which mode was connected to. The impact in the high latency was imediate so I went measure it and found astounishing bad results...

For a good gamepad review you need to measure at least these behaviors:

- Input delay (it's the polling rate). This measures the time between inputs. It's very important this does not have jitter as it'll ruin experience. This can't be done on consoles but as every gamepad nowadays can be connected to PC, this must be measured. (and no reviewer do this)
- overhall input lag (the total one). This measures time from button press to action on screen. This is not absolute like input delay as it depends on the user setup. So a comparison with something known like a largely used gamepad like DS4 or XBOX Controller must be used as reference.

My results:

Input delay: SN30 pro+ have horrible input delay. Over bt it have a lot of dummy packages around 3 to 5 ms and an actual data pacage around 33ms (this makes this gamepad updates it's input around 30 Hz. This is very low). Over USB all data updates twice as fast with dummy packages around 1 to 2ms and a real data package around 15ms (the actual update rate was calculed to be around 66 Hz... my God...). The update pattern is 2 dummy package and 1 real data package. I reported this many times to 8bitdo for them to just let my support ticket expire every single time without answer and never fix it. Some values for reference: XBOX Controller have a polling rate of 125 Hz but skips one entry every second (I don't know why but this shouldn't really be a problem). The Switch joycons also updates at 125 Hz but no skips. DS4 is the best one with a polling rate of 250 Hz (this is really amazing)

Input lag: I measured input lag for SN30 pro+ on Nintendo Switch in compasison with the Joycons and the DS4 using mission control to enable it on the console.

DS4 operates downclocked on Switch to save bt bandwith (it's a deliberated choice from Mission Control devs) so the actual measured diference using a high speed camera between DS4 and Joycons are within measure error (5 ms +-) (any cell phone can shoot 120fps nowadays. Mine can shoot 240 fps and it was used to measure time).

SN30 pro+ was astounishing 50 ms higher than the two when over bt. This is really bad results as it falls under human perception levels of lag.

I cannot in any sense or for any use recomend any 8bitdo controller. The "best" gamepad they had at marketing and reviews level is just a very bad, crap level of a product.

You SHOULD NOT buy anything from 8bitdo.

I also strongly recomend staying away from any 3rd party gamepad that don't have at least this type of data made public. Stick to the ones that have like XBOX and DS4/Dualsense

Edit: I forgot to mention that some windows games just give up on this gamepad as long as 5 minutes after beying started. Easy example: Trails in the sky trilogy.

It has been a while since I looked, and so my memory is fuzzy, but there is someone who does all of the latency testing with the MiSTer FPGA project, and I am pretty sure 8bitdo overall do pretty great on that front. But that project has the SNAC stuff that lets you use original controls.

I have a few 8bitdo controllers and have never really had issues with them.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjeSo can you now go from imperial rome to crusader kings 3, to victoria 3 to hearts of iron?

Now all they need is something set in an interplanetary-exploration-in-our-solar-system era and you could go from Rome to Stellaris.

ha, wonder what that would look like. From like 1950s to 3xxx? You'd be stuck converting up to Stellaris to play humans, or some civilization that conquered them :P (which at this point is probably more likely!)

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