Still waiting for a campaign :/

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My wishlist is full of games I get excited about after reading Liam's overenthusiastic reviews, while months later I see them on discount and look at the store page and be like why tf did I ever think I might be interested in this.

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Quoting: PixelDrop

Quoting: ShabbyXIt could also be that analog has noise, so you get dithering for free

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That's an interesting thought, and could explain at least a little bit why gaming looks nicer on VGA TVs.

Actually I take it back. Noise applied post-quantization is just noise!

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> Fix an audio related crash

Ah yes, finally! I've been suffering this crash since never because I don't have a Deck yet :'(

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Quoting: PixelDrop

Quoting: PixelDropbut on TVs it's weird because very often font will be cleaner, colors will be better, or some other thing that makes me go "how the heck does this make sense?" Especially with LCD/LED TVs since they are literally just big monitors in theory.

I just remembered my old theory on this. I was thinking that maybe* manufacturers actually apply hidden post-processing by default to HDMI because they figure video is going to be played on it and want to snazzy it up somehow, but for the VGA ports they just pass it directly through to the screen and that could be the reason why on so many TVs computer output tends to look so much cleaner through VGA vs HDMI.

Of course totally off the top of my head random theory I came up with, with zero proof whatsoever. Just Something I thought could be plausible to explain it.

It could also be that analog has noise, so you get dithering for free

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Quoting: FrawoWhew, I just misread the term "updated shipping windows", which scared the hell out of me. Maybe I should just go to bed...

Yeah lol, I had the same reaction! Also when I hear "let's open the windows" in my house

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Crimsonland is a great game, only horde game I've ever played actually. Sucks that they didn't get the credit for inventing the genre

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I also wanted to ask for a piece-wise linear fitting, where the slope is changed since steam deck. It's clealy changed the speed of adoption.

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Will worlds generated prior to the new biome get the new biome after the November update? It'd suck to have to generate a new world.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI don't think Steam Deck 2 is any time soon, remember we're working on Valve Time here :tongue:

We keep making the same jokes, but Valve's obviously changed. They are quick now, and things can get a version 3.

But yeah, for sure SD2 needs to take a while. Like the other consoles, having something fixed to target is a bonus for developers, and you don't have something fixed to target if there's a new version every year.

I'd expect something like a new version every 5 years.

Compare consoles with phones for example. Long after PS4, PS5 comes and most people upgrade. However, every year your phone gets an iteration, but you spend a few years with your phone without changing. So with consoles, you get generations of games and something developers can target. With phones, there is no such thing.

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