The Epic Games section shows nothing though. The login went OK, I did a reload, but still nothing.
The other sections (Humble, GOG/etc) are OK, the games are showing.
In console I get:
Failed to load EGS library: 'access_token'
EGS is not installed in Lutris

Do I need to manually install EGS in order to activate the Epic section?

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: dubigrasuNot impressed with the new additions, well, talking about ARK and Darksiders.
I can live somewhat with the ARK graphics while playing on a TV, but those 1 sec hangs from time to time, damn.
Darksiders looks OK, but both games are running at 30 FPS (or even less sometimes, to my eyes at least), which is ridiculous. I'm not a gazillion fps snob, but come on.

I don't think they're running any game through Proton/Wine/etc (though they do use DXVK), but sometimes I wish they did, because at least: a) some game would run better (ARK in this case) and b) less work and time required to get the games ready.
At this pace they'll be unable to deliver those 100 games in 2021 as they're promised. Not sure what's the hold up (porting time or publishing rights?) but it doesn't seem to be happening.

Darksiders II was locked to 30fps on PS4 and going by the steam discussions it seems to have huge frame rate problems on Windows.

True.
The problems that I had with Darksiders II on Windows were indeed related to variations in fps, but at reasonable settings is still capable to stay well above 60. On Stadia though, the quality it runs at doesn't justify IMO the low fps. At times is a slideshow, is just miserable.
And even when games are locked at 30fps, is not the end of the world, ESO for example is also locked at 30 on Stadia but is, ugh...playable and consistent, while these two are just useless.
Now sure, for someone used with a 30fps locked console, you will have a higher tolerance to 15-20fps from time to time, but IMO whatever performance standards consoles might have, shouldn't apply to Stadia ports.
It seems to me that QA is going downhill on Stadia, they have proven initially that they can deliver high quality ports (Destiny and Division for example), but lately they seems to compromise more an more.

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Not impressed with the new additions, well, talking about ARK and Darksiders.
I can live somewhat with the ARK graphics while playing on a TV, but those 1 sec hangs from time to time, damn.
Darksiders looks OK, but both games are running at 30 FPS (or even less sometimes, to my eyes at least), which is ridiculous. I'm not a gazillion fps snob, but come on.

I don't think they're running any game through Proton/Wine/etc (though they do use DXVK), but sometimes I wish they did, because at least: a) some game would run better (ARK in this case) and b) less work and time required to get the games ready.
At this pace they'll be unable to deliver those 100 games in 2021 as they're promised. Not sure what's the hold up (porting time or publishing rights?) but it doesn't seem to be happening.

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Damm, that sucks...
Also the placement seems a bit more inconvenient. Most of the reviewers are ignoring the pads, and I've seen only few seconds of someone using them, with the thumb forced down in an awkward and what seems to be an uncomfortable position for long sessions. On the SC the pad is placed perfectly (whereas on the deck the joystick is placed perfectly), less strain for the thumb, but imagine having the pad below that and twist your thumb to reach it.
Hope I'm worried for nothing though.

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Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: dubigrasu[...]I would've love to hear an opinion from someone heavily accustomed with the pads on the Steam Controller, are the new pads big enough?

The SteamDeck pads are supposed to be the same width/height as the circular ones on the Steam Controller (in other words, the circle can fit inside the square) and those were pretty much the perfect size.

Where was that mentioned?
I'm looking at this guy who's doing a DIY of a steam deck, and (supposing that he got measurements right) the SC pads seems to be quite bigger then the new ones.
https://youtu.be/Hb56fT683gY?t=289 [External Link]
If he's right about it, this kinda sucks, as they are puny in size.

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Quoting: CybolicIf they were bigger, you'd need too much finger movement

Well, in a sense that's what I'd like, less crammed. Even on my SC sometimes I feel the need to some extra space for finer movements, or less interruptions when you pan left-right the image. The range of the movement would be still dictated by the settings, you would just have some extra left-right-space to use or not.
As trackballs they are good already.

Edit:

Quoting: CybolicThe SteamDeck pads are supposed to be the same width/height as the circular ones on the Steam Controller (in other words, the circle can fit inside the square)..

Ah, that's nice. My eyes were tempted to see the new pads as a bit smaller. That's good news for me.

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Not entirely on topic, but what would I like to see though is bigger touchpads, and exactly like this, without making the black bezel smaller:

The size of the current touchpads kinda worries me. In the reviews everyone was talking about the joysticks, not much about the pads. I would've love to hear an opinion from someone heavily accustomed with the pads on the Steam Controller, are the new pads big enough?

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Quoting: KeyrockI wish the tool did more than just solid colors. I'm a big fan of woodgrain, I would do a dark woodgrain skin.

LGR: did someone say woodgrain?!

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Quoting: KohlyKohl

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: CatKillerI expect those videos to end with "Windows on this device kinda sucks."

why ?

For one, because if you install Windows, and then install Steam's "new big picture == same interface as the Deck" on it, every time you start the device you'll still be booting into Windows and only then using your controller stuff (which Windows is not intended for) to start Steam. It'd be a pain.
Keeping SteamOS on, you boot and your games are right there.

There is already an option to start up Steam when you log in and also to start Steam in big picture mode (obviously will be changed to whatever the new mode is called). So all the user has to do is set those two settings the first time and then they are good to go after that.

Also, it has a touch screen and two touchpads so navigating a UI shouldn't be difficult.

You can also replace the Windows desktop itself with the Steam interface (basically what those Windows Steam machines did back then).

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: dubigrasuThere was the Steam Machine assembled and delivered by Valve themselves (the one I personally like to call the "real" Steam Machine, I'd love to have one of those)

I can't remember that at all, do you have a link for me?

I could only find this one for now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYAe7RdK1Q8&ab_channel=OolenGamingOmniverse [External Link]

It was a big deal at the time, Valve sent them in a custom wooden box with all kind of goodies.
Don't know if this unboxing has everything, I'll search for more later.
Edit:
Other ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvzlztBLqpU&ab_channel=BrandonBeans [External Link]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xvNmEWztA&ab_channel=SaharaDrac [External Link]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhgQsI6bUWU&ab_channel=EvanMcLaughlin [External Link]

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