Just wanted to say good on ya Liam for offering to help out like this for free. I hope this proves really helpful for devs. :smile:

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Up to 27% for me, with just Ultimate Chicken Horse and Supporting* Surviving Mars unsupported. I'm hoping UCH gets supported soon, since literally one of the first things that popped into my head upon hearing the Steam Deck announcement was taking it around to friends' houses with a few controllers to play a few rounds on the TV as a party game. It runs natively (and fine) on Linux and already handles controllers, so I'm not sure what the hold up might be, but at least the devs have continued to support it quite well so I hope it'll be fixed soon.

*Genuine Freudian slip!

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Far more people having been buying the most expensive model, more than they expected. So they will continue to look at the high-end. The 512GB model has significantly outsold the base 64GB model.

Very interesting, for all the talk I saw in articles about how "you can buy the 64 GB model and upgrade the SSD yourself" it seems not a lot of people feel like doing that.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat worked. Unfortunately, although it worked, it didn't work. That is, I found the enable-y thing, and it let me download the demo and busily also downloaded Proton and tried to use it and . . . I'm not totally clear from the popups whether it was the demo or Proton itself that didn't happen, but yeah. Demo did not happen. Oh well. Thanks though--clearly in theory you gave me exactly the correct advice.

No worries. You said it was IXION you wanted to try, right? You might try forcing it to use Proton Experimental (if you didn't set that when you enabled its use for everything)—IXION itself didn't require it for me, but there were a few demos I downloaded that didn't run until I forced them to use it. And hey, at least you've got it next time you feel like trying a Windows-only demo. :smile:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI was just thinking about the way some of the reviewers were complaining about not being able to try Windows on it yet because there's no driver for the APU and I suddenly realized hey, yeah . . . this is probably the first time there's been a graphics card that had a Linux driver before it had a Windows driver. Gave me a bit of a snicker, to be honest.

Pretty canny move from Valve, to be honest—"Yup, it's just a PC, so you can install whatever OS* you want on it! Oh, but the Windows drivers aren't available at launch so it'll be a sub-par experience, sorry…" :whistle:

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad for the openness that lets people install other OSes on it, but Valve's not under any compulsion to treat all OSes as equal when it comes to allocating their efforts. And I must admit to just a smidgen of schadenfreude at the thought of Windows being the second-class citizen for once.:happy:

*How long until someone puts macOS on it out of curiosity, I wonder? Or BSD?

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For those of you who have a date of sometime after Q2, Valve said to expect more news on that "soon".

"After Q2" gang represent! :grin: Ah, well, nothing to do but compose my soul in patience. At least it sounds like we'll get a more stable product with more of the bugs ironed out. Swings and roundabouts, I suppose…

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOften in a 4X game, my favourite part is the "Expand" part. I don't want it nobbled. You're already limited by Influence, too.

I hear yah, that's one of my favorite parts too, right after "Explore". Just think of it this way: by slowing down the expansion phase for everyone, you get to enjoy more of it before the galaxy fills up and it's down to the relatively less-interesting politicking. :grin:

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I really liked seeing those photos of all the variations they considered before settling on this form. I remember seeing similar photos for the Steam Controller, and that's what had me convinced that the Steam Deck was going to be just fine ergonomics-wise. Valve's not afraid to think completely outside the box and do things differently than "that's how game controllers have always been shaped", so whatever they came up with was likely to be pretty optimal given the constraints (like of being, well, hand-held). And reviews generally seem to bear that out.

Quoting: TiZExcellent writeup, Liam. I picked up a 1TB microSD in preparation for this, formatted it BTRFS, and moved most of my library over to it. I still have 200GB free on it thanks to transparent compression; the whole thing is zstd:3 and I saved 160GB!! Do you know if Deck will support BTRFS on microSDs?

In one of the several reviews I read today it said it needed to be formatted as ext4, but I don't have a link on hand, sorry.

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Quoting: CyrilAny chance to see it coming on GOG or itch.io?

No idea, but if you're not already aware it's always been completely free [External Link] and always will be.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySay, I decided to try one of these (Ixion) and when I clicked to download the demo it wouldn't on the grounds that it's Windows only. I presume there's a way to tell it that's OK I'll try it with Proton, but I've never actually tried to do it before. Can any kind soul tell me what I should be doing?

I used to have that problem, and then someone here explained how to fix it; I think you go into Settings, then Steam Play, then under Advanced tick the "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" check box, possibly? Maybe tick "Enable Steam Play for supported titles" above it, too, just to be safe. If that doesn't work then I've forgotten. :whistle:

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