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Steam Deck got another Beta update focused on Steam Input and FlickStick
28 Sep 2022 at 3:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: grigiWhat is FlickStick?
It's a control scheme where the right stick, instead of controlling both pitch and yaw, just controls yaw. The 360° of the stick represent the 360° of rotation for the player character, so one can either rotate the stick to turn the character or just push the stick to, say, six o'clock to snap to facing that direction. You would typically combine it with gyro controls to give you pitch control and fine aiming control.
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you for explaining it. A way of trying to make thumbsticks compete with the response times of a mouse.

AMD announces FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1 upgrade
8 Sep 2022 at 3:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

Look at the lines under the rake

Devs are discovering the Steam Deck is good for making games too
13 Jul 2022 at 4:50 pm UTC Likes: 3

I think you missed his point. You have what you have, especially as a kid. And you don't really care about sales as its mostly a learning/showing-off thing at that stage.

Devs are discovering the Steam Deck is good for making games too
13 Jul 2022 at 2:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

I started coding on an NEC V20. It had way more power than I could utilize for years. Glorious 10MHz 640KB pc with a 10MB MFM drive that made bloopy noises as it operated.
Nostalgia is a great thing.

The notebook I gave my kids is... a decade old. It "works" though. A Deck would pretty much quadruple processing power over it though :whistle:

Slimbook ready up their AMD Ryzen 5700U powered KDE Slimbook 4 laptop
7 Jul 2022 at 6:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

My current notebook is nearly perfect for except for one really, really big issue:
It doesn't suspend/resume reliably. Not even under windows. And MSI never released a single firmware update for it. EVER.

If this one had the new 6700U instead (mostly faster GPU) I would really consider getting it. But the 5700U's gpu performance is too much of a downgrade for me. (Coming from a 4800H CPU + 5600M dGPU)

Denuvo announced Denuvo SecureDLC to protect DLC
4 Jul 2022 at 7:26 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThey say their customers are "ecstatic with the results". Either they're exaggerating a tiny wee bit, or we have adult game developers jumping around with glee and going "OH! Oh yeah! So goood!!!" over some scheme to encumber the hats they sell with DRM.
Sadly many games designed for mobiles adopt predatory strategies, and they really don't care if the game makes you happy.
It's better if it drives your anxiety up and you spend money on some fake relief over and over again.

I'm sure those devs would be ecstatic about DRM.

SteamOS 3.2 Beta brings a new Steam Deck Fan Curve, experimental Refresh Rate Switching
28 Apr 2022 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 2

Apparently there is a fix by applying a little pressure on the fan in the deck, to minimise the rattle: https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/news-fix-fan-whine-on-deck-with-electrical-tape/ [External Link]

Valve marks the first month of the Steam Deck
11 Apr 2022 at 6:43 am UTC

I tried to watch the video and failed.
That notification jingle is way louder than the voice and it's triggering me :sad:

I wish that people would consider that some people can't deal with flashing, some can't deal with repetitive large volume dynamics, some are colour-blind, etc...

Four nerds talk about Steam Deck, Valve, Linux and more
11 Mar 2022 at 12:06 pm UTC

Many of the optimizations are specific to AMD ACO vulkan implementation.