Quoting: PixelDropStill seems like it has a ways to go. Trying to move my PolyMC setups over to Prism has just an endless mess of errors for everything except my rarely used Vanilla instance and my super lightly modded hardcore instance.

Everything with a lot of mods is a nightmare of errors thus far. Which is confusing because it's the same version of Minecraft, same mod launcher version, same mod versions, and same java version.

Tried something kind of stupid and it fixed all my issues.

I took my PolyMC folder and copied everything in it.
Pasted it all in the Prism folder, chooshing not to override anything eg skip all conflicts which was 90% of the files, and now everything works with no errors.

So I'm guessing the current prism release is missing an important dependency file, seeing as nothing was overridden but clearly there was something Poly had in the folder that Prism needed to work properly but didn't come with.

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Still seems like it has a ways to go. Trying to move my PolyMC setups over to Prism has just an endless mess of errors for everything except my rarely used Vanilla instance and my super lightly modded hardcore instance.

Everything with a lot of mods is a nightmare of errors thus far. Which is confusing because it's the same version of Minecraft, same mod launcher version, same mod versions, and same java version.

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My #1 wish is for them to fix parental controls, so I can use my steam deck for the reason I bought it.

As of right now if you turn on family view and add a pin there are two major issues:

#1 Kids have to enter the pin to play any non-steam game.
Eg: If you have Minecraft installed they have to ask you to put in your pin every time they want to play it.

#2 All non-steam games are visible. There isn't a way to control their visibility in family view. If you have a non-steam game installed it will always be visible even with family view enabled.

Which overall means if you plan on sharing your steamdeck with kids, like I do, then are faced with some major issues unless your steam account is 100% kid friendly out of the gate and you don't need family view, and you don't plan to install any non-steam games that are not 100% kid friendly.

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I like the idea of supporting GOG, but they pretty much never have the best prices, often they are quite a bit higher. Skyrim Anniversary's best price to date is $16.98 and goes on sale directly on steam for $20. So paying $5~8 more for the option of DRAM free feels... almost dirty because it's basically telling me if I'm not going to be "using" the DRAM free aspect then I'm wasting money.

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Since I formatted my SD card in btrfs I just grabbed the windows drivers for it and just swap out my SD card when I want to transfer things.

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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.

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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.

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Quoting: EikeMy trouble with VGA is neither resolution nor frequency, but that it's analogue. I left analogue graphics transmission and display for computer signals 20 years ago for good.

You know one of the weirdest things to me is that a lot [not all but a lot] of TVs that have VGA ports if you connect computers to them they will render better than the HDMI ports. I've never had that be the case on an actual monitor, at best you couldn't actually see a difference, but 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.

Now one place I do use VGA for a PC monitor that digital doesn't work for well is a really long run monitor because DVI/HDMI/DP all have issues when you try to run them too far, even with boosters, but VGA you can run 100+feet with little to no issues and no extra equipment.

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Quoting: PixelDropFor me the big ones were VGA + 3mm + Ethernet + at least 2 USB and of course a high enough pass through power rating to keep the deck charged while docked.

For what use case are you still using VGA? Old projector?

I and the people I know still have a lot of VGA monitors and TVs. I don't like polluting the world unnecessarily either, so until things stop working to the point I can't fix them or I actually have a truly good reason to move on I'll keep using them too.

Though VGA isn't even dead. A lot of even newer 1080p TVs and screens still have theme. Which there's quite a lot of people who don't like above 60hz or care about over 1080p, and generally most things that are 1080p and 60hz come with VGA ports. It's funny to really think about how fast 1080p took over as the common standard, once it became widely available and how long it's taken 2k~4k combined to even make up 16~% on steam despite being easily and affordably obtainable for over a decade. When you look at the steam hardware survey this month 1080 lost -1.36%, but it wasn't 2k~4k gaining that lost % [in fact they all lost too except 2560 x 1600 which went up only 0.01%] it was all sub-1080, and yet there's never been a cheaper time in history to pick up a 2k~4k over 60hz screen price wise.

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Quoting: GuestPixelDrop what brand USB-C dock you buy? i still trying decide what one choose...

This is the dock I decided to go with https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TVSLDND?psc=1 [External Link]

since it had all the feature I wanted and I found a couple people online saying everything worked great on the steam deck.

For me the big ones were VGA + 3mm + Ethernet + at least 2 USB and of course a high enough pass through power rating to keep the deck charged while docked. It also has HDMI and and SD + micro SD card support which could be nice for future proofing/data transfer in case I ever need them.

There's a couple other options out there that trade the VGA + 3mm for an extra USB port if they aren't of use to you. Though watch out for the ones with only USB 2.0 ports... unless you're sure your only going to use USB for Mouse/keyboard and not storage/video..etc

I want one USB port for a wireless mouse keyboard combo and the other for an external SSD so USB 3.0 was quite important to me.

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