Steam Deck

Many thanks for the offer but I'm OK at the moment, I was mainly being triggered about the general problem Anpost represents where so many things have and are dependent on batteries and this lot seem to be protecting Irish physical retailers at the expense of the populace.

How can you be disappointed that it doesn't do something it was never meant to do.

It's just a bonus that anything outside of the Deck verified Steam games run.

I haven't used my Steam deck since I got it way back on pre Order. I originally got it to use on the TV with controllers, didn't like the lag and feel of it. Then recently tried to play it as a handheld, bought Vampire survivor, and lost track of time 😐️

Why is it so hard to buy stuff on steam store. Is it PayPal or nothing on there.

Played almost all of Dead Space 2 on a plane with no hassle, and this was back in when it was only out a month. It might give you a few random errors but you should be fine to play whatever you want.

I see all the options but it kept hanging when I went to finalise purchase on a visa and a Mastercard. Got it done with PayPal after. Steam deck on the way. Can’t wait.

I've started looking at doing the same. There are some benefits and negatives from using Windows. As you mention it opens it up to other things (I'm looking at Playstation plus cloud streaming) but I do hear performance takes a hit.

Will go the SD card install route as it allows you to swap back and forth.

In the process of doing it now. It just takes time to write windows to the SD card but other than that it's going okay (famous last words). Will update once installed.

That’s a nice little guide. I’ll be using that. Am I right in assuming the software you download while in windows will automatically download to you windows sd card then without you needing to specify it. Let me know how games run when you get a chance. Cheers for that.

That seems to be the case. The C Drive is the SD Card. I have a 500 GB card and that is what shows as the size on the C:.

Installing EA app, Epic launcher, Steam, Playstation plus, Xbox games pass for PC now. All just simple exe installs.

Will see about the performance, Vampire survivors works fine :)

I did have to grab a driver for the steam deck controls for non steam games but that was handy too.

Performance is wonky. It's certainly not optimized for windows. If you are doing something like installing a game just don't do anything else. It's not cut out for that, likely due to read/write bottleneck on the SD.

Installed EA App and Need for speed Unbound. That's just out today I think and a reasonably high spec'd title.

First boot took ages. I'm assuming it's due to reading from the SD Card (it's an A1).

To the point I thought it was stuck. I'd say it was on a black screen for 5 mins (part of that was a windows permission pop up that I didn't see as it was behinfld the game) and then an install screen for a good 10mins.

But once it did get to the menu in game the rest was good. I stuck it on borderless window mode, auto graphics settings and 60fps and it ran like a charm in game.

Looks really nice and I can't really fault it. Loads into maps and races quickly enough.

So not as optimized as steam OS for playing out of the box. But certainly worth doing as it opens up many more options without the messing with loaders and compatibility layers.

Anyone not use the back paddle buttons or is it just me? Dunno what update they did for the battery life but I am getting four hours out of divinity 2 now and before I was only getting 2, I am on the beta stable channel.