Valve announces the SteamDeck

kakarott · 11 Sep 2021 at 22:03

Cromulent said:
I haven't read the whole thread so sorry if this has come up already but is anyone else hyped about the possibility to run emulators on the Steam Deck as well as your Steam library?

Yes

purplesky · 12 Sep 2021 at 14:18

It's not going to be until around 8 months away until the Steam Deck is able to run most games properly. Actually, the majority of games can already run, but it's not exactly an out-of-box situation.
Valve are mainly working on SteamOS 3.0, proton, and configuration files that will allow everyone to simply install a game and play it. Anyone who has played around with gaming on Linux will know that it often takes a little bit more effort to get things running smoothly. And for people wanting to play games that aren't on Steam, you are going to have to learn a bit about wine, prefixes, and be prepared to experiment with different configs.

Nate75 · 12 Sep 2021 at 14:35

purplesky said:
It's not going to be until around 8 months away until the Steam Deck is able to run most games properly. Actually, the majority of games can already run, but it's not exactly an out-of-box situation.
Valve are mainly working on SteamOS 3.0, proton, and configuration files that will allow everyone to simply install a game and play it. Anyone who has played around with gaming on Linux will know that it often takes a little bit more effort to get things running smoothly. And for people wanting to play games that aren't on Steam, you are going to have to learn a bit about wine, prefixes, and be prepared to experiment with different configs.

Or could just put Windows on it and run Steam from there?

Or am I missing the point?

purplesky · 12 Sep 2021 at 15:01

Nate75 said:
Or could just put Windows on it and run Steam from there?

Or am I missing the point?

SteamOS 3.0 will allow the device to sleep in-game. Valve are not able to do this with Windows and have been working with AMD to ensure this functionality under Linux. Valve are wanting a gaming device that is very user-friendly without having to worry about the nuisance that is Microsoft. Valve will have full control over their own OS and will easily be able to deploy updates and functionality that will integrate into all Steam Decks.

Nate75 · 12 Sep 2021 at 15:42

purplesky said:
SteamOS 3.0 will allow the device to sleep in-game. Valve are not able to do this with Windows and have been working with AMD to ensure this functionality under Linux. Valve are wanting a gaming device that is very user-friendly without having to worry about the nuisance that is Microsoft. Valve will have full control over their own OS and will easily be able to deploy updates and functionality that will integrate into all Steam Decks.

Interesting

kakarott · 22 Sep 2021 at 11:07

Booting into windows from SD card

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/...rmed/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

jonneymendoza · 22 Sep 2021 at 11:56

kakarott said:
Booting into windows from SD card

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/...rmed/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Nothing new.

You could boot from a pi 4 with windows 10/11 via micro sd card.

TNA · 22 Sep 2021 at 12:29

jonneymendoza said:
Nothing new.

You could boot from a pi 4 with windows 10/11 via micro sd card.

Yeah, I was thinking, so what's so special about that then?

gadget73 · 22 Sep 2021 at 13:25

there are some people who want it its not innovative but who said it was ? its just something that hadn't been 100% confirmed yet the above post says it should be ok to do so

will it be any good though with the speed of SD cards ? who knows

jonneymendoza · 22 Sep 2021 at 17:14

gadget73 said:
there are some people who want it its not innovative but who said it was ? its just something that hadn't been 100% confirmed yet the above post says it should be ok to do so

will it be any good though with the speed of SD cards ? who knows

whats not 100% confirmed?

that it can run something from a sd card? bro come on now lol.

They even said you can install windows or whatever OS u like on it

gadget73 · 22 Sep 2021 at 18:27

jonneymendoza said:
whats not 100% confirmed?

that it can run something from a sd card? bro come on now lol.

They even said you can install windows or whatever OS u like on it

a company saying you can do that is not the same as it can be done and someone actually doing it

no one said its a big deaL its just its first time someones actually said yes i've done it

jonneymendoza · 22 Sep 2021 at 18:46

gadget73 said:
a company saying you can do that is not the same as it can be done and someone actually doing it

no one said its a big deaL its just its first time someones actually said yes i've done it

What next, "hey im the first to load up BF 2042 on it...."

Its not a big deal or news worthy at all IMO.

gadget73 · 22 Sep 2021 at 19:20

jonneymendoza said:
What next, "hey im the first to load up BF 2042 on it...."

Its not a big deal or news worthy at all IMO.

the steam deck hasn't even launched yet and this is a thread about the steam deck so you seem suprised to find were talking about it lol maybe this isn't the right thread for you

Its not a big deal as i said above and to answer your question if someone said they had played BF 2042 on it that would be interesting as both are perhaps months away from launch

just because you don't find it interesting doesn't mean everyone does theres plenty of other threads to comment on.

TNA · 22 Sep 2021 at 20:58

gadget73 said:
the steam deck hasn't even launched yet and this is a thread about the steam deck so you seem suprised to find were talking about it lol maybe this isn't the right thread for you

Its not a big deal as i said above and to answer your question if someone said they had played BF 2042 on it that would be interesting as both are perhaps months away from launch

just because you don't find it interesting doesn't mean everyone does theres plenty of other threads to comment on.

Thing is, don't we already know that this is not a closed platform like the Switch and that it is essentially a PC? As we will be able to run Windows on it etc it is not much of a surprise we will be able to boot it from an sd card. That's my take anyway.

gadget73 · 23 Sep 2021 at 07:47

TNA said:
Thing is, don't we already know that this is not a closed platform like the Switch and that it is essentially a PC? As we will be able to run Windows on it etc it is not much of a surprise we will be able to boot it from an sd card. That's my take anyway.

i'm not saying its a surprise as i said above its no big deal

but from yours and other comments we should only post links that surprise you

anyways i've said my piece i just hope people continue to post news about the steam deck were probably about 10 weeks to go till launch if its early december so lots more info should be released shortly both surprising and not so surprising

TNA · 23 Sep 2021 at 10:03

gadget73 said:
i'm not saying its a surprise as i said above its no big deal

but from yours and other comments we should only post links that surprise you

anyways i've said my piece i just hope people continue to post news about the steam deck were probably about 10 weeks to go till launch if its early december so lots more info should be released shortly both surprising and not so surprising

People can do what they want. No one is stopping them. But when it is something somewhat obvious then we should not act surprised when someone replies back stating so

kakarott · 2 Oct 2021 at 10:51

We're in October but still have a long way to go

jonneymendoza · 2 Oct 2021 at 12:38

TNA said:
People can do what they want. No one is stopping them. But when it is something somewhat obvious then we should not act surprised when someone replies back stating so

Exactly.

kakarott · 6 Oct 2021 at 20:02

SSD looks easy to replace boys :cool:

TNA · 6 Oct 2021 at 20:21

kakarott said:
SSD looks easy to replace boys

Nice. Though I am hoping I won't need to and can just use sdhc cards as I only intend to play old games on it anyway which won't benefit much or at all from faster speed.

I keep seeing 200gb ones going for like £20 these days. May grab one of those or just use the 128gb one that is idle in my switch.