Excellent, have to share the addiction... The connivence is unbelievable, had over an hour of civ on the train today and the form factor of the deck just works! It's really hard to explain beyond just sitting down with it in your hands to play anything when you get a chance
*** The Official Steam Deck Thread ***
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What are you doing on your Deck that requires Windows?
Valve may not honour the warranty for some second hand decks, partly because so many are being stolen in transit.
Make sure you keep the full details of the seller just in case Valve asks for them if you have to do an RMA. They may want to check it's not stolen.
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Many games don't work on steamos due to anticheat. Windows does seem to play games at a higher fps as well due to not having to go through proton, although personally I prefer steamos.
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I've looked at a fair few games, and SteamOS generally seems to be either better or the same performance.
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Depends if they have changed the memory setting in the bios. That unlocks a huge performance boost in windows.
I'm pretty sure it's only Game Pass in there that requires windows. The others you can get working in SteamOS.
I got mine last week. I installed Windows, got the drivers on with no bother. Downloaded Halo Infinite from Game Pass, and it failed to start. Not bothered with anything else on the Windows side for now, but SteamOS is fantastic.
I've been Playing No Man's Sky this weekend - Enhanced Graphic settings, 45 refresh, and it's mostly locked. Fantastic experience. EmuDeck is stellar too. The only thing it won't run so far is MGS4 due to performance (15 fps), but everything else I've tried has been magic. Metroid Prime trilogy running on the Dolphin branch Primehacks is ridiculous. It makes a Wii game play like a twin stick shooter pretty much perfectly.
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Anyone trying the Gunbrella demo? Really cool retro styled 2d Platformer, ideal for Steam Deck.
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Will give it a go- loved Gato Roboto (and completed on the Deck)
i remember seeing this at one of the summer gamefest shows, looks really cool, ill check out the demo on the deck tonight
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Steam Dock turned up today. After work going to try plugging it into the TV downstairs, pairing an Xbox controller and seeing if remote play works nicely or not.
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Ordered late Friday, just got my tracking number. Do they ship from abroad, or will it come next day?
From Holland, mine was dispatched on the Wednesday and came the following Monday.
There were loads of tracking numbers provided, including Parcelforce etc - It was actually delivered by Hermes (Evri as they are now called)
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Ordered my 256GB version last Thursday 13th, was dispatched next day, just waiting now, hopefully this week, I got "play around with something new" syndrome.
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Just pulled mine apart to put my 1tb ssd in, downloading the image now for anyone thats done the upgrade did you remove the shield film from original ssd?