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Yrkoon · 21 Oct 2023 at 01:09

question : if im playinhg a game on pc sometimes and other times on deck is my progress saved on both systems with the steam cloud stuff?

also second question : are there good cases that i can put on it so it doesnt break when im using it and drop it lol

also does it have a anchor point to attach a wrist strap too like my psp and vita do?

mountaincow · 21 Oct 2023 at 01:25

Yrkoon said:
question : if im playinhg a game on pc sometimes and other times on deck is my progress saved on both systems with the steam cloud stuff?

also second question : are there good cases that i can put on it so it doesnt break when im using it and drop it lol

also does it have a anchor point to attach a wrist strap too like my psp and vita do?

Cloud saves work, but when swapping to pc you need to remember to exit the game on the deck so that steam syncs the saves.

Yrkoon · 21 Oct 2023 at 02:32

Jazzerman said:
Cloud saves work, but when swapping to pc you need to remember to exit the game on the deck so that steam syncs the saves.

woot cheers

mountaincow · 21 Oct 2023 at 10:06

Yrkoon said:
woot cheers

By that I mean it's easy to put the deck to sleep and forget to close the game. Also, not all games support cloud saves in steam, but I've not really come across any and don't switch much so I can't say how often you would have that issue.

mountaincow · 24 Oct 2023 at 22:14

Anyone playing elden ring on the deck? I'm getting a lot of crashes.

Minstadave · 24 Oct 2023 at 23:05

Jazzerman said:
Anyone playing elden ring on the deck? I'm getting a lot of crashes.

It crashed constantly on my first deck (as did other games) returned it as faulty. Replacement is absolutely rock solid, must have done 10 hours this week without issue.

What happens when it crashes?

mountaincow · 25 Oct 2023 at 09:04

Minstadave said:
It crashed constantly on my first deck (as did other games) returned it as faulty. Replacement is absolutely rock solid, must have done 10 hours this week without issue.

What happens when it crashes?

Complete reboot. First it freezes, screen then usually flashes off and on then finally reboot to verify installation screen.

Minstadave · 25 Oct 2023 at 09:38

Jazzerman said:
Complete reboot. First it freezes, screen then usually flashes off and on then finally reboot to verify installation screen.

Sounds like the same GPU reset bug I had. Not crashing in any other title?

mountaincow · 25 Oct 2023 at 17:22

Minstadave said:
Sounds like the same GPU reset bug I had. Not crashing in any other title?

I don't think so... I've not played much else recently. A bit of botw and that wasn't causing any issues.

mountaincow · 25 Oct 2023 at 17:25

I've been rather lazy recently and treated it more like a console! If it were on pc I'd have looked at the proton logs. Maybe this weekend I'll do that.
@Minstadave how did you come to the conclusion and decide it was worth RMA?

Minstadave · 25 Oct 2023 at 18:07

Jazzerman said:
I've been rather lazy recently and treated it more like a console! If it were on pc I'd have looked at the proton logs. Maybe this weekend I'll do that.
@Minstadave how did you come to the conclusion and decide it was worth RMA?

Crashed constantly in every game, not just ER. Even light titles like Dave the Diver were unstable.

mountaincow · 25 Oct 2023 at 20:03

Minstadave said:
Crashed constantly in every game, not just ER. Even light titles like Dave the Diver were unstable.

I'll give some other titles a go and see.

mountaincow · 26 Oct 2023 at 22:57

I think it's just elden ring being unstable. Played an hour of GTA 5 with no issues.

Guest2 · 27 Oct 2023 at 15:24

Maybe an easy question that might be hard to answer...

Is it possible to apply the fit screen aspect ration thats available in the open beta preview OS but on the current stable branch?
In Performance then scaling there was a options to fit to screen or stretch or something that was really useful for cutting off the black borders and fitting 4:3 content to screen.

Yrkoon · 27 Oct 2023 at 21:40

yay got my 256 gig deck yesterday, only 6 days to arrive.

really impressed with it, its a quality piece of kit and got heroic on it as well now for epic games

is emudeck the go to one for emulators?

Bluecube · 27 Oct 2023 at 21:54

Yrkoon said:
is emudeck the go to one for emulators?

In short, yes. It’s a one stop shop and it works very well indeed.

Yrkoon · 27 Oct 2023 at 21:55

Bluecube said:
In short, yes. It’s a one stop shop and it works very well indeed.

awesome sounds good

Guest2 · 28 Oct 2023 at 11:23

For anyone who had an Amiga, AmigaVision (MegaAGS) is a must.

AmigaVision

The ultimate Amiga games & demo scene setup for MiSTer & Pocket FPGAs, emulators, and real hardware. Open source, community driven. Formerly known as MegaAGS.

amiga.vision

Simply grab the MegaAGS.hdf and MegaAGS-Saves.hdf files.
Add MegaAGS-Saves.hdf as DH0 and MegaAGS.hdf as DH1 in latest WinUAE hard drives then boot it up.
I personally set an A1200 config, set to A1200 speed with filter on automatic scaling and scanline opacity on 30.

The frontend is much better than manually setting up Workbench with RTG and iGame as I did.
It runs really well set to A1200 (14Mhz) This means no changing settings from fastest CPU which breaks many games but then is still fast enough for the frontend. Designed for FPGA and real hardware but runs incredibly well on the Steam Deck too.

Edit - Make sure to NOT enable 24 bit addressing on the CPU and FPU settings. This will remove Z3 fast RAM which is required for the Workbench config to run WHDLoad.

Guest2 · 31 Oct 2023 at 19:40

Marble Madness on Amiga using mouse control and the trackpad on the Steam Deck is fantastic.
Works really well and way easier to play than the arcade version or using the thumb stick.

Bluecube · 31 Oct 2023 at 20:12

That looks fantastic. I’ll be giving it a whirl myself once I find some spare time. I really want to play Project X and Alien Breed again

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