*** The Official Steam Deck Thread ***

[TNA]

Picked up a few myself. Can recommende Death Must Die if you liked Vampire Survivors. Still early access with loads to come, but has been a blast for few quid I paid for it.

 

[Dyson]

Picked up a few myself. Can recommende Death Must Die if you liked Vampire Survivors. Still early access with loads to come, but has been a blast for few quid I paid for it.

Thanks, will take a look

Been playing Far Cry 3 the last few days, might grab 6 in the sale. Mass Effect Legendary is also looking like an essential buy.

 

[Spleen Sauce]

Hadn’t realised quite how well PS3 games emulate on the deck now. All the old games I’ve got on the shelf I’m certain look better on the deck than they ever did on the George Foreman PS3 that’s now in the attic.

 

[Bluecube]

The Deck is an emulation powerhouse. EmuDeck makes it very easy to play just about any game on any platform upto PS3 and equivalent

 

[jonneymendoza]

The Deck is an emulation powerhouse. EmuDeck makes it very easy to play just about any game on any platform upto PS3 and equivalent

And switch

 

[Bluecube]

And switch

“and equivalent”

 

[teaston]

Merry Christmas, ya bunch of deckheads!

 

[shroomz]

I've somehow been under a rock since these came out, I only heard about the first concept they dropped and missed the commercial release. Have been doing a bit of reading the last couple of days but what's the general concensus, are they decent? I'm looking for some way to get back into replaying some old games like DA:O or bits on tabletop simulator.

 

[teaston]

I've somehow been under a rock since these came out, I only heard about the first concept they dropped and missed the commercial release. Have been doing a bit of reading the last couple of days but what's the general concensus, are they decent? I'm looking for some way to get back into replaying some old games like DA:O or bits on tabletop simulator.

Just do it, they’re great!

 

[carrot1401]

I've somehow been under a rock since these came out, I only heard about the first concept they dropped and missed the commercial release. Have been doing a bit of reading the last couple of days but what's the general concensus, are they decent? I'm looking for some way to get back into replaying some old games like DA:O or bits on tabletop simulator.

For me it’s not just about the emulation, but how easy it is to pick up and play in segments. I find for me it’s also important to pick games that you can do this, like hot wheels or Tony hawks. The list of games it can’t play (usually due to online anti-cheat) is quite small, although a few recent games (boulders gate and returnal come to mind) do struggle to run.

I recently installed Maniaplanet to finally complete the single player campaign of Trackmania 2 Lagoon/Valley/Stadium/the other one

EDIT: As someone that went from the OG 522gb to the OLED 512gb (yeah I know longer have an anti glare screen)….get the OLED. So many little improvements as well as the few obvious ones make the step up highly worth it!

 

[degen]

Well I updated to 3.5.7 on my son's Christmas present... Seems to be a mistake. Thing won't stop crashing now. Tried changing the VRAM to 4GB, resetting GPU cache and putting it into travel mode. Will try reimaging later tonight but pretty annoying having to RMA his main present.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Other than that really impressed with the battery life etc

 

[shroomz]

Just do it, they’re great!

Go on then, you've both twisted my arm

 

[Noxia]

Guess who got one for Christmas after returning the one I bought lol.
I do actually wonder if having not paid for it myself will mean I can appreciate it more/make use of it.

 

[DanF]

it's so handy to pick up an do a 30 minute run in games like halls of torment. Was trying out monster hunter rise over xmas and it looks and runs so well, think I prefer it in game design to monster hunter world

 

[Dyson]

Thinking about dabbing with Emudeck. It's out best to have it all set up on its own SD card?

 

[Raiden85]

Thinking about dabbing with Emudeck. It's out best to have it all set up on its own SD card?

I’ve installed it all to my SD card so at least if there’s any issues it’s all safe on external storage.

 

[Bluecube]

Ditto. I was a bit dubious about installing it on an SD card but most ROMs aren’t particularly large and it’s not as if the SD card gets hammered with use

 

[iamtheoneneo]

Thinking about dabbing with Emudeck. It's out best to have it all set up on its own SD card?

Honestly doesn't really matter w/e is easiest bearing in mind that if you want steam games on the sd card that it needs to be the correct format and then that makes transferring to sd from Windows not a simple process.

As with most things emulation your going to spend more time setting stuff up than probably playing the games

 

[Bluecube]

As with most things emulation your going to spend more time setting stuff up than probably playing the games

Can’t agree with that at all. EmuDeck is very easy to set up. Last time I looked it was simple script that’s run once and sets everything up for you. Then it’s just a matter of copying across the ROMs. It’s not a complicated or time consuming process

 

[Raiden85]

EmuDeck is far easier to setup than getting other companies launchers working