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What kind of SSD do I need for my device for expanded storage, is there a specific type?
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A 2230 drive (size) and NVME Gen 3 or Gen 4.
The OLED only supports Gen 3 speeds so a Gen 4 is pretty pointless but will work.
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SD has arrived and I can tell I'm going to love it. 
Any recommendations for a Micro SD card, 1TB minimum? Ta
Any recommendations for a Micro SD card, 1TB minimum? Ta
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Decent 1TB SD cards seem really expensive at the moment. Decent as in good brand (Samsung, sandisk etc) and speed (A2)SD has arrived and I can tell I'm going to love it.
Any recommendations for a Micro SD card, 1TB minimum? Ta
Right now, 1tb 2230 SSD are cheaper. 2TB 2230 ssd is not a lot more than a good 1tb SD card.
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Wouldn't I forfeit the warranty by installing a 2230 SSD? Also, an A2 rated 1TB micro SD is £74.
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No. And it is fairly easy to do if you can use a small screwdriver.
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Thinking of getting the SD for Christmas. However I owned a switch and only games 99% of the time docked, so it's kind of putting a little bit of doubt in my mind. But to be able to play my steam games in bed/couch/toilet! Is appealing. Probably would be the 512GB Oled, how easy is this thing to upgrade? Storage wise. Thanks.
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Have you read the last few posts?
Sitting on the fence about picking a deck up. New job is looking like it's more travel and I am working through my pile of shame on steam at present so having my pc in some format on a 10+ hour each flight seems a sensible plan.
Means I don't steal the kids switch for a week either lol
Means I don't steal the kids switch for a week either lol
If I did that much travelling I would treat myself, it's a mental health issue
See this is why I post here!
SOLD!
Anyone set up a Family group with their pals (OCUKers do have pals, don’t they?) or even your actual genuine family? Tried it out today and it’s a no brainer for sharing games. Not sure if you can play the same game at the same time for co-op play for example, but so far so good.
I bought an OLED off Members market about a month ago purely for work travel.
Best thing I've bought! Out the country for 11 days due to work for Dec, be a joy to have it with me.
10 hour plus flights? You'll need a battery pack, so do I in truth, anyone got any recommendations?
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I bought an OLED off Members market about a month ago purely for work travel.
Best thing I've bought! Out the country for 11 days due to work for Dec, be a joy to have it with me.
10 hour plus flights? You'll need a battery pack, so do I in truth, anyone got any recommendations?
Bought an Anker 24000mAH, expensive, but can't fault it.
I bought a cheaper power bank earlier, which became faulty later on.
You get what you pay for, etc.
Currently on sale for £33 less than what I paid for it!
Ok so about a few months later: I stil llike my Deck OLED.
I am a bit annoyed by the tiny (512gb) storage as most games these days are rediculously large, even with 1gbps internet it's a pain to delete and download stuff... SD card performance is not great either/slow (I've moved all <5gb and some <10gb games to SD now, copy action takes a while), so I guess I'll keep my eyes open for a 2tb SSD deal and probably bite the bullet and upgrade it to 2tb... 'm used to having over 30TB on my pc of which 5 TB is SSD space...
The battery life in AAA titles is a bit rubbish, I'm getting 2 ish hrs out of Baldurs gate 3, I've limited refresh rate to 50hz, but I need the max brightness for playing outside/in my yard (not to mention that I like the peak HDR brightness in darker env's as well).
I do notice I am poorer with the controls on it than with a Dualsense and on a larger screen, e.g. racing games, GTA, etc, Sometimes a larger screen and better controller pays off.
I finally noticed what the wifi problem is, it favors stronger signal over newer tech/actual throughput, I still this this is a mistake of the software/drivers, it would default to my Wifi 5 AP rather than one of the 2 wifi 6 AP's (all same SSID and pw), disabled the wifi 5 AP and my overall Wifi performance has improved drastically on the deck.
wifi
Overall for games I'm quite happy, only the loads and loads of (shader) updates are annoying if you dont have decent wifi or inet, it also doesn't prioritise small updates over larger ones, or steam cloud sync over updates. I guess I'm impatient but still, it should handle limited bandwidth much better imho.
I personally love replaying older games like GTA SA, GTA 4 on it, Flatou Ultimate Carnage, Dead Space, etc...
Roguelikes like Hades, Vamp survivors and Dead Cells are great on it. But even Pharaoh+ cleopatra (old Sierra game) is very nice on it.
I don't like the game, but Elden Ring was pretty nice on the deck.
I've yet to seriously play a long game of Civ 6 on it, but I'll be on a 4hr flight pretty soon, so will try it out then.
One odd issue with Bioshock (the first one), it responds to user imput skipping the intro, but in the main menu it doesn't respond to any input, no buttons, no touchpads, no touchscreen, nothing, I can only press the steam button and close it, odd, looked forward to replaying that on the Deck and Oled.
I am a bit annoyed by the tiny (512gb) storage as most games these days are rediculously large, even with 1gbps internet it's a pain to delete and download stuff... SD card performance is not great either/slow (I've moved all <5gb and some <10gb games to SD now, copy action takes a while), so I guess I'll keep my eyes open for a 2tb SSD deal and probably bite the bullet and upgrade it to 2tb... 'm used to having over 30TB on my pc of which 5 TB is SSD space...
The battery life in AAA titles is a bit rubbish, I'm getting 2 ish hrs out of Baldurs gate 3, I've limited refresh rate to 50hz, but I need the max brightness for playing outside/in my yard (not to mention that I like the peak HDR brightness in darker env's as well).
I do notice I am poorer with the controls on it than with a Dualsense and on a larger screen, e.g. racing games, GTA, etc, Sometimes a larger screen and better controller pays off.
I finally noticed what the wifi problem is, it favors stronger signal over newer tech/actual throughput, I still this this is a mistake of the software/drivers, it would default to my Wifi 5 AP rather than one of the 2 wifi 6 AP's (all same SSID and pw), disabled the wifi 5 AP and my overall Wifi performance has improved drastically on the deck.
wifi
Overall for games I'm quite happy, only the loads and loads of (shader) updates are annoying if you dont have decent wifi or inet, it also doesn't prioritise small updates over larger ones, or steam cloud sync over updates. I guess I'm impatient but still, it should handle limited bandwidth much better imho.
I personally love replaying older games like GTA SA, GTA 4 on it, Flatou Ultimate Carnage, Dead Space, etc...
Roguelikes like Hades, Vamp survivors and Dead Cells are great on it. But even Pharaoh+ cleopatra (old Sierra game) is very nice on it.
I don't like the game, but Elden Ring was pretty nice on the deck.
I've yet to seriously play a long game of Civ 6 on it, but I'll be on a 4hr flight pretty soon, so will try it out then
.One odd issue with Bioshock (the first one), it responds to user imput skipping the intro, but in the main menu it doesn't respond to any input, no buttons, no touchpads, no touchscreen, nothing, I can only press the steam button and close it, odd, looked forward to replaying that on the Deck and Oled.
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Has anyone tried using a KVM with the Steam deck. Im trying to sort my mess of a home office out and decided I need a 3 PC KVM, home PC, work laptop and Steam Deck. I have a horrible feeling that it probably isn't going to work as most KVM's require USB inputs to work.
I know I can get a dock for it, but Im trying to save on space
I know I can get a dock for it, but Im trying to save on space
With my son, have had it for ages now. He gets the benefit way more than I do from his teenage boy choice of games!
I think the new rule is you can play all games at the same time unlike before, just not the same game if only 1 of you owns it.
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