Desktop mode is the best:

The Deck makes a great comic reader for those gigantic DC omnibuses - loading them on a phone is awful with the lag but on the Deck the experience’s totally smooth. Bonus for the bigger screen in combination with the auto panel zoom.

Used it loads during our holiday to quickly sort and edit photos.

It’s Protondb entry should help: https://www.protondb.com/app/1222680

Valve does need to look at this and then explain - in way more detail - what’s causing the behaviour people are experiencing. Simply saying “none of this is related and we can’t replicate the bug” isn’t going to convince anyone.

However, having gone through the Steam threads too many people are saying for example “BOTW now runs badly now”, and that doesn’t help Valve engineers. Emulators - especially Yuzu and Ryujinx - are in a constant state of flux and numbers pulled from those are going to be side-eyed by the engineers.

People need to start posting more videos of MULTIPLE of their STEAM games running well on 3.4 and then running badly on the current 3.5 build with the overlay open. Valve needs to be shown data from a source they can 100% replicate.

OP, did you try and see if it’s just a stuck pixel? Once they’re unstuck, they’ll be fine and you won’t have to RMA.

You can of course return it - and Valve has offered RMAs or fixing for stuck pixels for users that didn’t want to unstuck them - but the screen isn’t damaged.

• The older Bethesda games

• Deus Ex Human Revolution

• Digimon Cyber Sleuth

• The Witcher 3

• Trails in the Sky series

• The Atelier Ryza games

• Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

• Fable Anniversary Edition

• Phantasy Star 4

• Outer Worlds

Deck’s great for turn-based RPGs, so you’ve got loads of great games to use from over decades. Way too many to name.

It works - installed on my Deck and I just started it up. You just need to switch to the newest version of Proton GE 8.x.

I’m going to jump between the following depending on the cricket, AEW and my levels of depression induced by the former:

• Deponia

• Tales of Arise

• Persona Tactica

• Darkside Detective

If you exclude emulating really old systems, then you’re looking for games which are pretty “static” in nature:

- Loads of point 'n clicks will easily net you 6 - 7 hours of battery: The Blackwell series, Broken Sword 1+2, Beneath a Steel Sky, Monkey Island, Unavowed, Gabriel Knight 1…

- Loads of turn-based RPGs are 5 - 7 hours - the older YS games, the first Trails in the Sky, the older Atelier games, Phantasy Star 4…

- Strategy games can be anywhere between 4 - 7 depending on settings - the Shadowrun series, The Battle of Polytopia, Gamedec, the older Civs and Xcom games…

- Puzzle games easy 5 - 7 - Hexoloxic, Murder by Numbers, klocki, Evan’s Remains, The Room series…

- And a never-ending list of visual novels covering multiple genres and themes…

Interesting…I might try and get one but…the whole pre-order insanity is about to start up again. My nerves nearly didn’t make it the last time.

So, time to dust off the Order Bot and get it ready for primetime.

Honestly, your bigger issue will be with how often EA screws up the launcher. That’s a never ending cycle.

Check ProtonDB for latest issues.