Many are happy with the LCD still and don’t see a mid-generation (performance gain was negligible) screen-swap worth a few hundred additional dollars, but I’m very happy you do, and glad you are enjoying it!

Whatever happiness I experience while using my deck comes from the games themselves and being able to play them away from the desk, and next to my wife.

Black Desert regularly goes that cheap, I think they get most of their money off cosmetics/semi f2p.

Just wait for Christmas sale.

Just want to say as a fellow underappreciated dev; You rock and I appreciate the amount of effort you make, for free, with the simple purpose of improving your own gameplay and then sharing with us to do the same.

I am happy to see the benchmarks you provide alongside and have even in the early days validated some (Horizon Zero Dawn) having a significant impact (on my LCD Deck) on long term stutter and allowing me to enjoy the title entirely on deck. There’s literally nothing stopping people from playing stock, recording mango data, and then trying the tool themselves to compare.

Please ignore the detractors and keep it up.

Out of all the sorry excuses I’ve heard to upgrade to an OLED… This one isn’t that bad.

It does gets more performance when plugged in, but at that point I dunno why that’s really considered on a mobile gaming system

Nothing wrong with wanting what you want.

Its just a very specific use case (local in-home streaming), and arguably better options for said use case.

Agreed - more competition the better for us.

Highly recommended as well - awesome game, played it start to finish, all DLC entirely on deck at 40+ fps.

Sony and EA with their weak discounts. Lots of PC gamers aren’t going to bite for 10% off on a 95$ game when we routinely get 60-90%.

Wish I could help in regards to its performance, but I streamed it on gamepass cloud.

It at least *plays* very well with the controller/default setup.

I strongly considering buying Dave this sale - Pixel games are a bit harder for me to justify at 20% off only but the reviews are great.

A steam-link for Playstation getting 8/10 when its essentially a phone with controllers attached? Fair enough on steamdeck getting a 7 on first launch.

I have to assume when I see this sort of thing that they are not technical at all, or money has exchanged hands.

Step 1: Buy Deck

Step 2: Steal your bf’s phone when hes not looking, if he got steam guard on, just point the camera at the login screen, you can log in as him.

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit

If you want to play any normal AAA game (excluding indie pixel software rendered things - but sometimes even those), the difference in power consumption is not even a challenging comparison - a desktop CPU alone pulls more wattage than the deck under maximum load (2-4x deck), before we even get into GPU power usage (usually 10x the max usage of the deck). If you are looking to save on that power bill - a mobile system that has to worry about batteries will always save energy that a desktop won’t.

OLED is a slightly nicer screen, again some might value it higher - I don’t at ~$120 for darker blacks. This is subjective - it may be worth the increase to some - now they have the option.

25% increased battery life - very nice - I would love this, but the benefit would only shine on very long flights and longer between finding outlets - if I’m going to be untethered, I’ll play games that give 4h+ already, that 4h becomes 5h.

Processor is a minor perf difference according to the info out there so far. Doesn’t change anything in regards to playing next gen games.

Additional SSD sizes…

All in all, LCD deck is an amazing piece of machinery already, that has some options for you to pay more for some additional goodies that neither make or break it. This doesn’t invalidate the standard deck in any way.

I won’t begin to understand how people don’t do a check for their valuables when leaving a plane. I guess if people *did* the lost and found dept would be out of business.

Regardless of even a rush to catch the next flight (start the check before landing then), I’ll check for my:

1. Passport + Boarding passes
2. Wallet
3. Phone
4. Steamdeck

before I even consider standing up.

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn’t understand that “Gaming mode” and “SteamOS” are the same thing.

When you wiped out the steamos partition, you cannot use the feature of SteamOS which is “gaming mode”.

If you want to use something *similar*: When you boot into windows, you can launch steam in big picture mode. Most of the features including fps caps, decky, etc will not be available, as they are tied to gaming mode, thus SteamOS.

I’m confused by some people who got the deck, they clearly prefer to fellatio Nintendo and praise far less generally capable systems.

Is the deck perfect? No way, but offline mode has been with steam for like a decade or more - its not news.

When get ready to fly, I check that my bags are packed, my phone is charged and that my entertainment works. If I get to boarding and see my phone is at 25% I don’t blame Samsung/Apple/Android for my lack of prep work.

Remember you flight checklist:

1. Run any steam updates, restart
2. Ensure you have installed all the games you want to play.
3. RUN those games at least once! This means getting through logins/drm.
4. Go to wireless settings and turn on “offline” mode. Then turn on airplane mode.
5. Test games again.
6. Suspend.

This may seem like a lot, but avoids any nasty surprises when you are 30k feet up. Entire process should take like 10m.

I played through control ultimate entirely on deck, can confirm that it runs beautifully with ProtonGE (which has video codecs Valve proton doesn’t) - cut scenes and all.