Luckily, not everyone is buying AAA games on release day and waiting for discounts instead. That’s the rule I usually follow for the AAA games I buy because that’s been the trend for some time now, where it goes full price and then, it’ll get cheaper months later.

I still own a PS5 and Steam Deck and don’t see any reason not to have both since not every AAA game on Steam Deck runs great because there are compromises in performance or graphics while at the same time, the PS5 would run those same games better. Also, you could remote play from the PS5 to Steam Deck if you wanted to, which makes it nice to have both.

One advantage of owning a Steam Deck is that you get access to games that the Switch doesn’t have, along with the fact that it’s more of a PC, where you can add emulators, third party launchers and Windows on it if you want. Also, you can stream your games over from another PC, PS5 or Xbox using the many programs that are available on the Steam Deck while the Switch doesn’t even do this at all.

Another advantage of the Steam Deck is that you can find a lot of cheap and good games on sale almost weekly from Steam and other legit keyshops. On the Switch, you have to pay the full price for indie games and ports of games like Batman Arkham Trilogy that play and look terrible while on Steam, you can get those same games for way less than that while having it play and look great as a bonus. Overall, it’s more versatile than a Switch without dealing with some of the nonsense that Nintendo is known to do with their games and online practices.

Of course, if you like playing first party Nintendo games, then you should stick with the Switch since the emulators are a hit or miss when it comes to emulating Switch first party games on the Steam Deck.

Now, for which model to choose from, I’d say go with the OLED if you can get it but if not, the LCD should serve you well.

Try using the Steam Deck Remote Play feature first to see if you get good streaming quality and if that doesn’t work well, you can go with moonlight + sunshine combo.

I’m trying to remember how I got this game to work, but I believe you use ProtonGE and use the latest version and from there, if you get the game to boot, it’ll show you a launcher screen. On the launcher screen, you can use the touchscreen unless you have a mouse handy since it doesn’t recognize controller input.

Another thing I can’t remember is how to bypass the launcher screen on every launch but once you disable it, the game runs really good. Good luck and post back here if you still can’t get it to work.

To get the most out of FSR, you have to lower the resolution so that it can upscale it and you have to fiddle around with settings until you get it to look as close to native as possible.

Use Proton Hotfix since that’s what I used at the time I was playing the RE4 Remake DLC because it was crashing at a certain cut scene and I’m surprised it’s still happening even though it should’ve been fixed by now.

Nope! Ask Lord Gaben for the answer.

Search the thread for the same question you’re asking and that might help with your decision.

Did you install any software like emulators from the Desktop Mode? Those updates and installs of software from Desktop Mode can also affect the amount of space on the internal SSD besides the shader cache.

At this point, you might as well just go full Windows if you’re struggling to get games to run the way you want them to.

Does it work if you remove the boot videos?

Not every game runs at 60 fps unless you mod it.

The title basically. I got the RE4 remake and it runs fine for the most part, but only on the lowest settings and dips at times, especially when using scoped weapons.

I don’t believe the scope issue has been fixed on all PC and console versions of RE4 Remake and there’s not much that can be done about it until the devs fix it.

Of course, it would be nice if more developers could make Steam Deck specific settings but it doesn’t seem to be high priority compared to getting the game out and fixing bugs or making enhancements unrelated to game settings.

I’d say pick the largest size unless money is an issue, then pick the cheaper model (and no, I don’t mean the LCD version of the Steam Deck).

Well, like anything else in technology, everything will become obsolete. The best thing to do is to either buy it now or continue waiting to the point that you’ll never buy it at all.

Try playing something like Monster Hunter if you ever want monster tamer games!

As for ARPG, you could go with something like Baldur’s Gate 3 or any of the other Tales of games but I’m sure you’ll find a lot of other games that’ll interest you. Heck, a lot of the games you find on the Switch are available on Steam.

It depends on what games you like to play because if it’s anything like COD, Destiny 2 or something with native Game Pass, then either the Legion Go or ROG Ally would better suit you. However, if you’re willing to give Linux a try and aren’t playing the games I’ve mentioned, then Steam Deck is the way to go.

I prefer the Steam Deck because I’m not a fan of Windows and it’s worked great for the games I’m playing but it doesn’t mean it’s perfect by any means :)

It’s only worth it if you see some games that interest you but overall, I tend not to buy a lot from them since not every bundle is great. Sometimes, they give out good games but it all depends on what you’re into at the moment.

As long as Valve continues to operate for that long and their servers don’t go offline, I would like to imagine the Steam Deck and its variants will continue to work into the future and as a semi-retro collector, I love to continue adding more hardware like the Steam Deck to my other retro systems I own :)

I hope to not see this question asked many times over on this thread but it can’t be helped.