Do yourself a favour and get a dock or USB Type-C Ethernet Dongle if you download a lot. That said, follow this guide and if the speeds improve.

If you only play a few times a week, then get an LCD. The prices are cheaper than ever.

What is the advantage of this over Heroic Games Launcher?

This has happened to me for various Epic Games titles. I bought Sonic Origins (which has Denuvo) and played it on WiFi, then if I turn off the WiFi it refuses to launch. I turn on the “Play Offline” setting in Epic Games, connect to WiFi again and the game refuses to launch. No matter what I do, the game is essentially locked to “always online” for some reason,

What makes this infinitely worse is, I played this for 5 months hassle free offline and suddeny out of this restriction has been set upon me. This pissed me so much, I just bought it on Steam where I only need to go online once every few weeks and then I can play it fine without wifi. I hate double-dipping, but I need to be able to play on the go.

Hedhehog Manager is probably the worst thing to get running on the Steam Deck. This guide worked for me last year, but stopped working around June for me (Steam updates only, no other changes). I’ve tried SteamTinkerLauncher, Protontricks/Winetricks, Lutris, Bottles. Currently it is borked.

I suggest manually installing mods if possible, which should work without issue. Though codes and other “hacks” that require different dlls loaded probably won’t work. You can use https://github.com/primetime00/memory_hack as a cheat engine to change values in memory though to get stuff like infinite rings in frontiers. If you play Sonic Origins, the music mods work via simply dragging and dropping the files, but for the other mods you will need to manually decompile the rsdkv5, drag the mod changes into it and recompile. This sounds complicated but much faster/easier/reliable than installing HHM on Steam Deck.

Did you ever install Decky Loader?

Pure performance ? Ally.

Better handheld experience? Steam Deck.

Trackpads make mouse-driven games much more managable. That said, the controls for some games will never be better than kb+m. I hook up my deck to my dock, bluetooth keyboard and wired mouse for some games.

RMA it. It doesn’t sound normal to me.

Halo Master Chief Collection runs really well and was designed for a controller. If you want to play something classic, Duke Nukem 3D runs really well and the anniversary edition has rewind+auto aim which makes playing on the Steam Deck much more tolerable.

It has worked since pre-release days. I played it on an SD card for 55 hours, no issues. I swapped my internal storage for an SSD and get better load times now.

Works fine on mine out of the box. I have 512GB OLED and 64GB LCD, no issues. Have you tried changing Proton versions?

OLED panels really vary between manufacturers.

Burn-in will happen with OLED, but may take a long time. It really depends on the quality of the panels. We know that Valve has sourced two different kinds of OLED panels, so the quality may vary and comparisons to the Switch are not valid unless we know both panels come from the same manufacturer.

I have 6 OLED devices and a laptops bought last year have very minor burn-in, with my old TV and phone showing more. My Switch has no burn-in. I keep everything as dark as possible, use true blacks when possible. If you are downloading a lot, try to do it on a wired connection.

I am pretty sure Valve is working on VR for the Steam Deck 2, I’d just hold off until then.

Sonic Origins

Yes, offline play is fine. Keep in mind that Denuvo games need you to go online once every few weeks for activation. If you play anything on Epic Games Launcher (or Heroic Games Launcher), I’d recommend launching a game once every few weeks to stop Epic Games from signing out.

2-4 fps improvement with battery life. ROG Ally will still outperform the Steam Deck OLED.

Steam Deck’s battery still isn’t great, but OLED should bring some improvements. I would say even with the improvements, you will still get low battery life if you are playing any AAA titles.

If I were you and wanted to save money, I’d just get a quality portable battery bank and just wait for Steam Deck 2.

That said, the trackpads on the Steam Deck are pretty great, I use them all the time and couldn’t imagine using the ROG Ally.

Awesome, what other online games work at the moment? I’d like to play before Nintendo shuts down the servers for good.