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Just finished Death Stranding. It’s mostly great but somehow crashed a fair bit halfway through the game. No issues or whatsoever in early and late to end game.

This is the second time JSAUX backplate gets recommended here. I’m definitely checking it out. Thanks for that!

Thanks for the input. What do you think of something like this?

Just as Gaben once said, piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem.

It’s not that we can’t afford it, we just don’t like getting treated as cash cows and idiots. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile, and before you know it, everything will be locked behind paywalls.

I wonder if Steam (and phone makers) would make the change a universal one so that people like me who live outside of EU can enjoy the same benefits too. Good job EU.

Congrats! If you’re someone like me who owns a decent PC but no longer enjoys sitting in front of one, definitely get yourself a dock so you can hook it up to your TV. They cost around $30 and is a great investment. Just remember to take the casing off (if you use one) if you’re planning to have your games running at anything between 1080p to 4K, and use FSR to reduce the load. I find the Deck heats up a fair bit even in winter.

Owning a Steam Deck really got me back into gaming. I carry it to work to play during breaks and hook it back up to my TV when I get home.

Got the same one too. Just a quick note for anyone looking to buy one: if you’re planning to travel with it, get the 20,000mah instead of 30,000mah one to stay under the 100Wh limit for most airlines.

Or like this: https://youtu.be/r2hLjcNxjKI?t=261

Steam Deck is the first taste I get of Linux. I’ve always had this fear of not being able to fully utilize a Linux OS due to my lack of skills in coding, but I find myself looking into it more ever since I got a Steam Deck. It may just be the right excuse I need to git gud in coding.

Edit: Thanks for the clarification and encouragement guys. I’m going to make it a mission to move to Linux ASAP since it feels like Windows has been really pushing the limits of privacy these days.

I’m not streaming from Desktop. Steam Deck supports resolution up to 4K when docked so you won’t be playing at 800p too. Not sure if you already know the following but there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding this topic so I’ll share my experience here in the hope that it’d help clear things up for someone. Below is the tinkering process that works for me:

1. Go to Steam - Settings - Display - External Display. If you have a 4K TV and want the game to run in 4K, leave Automatically Set Resolution on (because there’s no option to pick 4K in custom resolution for reasons unknown to me). If you want a lower resolution, turn off Automatically Set Resolution and pick the res you want.

2. Go to Library, click on the game then go to Settings - Properties - Game Resolution and set it to Native.

3. Start the game, set res in the game to the a res lower than what you set in system display. For example if you have a 4K TV and set res to auto in system display, you’d want to set it as 2560x1440 in game. If you set 1920x1080 in system display, set it to 720 in game. Next step will explain why.

4. Open your quick access menu (the physical 3 dots button under the right controller pad), scroll down to battery icon and go to Scaling Filter and slide it to FSR if it’s not already in this mode. What this does is that it will scale your in game res to match your system res with very little impact on your game performance.

You’ll get about 20fps at 4K, and around 30fps at QHD(2560x1440). Personally I left it at QHD and it has mostly been running very smoothly except for the occasional crashes… Just make sure you save your game regularly.

Keep on keeping on!

Been playing Death Stranding with Deck docked to TV and with a PS4 controller. Works like a charm.

The most wallet-friendly choice is getting the 64gb model and a SD card or a bigger 2230 SSD.

Thinking of getting Stray.