Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Specs Make Me Optimistic For Steam Deck Playability - Steam Deck HQ
Seems like there’s hope.
Personally I’m hoping to see some better sales on the first Spider-Man game once 2 comes out. Right now the lowest I think it goes is about $30, but judging from God of War sales after Ragnarok released, I think that will come down to $15-20 after Spiderman 2 comes out.
The (fps) rich get richer while the (fps) poor are left behind, the true tragedy of our times.
The plugin isn’t available on the plugin store yet, and has to be downloaded manually from the github.
Also general reminder that framegen isn’t recommended to be used under 60fps according to AMD. It will work, but you can get really bad input lag. It’ll depend on your own tolerance for input lag and the type of game for whether this will be a viable option for you.
I had some issues with Decky recorder, but that was it personally.
The OLED deck in general just gets so much better battery life than the LCD. Getting 2.5 hours instead of 1.5 hours on a demanding game is a huge increase.
Those increases are only for running games through wine. If you’re running your windows games through proton (which is the default for the deck) you’ll see a minimal performance increase, if any. It should improve compatibility for games though.
I actually fully agree with the article on all of those points. I generally stopped buying switch games after I got the deck, titles like TotK sit barely played on my switch because I couldn’t pull myself away from the Deck for long enough to play it.
Part of it is size, the switch is really uncomfortable in my hands, but the biggest reason is I share the switch with my kids, where the deck is exclusively my device.
As for the sleep resume feature, it’s literally the biggest reason I play on a switch/deck over my desktop PC. Having my own dedicated game system that offers the option to instantly stop or start a game session is the killer feature that has let me play games again. The switch stopped being a viable option for that once I had to share it with my kids, because I would put a game to sleep, and they would close it to launch their own game.
Tim only complains about monopolies when they hurt his bottom line. If he actually cared about monopolies he wouldn’t be so hostile to Linux users.
Probably not for epic/gog games, but this offers a lot more platforms than heroic does. So you might want to use heroic (or junk store) for epic/gog, and use this for other platforms.
That’s actually the first point in the article.
The fight part is debatable, but I thought the recommendations for future devices were all good ideas, and covers a lot of the shortcomings of many handheld PCs.
VR has to render the game twice to give you depth perception, which is a big part of the increased resource requirements.
This isn’t trying to do that, it’s only displaying the game once. The effect of the glasses is supposed to be like having a TV a few feet in front of you.
A very compact, portable steam machine.
Similar form factor, but no network or remote PC required.
It won’t be on Linux. Many games that support Linux use a less invasive version of their anti-cheat for Linux.
Unfortunately that is sometimes used as an excuse for not supporting Linux or dropping Linux support.
If you buy a refurbished one on sale it’s pretty cheap, I double you can make a comparable powerful device that compact for that price.
To be fair, most phones don’t have easily replaceable batteries anymore either. I remember in an interview that one of the steam deck leads said they really wanted an easier to replace battery, but it was a compromise they ended up making. I think they blamed it partially on inexperience with hardware production, and that they hoped to do better on future hardware.
My most played game was Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, followed by Metaphor ReFantizio, both excellent games, as well as being new releases that run well on Deck.
Some lesser played games I would really recommend:
It has all the advantages of steamOS, can boot straight into game mode, supports Decky plugins, etc.
However it also supports installing traditional Linux programs permanently (which steam OS generally won’t let you do), and has other benefits too.
Oh that’s nice. I’ve used a script for nested desktop for years now, but I completely missed that they added an official app for launching it.