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Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by ekianjo »

SteveNuts wrote: post #28
cloverich wrote: post #20

Though I've long since given up on my gaming days, I purchased a Steam deck last month, mostly out of impulse. I'm frankly astonished at the amount of playable games, and also the amount of quality indie games out there. I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog. Its been more enjoyable (and surprisingly comfortable) than I expected too. I'm definitely in the very casual crowd at this point, gaming…

I mostly play managemen/city builder style games like Cities Skylines or Factorio. Have you tried any of those types of games and if so what's been your experience?

the trackpads work well with these kind of games. As long as you don't expect to act in urgency - typically building / management games work very well with this device.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by IggleSniggle »

SteveNuts wrote: post #28
cloverich wrote: post #20

Though I've long since given up on my gaming days, I purchased a Steam deck last month, mostly out of impulse. I'm frankly astonished at the amount of playable games, and also the amount of quality indie games out there. I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog. Its been more enjoyable (and surprisingly comfortable) than I expected too. I'm definitely in the very casual crowd at this point, gaming…

I mostly play managemen/city builder style games like Cities Skylines or Factorio. Have you tried any of those types of games and if so what's been your experience?

I play a ton of these on Deck. Very satisfied with it. I am also a pause - command - unpause kind of player though. But the trackpads work better than you'd expect, and often have community layouts for the controller than add things that make it even nicer than playing with mouse and keyboard (the rotary menus for city overlays are awesome)

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by bravetraveler »

lom wrote: post #2

Why has the ratio of verified dropped?

1. Hardware requirements increase with time while the platform being verified against remains the same. They may run... just not well due to hardware limitations

2. Varies depending on how many games implement incompatible things like certain anti-cheats. Admittedly, this may only account for a small amount. They come/go in waves -- eg: looter/shooter trend

3. Steam Deck verified is a more strict qualification than Linux in general; tiny screen/resolution, gamepads, etc.

4. Finally, inconsistency between the rate-of-verification and rate-of-addition - these are not locked

Probably more, these are what immediately come to mind

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by [deleted] »

SteveNuts wrote: post #28
cloverich wrote: post #20

Though I've long since given up on my gaming days, I purchased a Steam deck last month, mostly out of impulse. I'm frankly astonished at the amount of playable games, and also the amount of quality indie games out there. I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog. Its been more enjoyable (and surprisingly comfortable) than I expected too. I'm definitely in the very casual crowd at this point, gaming…

I mostly play managemen/city builder style games like Cities Skylines or Factorio. Have you tried any of those types of games and if so what's been your experience?

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Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by Ygg2 »

ekianjo wrote: post #32
esjeon wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... but is this the year of linux desktop...?

nobody cares about the year of the Linux desktop anymore. Linux is already everywhere.

Linux is only on servers/routers.

And locked in Android's attic, in a padded cell.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by LegitShady »

barney54 wrote: post #9

For people that own a Steam Deck, how do you like it? And how do you use it? I would like to talk myself into buying one, but I can’t think of a decent use case.

Do you want to game away from your computer? That's the use case. Think of it like a big Sega game gear that runs steam and plays most steam games. You could do other things with it but it's literally purpose built to run steam, it's form factor is set up for gaming, and it's big and chunky not throw it in a bag and forget it sized.

It doesn't replace a gaming desktop or even an ipad. It's a mobile gaming console that plays steam games for the most part.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by easyThrowaway »

The only lingering issue I've found while playing on the steam deck is that a lot of DX8-9 games are somewhat missing a few shaders and lighting effects, I guess due to the way wine approximates them. Usually the dgvoodoo2 dll wrapper is good enough to restore them.

It's quite hard to find a game that doesn't work at all, the most common cause usually being an external launcher trying to mess with the system in ways that wine doesn't agree with.

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