Steam Deck

I get the odd feeling like this as well tbh but I'm trying to stop myself and give them the time to sort these kind of things out. Freesync not working over HDMI on Linux was a big shock to me (I thought the 'Free' in the name meant it would be tailor made for open source tbh!), was thinking should I just stick Windows on it and treat like a PC even if I lost some optimisation in handheld. But nah, I'm happy hanging on.

I wanna see this succeed, so I'm gonna try and do my bit and not be as demanding as I might be with another company/product. It's a very tricky thing they're trying to do as well, the amount of use cases there are. Have to remind myself the odd time. We kind of want it to be as optimised as possible when in handheld and then stick it on a monitor/Tv and suddenly it transforms into a console etc. There's nothing like this as far as I can see, great stuff.

So yeah hopefully it works out, and often I'm just completely happy playing away on it. As long as they keep diligently improving it and there's an audience for it who knows...could all be gaming the same independent of whatever OS we're using. Brilliant.

GOG Galaxy has been added to Epic. If you log into Epic and add it to your library.

Then open Heroic launcher and install it as a non steam game.

Then you can boot gog galaxy from steam as it's own stand alone launcher.

Still messing about with it and installing Witcher 3 so will see if the game launch okay.

Picked up vampire survivors. My goodness it's like gaming crack. I can see why it's doing well on the Deck. Fits it perfectly.

I think you need lutris for origin. Heroic seems to be just Epic and gog.

Which is a bit odd as EA games use origin to launch from steam and that works okay.

Anyone manage to source a decently priced power bank that charges while you play, not being able to ship from Amazon is a disaster

I found this one but not sure if it will do the job https://www.gomibo.ie/accessory-detail/aukey-usb-c-powerbank-power-delivery-30-26800mah-black

That one looks good, how would you get it delivered here?

No they won't even deliver it up North anymore

Just completed my second game on the Deck, Nier Automata(previous was Spiderman), great game, route B was a bit of a slog and there were about 2 absolutely infuriating bits that I dropped down to easy for and back to normal.

Now to pick another from the backlog :), I did preorder Spiderman Miles Moralas(however its spelt) with 3 credit on EGS, will have to see how that runs when it's released.

MM is going to run practically identical to the first Spider-man game, from a tech standpoint they are essentially the same game.

As predicted it was a bit of a disaster, mainly that the controls weren't working at all. Took me ages to figure this out.

For any non steam games where the controller is not working:

1. Make sure the game is added to steam via non steam games

2. Load Big Picture mode in the desktop

3. FInd your shortcut, go into controller options and Force Off steam input

Tada!!!, fecking controls finally work.

I trawled for several hours for this fix, would be good if we had a Steam Deck forum so things like this could be stickied in a FAQ or whatever.

:-)