Steam Deck

Started resident evil 2 remake last night. Got on steam sale. Never played it before. Wow what a great looking game on deck. Plays very well. I’d say 60fps is achievable easily but dropped to 40 to avoid tinkering too much when slowdown happens in busy sections. Lighting and rain/water effects are gorgeous on the small screen.

6-9 days I think.

Same here, but I do play the PS5 and Xbox remotely on the deck much more than native PC games as it gives much better battery life.

It took exactly 10 days for me (to Dublin); it was shipped 5 days after ordering and arrived a further 5 days later.

Bought a dock for my steam deck yesterday an it seems to work quite well. Seems more reliable than my windows laptop hooked up to a tv anyways. Its nice that you can have completely different profiles for external controllers.

Yeah I had put a couple of hundred in to lessen the final amount. Works fine

Just finished Leon’s story on re2 on deck. Absolutely class game. Runs like a dream in the deck. It says unsupported on 3 in steam but apparently it plays fine. Highly recommend 2 for anyone that hasn’t played it and thinking of playing on deck

I can confirm that RE3 played fine for me on Deck - replayed both 2 and 3 last year, and had zero issues with either of them without having to change any settings

Playing uncharted now at 30fps at mostly high settings. Dosent run nearly as well as re2 did though it’s still perfectly fine. Have to reduce settings pretty significantly to lock to 40 and even at 30 you get big drops in some cut scenes. It’s already reminding me why I never finished it on ps4. There’s so much fluff it just takes forever to get going. Good looking game and all but not the best entrance in the series.

Playstation Plus streaming is now working on the deck without needing the windows install. It's a small bit more tricky than others but very manageable and once in a game it plays great.

Awesome guide, thanks for sharing

For anyone interested I've been dual booting my steamdeck for a while now. Windows works well on it for gaming too. Handy for those games that just won't play well on Linux.

EmuDeck should handle the artwork for the Roms. but I found adding them just blew up my non-steam games library. So I just have EmuDeck and then boot into that and then the games.

I also make Steam Collections - I'll have one that has Chrome reworked to be directed to Netflix, Prime, Disney, Spotify etc etc.

I'll have one for the launchers - Epic, Origin, EA App, Heroic, GOG, Ubisoft etc etc.

And one for Games so I can drop the 5-10 games I regularly play.

You can use this website to grab the artwork. All the images are the correct size, just open it in chrome/firefox and download them on the Deck. https://www.steamgriddb.com/

You will need 5 for each game.

• Hero - This is the big banner background when you click into a game.
• Logo - This is the area where it shows the name of the game when you click into it. (just above the gree play button)
• Icon - is the tiny image used in the side panel.

You need two box arts for the library as it can show two different ways.

• Vertical - This is used to show games you played in the past, but not the most recent.
• Horizontal - This is used when it is showing the last game you played.

If I could thank a post twice I would 🤣.

That's a very handy plug in. Will save me hours !!

This works really well alright, one thing to watch out for is there is no space between the comma and 640 in this line as it looks on that guide: “…--window-size=1024, 640….” It should be “…--window-size=1024,640…”; with the space xcloud launches to a white screen.

(Interesting to see when I copied and pasted it here it didn’t have a comma…so it’s some sort of visual formatting issue on the site.)

I've put in an order for one of these deck mates.

It's a simple enough clip but comes with lots of attachments like a kick stand, monitor mount, wall mount, and two pucks (these can be stuck to anything, for example a battery pack) so you can clip them on and off.

Also has a smaller attachment that you can stick to the deck if you have a cover and the clip doesn't fit.

Ships from the US so is about €80 by the time taxes and post are in.

If you have access to a 3D printer they give away the blueprints for free so you can print your own.