Carzy Zarx’s PC Gaming Emporium - Catch Up on All the Latest PC Gaming Related News

[Bofferbrauer2]

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

So I bought the Xbox Ally X

I was gonna wait for Panther Lake but with the way things are going, the prices might be nuts by the time it comes out and bestbuy was selling this at a discount. So I managed to buy it for $800 USD. It was an open box but it looks brand new and came with everything. The main reason I got this over the others is because it seems to mix everything just well enough compared to some of the others. Like the Lenovo Legion Go 2 has an OLED screen but it's extremely heavy. MSI Claw has the worst software of the bunch and Intels drivers from what I have seen is still not quite there yet, especially for old games which is the primary reason I got this handheld.

So far this thing has been great. It's better than I thought it would be and yea, there's certainly a level of windows jank when installing certain games and yes you do have to spend a few hours initially updating and configuring. But after that, it's pretty smooth sailing. I changed my power settings from sleep to hibernate and that changes the experience a lot. During sleep, it did occasionally spin up the fans for no reason while in hibernate, it really does feel like the Steam Decks suspend and resume function and even works in game. And Windows Desktop I'd say is superior to SteamOS desktop as things like the keyboard has a lot of context awareness. For example when I was signing into rockstar social club and needed to enter verification code, the keyboard automatically had the numpad enabled.

The gaming experience has been far better than any other handheld devices that I have owned thus far. The battery lasts a long time, the speakers is insanely good, the VRR display helps greatly with harder to run games and it's super comfy. Even though the screen is 1080p, I'd consider it more of a 720p handheld if you really want that 60FPS+ at high to max settings with ps4 era games. Emulation experience has also been great with many detecting it as an xbox controller instead of having to remap manually. 

So overall, I am happy with my purchase. I was pretty disappointed with the Switch 2 as the battery life was horrid and the screen could have been better. So this feels like the perfect handheld but granted much more expensive.

Conina said:

Last week I bought a (barely) used Meta Quest 3 with Elite strap and a clip-on battery pack.
My prescription lens clip-ins arrived this Saturday.

Very nice VR headset with awesome pancake lenses and great PCVR compatibility.
It is very light and comfortable (better than my HP Reverb G2 and MUCH better than my PSVR2) and the passthrough quality is way better than the black&white PSVR2 passthrough.

My old Oculus Rift account still existed, so I finally have access to the Rift exclusive PCVR titles again, f.e. Lone Echo 1 + 2 and Stormland.
Some of these Rift games are crossbuy with the Quest store, so I can play them standalone without PC, f.e. Star Wars: Vader Immortal.

I had planned to wait for the Steam Frame, but the last reports hinted that Valve's new headset will be further delayed and expensive.

The sidequest store has a very cool Virtual Boy emulator, where you can change the base color of the stereoscopic games to any other RGB color of your choice and zoom in or out for a better field of view. So I saved 80 bucks for the new Virtual Boy hardware plus a "Nintendo Online Expansion Pack" subscription for a much better experience of these niche games.

I feel lousy now with my new UHD Blu-ray 4K player that arrived today...

Edit: This one here, but for about 35€ cheaper.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - 3 days ago