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Will you buy one?

Yes, I'm excited to get one. 20 33.90%
 
No, I don't think so. 23 38.98%
 
Maybe, I need to see how ... 16 27.12%
 
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farlaff on 25 April 2022
Conina said:

Nice plugin to get control over the number of threads and CPU clock speed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/ua88tw/ngnius_has_made_a_plugin_for_manage_the_cpu/

How well does that work?



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farlaff on 04 May 2022

https://gamerant.com/steam-deck-influence-increase-linux-gaming/



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 08 May 2022

The new fan profile is insane!

The refresh rate adjustment is also interesting.



                  

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Chazore on 08 May 2022
Captain_Yuri said:

The new fan profile is insane!

The refresh rate adjustment is also interesting.

Kinda wish you didn't sell that Deck you had, since Alex's settings + new fan curve made that annoying sound practically vanish. 



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 08 May 2022
Chazore said:
Captain_Yuri said:

The new fan profile is insane!

The refresh rate adjustment is also interesting.

Kinda wish you didn't sell that Deck you had, since Alex's settings + new fan curve made that annoying sound practically vanish. 

Yea I didn't think they would be able to fix it using software since the fan noise is a hardware problem. But apparently they had enough thermal headroom where you can play Crysis at 30fps and have the system be silent. Of course, I didn't want to bet on there being a fix in the future because as the rule of tech goes, you gotta judge the device as it is when you get it and not hope that a solution in the future will fix the problems. There have been too many burns in the industry for that.

But this is very good news for next time as Valve is building a reputation of listening to their customers and delivering insane amount of software updates and fixes in a very short amount of time. A trait that console manufacturers should learn.



                  

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farlaff on 09 May 2022

From our very own @trunkswd:

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/453564/steam-deck-tops-the-steam-charts-new-warhammer-40k-enters-the-charts/



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Conina on 10 May 2022

I just tried Alien: Isolation in ultra settings on the Steam Deck.
11 - 12 watts with 60 fps/60 Hz, 10 - 11 watts with 50 fps/50 Hz, 9 - 10 watts with 40 fps/40 Hz... so much headroom for problematic areas.

I'd love to see a comparison to the Switch version (portable and docked mode), PS4 and Xbox One versions (all locked to 30 fps) and the iOS and Android ports on the current smartphone flagships. And the PS3 + Xbox360 versions for the lulz.



Conina on 21 May 2022
Conina said:

Update of the compatibility results so far... broken down by SteamDB rating:

42.4% of the "Top 1000" are now "verified / playable", 22.3% of the "Top 1000" are "verified".

Over 3000 Steam gamees are now categorized as "verified" or "playable":

Time for an update of the compatibility results broken down by SteamDB rating:

46.5% of the 1157 "90+ games" are now "playable+", 32.3% of the 3699 "85+ games" are "playable+":

770 of my own Steam games are now tagged as "playable+":



farlaff on 23 May 2022
Conina said:
Conina said:

Update of the compatibility results so far... broken down by SteamDB rating:

42.4% of the "Top 1000" are now "verified / playable", 22.3% of the "Top 1000" are "verified".

Over 3000 Steam gamees are now categorized as "verified" or "playable":

Time for an update of the compatibility results broken down by SteamDB rating:

46.5% of the 1157 "90+ games" are now "playable+", 32.3% of the 3699 "85+ games" are "playable+":

770 of my own Steam games are now tagged as "playable+":

My goodness, how big is your library? surprised



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farlaff on 23 May 2022
Conina said:

I just tried Alien: Isolation in ultra settings on the Steam Deck.
11 - 12 watts with 60 fps/60 Hz, 10 - 11 watts with 50 fps/50 Hz, 9 - 10 watts with 40 fps/40 Hz... so much headroom for problematic areas.

I'd love to see a comparison to the Switch version (portable and docked mode), PS4 and Xbox One versions (all locked to 30 fps) and the iOS and Android ports on the current smartphone flagships. And the PS3 + Xbox360 versions for the lulz.

That would be a nice one. I heard the Switch version has some lighting implementations that PS4/One were not able to handle.



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