Steam deck experiment one with Death’s Door was a huge success and I 100%ed the game this time after drifting away from it halfway through on original purchase.
Steam deck experiment number two was Legend of Grimrock 2 and… yeah, Deck verified it may be, but some games clearly just need a mouse.
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Dr. ChaosPost nuclear nuisanceRegistered Userregular
God, I'll be glad when 3080 ti becomes affordable for the unwashed such as myself.
I like my 6600 XT but buying it used, been dealing with issues with it off and on for months.
This is so funny I can't even be mad, I've played all sorts of demanding games on my deck no problem, doom eternal, Spiderman, Elden ring to name a few and I finally found one that causes my steam deck to hit its thermal limit and throttle itself and..it's...temtem.
The other games would typically ramp up the GPU to max and not make use of the cpu I think, temtem keeps both near 100% utilization and knocks me over 90 C pretty quickly ..so this week I'm going to be following some guides to apply new thermal paste and pads ..lol?
I have similar experiences with games that are CPU heavy. With it being a 15W TDP it just doesn't seem to do super well when a game pins both CPU and GPU. Detroit Become Human was one I recently expereinced that with. Certain areas that were hitting the CPU hard and pinning it near 100% would drop the frames to 20 or so when it usually stayed close to 60 just because it had to ramp the GPU down pretty hard to give the CPU the power it needed.
Just running into the limits of physics there.
Ive seen reports that replacing the thermal paste drops temperatures by ~15C on average so I think that'll be a big improvement, enough to stop throttling completely? I don't know but should help a lot
This is so funny I can't even be mad, I've played all sorts of demanding games on my deck no problem, doom eternal, Spiderman, Elden ring to name a few and I finally found one that causes my steam deck to hit its thermal limit and throttle itself and..it's...temtem.
The other games would typically ramp up the GPU to max and not make use of the cpu I think, temtem keeps both near 100% utilization and knocks me over 90 C pretty quickly ..so this week I'm going to be following some guides to apply new thermal paste and pads ..lol?
I have similar experiences with games that are CPU heavy. With it being a 15W TDP it just doesn't seem to do super well when a game pins both CPU and GPU. Detroit Become Human was one I recently expereinced that with. Certain areas that were hitting the CPU hard and pinning it near 100% would drop the frames to 20 or so when it usually stayed close to 60 just because it had to ramp the GPU down pretty hard to give the CPU the power it needed.
Just running into the limits of physics there.
Ive seen reports that replacing the thermal paste drops temperatures by ~15C on average so I think that'll be a big improvement, enough to stop throttling completely? I don't know but should help a lot
I had a rather massive improvement (10-15 C) on my laptop that was hitting 90c and throttling simply from opening the back and blowing all the crap out of it, so I would imagine thermal paste would do a lot. I really need to do thermal paste and put a heat sink on my ssd but its such a pain in the ass to get to.
God, I'll be glad when 3080 ti becomes affordable for the unwashed such as myself.
I like my 6600 XT but buying it used, been dealing with issues with it off and on for months.
Not sure what your target for "affordable" is but they're available well below MSRP. Not sure the "ti" version is worth the premium over, say, the 12gb 3080 though?
Hello all, just got the latest humble bundle and have a couple of spare Steam Keys for
Full Throttle Remastered - Taken STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
Oldies but goodies (Full Throttle is one of my all time favourites of the classic LucasArts adventure games). If anyone would like them, feel free to PM me, first come first served.
God, I'll be glad when 3080 ti becomes affordable for the unwashed such as myself.
I like my 6600 XT but buying it used, been dealing with issues with it off and on for months.
Not sure what your target for "affordable" is but they're available well below MSRP. Not sure the "ti" version is worth the premium over, say, the 12gb 3080 though?
And I'm not sure there's a realistic use case for the 12 gig 3080. you're going to get hit by it not being able to render hard enough long before the 2 gigs of vram will matter
God, I'll be glad when 3080 ti becomes affordable for the unwashed such as myself.
I like my 6600 XT but buying it used, been dealing with issues with it off and on for months.
Not sure what your target for "affordable" is but they're available well below MSRP. Not sure the "ti" version is worth the premium over, say, the 12gb 3080 though?
And I'm not sure there's a realistic use case for the 12 gig 3080. you're going to get hit by it not being able to render hard enough long before the 2 gigs of vram will matter
Could be, but from what I can tell you can get it for basically the same price as the 10gb (and more readily available I think) ... so, might as well.
can anyone give me a hand with family share? I stared at the faq for a while on it and i'm not entirely certain what we need to do.
here's the situation. my steam account has all the VR games. My office space is not the best for the VR playing. My partner finally finished up their space and built a new PC and we are moving the VR stuff into there. Their steam account does not have the VR games.
Am I correct in my reading that what i need to do is
1: log into MY steam account physically on their computer.
2: enable family share in the settings while logged in on their computer
3: it should find their account because it's previously logged in there?
4: follow the rest of the prompts for that
5: install the games I want to share
6: and then they can log back in on their computer and I don't need to do anything special from then on (unless we're trying to play things at the same time)?
can anyone give me a hand with family share? I stared at the faq for a while on it and i'm not entirely certain what we need to do.
here's the situation. my steam account has all the VR games. My office space is not the best for the VR playing. My partner finally finished up their space and built a new PC and we are moving the VR stuff into there. Their steam account does not have the VR games.
Am I correct in my reading that what i need to do is
1: log into MY steam account physically on their computer.
2: enable family share in the settings while logged in on their computer
3: it should find their account because it's previously logged in there?
4: follow the rest of the prompts for that
5: install the games I want to share
6: and then they can log back in on their computer and I don't need to do anything special from then on (unless we're trying to play things at the same time)?
Looks good.
There may be one more step of login in to the non-vr account and requesting access to the vr library, logging back in to the vr account and then back.
Sorry for no stream tonight. The wife had a stressful day in California and needed an anti-anxiety conversation with me to stabilize. Hopefully I get back to streaming tomorrow.
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can anyone give me a hand with family share? I stared at the faq for a while on it and i'm not entirely certain what we need to do.
here's the situation. my steam account has all the VR games. My office space is not the best for the VR playing. My partner finally finished up their space and built a new PC and we are moving the VR stuff into there. Their steam account does not have the VR games.
Am I correct in my reading that what i need to do is
1: log into MY steam account physically on their computer.
2: enable family share in the settings while logged in on their computer
3: it should find their account because it's previously logged in there?
4: follow the rest of the prompts for that
5: install the games I want to share
6: and then they can log back in on their computer and I don't need to do anything special from then on (unless we're trying to play things at the same time)?
One downside is that you can't play games from the same account at the same time, even if you're playing different games. Someone booting up a game on Computer B while Computer A is playing a game from that account will knock Computer A out of their game.
can anyone give me a hand with family share? I stared at the faq for a while on it and i'm not entirely certain what we need to do.
here's the situation. my steam account has all the VR games. My office space is not the best for the VR playing. My partner finally finished up their space and built a new PC and we are moving the VR stuff into there. Their steam account does not have the VR games.
Am I correct in my reading that what i need to do is
1: log into MY steam account physically on their computer.
2: enable family share in the settings while logged in on their computer
3: it should find their account because it's previously logged in there?
4: follow the rest of the prompts for that
5: install the games I want to share
6: and then they can log back in on their computer and I don't need to do anything special from then on (unless we're trying to play things at the same time)?
One downside is that you can't play games from the same account at the same time, even if you're playing different games. Someone booting up a game on Computer B while Computer A is playing a game from that account will knock Computer A out of their game.
You can use offline mode to get around this iirc, though it has obvious caveats.
Sorry for no stream tonight. The wife had a stressful day in California and needed an anti-anxiety conversation with me to stabilize. Hopefully I get back to streaming tomorrow.
can anyone give me a hand with family share? I stared at the faq for a while on it and i'm not entirely certain what we need to do.
here's the situation. my steam account has all the VR games. My office space is not the best for the VR playing. My partner finally finished up their space and built a new PC and we are moving the VR stuff into there. Their steam account does not have the VR games.
Am I correct in my reading that what i need to do is
1: log into MY steam account physically on their computer.
2: enable family share in the settings while logged in on their computer
3: it should find their account because it's previously logged in there?
4: follow the rest of the prompts for that
5: install the games I want to share
6: and then they can log back in on their computer and I don't need to do anything special from then on (unless we're trying to play things at the same time)?
Just make sure that under Family Sharing you have both your partner's account and the other computer as allowed.
Also: not all games let you Family Share (they usually say so in the store), just so that you're aware.
I was discussing playing through Plague Tale before it left Gamepass and I was rudely assaulted by a key.
Thanks for my own copy of Plague Tale: Innocence @Spoit !
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
After reluctantly cancelling my preorder on the Sega Mini2, I decided I'd easily get more mileage out of a Steam Deck, so I shifted my focus to that instead.
(Unless of course the mini2 gets hacked, then we'll talk later.)
12 years ago I was explaining to my very African father about about how record breaking APB's shutdown was. How does this compare?
At least APB's a) had a good reason (the dev went into administration) and b) got swiftly relaunched and is still up and running to this day. But yeah, the initial APB shutdown was even quicker I think.
@Werewolf2000ad I think we have nearly identical looking Aegis characters.
I keep only snapping screenshots of her in cutscenes. Go figure. Really enjoying the game, it is a bit janky (jumping gaps does not feel good) and light weapons feel extremely strong because of their fast attack speed and high stun damage.
I hope the game has a NG+ mode, for seeing more outfits in cutscenes, in any case I'm gonna make very very sure I collect all the outfits before ending a run. Use a checklist or spoiler if I have to.
The game is maybe not quite worth it's full price for everyone, but if it is on sale for $30 or less, easy pickup. It does not have the polish of a Fromsoft title, but what it does have is a unique blend of theme and tone, the backdrop of the French Revolution and the "clockpunk" weapon/enemy design is sutubility otherworldly when set against human characters. There's just enough French sprinkled in, both in place names and exclamations by the characters that it works a little to ground the player in Paris without being too jarring nor feeling pandering. If the game had an all-French dialogue option, I'd probably try that out.
Aegis has pretty basic characterization and motivations at my stage of the game, but there's undercurrents I'm waiting to see play out. I've got some theories. Steelrising is a solid C+ to B game.
One last aside, the game does something I really like in regards to stamina and combat. In play, Aegis's backplate has a red glowing ring that appears and grows brighter as her stamina reaches 0. When it does, there's a spark and sound that plays. After a second or so, the stamina bar has a phantom bar that appears at full and rapidly decresses back to 0. Any time during this, the player can hit the Y-button and regain the amount of stamina shown on the bar. With perfect timing, they can replenish all stamina at once. The cost of this is a little buildup of frost damage, with less being accrued the better the player's timing on the button press is. The mechanic is called "Rapid-Cooling" and "Perfect Cooldown" and it works well to give a feeling of power and relentlessness. If one can do it right, you will just not stop attacking.
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Zavianuniversal peace sounds better than forever warRegistered Userregular
im so old I remember when Stardock Central had better features than Steam (particularly patch delivery)
@Werewolf2000ad I think we have nearly identical looking Aegis characters.
I keep only snapping screenshots of her in cutscenes. Go figure. Really enjoying the game, it is a bit janky (jumping gaps does not feel good) and light weapons feel extremely strong because of their fast attack speed and high stun damage.
I hope the game has a NG+ mode, for seeing more outfits in cutscenes, in any case I'm gonna make very very sure I collect all the outfits before ending a run. Use a checklist or spoiler if I have to.
The game is maybe not quite worth it's full price for everyone, but if it is on sale for $30 or less, easy pickup. It does not have the polish of a Fromsoft title, but what it does have is a unique blend of theme and tone, the backdrop of the French Revolution and the "clockpunk" weapon/enemy design is sutubility otherworldly when set against human characters. There's just enough French sprinkled in, both in place names and exclamations by the characters that it works a little to ground the player in Paris without being too jarring nor feeling pandering. If the game had an all-French dialogue option, I'd probably try that out.
Aegis has pretty basic characterization and motivations at my stage of the game, but there's undercurrents I'm waiting to see play out. I've got some theories. Steelrising is a solid C+ to B game.
One last aside, the game does something I really like in regards to stamina and combat. In play, Aegis's backplate has a red glowing ring that appears and grows brighter as her stamina reaches 0. When it does, there's a spark and sound that plays. After a second or so, the stamina bar has a phantom bar that appears at full and rapidly decresses back to 0. Any time during this, the player can hit the Y-button and regain the amount of stamina shown on the bar. With perfect timing, they can replenish all stamina at once. The cost of this is a little buildup of frost damage, with less being accrued the better the player's timing on the button press is. The mechanic is called "Rapid-Cooling" and "Perfect Cooldown" and it works well to give a feeling of power and relentlessness. If one can do it right, you will just not stop attacking.
You should play Nioh; they took the stamina recharge system from there and it works just as well for Nioh as it does for this game.
Well this fucking sucks. . .DARKTIDE got delayed?! I saw it in "upcoming games" on STEAM and was furiously refreshing OpenCritic and wondering why there were no reviews whatsoever - then clicked the actual STEAM storepage and now the wind has just been knocked out of me (though this just might be an excuse to drink).
. . .seriously though this stinks.
"Get the hell out of me" - [ex]girlfriend
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
I love the extra linux/etc development that the Steam Deck has facilitated.
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
Distrobox has been updated with support, and instructions for immutable file systems like the Steam Deck. This allows you to run linux distributions inside your terminal containerized but also fully integrating with your host system. What does this mean for the Steam Deck? It means you can install Arch/Fedora/whatever inside of your Steam Deck and use your normal package managers and repositories for programs and applications and are no longer limited to just flatpacks and/or appimages. And this will survive SteamOS updates as it'll live on your Home partition.
Basically, the Steam Deck now has access to literally nearly every linux program now.
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Steam deck experiment number two was Legend of Grimrock 2 and… yeah, Deck verified it may be, but some games clearly just need a mouse.
I like my 6600 XT but buying it used, been dealing with issues with it off and on for months.
Ive seen reports that replacing the thermal paste drops temperatures by ~15C on average so I think that'll be a big improvement, enough to stop throttling completely? I don't know but should help a lot
I had a rather massive improvement (10-15 C) on my laptop that was hitting 90c and throttling simply from opening the back and blowing all the crap out of it, so I would imagine thermal paste would do a lot. I really need to do thermal paste and put a heat sink on my ssd but its such a pain in the ass to get to.
Not sure what your target for "affordable" is but they're available well below MSRP. Not sure the "ti" version is worth the premium over, say, the 12gb 3080 though?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Full Throttle Remastered - Taken
STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
Oldies but goodies (Full Throttle is one of my all time favourites of the classic LucasArts adventure games). If anyone would like them, feel free to PM me, first come first served.
And I'm not sure there's a realistic use case for the 12 gig 3080. you're going to get hit by it not being able to render hard enough long before the 2 gigs of vram will matter
Could be, but from what I can tell you can get it for basically the same price as the 10gb (and more readily available I think) ... so, might as well.
here's the situation. my steam account has all the VR games. My office space is not the best for the VR playing. My partner finally finished up their space and built a new PC and we are moving the VR stuff into there. Their steam account does not have the VR games.
Am I correct in my reading that what i need to do is
1: log into MY steam account physically on their computer.
2: enable family share in the settings while logged in on their computer
3: it should find their account because it's previously logged in there?
4: follow the rest of the prompts for that
5: install the games I want to share
6: and then they can log back in on their computer and I don't need to do anything special from then on (unless we're trying to play things at the same time)?
Looks good.
There may be one more step of login in to the non-vr account and requesting access to the vr library, logging back in to the vr account and then back.
Steam ID: Good Life
"Three more minutes, then we can cut ze wire."
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
*heavy metal clanking boots walk into a old west saloon*
"QUERY: LOOKING FOR THE MAN WHO SHOT MY INVENTOR."
Legends of Runeterra: MNCdover #moc
Switch ID: MNC Dover SW-1154-3107-1051
Steam ID
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One downside is that you can't play games from the same account at the same time, even if you're playing different games. Someone booting up a game on Computer B while Computer A is playing a game from that account will knock Computer A out of their game.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
You can use offline mode to get around this iirc, though it has obvious caveats.
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The most important F in FF is Family
Just make sure that under Family Sharing you have both your partner's account and the other computer as allowed.
Also: not all games let you Family Share (they usually say so in the store), just so that you're aware.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
It's much less impactful because nobody has ever played Babylon's Fall.
Thanks for my own copy of Plague Tale: Innocence @Spoit !
(Unless of course the mini2 gets hacked, then we'll talk later.)
Broken records, broken trust.
https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/03/21/platinum-games-has-no-plans-to-reduce-the-scale-of-development-on-babylons-fall
At least APB's a) had a good reason (the dev went into administration) and b) got swiftly relaunched and is still up and running to this day. But yeah, the initial APB shutdown was even quicker I think.
Steam | XBL
Rejoice And serve the newelle
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I think that one didn't even last a month
EDIT: I was wrong, lasted just over a month from Apr 10, 2018 to May 14, 2018
The friends list not being introduced until 2007 shows me just how far ahead of the curve Xbox Live was in 2002.
Steam | XBL
Yes, She Does.
@Werewolf2000ad I think we have nearly identical looking Aegis characters.
I keep only snapping screenshots of her in cutscenes. Go figure. Really enjoying the game, it is a bit janky (jumping gaps does not feel good) and light weapons feel extremely strong because of their fast attack speed and high stun damage.
I hope the game has a NG+ mode, for seeing more outfits in cutscenes, in any case I'm gonna make very very sure I collect all the outfits before ending a run. Use a checklist or spoiler if I have to.
The game is maybe not quite worth it's full price for everyone, but if it is on sale for $30 or less, easy pickup. It does not have the polish of a Fromsoft title, but what it does have is a unique blend of theme and tone, the backdrop of the French Revolution and the "clockpunk" weapon/enemy design is sutubility otherworldly when set against human characters. There's just enough French sprinkled in, both in place names and exclamations by the characters that it works a little to ground the player in Paris without being too jarring nor feeling pandering. If the game had an all-French dialogue option, I'd probably try that out.
One last aside, the game does something I really like in regards to stamina and combat. In play, Aegis's backplate has a red glowing ring that appears and grows brighter as her stamina reaches 0. When it does, there's a spark and sound that plays. After a second or so, the stamina bar has a phantom bar that appears at full and rapidly decresses back to 0. Any time during this, the player can hit the Y-button and regain the amount of stamina shown on the bar. With perfect timing, they can replenish all stamina at once. The cost of this is a little buildup of frost damage, with less being accrued the better the player's timing on the button press is. The mechanic is called "Rapid-Cooling" and "Perfect Cooldown" and it works well to give a feeling of power and relentlessness. If one can do it right, you will just not stop attacking.
You should play Nioh; they took the stamina recharge system from there and it works just as well for Nioh as it does for this game.
Turns out i was using stardust dragon wrong
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
now that is a good quality reference.
What actually happened here? Bad marketing, or the game wasn't good, or...?
Goodreads
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The game was bad and it looked bad, so nobody played it and nothing of value was lost.
. . .seriously though this stinks.
I have never heard of this game until right now, so I'd say at least partially bad marketing.
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
Distrobox has been updated with support, and instructions for immutable file systems like the Steam Deck. This allows you to run linux distributions inside your terminal containerized but also fully integrating with your host system. What does this mean for the Steam Deck? It means you can install Arch/Fedora/whatever inside of your Steam Deck and use your normal package managers and repositories for programs and applications and are no longer limited to just flatpacks and/or appimages. And this will survive SteamOS updates as it'll live on your Home partition.
Basically, the Steam Deck now has access to literally nearly every linux program now.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //