What games have y'all been playing a lot on your deck recently?

Lol even the switch can do better than that

you will need to add Yuzu as a non steam game in desktop mode then you can find it in game mode on that tab. before launching any games at least for me I have to use the touchscreen to launch them at first.

As for input, check the controller settings then go to controller layouts and the community tab, some people have made layouts for it. you might have to experiment with different ones a bit till you find one you like though.

You could try steam rom manager. It allows you to add your roms and/or emulators to your steam list from one app. It comes with emudeck but I think you can get it separately if you don't want to use the rest of emudeck features.

I started a game last night. Looks cool. Nice to see some melee combat.

I think I'll replay Blind Forest on a higher difficulty first. It was pretty easy on Normal.

Dude I was fighting for my dammed life in that part lol

X-Com spends a lot of cycles recalculating a 99% success rate in order to hand you a miss.

I tried bringing frames down to 30 and messed a little with a custom game profile but I think I’ll have to drop graphics to medium or low for any real tangible difference. And that I’m just not willing to do! So it’s a couch outlet game for me at the moment. Fallout 4 uses less juice. Maybe it’s just poorly optimized?

Most wanted 2005 was amazing. Racing games that somehow felt like RPGs, the golden age of the franchise.

I tried to get xemu to work but just couldn't. The PS2 version started right up with emudeck and pcsx2

It took a lot of tinkering, ngl. So far, I've gotten it to run at a pretty consistent 30fps with a bit of slowdown when going into areas for the first time due to shader compilation. Of course, big towns and such shows a bit of a slowdown as well, but nothing game breaking. I'm about a third or more through the main story all played on the Deck. Here's a list of things I've done to get it playable:

• Installed Yuzu via EmuDeck. For whatever reason, I couldn't even launch the game using the standard flatpak version/package version.
• Dynamic 30fps Patch. I tried the 60fps version, but since the game never gets much above 30, I went with the 30fps version since it was noticeably smoother.
• Ran CryoUtilities and let it do its optimizations (increasing vram actually makes the game run worse due to there being less ram. This game/emulator is very memory hungry it seems so skip that one.)
• I use the PowerTools plugin from Decky to set the hardware scheduler to performance mode. I've also played around with increasing minimum CPU clock speeds, but I can't seem to make a difference with those. There were some rumors about disabling the "Odd Number" core option that helped performance, but I didn't notice a difference with the current EA build of Yuzu. that turned out to be true.
• Using the normal Power Options, force the GPU clock speed to max (1600).
• Running EA Yuzu in Vulkan mode I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I sourced the game from a specific girl who claims to be fit and likes to repackage things.

A quick note : I'm also running Release 1.0 since whenever I try to upgrade to 1.1, I get an infinite black loading screen. I think this has to do with where I got the 1.0 release from, but I'm not sure. Supposedly, 1.1 has some bug fixes and performance fixes as well, but I'm too far into the game to worry about getting it working at this point.

All of this is purely hypothetical, though, obviously.

Definitely! Crash is next on my to-Deck list.

There are a few ways but here's my preferred method

1. Desktop mode
2. Install Lutris
3. Search for battle.net in Lutris and install
4. Launch battle.net
5. Install Diablo 4 through battle.net

There are a few guides around with more detail but it's very straight forward. Also a few guides out there on how to maximize battery life. I get 2.5hrs or so, closer to 3 if I avoid towns.

I followed this guy’s YouTube tutorial to get D4 working on the steam deck. Super clear instructions and worked like a charm. I did end up tweaking the settings a bit and am not playing at 60 fps (opted for 45), but it runs great. Here’s the link for the YouTube video. https://youtu.be/zxet_LLQIwE

We've been playing DMZ on the newest one, yeah. Graphics settings are on the preset second from lowest and it plays fine.

Great. It has native support, only the menus and inventory are a little wonky, since you have to navigate the cursor with the sticks but I just mapped the right touchpad as mouse and problem solved.

I'm not streaming from Desktop. Steam Deck supports resolution up to 4K when docked so you won't be playing at 800p too. Not sure if you already know the following but there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding this topic so I'll share my experience here in the hope that it'd help clear things up for someone. Below is the tinkering process that works for me:

1. Go to Steam - Settings - Display - External Display. If you have a 4K TV and want the game to run in 4K, leave Automatically Set Resolution on (because there's no option to pick 4K in custom resolution for reasons unknown to me). If you want a lower resolution, turn off Automatically Set Resolution and pick the res you want.
2. Go to Library, click on the game then go to Settings - Properties - Game Resolution and set it to Native.
3. Start the game, set res in the game to the a res lower than what you set in system display. For example if you have a 4K TV and set res to auto in system display, you'd want to set it as 2560x1440 in game. If you set 1920x1080 in system display, set it to 720 in game. Next step will explain why.
4. Open your quick access menu (the physical 3 dots button under the right controller pad), scroll down to battery icon and go to Scaling Filter and slide it to FSR if it's not already in this mode. What this does is that it will scale your in game res to match your system res with very little impact on your game performance.

You'll get about 20fps at 4K, and around 30fps at QHD(2560x1440). Personally I left it at QHD and it has mostly been running very smoothly except for the occasional crashes... Just make sure you save your game regularly.

Keep on keeping on!

I don't think it's that short if you factor in the completion aspect. Getting both endings took me 7 hours, and completing will probably be another 12 if I choose to go that route.

For $25 I don't think it's that bad, but I'm pretty biased in preference of quality to quantity.

It's really fun, disappointed that I waited this long to play them.

You can install the blizzard launcher from the desktop in the deck, add it as a non steam game then do the same thing for Diablo 2 once blizzard downloads it. I forget the actual steps, but I followed a guide online.

I'd think following a guide for Diablo 4 to get bnet installed and then install D2 resurrected should work.

Honestly I'm quite surprised many people sleep on the trackpads, combined with the plethora of binding options it's closer to a mouse and keyboard than you'd think.

I used the steam controller for many years for FPS games, it does an excellent job.

Combine it with a gyro and I've seen people use it viably on competitive shooters.

I've been having a blast with it on the deck! Some navigation issues in the UI is really the only complaint I had, and that was easy enough to fix with remapping.

Excellent game and I can't believe I haven't played it until now.

It's so worth it, gyro aiming makes life so much better. Any game where you aim using the left trigger is perfect for it. You just set your gyro trigger to activate on trigger pull. Tuning it can be a bit tricky, and I found for Control specifically it didn't like mouse input from the gyro, I had to trial and error the aiming. Tomb raider had gyro aiming by default.

I just finished playing through New Threat 2.0 on my deck. I can't believe the quality of that mod.

Level 68 HOTA (hammer of the ancients) Barbarian. Looking forward to season one?