Steam Deck Portable PC Games Hardware
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They had/have refurbished units starting at $279. I believe the 512gb refurbished is $359.
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I can understand if you bought in the last 2 weeks or so but yeah.
Why would there even be a trade in? It’s called sell it and buy the new one lol.
Looks like a bunch of media has had their hands on the OLED Deck. I guess Valve has been making subtle changes to the hardware since launch.
The OLED deck really looks like a great product.
Why would there even be a trade in? It’s called sell it and buy the new one lol.
Looks like a bunch of media has had their hands on the OLED Deck. I guess Valve has been making subtle changes to the hardware since launch.
The OLED deck really looks like a great product.
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Almost bought a refurbished one lately. I'm tempted but I don't think it will get much playtime after the first weeks. Pretty interesting for all those indie games I never played.
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I'm still pretty much playing mine daily since getting it. Really changed my aspect of gaming. Plus the amount of free games you get.
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What have you been playing?
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Crumble and centipede reloaded most recently.
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Selfishly, I wish they would have prioritized an Index update over a Steam Deck one. I use my Deck nearly exclusively for compilations of old games, and I really don't care if I play them on LCD or OLED. Anything where that would matter to me I play on my big boy PC and AW3423DW.
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No, but according to https://www.protondb.com/app/1462040 it is verified.
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Yeah I have. It works pretty well, with a couple caveats. First of all, unless they've patched it since I played earlier in the year, it defaults to Direct X 12 and has framerate issues regardless of PC power. You can add a command line parameter to force it into DX11 mode for better performance. I did that both on the Deck and the big boy PC.
FF7R doesn't have a lot of graphic options to play with, but if you max it out it will chug a little. I don't remember exactly what settings I used, but I think I had most stuff set to low, I might have had textures a bit higher so it would look nice, and I set the Steam Deck to 40 FPS as I do with most CPU intensive titles. With all that tweaking it runs great. It also supports cloud saving if you want to move between PC and Deck. On my PC it was like playing the PS5 version, on the Deck it was like playing the PS4 version.
Also, Crisis Core is amazing on the Deck, it was pretty much my killer app when I first got it. It's optimized quite a bit better for PC than FF7R was. I even beat that cunt Minerva using the Deck as a handheld.
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The Beast Inside for free:
gog.com/giveaway/claim
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The Beast Inside
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Not Vulkan?
Edit: I'm probably misunderstanding, since I think SteamOS ultimately uses Vulkan through a wrapper regardless.
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Free stuff:
store.steampowered.com
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Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition on Steam
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Free GOG stuff (^_^)
www.gog.com
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More freebies:
Space Crew: Legendary Edition
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Nomads of Driftland: The Forgotten Passage
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Space Crew: Legendary Edition
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Time for your toughest mission yet! Recruit and train your crew to tackle the growing threat from alien and android armies as you defend Earth to become a Galactic Legend in Space Crew: Legendary Edition. All new content free to existing owners of Space Crew!
Nomads of Driftland: The Forgotten Passage
Nomads of Driftland: The Forgotten Passage
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Better than a broken display.
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I've swapped the drive, it's pretty easy. Make sure you are using a quality screwdriver though, those are some tiny ass screws I wouldn't want to strip.
Reinstalling SteamOS was a little tricky for me. It kept getting stuck like it was taking forever to load but never freezing or giving errors. The issue ended up being that you need to use a very fast USB drive or SD card for it to work. I put the image on a fast SD card and it worked like a charm and loaded in just a few minutes.
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Any recommendation on a fast SD card?