Steam Deck

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witten

226 posts

51 months

Friday 26th January
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parabolica said:
Has anyone tried CP 2077 on the steam deck? I know it is a much improved game now-a-days so wondering what it's like on a hand-held, as I'm considering one instead of upgrading the xbox or PS to the latest gen.
Yup. It is easily playable and looks decent. I found it overheated the GPU a lot and sometimes I would play it for an hour and then the frame rate would drop to 6fps so I learned to just switch it off and go and do something else for a bit. Randomly, it happened less frequently if it had the power plugged in but I cannot explain why.

I am struggling with my SteamDeck now I have finished CP2077. I am probably going to sell it to get a PS Portal as I am enjoying my PS5 and can never be bothered with DIY set up on home PCs. I just want to click play and it works rather than having to try and find the right settings.

simonwhite2000

2,486 posts

100 months

Saturday 27th January
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Ancient Wheelbarrow

10,642 posts

224 months

Saturday 27th January
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£287 really is theft for what these are capable of. Big micro SD card or HD swap and you're away.

Even if not for new games it's a powerhouse emulation machine that will easily handle up to Wii U without breaking a sweat.

ajprice

28,086 posts

199 months

Friday 28th June
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Steam Summer Sale has started. Jurassic World Evolution 2 is 90% off at £4.99, Doom Eternal is 75% off at £8.74. Both are verified for the Deck.

What else is out there?

Otispunkmeyer

12,719 posts

158 months

Yesterday (13:41)
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I'm still on the fence about these things.... I did nearly buy one then backed off.

I've been playing Cyberpunk on my tablet/laptop via GeForce now and I have to say its been a thoroughly excellent experience. Particularly with a controller its basically like playing it locally (I do have a good internet connection). At the moment I just use the free 1 hour tier but £8/mo or whatever it works out to for the priority tier where I can have 6 hours and use Ray Tracing is very tempting. You can run 1080p, all the bells and whistles and at 60 FPS for the most part.

I did think about getting a Logitech G Cloud instead but even at £200 used they're really too expensive for what they are. I think I may just go for a new XBOX wireless controller to replace my knackered PS4 one and just stick to playing on my tablet (11 inch Tab S9 with 120Hz hi-res OLED).

The only benefit of the Deck would be that you could continue to play the game "off-line" albeit at lower resolution and lower settings.

I can't believe really how good Cyberpunk is and how good it looks.

Narcisus

8,137 posts

283 months

Yesterday (14:57)
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Otispunkmeyer said:
I'm still on the fence about these things.... I did nearly buy one then backed off.

I've been playing Cyberpunk on my tablet/laptop via GeForce now and I have to say its been a thoroughly excellent experience. Particularly with a controller its basically like playing it locally (I do have a good internet connection). At the moment I just use the free 1 hour tier but £8/mo or whatever it works out to for the priority tier where I can have 6 hours and use Ray Tracing is very tempting. You can run 1080p, all the bells and whistles and at 60 FPS for the most part.

I did think about getting a Logitech G Cloud instead but even at £200 used they're really too expensive for what they are. I think I may just go for a new XBOX wireless controller to replace my knackered PS4 one and just stick to playing on my tablet (11 inch Tab S9 with 120Hz hi-res OLED).

The only benefit of the Deck would be that you could continue to play the game "off-line" albeit at lower resolution and lower settings.

I can't believe really how good Cyberpunk is and how good it looks.
All I can say is this I tried the top tier GeForce Now for a month. I have fast internet.

Still use my Steamdeck most nights and don’t have GeForce now anymore …

gotoPzero

17,531 posts

192 months

Yesterday (14:57)
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I still play mine a couple of times a week. Very good overall experience and I am sure the next gen will step things up.

They defo come into their own when travelling.

I play the latest F1 game and it runs a rock solid 60fps. Pretty impressive. Sure its only 720p (ish) but on such a small screen its fine.

1080, 3hr battery and a bit thiner / lighter would be perfect for SD2.

ajprice

28,086 posts

199 months

Yesterday (15:43)
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gotoPzero said:
1080, 3hr battery and a bit thiner / lighter would be perfect for SD2.
It goes against your thinner/lighter, but for around £40 you can get a 20,000mAh battery bank that clips on the back of a Steam Deck, the internal battery is just over 5000mAh so it would be adding about 4x more capacity.

Edit: Prime day soon so I''m going to make a note to look out for one then.

gotoPzero

17,531 posts

192 months

Yesterday (18:17)
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Yeah I have an anker PD power bank that will run it for ages.

IIRC the CEO said the next version will have 2x the battery capacity.

Not due out for a couple of years though.


Otispunkmeyer

12,719 posts

158 months

gotoPzero said:
Yeah I have an anker PD power bank that will run it for ages.

IIRC the CEO said the next version will have 2x the battery capacity.

Not due out for a couple of years though.
I do wonder though, given ASUS have managed to pack 80Wh into the Ally X, whether Valve may do yet another update or perhaps offer an upgrade by offering a higher density battery cell. Its 50Wh now but imagine if they could nip it up to 65 Wh or something.

Otispunkmeyer

12,719 posts

158 months

Narcisus said:
Otispunkmeyer said:
I'm still on the fence about these things.... I did nearly buy one then backed off.

I've been playing Cyberpunk on my tablet/laptop via GeForce now and I have to say its been a thoroughly excellent experience. Particularly with a controller its basically like playing it locally (I do have a good internet connection). At the moment I just use the free 1 hour tier but £8/mo or whatever it works out to for the priority tier where I can have 6 hours and use Ray Tracing is very tempting. You can run 1080p, all the bells and whistles and at 60 FPS for the most part.

I did think about getting a Logitech G Cloud instead but even at £200 used they're really too expensive for what they are. I think I may just go for a new XBOX wireless controller to replace my knackered PS4 one and just stick to playing on my tablet (11 inch Tab S9 with 120Hz hi-res OLED).

The only benefit of the Deck would be that you could continue to play the game "off-line" albeit at lower resolution and lower settings.

I can't believe really how good Cyberpunk is and how good it looks.
All I can say is this I tried the top tier GeForce Now for a month. I have fast internet.

Still use my Steamdeck most nights and don’t have GeForce now anymore …
Each to their own really isn't it. I find the experience perfectly good and at this stage in life I have about an hour of time a couple of evenings a week to play. So I've only got the bandwidth to play 1 game really.