@Fubarberry I’ve started playing Cities:Skylines (the original one) again, and downloaded multiple mods from the Steam Workshop. It froze one day and I couldn’t fix it in any way than to shut down my Deck. Every upgrades I did to that city were just gone.
Thankfully I managed to improve my public transit by adding more lines, more buses and changing some routes, as well as adding a few more metro stations as infill (sadly I have to redo all the metro lines all the time when I do this).
I play vanilla for now, as I want to make the most out of it without DLCs first. Then I think I will get the snowfall DLC in order to get trams going (as a European I don’t understand why are trams, and partly even trolleybuses, hidden under DLCs but metros aren’t, as in my country almost all larger cities have trams, yet only the biggest has a metro. But I digress).
That’s unfortunate, full system freezes like that are sometimes because you ran out of ram/VRAM. If that was what happened, the SteamOS Beta uses zram which should prevent this once the change makes it to stable. In the meantime you could use something like Cryoutilites to increase your swap file size, which should also prevent crashes like that.
@Fubarberry Thank you. This seems like it should be useful for my situation 😁 Do I need to go through the process of setting a root/sudo account for this?
You’ll need to set a password for Cryoutilites I think. In desktop mode you can open konsole and run the command
passwd, then enter your password twice. After that you can just run the Cryoutilites installer.
Kotor and Kotor 2! They are great on the deck!
Is it pretty feasible to install kotor 2 restored content mod? I vaguely remember it being available on steam workshop.
So sadly I have Kotor via Gog so I don’t have access to the steam store.
I believe if you have a steam copy the restored content mod is available via the workshop
I’ve been too lazy to install it via nexus or elsewhere
There are instructions for both games on reddit and they even give tips for Linux. Important on Linux is that the directory is set to case insensitive. Otherwise you will have problems because files from several mods are duplicated.
Yeah I don’t necessarily disagree with the idea of making file paths case sensitive (i.e. usr/Folder/ is a different directory than usr/folder and same for files), but it is definitely a big mind fuck coming from an operating system where things aren’t really case sensitive in that way.
Nice! Yeah I will do my own research when/if I decide to play them again on deck. Thank you for the heads up.
Octopath 2
Peglin
Playing Rounded right now, definitely have my eye on Peglin
Megaman Zero/ZX Collection and Persona 3 Reload
AND Mars 2120
Shapez2 works well
I heard all the controversy about Dustborn and picked up the free demo, it’s a decent little Telltale style game.
@Fubarberry
Dome Keeper. A solid 30 hours of fun gameplay. Recommended.I’ve just started playing beam ng drive. Looks great so far, but I’m pretty shit at it.
If at first you crash and burn… well I mean it is Beam Ng so doesnt that mean you are actually playing the game right?
Tbh the physics makes crashes pretty fun. I do a lot of driving for my job and try to be a responsible, careful driver. So it’s nice to fire up the steam deck sometimes and drive like a complete wanker!
careful just like how violent video games will make you a stone cold killer addicted to violence eventually the addiction to speed will consume you until you become a lawless street racer straight out of midnight club. I have seen it happen over and over again to friends, eventually consequences always catch up with them… and they always end up losing their car in pink slip races to some new guy to the street racing scene who is shooting up the ranks improbably quickly and even has the eye of the coolest-most-badass street racer’s hot ex (who also street races)… it is a damn shame .
The deck is basically my balatro machine. It’s great for it.
I’ve been passing through the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy again. It’s my favorite, and it means quite a lot to me.
I use moonlight to stream my pc to my steam deck. It automatically sets the resolution and refresh rate when i connect. It amazing.
I’ve been playing red dead redemption 2 and i just finished crime scene cleaner yesterday. and as always, genshin impact.
Any (especially input) lag? When I was using steam stream about 5 years ago any quick reaction based game was a no go die to the input lag between my well specxed pc and crappy laptop.
Honestly non at all. I even took a video once with my phone of my steam deck screen next to the pc monitor and the frames were perfectly in sync. The input feels native and i have zero latency with that. I remember years ago it indeed wasn’t that good. But nowadays its so perfect!
I even play competitive counter strike that way.
The stats show around 1ms. And that is network and decoding combined.
As long as you are at home, its indistinguishable from directly plugging in a mouse+keyboard and monitor.
Can you say why you do that? It’s it because you can play with better quality settings because you offload the work to your pc?
Yeah i like it that i can play the game on the highest quality and it makes the steam deck less hot and the battery last waaaaay longer :)
I also have it connected to my tv a lot so i can play pc games in 4k on the couch.
I also tend to switch between the steam deck and pc multiple times in a day, so having everything on one system is really nice.
Games like vampire survivor, emulators, bind of isaac, olders games etc, i play on the steam deck directly. But having immediate access to my xbox games pass library is also really nice ^^
Not OP, but that’s one part of it. You can turn down graphics, and games will still look fine on the small screen, but some games just need some extra power.
I haven’t played RDR2 but something like Returnal runs okayish on the Deck, but runs great on my PC. If I want good framerates on the Deck, I need to turn everything down, and it’s acceptable on the go, but at home I could run it at 60 fps easy with better graphics if I stream it.
For some reason I’ve played Noita for the past month. Every time I’ve started to get bored I get a good run and the game dumps something new and interesting on my lap.
i havent tried it but you arent alone in feeling like it has staying power as a roguelike, people talk about it really highly even after long amounts of play time in my experience.
Disco Elysium, which plays really well on deck even with very low TDP, great for long lazy days.
Disco elysium has been one of the best games for me in 2024. Absolutely stunning game.
Yes! I’m also playing Disco Elysium right now and it’s amazing.
Ryujinx 😁
Hell yeah, fuck Nintendo, don’t let them take away your right to emulate the games you paid for (hell, I don’t mind if you emulate games you didn’t pay for, Nintendo is a massive scumbag company, it’s totally fine to pirate their stuff)
Ultimately the theft of the ruling class from the average artist and person in general is so staggeringly big that who gives honestly gives a shit anymore? Support game devs you like when you can by buying their games from stores that pay well to the developers and artists… but f&$@ big game companies, they dont need your money, they aren’t going to give a meaningful amount of it to the artists and or programmers doing the actual labor anyways so shrugs.
When Nintendo comes after people for emulating (especially old) games they aren’t protecting anything other than the ownership class who wants to continue to charge rent for absolutely every aspect of our lives whether they rightfully or ethically own the things they are charging rent for or not.
