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I remember reading at launch that the Deck's fan was a bit whiny.  Did their subsequent patches work wonders or did I get a fan from a different supplier? Even playing games at 20w+ it's really not that noisy or whiny.  Pleasantly surprise having expected it to be not great. 

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14 minutes ago, monkeydog said:

I remember reading at launch that the Deck's fan was a bit whiny.  Did their subsequent patches work wonders or did I get a fan from a different supplier? Even playing games at 20w+ it's really not that noisy or whiny.  Pleasantly surprise having expected it to be not great. 

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16 hours ago, bradigor said:

Is there any advantage to using Moonlight on Steam Deck over the built in streaming option?

 

I always heard Moonlight is just the best streaming solution full stop, in terms of image compression and latency.

 

I believe it's something to do with NVENC video compression, which is only on Nvidia GPUs - I've dealt with it before while using Wireless VR solutions, and it seem to perform better than H.264 - although the case use was far more intensive to prevent motion sickness and such from stutters or frame drops.

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18 hours ago, denisb said:

I might be is it easy to do ?

 

Just to let you know, I had the SSD swapped over in about 5 minutes last night (to be fair it's my second run through). Super simple as long as you do it properly and have a couple of small phillips screwdrivers and something like a plectrum to pry the case open (USE SOMETHING PLASTIC)

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19 hours ago, monkeydog said:

I remember reading at launch that the Deck's fan was a bit whiny.  Did their subsequent patches work wonders or did I get a fan from a different supplier? Even playing games at 20w+ it's really not that noisy or whiny.  Pleasantly surprise having expected it to be not great. 


They released a patch early this year that adjusted the fan curve or something*. I got my deck post patch but there was an option to revert back to the old one. At that point it was still the same hardware.
 

* I think it changed how it spun or the speed it ramped up which was affecting noise.

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On 09/12/2022 at 23:30, bradigor said:

Just to note. I tried that with Midnight Suns and it failed to load. 

 

But it works fine using no launch options. Which was a tad unexpected.

 

Sorry, just going back to this as RPS is also shitting on the 2K launcher for Midnight Suns, even on Windows it's a detriment to performance - did you try this?

 

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/no-seriously-you-should-disable-the-2k-launcher-for-marvels-midnight-suns

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On 21/11/2022 at 17:27, Rorschach said:

For anyone who wants the fan in Windows to shut up a bit, I've found this to work well:

 

https://github.com/ayufan/steam-deck-tools

 

The system does seem to stay cool enough when running games. Maybe turn it off if you're just running the CPU hard though, as apparently it doesn't sense the temperatures of that. Although the CPU and GPU are on the same die of course, so the temperature difference and therefore risk should be somewhat controlled.

 

Because of High on Life, I've actually installed this tool suite on my Windows 11 SD card install.

 

It's already made the Windows experience miles better - the 360 controller mode still has lots of lovely functions (like turning down screen brightness, mouse functions on the trackpads, and ways to force close programs on the Steam button combos), and it has accessible fan and TDP controls by using the QAM button. Oh, and it actually works correctly with Persona 5 Royal, from what I can tell, unlike SWICD.

 

It's not as slick as Aya Space' GUI, but it's a great start. As mentioned, I'm a bit suspect of the fan mode not detecting the temps even if they're on the same die, so my current thought is to cap the TDP to 10 or 12w and lowball the performance until that's fixed. I'm used to doing that for battery life on SteamOS, anyway.

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On 14/12/2022 at 15:53, Siri said:

 

Sorry, just going back to this as RPS is also shitting on the 2K launcher for Midnight Suns, even on Windows it's a detriment to performance - did you try this?

 

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/no-seriously-you-should-disable-the-2k-launcher-for-marvels-midnight-suns

 

I am really ill at the moment so not picked up the Deck over the last couple of days. 

 

If this is what I think it is, for some reason it doesn't like the Linux path to the file so fails to boot the game.

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Bought both! God knows when I'll get to play them, too many games 🤣 Spent a bit of time with Broforce last night and fancied something different when I'd done so looking I started on Sonic Mania which I bought forever ago. Never finished it so after downloading lost a couple of hours doing a few levels before I got stuck. I love this handheld, the amount of stuff you can do is mindblowing, fast replaced any of my other handhelds and the power is something else.

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Just Cause 3 is available for £2-£3 depending on dlc bundle (hard not to go £3 for the XXL version) - tinkered a couple of in game settings to max graphics but 30fps and its amazing how this is running it so well. No need to tinker with anything compatibility wise to make it run, just got from steam and fired straight up in gaming mode.

 

The intro mission has you on a plane, in a chopper, blowing up petrol stations with a tank and driving and I can't believe it's running on a handheld - think there is possibly more frame rate available at cost of fidelity/battery so may tinker to find the sweet spot.

 

Very very impressed though, only shame is it takes up about 45gb of drive-space. Early days but I think JC4 was so awful I've put 3 in the same camp, but that may have been harsh.

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1 hour ago, Gotters said:

Early days but I think JC4 was so awful I've put 3 in the same camp, but that may have been harsh.

 

The first few hour of 4 are garbage and I gave up.  3 is bags of fun though.  I think console performance wasn't great? The PC version was fine. I'm thinking a reply on the Deck might be on the cards.

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Just played the first hour of Just Cause 3 and it's a lot of fun, I'd forgotten the joy of multi tethering objects together then exploding them and the whole wing suit thing. Clearing out locations remains really enjoyable and the graphical detail and draw distance is impressive still. 

 

I used the Decks OS to limit the game to 30fps with a custom game setting, then all other settings were in game I got from a vid on youtube. Couple of personal pref tweaks turning off motion blur and bokeh.

 

Barely heard the fans going in that hour and it only used 20% battery - playing the game out the box had the fans blowing like crazy so these settings seem really playable and a lot easier on the hardware, despite having max detail on most things. 

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Urgh, downloaded 100gb of Forza 7 on the Windows 11 card, and it doesn't load. It seems to be more a thing with Forza 7, though - It's not maintained after being delisted, and it's just closing itself after opening the UWP splash screen. Something something UWP is a mistake

On the bright side, the other two UWP Gamepass games work just fine (P5R and Tinykin). Obviously though, running Windows 11 on an SD card leaves much to be desired in terms of general responsiveness.

Obligatory 'maybe I should buy another steam deck' comment

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7 hours ago, Siri said:

Urgh, downloaded 100gb of Forza 7 on the Windows 11 card, and it doesn't load. It seems to be more a thing with Forza 7, though - It's not maintained after being delisted, and it's just closing itself after opening the UWP splash screen. Something something UWP is a mistake

On the bright side, the other two UWP Gamepass games work just fine (P5R and Tinykin). Obviously though, running Windows 11 on an SD card leaves much to be desired in terms of general responsiveness.

Obligatory 'maybe I should buy another steam deck' comment

I was planning on checking this out. I'm guessing performance is awful using the sd card for windows? How is the battery with windows?

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