Steam Deck

I like that new option in the beta channel that gives a list of every component in your steam deck, with a part number and the company that made it. So you can check which fan you have without opening it up for instance.

Nothing needs to be done to it, but it can be done if you ever get the feeling for it.

Replaced a friends 64gb with a 256gb nvme last week, reinstalling steamos is simple enough.

Thanks all for the feedback, all very positive stuff regarding the Deck and being able to control the heat and fan!

This video (specifically the links in it) helped me no end:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=meaLQOS8z8c

Probably worth YAAAAARing a bunch of BIOS and ROM files for the systems you want to emulate too.

Then stick it all in EmUDeck:

www.emudeck.com

Which has a simple install guide at that link.

Good luck!  It's awesome.

Xbox have tinkered with XCloud to provide some improvement to the experience server-side, at least for streaming on Linux. For those who have XCloud gaming set up using Microsoft’s guide, you just need to update the Edge browser in desktop mode’s Discover app to see the benefit.

There’s a noticeable improvement for me. The picture quality is still soft and I would guess the resolution is still <720p, but there is an upgrade in the picture quality from before. Most importantly I don’t see any sign of pixelation/artefacts, when that was always obvious before. I’ve not had a problem with lag since I got the deck (within reason, I still wouldn’t play a racing game like that). However I’ve always had issues with pixelation in faster-moving games until now. I tested Subnautica, Persona 5 and Dishonored 2 because I tried all of those recently and not enjoyed the picture quality in any of them, but they look fine now.

I’m impressed with it.

I’ve hotswapped and haven’t had any problems. Takes a few seconds for the UI to refresh but that’s about it.

Would like to know that too, although I think you can’t. I use warpinator which is good but relying on Wi-Fi to transfer huge files is annoying.

Or do what I did and copy to a spare sd card, swap the cards around, then copy to desktop or whichever folder you need. Inelegant but worked for basic bitch me.

I managed to get Warpinator working so could finally transfer my files.

Oh dear, what type of nostalgia-fuelled worm hole have I crawled down now?

This things is an emulation beast. Now just gotta fill up that SD card with all my faves.

I thought you were referring to Warpinator at first    It reminds me of Winamp.

Emulation is bonkers on it. The games play great but honestly the most fun is choosing them and reminiscing over the artwork. Also a great chance to play some ps1/2 games I missed.

Samsung Evo Select is what I have in my Deck. It got me all the way through Ys 9 with neither errors nor excessive load times. Sandisk have been a little shaky from what I've seen lately so I'd go for Samsung if possible.

Filling up my sd card with a whole load of retro goodness, so much that I’ve barely touched any of my steam library.

One thing I can’t get to work though is my Saturn collection. Doesn’t seem to matter what I try, I can’t get them running and there’s barely any help out there.

Anyone got this working?

Die Hard Arcade runs with no audio, I gave up at that point and looked into a ode drive again.