If you don’t want to play new, graphically demanding AAA games and/or you’re okay settling for lower graphics settings/resolution then sure.

I have to say, 800p resolution looks significantly better than 720p on a TV. Yes, you will have black bars on the sides. But at a minimum, any game that runs well on the SD’s internal display can be played at 800p on a TV and still be a decent experience. I am playing ‘High On Life’ this way (because 1080p is impossible), and it’s honestly not a bad experience at all.

No, mine is perfectly fine.

That’s what I did the other day. I used to think FSR was kind of bad, because most games I tried it on were fullscreen and so it didn’t work, and one game that it did work on was GTA IV. But GTA IV has no anti-aliasing whatsoever, so when upscaled by FSR it looks awful. For games with good anti-aliasing FSR looks surprisingly good. Subnautica is another example, you can crank the graphics settings up with FSR and it looks incredible on the deck.

Maybe it was different in the past but you very rarely need to change Proton versions for anything. It’s super easy to do if you ever need to, though.

FSR is also super useful, and not very intuitive. If games have built-in FSR 2.0 then try that first, otherwise if you set the game to a lower resolution than 1280x800 and disable fullscreen mode, you can enable FSR in the Steam Deck performance settings. I didn’t know about the fullscreen thing forever, so I thought it just didn’t work in a bunch of games.

I tried it last night with ‘7 Days to Die’, which is a very poorly optimized game that struggles to get a stable fps on any system. I found that lowering the resolution and enabling FSR looks almost as good as running in 1280x800, and allowed me to use Ultra graphics settings.

Also, weirdly, ‘High On Life’ has FSR 2.0 built in to the game, but when I enable it it looks like garbage. The deck’s FSR 1.0 somehow looks miles better for that game.

If increased glare = “clearer and brighter”, sure. But then you have the glare, which IMO is worse. In a dark environment it won’t even make a difference. Buy a screen protector if you want to protect the screen.

The Ori collection is now 73% off on Steam.

Does the Y button rattle if you shake it?

Which LCD model?

This seems to be the norm. A more productive question would be- Does anybody have an OLED deck with a secure Y button that doesn’t rattle a bit when shaken?

Except Beyond Good and Evil and MGS3. :(

iPhone 12 Max has a 6.68 inch display measured diagonally. Steam Deck OLED is 7.4 inch.

If it’s any consolation, the build quality of the LCD feels nicer in some ways. The face buttons are looser on the OLED and rattle a little, and the plastic shell is a rougher texture that doesn’t feel as nice.

Yes. Vibrant Deck was a huge improvement over stock, and the built-in color adjustment in 3.5.5 looks significantly better than that did. In fact it looks so much better that comparing a brightly lit SDR game between LCD with 3.5.5 and saturation turned up and OLED, the difference is not as striking as you might expect.

USPS has literally everyone’s address but we only have your cell phone number for some reason. Go to https://obviouslynotuspswebsite.com to update your information. This is a thing that happens.

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is the 9/11 of gaming. Never forget. The Steam Deck is amazing but Valve, I will never forget what you did (or rather, didn’t do).

Has ANYONE been able to finish checkout?

If I’m not mistaken I think Valve limits sales by Steam account, which makes it a lot harder to scalpers to grab multiple units. Unlike, say, Walmart, which will allow the same person to buy 50 PS5s and resell them on the Walmart website.

$250 on the generous side, $350 on the higher but still fair side. More than $350 is kind of ridiculous considering you can get a new 256gb for $400. Yeah it’s more storage but you can always do the upgrade yourself, and have better support from Valve on the new unit if anything goes awry.