I love how people say about Deck’s “seamless experience”, “console experience” and other similar phrases. I just got my OLED - updated to 3.5.7 and basically it’s a fkin brick. Most games crash after 3 mins - yes verified games. Almost ALL games. Those that don’t crash have dips to 20 fps and I’m not talking about demanding games, I have this in Hades for example. USB devices don’t work - I connected keyboard from my PC -> it doesn’t work. And apparently when I got to this subreddit and steam community forum, I see that basically everyone with 3.5.X update have those issues.
I started digging and see that those GPU issues are known for over a month (October 20, see GitHub) and Valve didn’t fix it yet. Hell, at first that just said that this is overlay bug and it works fine, can you image? (if you don’t belive me, just read the issue). More than that - they decided that’s it’s good to include this “feature” in Stable release along other OS breaking bugs. Those are not small bugs that you can just ignore. I LITERALLY can’t use the device. It’s like NO ONE tested the OS before the release from Valve team. I mean it’s hard NOT to see those bugs. I just configured, updated the device, downloaded some games and can’t play anything right now on it :(
It’s been 2 years since first Deck release and it seems that SteamOS is still in alpha phase. I say the Rog Ally had BIOS issues in the beginning, but there are no critical issues right now looking at the subreddit. Aside from burning SD card ofc, that won’t be fixed by updates.
Now, I would kindly appreciate explanation how is Steam Deck a “console/seamless experience” for someone? I think that Rog Ally had less issues software on first day than Steam OS in the recent update. I use Windows since Windows XP and must say that never have I ever had such critical issues. Sure there were some fuckups where I had to reinstall bluetooth/wifi driver or sth like that (favorite thing to break on Windows), but never my OS broke and made my device unusable.
I don’t know if it’s just a single fuckup from Valve and it was perfect before, but I’m not waiting few months for Valve to fix it. From what I see it’s just a hyped device, a lot money put into marketing of “how awesome and polished it is”, but in reality they can’t do an update after 2 years on market. If you can, pick the Ally. I’m returning my brick first thing on Monday.
I love how people say about Deck’s “seamless experience”, “console experience” and other similar phrases. I just got my OLED - updated to 3.5.7 and basically it’s a fkin brick. Most games crash after 3 mins - yes verified games. Almost ALL games. Those that don’t crash have dips to 20 fps and I’m not talking about demanding games, I have this in Hades for example. USB devices don’t work - I connected keyboard from my PC -> it doesn’t work. And apparently when I got to this subreddit and steam community forum, I see that basically everyone with 3.5.X update have those issues.
I started digging and see that those GPU issues are known for over a month (October 20, see GitHub) and Valve didn’t fix it yet. Hell, at first that just said that this is overlay bug and it works fine, can you image? (if you don’t belive me, just read the issue). More than that - they decided that’s it’s good to include this “feature” in Stable release along other OS breaking bugs. Those are not small bugs that you can just ignore. I LITERALLY can’t use the device. It’s like NO ONE tested the OS before the release from Valve team. I mean it’s hard NOT to see those bugs. I just configured, updated the device, downloaded some games and can’t play anything right now on it :(
It’s been 2 years since first Deck release and it seems that SteamOS is still in alpha phase. I say the Rog Ally had BIOS issues in the beginning, but there are no critical issues right now looking at the subreddit. Aside from burning SD card ofc, that won’t be fixed by updates.
Now, I would kindly appreciate explanation how is Steam Deck a “console/seamless experience” for someone? I think that Rog Ally had less issues software on first day than Steam OS in the recent update. I use Windows since Windows XP and must say that never have I ever had such critical issues. Sure there were some fuckups where I had to reinstall bluetooth/wifi driver or sth like that (favorite thing to break on Windows), but never my OS broke and made my device unusable.
I don’t know if it’s just a single fuckup from Valve and it was perfect before, but I’m not waiting few months for Valve to fix it. From what I see it’s just a hyped device, a lot money put into marketing of “how awesome and polished it is”, but in reality they can’t do an update after 2 years on market. If you can, pick the Ally. I’m returning my brick first thing on Monday.