Pokémon Infinite Fusion and Fallout 4

It’s completely worth installing. Some great plugins there. Quick Bluetooth, controller, decky settings, suspend, and plugins like proton badges, share deck settings, music plugins, and other fun ones

Was console gamer as a kid, built PC instead of getting PS4 in 2013, was a hardcore PC gamer until switch came out and I mainly played that. Hated buying overpriced indies and games on switch and love that my steam deck has replaced it as a happy medium with an already huge library thanks to humble bundles and cheap sales.

Haven’t upgraded my PC since 2016 but SD is making me want to get into PC and modding more. I just played vanilla New Vegas on steam deck, now playing through Fallout 4 with some Bethesda.net built in mods and having a blast. I just love the flexibility of PC and now that we have handhelds for $400 that can play games my first PC struggled to hit 60 on, I don’t think I’ll go back to a console.

There are some games I’ve found like Fallout 4 that perform much better with GE instead of regular proton or experimental. Just watch out that switching GE proton on your game sometimes will move your save files if the game doesn’t have cloud saves. You can still usually find it in desktop mode though

Also not immediately apparent but the faster charging and better ram speed

Same here. Got a screen protector asap for my switch cause the OG dock would scratch the screen. Have a matte screen protector on my deck and it helps with glare

Yall remember the GameBoy Advance SP? The first models had awful spotlight front lighting (or none). The second model had an amazing screen that was bright as hell. Felt like a totally different system

Is the charger faster? It still says 45W. I know the cord got longer

lol I love DBD on the deck

The OS got faster for all decks with 3.5 tbh

I think the better battery life/efficiency is just as much of an upgrade (for some) as the screen. Many testers are finding that running the same game even at higher frame rates on the new model has a longer battery life than the original. Also the faster RAM (from 88GB/s to 102GB/s) allows for less stuttering during busy scenes and loading, and more consistent locked framerates according to Digital Foundry. There’s a lot of little upgrades to the machine

60 in most areas on medium settings. You can get a solid 45 fps lock on medium/high. Newer proton-GE versions perform much better than a year or two ago

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