I don’t know for certain, but the fact that they are on a blue background might mitigate fringing slightly. To me, those characters are too good looking for having no AA

OLED subpixel layout causing chromatic fringing has been known for years, and needs to be fixed at the OS-level.

It all has to do with how the OS handles anti-aliasing of text. With no AA, text looks blocky and unpleasant to look at, but effective AA makes it smooth and attractive. The process responsible for this AA treatment is called ClearType in Windows, and other OS’s have their own processes. However, it works best with the common LCD subpixel layout as seen above, and is calibrated for this structure. It looks strange on OLEDs. You will need a software fix to address it; maybe Valve will include something similar.

50 percent is not equilibrium, zero percent is.

Try updating. Apparently one iteration of 3.5 had issues when “allow tearing” was on in the “…” menu. I had the same issue and was fixed with an update.

Just pull the old SSD and SD card from the old one into the new. I did that, and even all my extensions transferred over.

And that’s the best part! It was free for me because I bought Quake 2 vanilla like 9 years ago!

That new remaster of Quake 2 is the fucking gold standard of remasters. Pure excellence, from top to bottom. I’ve had some people actually have the gall to say that the Metal Gear remaster angst is overdone and exaggerated, as in, “what do you really expect from a remaster?” The answer: the Quake 2 remaster.

Anyways now that that’s out of my system, quick question: does the new remaster run at 90fps well?

I haven’t spent much time in the menus but I did notice an improvement in UI responsiveness and smoothness, especially in the Steam Input sections

Jesus CHRIST that Chad face is cursed

More to the point, though, I agree: Valve really should try to ship to more countries. I understand that they are a service provider first and hardware distributor second, but having done Steam Machines, Steam Controllers, Valve Index, and most recently the Deck, they really should up their game with worldwide logistics. I mean, DHL is super easy to deal with…

Compare it to a Game Gear instead and it makes more sense.

Don’t read too much into that. When I bought my OG steam deck I had exactly the same message and I got it in 4 days of purchase.