You can check battery health in desktop mode, by clicking on the battery.

I've had my OLED deck for a little over a year now, and it's still reporting 100% battery health.

The article includes a table showing games with some pretty major fps gains, but those are mostly just for wine. Using Proton there will be minimum fps gains, but it should improve compatibility.

I'm thinking about replacing my main PC for a steam deck.

This new Decky plugin lets you have a floating web view for watching Netflix and other video sites while you play.

Is this completely unnecessary? Probably, but some very low-intensity games will probably benefit from it. Being able to watch subway surfers while playing should also increase it's appeal to Gen Z.

Please do not share any links. I just want to talk about the game.

I managed to get it running under Bottles, but the controller doesn't work. It's basically GTA: Vice City running under the GTA4 engine and honestly- the amount of effort they put into this is insane.

I really liked Midnight Club back on the PS2. Would be cool to find similar for the Deck.

Any racing games that the community finds good on the Deck? Is it arcadey or realistic in the mechanics?

Guy modded his steam deck be as small as possible, with the only intended use to be to play with an external controller and AR glasses.

Finished photo:

Decky Power Tools already offers this, and I believe there's a desktop setting for it as well. Still very nice to have though.

New launchers are for:

• Boosteroid Cloud Gaming
• Stim.io
• Venge.io
• Rocketcrab.com
• WatchParty.me

Basically for games that only support DLSS, it's long been possible to replace the DLSS files to force the game to use FSR 2/3 instead. It's a pretty common mod available for many games on Nexus mods.

Sometimes it works well, other times you get weird blurring or other effects.

This is an interesting-development deck plugin that will greatly simplify the installation of these mods to games, letting us benefit from FSR upscaling and frame gen in DLSS only titles.

In last year's survey, 66% of developers reported working on games for PC, while this year's number is significantly higher at 80%. In comparison, 38% of developers said they were working to put their game on PlayStation while 34% said they were developing for Xbox.

Now, GDC clarifies that "Steam Deck" was not specifically listed as a platform option in the survey. However, when answering which platforms they were developing for, 44% of respondents who chose "Other" did mention "the Steam Deck as a platform they’re interested in," which potentially shows a significant focus on Valve's handheld.

I'm curious what 'surprising' games people have played last year on their Deck.

Most likely the most played games matches the top 10 list from Steam but I'd like to hear also about those lesser known games that you enjoyed, got working (give hints for the rest of us) or just would like to recommend to us.

At the time of typing this, the goal was dropped to $50k USD (from $56k), extended the campaign to January 30th, and is 99% funded.

I know, reddit bad, but the creator is active in the r/SteamDeck discord server if anyone has questions.

Edit/update: project is now fully funded!!!