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You have to use Windows or deal with weird compatibility hacks? I’m really looking forward to the Steam deck. It may not have the power of current-gen consoles

by dayvid 5y ago

You have to use Windows or deal with weird compatibility hacks? I’m really looking forward to the Steam deck. It may not have the power of current-gen consoles, but it takes so many good things about current consoles and combines them together. Openness of a PC, not Windows, portable + docking, etc.

GhettoComputers 5y ago
Why do you need a weaker handheld? Nvidia moonlight can stream from PC already, played Halo on my iPhone with controller. Steam link or equivalent on TV works, and you can just subscribe to nvidia GeForce now if you want to be GPU free anywhere(all long as games are supported). The things I’d want to run from the deck will be served better on a laptop anyway. No thanks to 720p screen, low battery life, the weight of the device is too heavy for a handheld. A ryzen APU laptop from 2017 will do everything better.
- dayvid 5y ago
  I agree that streaming is interesting, and I did it from a mac a few times, but you have to be online w/ a good connection in order to do streaming. I got a switch as a present recently and while I don't like Nintendo's eStore software, pricing and console power, I found myself just picking it up and playing randomly in off time much more than opening a laptop and getting a separate joystick or mouse to play a game. I only played it docked once. If the steam deck came out earlier I probably wouldn't have bought my g14.
  - GhettoComputers 5y ago
    If you have an nvidia card you can install moonlight and stream it to anything that the app installs to. I played Halo on iOS with a xbox one controller mounted to my phone (had to use 5Ghz instead of 2.4Ghz). If the gift was an older switch there’s tons of homebrew on it, it was hacked at the beginning since it was just a Tegra and nvidia shared all the hardware info to developers. I think it’s a fine piece of hardware as someone who used a hacked PSP for mostly emulating old Nintendo consoles. I ended up playing Pokémon rom hacks more than PSP games. It’s still a viable solution for gaming, the vita is technically better and paysw more games, as does the switch but the games I care about are solved on my current mobile gaming hardware, and if you want a better homebrew device some jailbroken older iPhone or Android with emulators connected to a wireless controller (or mounted) will be good enough. I saw a GameCube emulator on an S9 playing skyward sword pretty well. I think that streaming from a desktop is probably the best way to go, if you’re just playing at home it’s great, but if you’re mobile a dedicated device is better. The deck is too heavy for being a good handheld, and I have plenty of fun with older games: newer games might have better graphics but they’re often not as fun. The best CoD for me was BO2, and the best classic games don’t need good hardware, although I’d find very little reason to play some like SS2 on the go. The idea of playing computer games on the go is enticing but most require more attention, so streaming at home is the best compromise and it’s a solved problem with network streaming. I don’t have bias against AMD I just use nvidia and know the software for it. They might have a better solution.
account42 5y ago
> You have to use Windows or deal with weird compatibility hacks? > I’m really looking forward to the Steam deck. Uhm, the Steam deck is literally running Linux and using the same compatibility "hacks" for non-native games. Which are not hard to "deal with" these days btw - Steam handles all that for you with Proton, you just press play.

by dayvid 5y ago

GhettoComputers 5y ago

Why do you need a weaker handheld? Nvidia moonlight can stream from PC already, played Halo on my iPhone with controller. Steam link or equivalent on TV works, and you can just subscribe to nvidia GeForce now if you want to be GPU free anywhere(all long as games are supported). The things I’d want to run from the deck will be served better on a laptop anyway. No thanks to 720p screen, low battery life, the weight of the device is too heavy for a handheld. A ryzen APU laptop from 2017 will do everything better.

dayvid 5y ago
I agree that streaming is interesting, and I did it from a mac a few times, but you have to be online w/ a good connection in order to do streaming. I got a switch as a present recently and while I don't like Nintendo's eStore software, pricing and console power, I found myself just picking it up and playing randomly in off time much more than opening a laptop and getting a separate joystick or mouse to play a game. I only played it docked once. If the steam deck came out earlier I probably wouldn't have bought my g14.
- GhettoComputers 5y ago
  If you have an nvidia card you can install moonlight and stream it to anything that the app installs to. I played Halo on iOS with a xbox one controller mounted to my phone (had to use 5Ghz instead of 2.4Ghz). If the gift was an older switch there’s tons of homebrew on it, it was hacked at the beginning since it was just a Tegra and nvidia shared all the hardware info to developers. I think it’s a fine piece of hardware as someone who used a hacked PSP for mostly emulating old Nintendo consoles. I ended up playing Pokémon rom hacks more than PSP games. It’s still a viable solution for gaming, the vita is technically better and paysw more games, as does the switch but the games I care about are solved on my current mobile gaming hardware, and if you want a better homebrew device some jailbroken older iPhone or Android with emulators connected to a wireless controller (or mounted) will be good enough. I saw a GameCube emulator on an S9 playing skyward sword pretty well. I think that streaming from a desktop is probably the best way to go, if you’re just playing at home it’s great, but if you’re mobile a dedicated device is better. The deck is too heavy for being a good handheld, and I have plenty of fun with older games: newer games might have better graphics but they’re often not as fun. The best CoD for me was BO2, and the best classic games don’t need good hardware, although I’d find very little reason to play some like SS2 on the go. The idea of playing computer games on the go is enticing but most require more attention, so streaming at home is the best compromise and it’s a solved problem with network streaming. I don’t have bias against AMD I just use nvidia and know the software for it. They might have a better solution.

account42 5y ago

> You have to use Windows or deal with weird compatibility hacks? > I’m really looking forward to the Steam deck. Uhm, the Steam deck is literally running Linux and using the same compatibility "hacks" for non-native games. Which are not hard to "deal with" these days btw - Steam handles all that for you with Proton, you just press play.