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I have a steam deck OLED and I am very happy with it, but there are a few minor annoyances I don't see a lot of people talking about: The 800px screen size is

I have a steam deck OLED and I am very happy with it, but there are a few minor annoyances I don't see a lot of people talking about: The 800px screen size is lackluster and very noticeable for that size of screen (dunno about the LCD deck). It is one of the main reasons texts are not very readable in some games. Games that use non-standard fonts (which is quite common surprisingly) and haven't been made with small screens in mind (or have an UI-size slider) have this problem a lot. Besides the fonts the low resolution is still noticeable, but not a HUGE issue. I hope they bump it up to 1080p for the next model. Another thing is that games don't go on suspend mode once you go to steam menus like other consoles do. The game is still running in the background (with audio and everything). In fact there is no game-suspend functionality at all, only having the device fully going to sleep actually pauses the game. Going to desktop mode and back to steam-mode takes quite some time, making dual-use a bit annoying. It seems KDE is not actually running in the background if you are in steam mode. Which is fair enough I suppose, but the thing has 16gb of RAM, a toggle to make both load at the same time would be nice.

Hamuko 3y ago
>Another thing is that games don't go on suspend mode once you go to steam menus like other consoles do. The game is still running in the background (with audio and everything). In fact there is no game-suspend functionality at all, only having the device fully going to sleep actually pauses the game. For people that like to tinker a bit, you can install Decky Loader and the "Pause Games" plugin that can suspend games, even automatically on focus loss. https://github.com/popsUlfr/SDH-PauseGames https://github.com/popsUlfr/SDH-PauseGames
opan 3y ago
>I hope they bump it up to 1080p for the next model. I hope they stick with 16:10 and choose 1920x1200 instead. The extra height is nice (plus if a game only supports 16:9 and gets black bars, that just means your FPS counter can be in blank space instead of covering the game content). Also, I mostly play docked with a 1920x1200 monitor and a lot of games I play run well still.

Hamuko 3y ago

>Another thing is that games don't go on suspend mode once you go to steam menus like other consoles do. The game is still running in the background (with audio and everything). In fact there is no game-suspend functionality at all, only having the device fully going to sleep actually pauses the game. For people that like to tinker a bit, you can install Decky Loader and the "Pause Games" plugin that can suspend games, even automatically on focus loss. https://github.com/popsUlfr/SDH-PauseGames https://github.com/popsUlfr/SDH-PauseGames

opan 3y ago

>I hope they bump it up to 1080p for the next model. I hope they stick with 16:10 and choose 1920x1200 instead. The extra height is nice (plus if a game only supports 16:9 and gets black bars, that just means your FPS counter can be in blank space instead of covering the game content). Also, I mostly play docked with a 1920x1200 monitor and a lot of games I play run well still.