Stampela

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[–] Stampela@startrek.website 37 points 1 year ago

Quark: "I call dibs on the abandoned ship!"

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, Cyberpunk runs well. 30 to 40 in my experience, the real issue is the fucking tiny text that can be barely big enough to be readable, that red font isn't helping either. I think my time with it is split roughly in half between my desktop and Deck. You do need to try find good settings, but I mean it's a handheld so some effort is required.

Baldur's Gate I also play on either system, but I get the bit about it being blurry. I took a fair amount of time figuring out how to get rid of it, I can go grab a screenshot or two with my settings if anyone wants them. It keeps at 30 more or less reliably... but it's important to mention I'm still in act 1. The super weird part is how for some reason it's less buggy on the Deck! Very puzzling. On the desktop it seems to leak memory and that ends up in horrible stuttering, then with some bad luck it can stop accepting inputs aside from menu stuff and movement, and this one seems to be fixable by loading the save on the Deck.

Edit, screenshots:

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not Deck related, but I hope it will also fix whatever the heck is going on with my desktop: still in act 1, but (I think) there's a memory leak that causes it to stutter more and more, to the point where it can actually decide to take a second off between frames. Multiple times per minute. I don't get it on Deck, so I get to choose between loud fan and modest graphics, or quiet 4K glory with a reminder I've been playing for a while... lol

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Best reply would've been "Indeed. My favorite character is Garibaldi, Nathan Fillion really nailed the role"

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Switch Pro lacks analog triggers and depending on what games you play it can be a really bad thing.

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

You would be surprised about the time and skills it takes... let's just say that I use a tool meant to teach kids lmao https://www.tinkercad.com/

It's not hard, really. I grab my caliper, take measurements of the diameter of the analog stick, write them down, open Tinkercad and it's really just a bunch of cylinders I'm working with. Often the hardest part is finding a good logo that will print.

The real time wasting stuff is when I make them too thin and feel too flimsy, or when I print a test one and it's either way too loose or not large enough to fit.

Now that you know how modest the skill set to design those specific things is, on to the other issue, money: a 3d printer isn't a trivial impulse buy, but basic ones can be bought for around 200 euro! For example my Xbox analog cap has been printed on a (now discontinued) Monoprice Mini Select v2. 160 euro when I got it. There's sub 100 ones but I don't know how usable they are, plus they're even smaller and size does make a difference in what you can print.

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As I make this stuff, let me say you got lucky with dimensions. Bloody analog sticks are all different in size...

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

32... that's a sweet split of 16 for the vram and 16 for the ram. Supposing it works well it can completely fix any memory issues with any current games!

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

If it's just the net framework, installing proton tricks will be faster. Select the game, install software, net framework.

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Depends. I have a good desktop gaming computer and a 4k monitor. DLSS makes the two work together nicely... and yet, sometimes I just want to play on the Deck. A big upside is how the entire system uses up to the same power as my gpu does at idle, and I don't have to add the heat generated by the monitor: brilliant way to keep the room temperature in check.

Being able to play anywhere I want (couch? why not) is a great motivator.

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