It’s a lot better after the update a few days ago, but back when I played it I actually installed a performance mod to make it run a lot smoother. I thought it was very playable, but I’m also trash at dodging/parrying consistently. I’m assuming it was more of a skill issue than the game’s performance though.
They make specific hall-effect sticks for the OLED models, I know Gulikit make a set, possibly other companies too.
It used to, but all the popular replacements are now solder free.
As far as I know, I think all the designs have been updated to not need soldering.
The inspiration for this discussion is that the capacitive pad on my left thumbstick has started to peel upwards at the bottom, so I plan to replace it soon. Haven’t had any issues with drift or anything else.
A couple things to try:
A lot of thumbstick drift is caused from getting debris or sticky residue in around the thumbstick. This is especially common if you let your kids touch your Steam Deck/controllers. Taking some plastic-safe electronic cleaner spray (like CRC QD electric cleaner) and spraying it around the thumbstick while the deck is turned off can fix this pretty easily, and the same cleaner can be used to fix other controllers (especially nintendo switch joycons) as well as sticking controller buttons.
The steam deck has adjustable dead zones. If your drift is very minor, you can increase the size of the dead zones to compensate.
It’s possible to recalibrate the thumbsticks, see this guide
Replacement thumbsticks are available on Amazon, many people like to upgrade to hall effect sticks made by Gullikit or other companies. Ifixit has guides for both the right and left thumbsticks. Important to note with this, there are 2 models of LCD thumbsticks and 1 model of OLED joystick, you need to buy the same type of thumbstick as what your Deck already has (edit: looks like the gullikit LCD stick now works for both LCD types, it has a micro switch on the joysticks to select which type you have). The Ifixit guides explain how to check which LCD type you have. Actually replacing the thumbsticks involves popping the back off the deck (with the microsd removed), disconnecting the battery, unplugging a ribbon cable from the thumbsticks, and then removing a couple screws before pulling the whole thumbstick out. After the new thumbsticks are installed, you will have to follow the callibration guide listed above under #3.
For anyone looking for the details here, the live recording of the talk isn’t yet available. The presentation slides used during the talk can be viewed here, but they’re of limited use without the included talk that explains them.
You can supposedly fix this by setting environmental variables in Heroic. Go to the game in heroic>advanced>environmental variables (wiki page)
Then do the following variable:
Key: LANG, Value: en_US.UTF-8
Key: LC_ALL, Value: en_US.UTF-8
Key: LANGUAGE, Value: en_US:en
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They are releasing lots of open weight models. If you want to run AI stuff on your own hardware, Chinese models are generally the best.
They also don’t care about copyright law/licensing, so going forward they will be training their models on more material than Western companies are legally able to.
It’s a turn based RPG, but with a more mature focus. Kinda like the old Final Fantasy games (X, pre-remake 7, etc).
It also has a full Souls-like inspired dodge or parry mechanic, where a skilled player can avoid 100% of enemies attacks. Dodging is easier with a larger input window, parrying is harder but can trigger more skill effects and fully parrying an enemy’s combo lets you do a counter attack.
Finally the game has equitable items that give you passive skills, and using them enough lets the character learn the skill permanently. The end result is incredible build customization of the different characters. The builds get increasingly wild as things go on, with various end game builds that can 1 shot anything, become immortal, etc. Overall it’s a very fun and rewarding system to play with.
That review wouldn’t include the performance improvements from this brand new patch.
I played the game months ago, and found it very enjoyable. I did install an alternative ue-engine.ini file that reduced some of the particles and massively improved performance though. Without the engine tweaks it was perfectly playable but ugly.
Since that article was posted, the game got a major update with a bunch of steam deck improvements:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1903340/view/491585297311596633
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Looks pretty similar to this case, which was previously discussed in this community here.
Edit: here’s this case: https://github.com/unkyulee/steamdeck-enclosure
My wife frequently puts one of those hanayama metal puzzles in my stocking, and I’ve always enjoyed getting those.
The source device (the steam machine in this case) will check with the display and see what the highest HDMI standard they both support is. It may also check if your splitter supports it, but I suspect the splitter is just a passthrough device.
While the steam machine might not be able to run super demanding titles at 4k 120hz+, there’s no reason it couldn’t do that for lower demand titles like indie games or older games. The physical hardware is HDMI 2.1 capable and can use those higher resolutions/fps if the device is running windows, so this is entirely the HDMI Forum limiting the capabilities of the device because it’s an open source device.
The HDMI version is what determines how much bandwidth you have available.
HDMI 2.0 has a max of 18GB/s bandwidth, which is why the Steam Machine has to do chroma subsampling to go above 4k@60Hz. HDMI 2.1 ups that bandwidth to 48GB/s, allowing higher resolution/refresh rate.
The physical hardware is HDMI 2.1 capable and can do that if the device is running windows, so this is entirely the HDMI Forum limiting the capabilities of the device because it’s an open source device.
Yes, especially after the recent performance update.