If you have an OLED deck, the LB button switch is actually part of the joystick, and is very easy to replace. There could also be something wrong with the button mechanism, you’ll have to look and see.

If you have an LCD deck, the LB button switch is actually on the same daughter board as the dpad/etc and will be harder to replace.

The issue with the first one is that it loses basic controller functionality for the touchpads. Many games that come with controller support don’t work well on it without adjusting the controls.

The new steam controller should be fully functional as a standard controller, while having a lot more capabilities when the user can use them.

They linked a news post that both announces GK2, and also announces that the first game is free for a limited time.

They’re giving the first game away to advertise the second, so naturally they would GK2 to be the main focus of the announcement.

I suspect Valve’s primary goal is giving realistic fps estimates for Steam Deck/Machine/Frame. With those having fixed hardware, it should be a decent way to know if its even possible to run a game at an acceptable frame rate on those devices.

It’s usefulness to other hardware will vary, we’ll have to wait and see how helpful it actually is.

The 2 hour of gameplay / 2 week ownership refund window isn’t going anywhere, which is where almost all refunds happen.

There’s a lot of good scanner software, but I’ll mention that Google drive (which is probably already installed on your phone) has a quality document scanner built in. Just click the camera next to the “+” button. You can also make a drive scanner shortcut to go directly on your home screen.

Steam recently started giving people the option to share fps/hardware details for games. So it should be real data from real users who have opted in.

Steam’s fps overlay can show base frames and generated frames separately, so I’m assuming they’ll be able to only show base frames.

They may be able say something like “50% or users run the game at 30fps, 40% at 40fps” or something like that, where you can guess about different settings people are running at.

The biggest thing is just knowing whether it’s possible to run the game on your hardware at the minimum acceptable fps. If average fps for a steam deck game is 25, you know it doesn’t run well. If a significant number of deck users are able to average a higher fps than 30 (40-60), you know the deck can run it decently and you’ll have options besides running everything on the lowest setting.

Yeah, and it makes a ton of sense for Steam Deck/Machine/Frame

The Steam Deck is pretty easy to start while unplugged.

I believe so, but the mic is muted by default. You can set a back button to ctrl+m to toggle the mute I believe.

This is for streaming from a PlayStation to the Steam Deck, there is no SteamOS compatible official streaming software.

My understanding is common practice is for people to log onto the gaming cafe computers with their own account, and then log out of steam when they’re done. So the same computer may have a bunch of different steam accounts log in and get surveyed on the same day.

Here’s the original source: Perry Bible Fellowship - Endgame

PBF comics don’t update regularly anymore, but they’re pretty great. It’s worth your time to check out the backlog if you never have.

You might try pinning gpu speed or setting a fixed cpu speed (through powertools if installed). It can fix some games that have drops when they shouldn’t, at the cost of slightly worse battery life.

That makes a lot of sense.

It runs pretty good. I reduced a few of the less noticeable graphical settings (like shadow quality), and locked the frame rate at 40fps. It can hit 60 a lot of the time, but 40 keeps it very consistent.

At default high settings it can probably run at 30fps the whole game.

Sounds good, the crash before would happen between 30 min and 1 hr. It depended on your settings some too, people targeting higher graphical quality at 30fps would crash a lot faster than someone trying to reduce visuals for higher fps.

It’s a really good game. It used to have a memory leak on integrated GPUs (like the Deck and laptops) that would cause full Deck crashes after awhile. Hopefully zRAM has fixed that, if the game didn’t fix the memory leak itself.