Valve announces Steam Deck OLED refresh: Pre-orders start Nov. 16th.
Valve announces Steam Deck OLED refresh: Pre-orders start Nov. 16th.
Refresh features include: OLED HDR 90 hz Better battery life (50wh vs 40wh) Cooler Lighter Even better performance, even though not advertised by Valve! (because of the better DDR memory 6400mt/s vs 55000mt/s) Bigger screen
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Works this be any good for Sim City 3000, The Sims, or Civilization 3?
Depends. How techy are you? None of those games are officially supported on the Steam Deck, but Valve lets you dig around under the hood and install whatever you want. However, anything that isn't on Steam and officially supported will require some work for you to get running. That said, you can play just about anything on the Deck if you're willing to put in the time. The touchpads make the Deck very capable on traditionally kb/m games.
Ah I was wondering how mouse emulation worked
Can you play noon steam games at all, like is there a dev mode like how Chromebooks had?
There is a full desktop mode available, it runs Linux so any game that can be made to run on Linux will work.
Those games can be made to ruin on Linux
Then you should be good! As long as you're prepared to do the work to make them run.
For what it is worth, I’ve had a few games that weren’t officially supported so I just turned on the Proton setting and it’s worked so far. Online multiplayer seems to be a sticking point though due to anti-cheat.
I'm not an online gamer, I just want to play the games I've been playing for 15 years
@EmergMemeHologram @vanderbilt looks like a good choice to me :)
It's really mostly EAC and Co nowadays that are blockers. And this is not because there is no support per se. It has to be allowed though because this stuff does indeed detect that it's not a "real Windows".
Stupid launchers are also trouble sometimes. Looking at you EA!
Anyway, a good source to tell is still the protondb. What's listed there usually works on the Steam Deck too. Or has workarounds explained.