@@ -50,19 +50,18 @@ download go ^^
5050Unfortunately, yesterday was Thursday, meaning today is Friday, not the weekend,
5151and so I had to wait until after work to try it out.
5252
53- My Steam Deck is my main gaming machine these days (if it can be called that), I
54- haven't had time nor budget to build a desktop PC, so I was somewhat worried
55- about whether the beta would even run:
53+ My Steam Deck is my main gaming machine these days, I haven't had time nor
54+ budget to build a desktop PC, so I was somewhat worried about whether the beta
55+ would even run:
5656
57- 1 . It's the Steam Deck and MH Wilds recommends turning on AI Frame Generation,
58- _ even for 1080p 60fps! _ The Steam Deck is very nice and convenient, but a
59- graphics powerhouse it is not...
57+ 1 . MH Wilds recommends turning on AI Frame Generation, _ even for 1080p 60fps! _
58+ The Steam Deck is very nice and convenient, but a graphics powerhouse it is
59+ not...
60602 . The Steam Deck runs Linux. Although Valve has done borderline miraculous
6161 things with respect to compatibility layers and interop between Windows games
6262 and their little Linux box, we are talking about the beta version of a PS5
6363 game ported to PC assumed to be running Windows. I was asking a lot of
64- several potentially brittle moving parts here, and fully expected to be
65- disappointed.
64+ several brittle moving parts here, and fully expected to be disappointed.
6665
6766I am so happy I was wrong! The game _ just worked_ (!!) out of the box. Download
6867the ~ 29GB; click "Play"; game UI loads (I'd already made it further than I
@@ -72,8 +71,8 @@ this be actually working??); and camera, lights, action! Well. Almost. Turns out
7271even though I had said "no" to enabling frame generation, the graphics settings
7372still had it turned on, and the Steam Deck doesn't support frame generation as
7473far as I know. But the menus were running, just not with a game preview as the
75- background, so I could easily navigate to the right setting and change it to
76- "Off" myself.
74+ background, so I could navigate to the right setting and change it to "Off"
75+ myself.
7776
7877Ladies and gentlemen, we got graphical backgrounds on the menus!
7978
@@ -82,8 +81,8 @@ playing the introductory campaign. Does it run? Yes! Amazingly? No, it's the
8281Steam Deck. But it _ does_ run! I got ~ 16-20 fps stable in the environment,
8382occasionally maybe dipping down to 10 during fights, but no "slide show"
8483stutters which prevented me from reacting, it always ran smoothly (for a
85- suitable definition of that word). I also did not expect any flickering of the
86- whole image, something other Linux users had reported, so overall I consider
84+ suitable definition of that word). I also did not experience any flickering of
85+ the whole image, something other Linux users had reported, so overall I consider
8786this a massive success! Sure, the visuals are all set to either "off", "low", or
8887"lowest" (yep, there's one worse setting for some of them ^^;;) but hey, it
8988actually runs!
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