is this really true? i’ve done my fair share of Baroque/panzer dragoon (saga/zwei) runs on my steamboy with no problems vis emudeck. You need to tweak some power settings via Decky Powertools (specifically disabling odd-numbered CPU cores (install decky! it’s good!)) or run from desktop mode in order to get a stable framerate but otherwise i’ve had a good experience
i’m not quite sure why this is the case (there are a lot of steamboy mysteries imx) but there’s like… many problems I hear other people having on a steamboy that i simply do not experience and it makes me wonder
anyways, here’s something useful:
this setup allows me to treat my steamboy as an NAS! the video description has a batch file generator that i can vouch for re: security. makes file transfers and stuff infinitely easier. There’s probably a much more elegant way to do this on a unix computer
At least 1,5 years ago I thought that installing Emudeck correctly was super complicated and it took me at least 2 hours (plus another 5+ hours to set up the emulators in a way I liked).
Maybe they made it better now but I did not have nearly have such an easy time as other people here mention
Got my Deck today, and I just booted up Baldur’s Gate 3 on this thing and my brain sort of can’t process that it’s possible for a machine that compact to manage that at all
They have got some serious engineers over at Valve, I guess
Is it from the start? I imagine things get hairy by Act 3. And I feel like there was a pretty wide range of graphics and performance over the course of the game even on PS5 so I’d be curious how a steam deck run-through feels for you.
Just at the start of the game, yeah. I’m sure it’ll chug along in the titular city if I actually get there (I really did not like the game my first time through and I may run up against the same problems). But the fact that it even boots feels incredible to me, lol
It’s playable, even in Act 3, though there is some noticeable slowdown. I ended up playing about 2/3 of BG3 sitting on my sofa with my deck, though the beginning and ending were on my desktop PC.
