The battery info was already working for me on desktop mode. It even has a nice bubble when the battery of the controller is low.

Glad that this is coming to game mode, too.

Thanks you for the clarification!

According to Wikipedia, there are less than 5000 games for nintendo switch, while the Steam Deck is far beyond 10k games.

Jetzt sind also in Deutschland auch 800 Watt erlaubt, in Österreich war es das schon länger.

Aber wozu die Limitierung der Panele? Bzw. wer stellt sich 2 kW Panele hin, aber nur einen 800w Wechselrichter?

Just guessing, I really don’t expect a Steam Deck release this year. But 2025 seems quite likely to me.

Edit: Maybe the next Steam Deck will be based on Zen 6? It is expected roughly two years after the Steam Deck OLED release.

The Zen6 architecture might adopt an advanced manufacturing process, potentially combining 3nm and 2nm technologies, to further enhance performance and efficiency. The expected launch of the Zen6 “Medusa” CPUs is projected for the 2025-2026 period, showcasing AMD’s strategic planning for future developments. - Source

Back then I was on reddit every week to find out when I might be able to order the steam deck. I got mine in may or june if memory serves me right.

I’m so sorry this hurts your eyes.

This Dock works perfectly for me, also with an adapter to DVI.

This looks great! It would be even better if they improve the handling of multiple accounts on the steam deck.

I bought the steamdock from Skull & Co. This dock works fine, however it does have very few connectors (USB-A, HDMI, USB-C).

It’s also nice that you can easily return games if they don’t run well on your system (at least with steam).

Thanks for the suggestion, after switching Bluetooth off and on again, both controllers are able to connect again. This is at lot faster than removing and pairing.

Still unclear to me why this happens. Does anyone have this problem with other (non-stadia) controllers too?

Yes, I would go for the OLED. There is no OLED with 64 GB, only with 512 GB and one TB. Alternatively, you could go for the 64 GB IPS model, which is quite cheap.

Every Steam Deck can be expanded with micro SD cards. I don’t notice a difference where the game is stored, but I also don’t track startup times with a stopwatch ;) But please buy a decent micro SD card if you plan to extend your storage.

You’re right, the new open source driver does not support the 1000 series and older, only Turing (2000 series) and above.

The autotldr-bot only summarized the first page, so here are some more quotes. Basically, the performance was almost identical, with two notable exceptions.

Across a variety of demanding GPU benchmarks the NVIDIA R550 open kernel driver continued to perform on-par with the proprietary driver for these GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards.

While running Blender 4.0 the proprietary kernel driver seemed to yield slightly better performance. It was just fractions of a second but was rather consistently showing the proprietary driver having that slight advantage here, unlike in other workloads.

There was the small advantage too that during periods of brief downtime using the open kernel driver appeared to deliver slightly lower GPU power consumption than the proprietary driver.

Does anyone have an idea what’s the point with the proprietary driver now? Does it have any features missing in the open driver?

You’re right, it is probably designed for china.

Even if you managed to activate them, they would probably not be useful for a gaming handheld, as they were designed for image processing.

Bluetooth works fine for me, just as you would expect it. But I don’t know about your specific headphones.

Start with creating a steam account and start looking around. Put the games you’d like to buy on your wishlist. There is a big sale just about every two months, with smaller sales in between. Most games are heavily discounted during the sales, so waiting a few weeks can save you a lot of money.

With the steam deck, you can also play games from other stores like epic, but the setup is a little bit more complicated.

Whats the target audience for this? This looks like a cheaper copy of the steam deck, but at a similar price.