Sparky1337 hasn’t said anything about how long it had been plugged in before he saw it at 95%, so I was kinda assuming he was leaving it plugged in overnight, or leaving it docked for long amounts of time.

It was already an option in desktop mode afaik, just wasn’t part of game mode.

Lower resolution (800p or 720p) + 30fps target makes a lot of games run acceptably on the Deck. Blurry/low graphics are also a lot more acceptable on a smaller screen.

When it charges up all the way, it stops charging and just does passthrough power instead. You can then see the battery % slowly drop over time, which is probably why you were seeing stuff like 95%

I personally wouldn’t want that, at least not if it’s on a game.

Default limit when toggled on is 80%, which generally seems like a good middle ground between usability and battery life. You can also raise the limit higher if you want more battery, or lower if you want to preserve the battery life better.

I have limited experience here as well unfortunately. He shouldnt have to send you the mod files themselves, if he sends you the mod names you can download them directly in prism launcher.

You might be best off checking with @arudesalad@sh.itjust.works since he seems to have more direct experience with this.

You’ll definitely have to have most of the client side mods installed before you’ll be able to connect.

I’m not sure if there’s a code option in prism. I know that if he can give you the actual mod list, you can just manually search for an install the mods. All the modded servers I’ve played on were using a named modpack, so I just would search for that pack and install it.

I know this is a joke, but with family sharing you can pick what games get shared.

Great interview! There are two minor formatting issues, the headings for:

• ​# How do you decide which new features or improvements to prioritize?
• ​# Discord and Reddit…are there any other places you have a community? Anywhere else people can follow along with Heroic?

didn’t format correctly for some reason. No idea why since you had the # there and everything.

I think the hardest part was dealing with the community that had a few folks that were basically just trying to criticize the project on every change, even though it was free, open-source, and not using their time and effort.

It always bothers me how demanding some people can be, especially on free projects. I’ve seen a lot of criticism like this with Junk Store too, although with Junk Store it seems to be people comparing it to Heroic. It seems to me like it’s just fanboyism, people want there to be a clear best option, so and try to convince themselves/others that they picked the best option by putting down the other choices. Originally with Heroic, it was the linux face of the Epic vs Steam fight. Then, after Heroic was more widely accepted, we instead have this Heroic vs Junkstore user fight.

Right now it seems like most games are playable if they don’t use UE5 or have mandatory ray tracing. There are a few other notable exceptions like Monster Hunter Wilds (which is just terribly optimized in general) and Starfield (which actually just got a new performance options focused on low end devices, so it might work better now).

Thank you for checking it out!

A lot of Sony’s games (God of War, Spiderman, Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn) run pretty decent but will max out the power usage. Expedition 33 has been my recent favorite game, and it definitely brings my OLED down to it’s min battery life of about 2.5 hours.

Some of the Yakuza games seem to benefit a lot from a TDP limit. Seems like you can restrict the power usage quite a bit without any decrease in performance.

From what I understand, Last Epoch has an online and offline mode. If you’re playing in online mode, and you put your deck to sleep, what happens when you wake up the Deck?

Some online games just have a brief reconnecting delay, but other games (like Diablo 4 at launch) will completely kick you out or make you restart the game completely.

It’s not hard at all, if you’ve done any kind of tech disassembly before you should be good. Just make sure you don’t strip the screws (don’t use a screwdriver that’s too small, make sure it’s all the way in the screws before turning it).

You will have to either clone the drive or install SteamOS fresh on the new SSD from a USB drive. They may have fixed it, but originally the SteamOS installation/recovery USB had a software bug that would crash the wifi driver if you connect to a 5GHz wifi 6 network. So if you have a WiFi 6 network, I would suggest only connecting to the 2.4Ghz version of it until you’ve completed setup and downloaded updates.

If you clone the drive you don’t have to worry about that, but sometimes after cloning you have to realize the cloned partitions to actually take advantage of the larger drive.

If you run into any of those issues and need help, feel free to reply to me here and I’ll do my best to help out.

Seems like the UE5 games can’t get steady framerates on most hardware, but I know what you mean.

I’m definitely looking forward to steam deck 2, but I do appreciate that Valve isn’t pushing out a new one each year with slightly improved specs. And now that the nintendo switch 2 has about the same power as the steam deck, maybe we’ll see UE5 and some other engines actually try to run well at that performance level.

I just give them to friends who don’t use linux yet.

Having looked that up, I’m curious how you hold your deck with only one hand.

My big two games recently have been Blue Prince (which I made a post raving about a week ago), and Clair Obscura: Expedition 33.

Blue Prince is a fantastic puzzle game/rogue-likes mix, and as someone who enjoys both genres I’ve found their combination is fantastic. Really satisfying game for me, I didn’t close the game on my deck for about a week after first trying it. I’m not done with it yet either, lots more to discover.

Clair Obscura Expedition 33 is a really flashy turn based JRPG made by a team of 30 people who quit Ubisoft because they wanted to make good games. It has incredible production values for such a small team and puts a lot of AAA games to shame. It pushes the deck performance wise, but I think it performs acceptably after tweaking some settings. I’d recommend people follow this guide for making it run it’s best, but the TL;DW is:

The game hides some graphics settings on deck by default and uses a deck specific present. You can re-enable the settings by using the launch option SteamDeck=0 %command%, and customize it to your liking. Basically it’s TSR to low, shadow and post processing to low, film grain off, chromatica off, motion blur off, any other option to medium, FPS capped at 30.