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expired Posted by phatsk807 • Jan 8, 2025
Jan 8, 2025 4:47 PM
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But again, those are just early information. We will need real benchmark to make any judgement.
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Regardless of that, the unit never knew if it wanted to run in gamepad mode or desktop mode. Applications would crash constantly. Slime Rancher results in a frozen black screen every time you loaded it. Emu controls were a mess. Charging it results in it turning into a strobe light. It would turn off/on all night long. Sleep mode never worked, it would turn on by itself. It would log me out of windows constantly closing all my apps. Touch screen unresponsive very often. If you turned the screen off, it would die in 2 hours. It would also die in an hour playing Roblox from full battery. Roblox constantly had errors logging you out. Navigating windows was a nightmare. And it would randomly turn itself completely off constantly. This was all happening running retro Nintendo emus, slime rancher, Stardew Valley, and Roblox. No high resource games.
I ordered a Steam Deck. I am awaiting it's arrival. From what I've read, SteamOS is build specifically for the device so it is much more seemeless. Just sharing my experience. Maybe mine was defective.
Regardless of that, the unit never knew if it wanted to run in gamepad mode or desktop mode. Applications would crash constantly. Slime Rancher results in a frozen black screen every time you loaded it. Emu controls were a mess. Charging it results in it turning into a strobe light. It would turn off/on all night long. Sleep mode never worked, it would turn on by itself. It would log me out of windows constantly closing all my apps. Touch screen unresponsive very often. If you turned the screen off, it would die in 2 hours. It would also die in an hour playing Roblox from full battery. Roblox constantly had errors logging you out. Navigating windows was a nightmare. And it would randomly turn itself completely off constantly. This was all happening running retro Nintendo emus, slime rancher, Stardew Valley, and Roblox. No high resource games.
I ordered a Steam Deck. I am awaiting it's arrival. From what I've read, SteamOS is build specifically for the device so it is much more seemeless. Just sharing my experience. Maybe mine was defective.
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it's up for customers to decide which brand are they going to buy.
Regardless of that, the unit never knew if it wanted to run in gamepad mode or desktop mode. Applications would crash constantly. Slime Rancher results in a frozen black screen every time you loaded it. Emu controls were a mess. Charging it results in it turning into a strobe light. It would turn off/on all night long. Sleep mode never worked, it would turn on by itself. It would log me out of windows constantly closing all my apps. Touch screen unresponsive very often. If you turned the screen off, it would die in 2 hours. It would also die in an hour playing Roblox from full battery. Roblox constantly had errors logging you out. Navigating windows was a nightmare. And it would randomly turn itself completely off constantly. This was all happening running retro Nintendo emus, slime rancher, Stardew Valley, and Roblox. No high resource games.
I ordered a Steam Deck. I am awaiting it's arrival. From what I've read, SteamOS is build specifically for the device so it is much more seemeless. Just sharing my experience. Maybe mine was defective.
That made me laugh. That is what I tell my Grandpa when he is having tech issues. He will blame it on anything but himself when 9/10, it's a user issue 😃
But again, those are just early information. We will need real benchmark to make any judgement.
I agree wait for benchmarks. So much of the user experience actually comes down to energy efficiency which is why Steam Deck has done so well when it is on paper weaker than all these recent competitors.
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I am unsure what settings would resolve games crashing every time you load them. A 10+ year old game would soft lock the device every time it loaded. Stardew Valley lagged the whole time I played it and would result in a black screen or windows just exiting it completely for no reason. The constant logging out and shutting down, what setting would resolve that? Also, the screen constantly flashing and the joystick lights turning off/on while charging all night what setting is that?
It was quite literally the worst piece of tech I have ever purchased. I was convinced it was a fault device but I didn't want to exchange it incase it wasn't.
Edit: The black screen issue is actually a known issue on what seems to be a small, but still significant amount of units exclusively on the X. An exchange/RMA has a good chance of ridding the issue.
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I shut off the joystick lights in Armory Crate. They still flashed while charging, all night. Every 1-6 minutes the screen would light up and the joystick lights would start tweaking. I'd wake up to a device fully lit up and logged into Windows.
A device shouldn't need a RMA out of the box. If a $500 MSRP "gaming" device can't run a 10 year old game out of the box yeah that will start to create a bias. Add that on it being hardly able to function for longer than 20 minutes, I believe that would make up most peoples minds.