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.

It seems sort of a waste of resources to use a steam deck as a stationary device. However, I don’t think there is a really large market for a console-like steam machine.

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

As of this source, the difference is merely 3% in performance. Not worth it, IMO.

I found a price info in the forums:

What price I can expect? Base Model 7840u 16GB/512GB will be 499$ or 4099 CNY Base Model 8840u 16GB/512GB will be 599$ or 4499 CNY

Edit: The same source says there is a touch screen

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?

https://join-lemmy.org/instances says that there are 41k monthly active users.

The 7520u’s performance is roughly a quarter of the Steam Deck’s, making it suboptimal for gaming. However, I came across this video demonstrating the CPU running Cyberpunk 2077 at 13 fps, albeit not playable. Considering this, it suggests that CS2 should be playable; there might be issues with drivers or the CS2 installation.

Sseems like quite a large release.