Steam Deck (handheld from Valve) - shipping is 4-8 days from NL to UK

[Stejay]

How long do eneba take to deliver keys?  I've bought Levelhead and Toem but nothing for about ten minutes so far.  I got my PayPal receipt immediately.  The site FAQ says to check my library, but I bought the games as a guest and thus have no account / library.

[Stanley]

Does it mean your Steam library? I bought a game from them and got it pretty much instantly. 

[Gotters]

6 minutes ago, Stejay said:

How long do eneba take to deliver keys?  I've bought Levelhead and Toem but nothing for about ten minutes so far.  I got my PayPal receipt immediately.  The site FAQ says to check my library, but I bought the games as a guest and thus have no account / library.

Usually i’m logged in and get straight away on site, but should get an immediate email too with a link to get them

[Stejay]

They've just issued a refund without me doing anything....

 

EDIT: Tried again and got my codes instantly.

[Fry Crayola]

4 hours ago, Ry said:

I really want to play an old championship manager game on the deck.

 

There is Champ Man 07 and 08 on the store for cheap but not sure if.they will work. 

 

As I noted Championship Manager 2010 works, and as it's the same core underlying game as those two, I suspect they will too. 

 

Unless things have changed since the last time you asked...

 

 

 

[TheShend]

A friend who's helping me with a project has released a trailer for game I wasn't aware he was working on.
 

 

 

[Ry]

33 minutes ago, Fry Crayola said:

 

As I noted Championship Manager 2010 works, and as it's the same core underlying game as those two, I suspect they will too. 

 

Unless things have changed since the last time you asked...

 

 

 

 

I totally forgot about that.🤣

[Fry Crayola]

Did you sell a deck in the meantime, then rebuy? Or am I mistaken?

[bradigor]

53 minutes ago, TheShend said:

A friend who's helping me with a project has released a trailer for game I wasn't aware he was working on.
 

 

 

 

Wishlisted

[Siri]

Sounds like Mesa is getting there in terms of implementing the Vulkan graphics pipeline library, hopefully by the next major release in early Feb: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-GPL-Getting-Good

 

I know what you're thinking: Siri, what the fuck is this, and why should I care?

 

In short: Shader caching/stutter, or to the point, the attempt to eliminate it, for good.

 

Back in August or so, DXVK 2.0 came out, and added a feature to use this library to compile shaders during load times rather than when it draws the thing (you know, while you're playing something and then stutters the entire thing). Async still draws on demand, but does it in a way that is unobtrusive (but can generate pop-in elements).

 

Nvidia's added that pipeline to their drivers, but the RADV/Mesa drivers don't have it yet - it's being worked on between various companies, but this particular work on RADV has been led by Valve's Linux engineers.

 

As mentioned in the lead engineer's blog, the test example on DOTA 2 garners about a 50,000% improvement in shader caching, with a general aim for a compile time of 0.02ms. in other words, no shader compilation, and no stutter.

 

Or, for comparison:

 

 

So, with any luck: No more stutter, no more shader cache downloading, and no performance difference between Steam games and non-steam games.

 

I mean, hopefully. It's probably going to be shit /mukker

[Lorfarius]

But will it make Euro Truck Simulator 2 run better?

[Siri]

8 hours ago, Lorfarius said:

But will it make Euro Truck Simulator 2 run better?

 

If you're using the DX11 version when it asks on launch, and haven't connected to the internet at all for some reason or bought the game from another digital store, yes.

 

I'm guessing this question didn't really need an answer. But this sort of update to the graphics driver and DXVK helps more for DX11 games on release day, when nobody has the shader cache to share (including Valve themselves via Fossilize). And, as mentioned, any DX11 game that's outside of Steam's ecosystem that allows sharing of shader cache between users.

 

I believe DX12 (and Vulkan, alongside the compatibility layer D3D12) does shaders in a similar fashion already - on the other hand, there's only ~300 games that use DX12 according to PCGW, compared to about 3,000 of DX11 games on the market. That, and most DX12 games have their own issues with the Deck (mainly being relatively beefy boys that don't run on the fucking thing that good).

[Lorfarius]

I don't bother with any of that, just click Play Euro Sim 2 and it works.

[Gotters]

Put 90m or so into Sleeping Dogs and there is just something incredible about playing these older open world games on a handheld, dunno how long til that feeling wears off.

 

This one maintains a great frame rate up at 60fps on medium settings, you can go higher and lock at 40 if you want but will probably hammer the battery even more.

 

This type mission based open world game really lend themselves to a bit of pick up play messing around.

 

I think the vehicle handling is easily on a par with the latest GTA and the combat (at least the fighting I've done) is way more satisfying, especially grabbing enemies and doing various environmental kills. I got the definitive edition with all the DLC for around £2, which seems well worth it.

[Siri]

1 hour ago, Lorfarius said:

I don't bother with any of that, just click Play Euro Sim 2 and it works.

 

Looking into it, it reads like DX11 is the default for it, so maybe the other options are for when the game shits the bed.

 

But regardless, you'd have to be playing it in some odd way to notice a difference. DXVK 2 w/ the driver update will be more of a benefit to new and non-steam games.

 

Not that neither new or non-steam games are needed with ETS2, but it helps someone I guess!

[Gotters]

has anybody tried to get the Humble Choice library working on this ?

 

just realised as long as I'm subbed they got a library of stuff you can try out

[Siri]

1 minute ago, Gotters said:

has anybody tried to get the Humble Choice library working on this ?

 

just realised as long as I'm subbed they got a library of stuff you can try out

 

Yes, I've done it. I'll find the guide when I'm home, but it's probably somewhere in this thread already because of Signals.

[Ry]

16 hours ago, Fry Crayola said:

Did you sell a deck in the meantime, then rebuy? Or am I mistaken?

 

Na not yet. 

 

It's away for repair due to a dodge left bumper anyway. 

[Gotters]

26 minutes ago, Siri said:

 

Yes, I've done it. I'll find the guide when I'm home, but it's probably somewhere in this thread already because of Signals.

so you did, will take a read, ta

 

10m later - looks a ball ache

 

 

[Siri]

35 minutes ago, Gotters said:

so you did, will take a read, ta

 

10m later - looks a ball ache

 

Some sacrifices have to be made for free Tales From Off-Peak City.

 

Did I mention the original Off-Peak is wild, rad, and totally free to play? And there's three other games from that creator that are equally weird and great, including one of my favourite games of last year, Betrayal at Club Low?

 

Yes? Well, I'm saying it again. There's a demo, too. Not for Off-Peak, though. Because it's free.

 

FREEEEEEEEEE

[Nathan Wind]

8 hours ago, Gotters said:

Put 90m or so into Sleeping Dogs and there is just something incredible about playing these older open world games on a handheld, dunno how long til that feeling wears off.

 

Mad Max plays perfectly on Decko and looks amazing too! Some of the best skyboxes to this day.

[Gotters]

45 minutes ago, Nathan Wind said:

Mad Max plays perfectly on Decko and looks amazing too! Some of the best skyboxes to this day.

Yep, got that one for a couple of quid before xmas

[Stanley]

Noita is half price on Humble games (£7.74) so I bought that, no idea how to play it 

[deerokus]

I found Noita hard to control comfortably on the deck, seems to be entirely built around mouse and keyboard.

[Stanley]

It seems ok but then I’ve only moved about, levitated and fired my wand a bit, oh and died. What did you find tricky? 

[bradigor]

After completing The Last Campfire (it's wonderful and you should play it) I am moving on to Spider-Man Miles Morales. Finished the remaster last year so now feels right to start the sequel. Also means getting properly stuck into one of my secret Santa gifts.

 

Still blows my mind how well these play.

[Gotters]

I like Noita a lot, bastard hard and clearly hates the player but just fun to noodle about in and watch the physics.

 

In a similar but more accessible style is my £1.09p code shop game of the day Wildfire (also available via Humble choice library free) - quite clever stealth/platform/puzzler which is not about just jumping thru levels, you have to plan your use of the environments a bit and can't just steam in full tilt. 

 

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431940/Wildfire/

[Stanley]

Where can you buy it for £1.09? 

[Gotters]

1 minute ago, Stanley said:

Where can you buy it for £1.09? 

 

anybody not worried about having too many games needs this site bookmarked

 

https://gg.deals/game/wildfire/

 

the key shops are more of a punt than the Steam or Humble/Fanatic as you can get the odd problem with an already used code, then customer service isn't exactly Amazon levels, but if spending  a quid the risk isn't that high.

[Lorfarius]

Just bought it for £1.02! Cheers