Less than 24 hours of ownership, I am returning.

Steam Deck

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Romonaga 2022 年 9 月 9 日上午 4:48

Less than 24 hours of ownership, I am returning.

1 year I waited for what I had hoped would be a fantastic handheld portable gaming system. I finally receive mine and it is not at all what i expected.

The product claims 2-8 hours of battery depending on what you play. 2 hours is all I asked, heck even 1/2 hours would have been acceptable. However, playing a game that is recommended to run the device (Spider-Man remastered) was not able to run for 1 hour.

In asking for advice from people, it was suggested to tweak performance settings. So I did this and was able to get an extra 10 minutes out of the device.

Let me be clear, I expected the device to operate as stated and last 2 hours at least, if I wanted to mes with the performance settings it would be to get more battery than the advertised amount. So all these suggestions to downgrade the device, while useful, miss the point.

The other issue is the heat, the device on the bottom was too hot to touch, so hot that if you were to place it on skin it would leave a mark.

As the device is heating up, the screen starts getting amp glow. In the upper right hand corner you start to see colors that do not match and a rainbow of colors indicating heat is messing with the electronics.

I realize that as early adapters of a product we suffer its growing pains, this I am used too. But there are simply to many red-flags for me.

Here is hoping the version 2 of the device will fix the defects that we will all find with version 1 of this kit.

I do thank people for the suggestions and help. For now, I will stay tethered to my PC.

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Kaivian 2022 年 9 月 9 日下午 12:21

Not defending the product here, but I'm not seeing the issues you're talking about on the games I've played. It gets toasty on some games (like a heat pad) but nothing that would worry me about burns or "marks." I wonder if yours is defective? Something like a component (cpu or gpu) that passed a shorter test (the kind they do at the end of a factory line), but is "failing" on a prolonged test.

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crash_ override 2022 年 9 月 9 日下午 12:43

So apparently it’s the actual 1 unit itself because hounds of people maybe thousands on YouTube reviewd the Deck and they get more than an hour without over heating issues . Maybe it’s your lack of knowledge on how to tinker with settings or maybe you just don’t want to mess with the settings . It’s a portable PC and every game as different configuration, if you don’t like messing with any of that just stci to console gaming. IJS.

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d[-_-]b 2022 年 9 月 9 日下午 4:28

引用自 Lauren：
I'm having similar issues. Windows 11 helped a bit but there's missing drivers. Valve really dropped the ball hard.

they dropped the ball by making basic drivers for an unsupported OS >?
valve use steamOS. Thats where the focus is and should be.

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Hiro 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 8:54

引用自 Lauren：
I'm having similar issues. Windows 11 helped a bit but there's missing drivers. Valve really dropped the ball hard.

Lauren, I hope you are getting paid by M$ to be that much of a "simp"...

They did make working drivers for an unsupported O.S., which ball was dropped here?

最後修改者：Hiro; 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 8:54

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Skullmonkey 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 9:20

Don't buy a handheld device and expect to run modern AAA PC games on the battery for more than a couple of hours, in fact don't run modern AAA PC games then complain about anything because you are choosing to run the devices lifespan into the ground by doing this, run it off the mains ffs.

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Prezidentas 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 9:56

引用自 Skullmonkey X：
Don't buy a handheld device and expect to run modern AAA PC games on the battery for more than a couple of hours, in fact don't run modern AAA PC games then complain about anything because you are choosing to run the devices lifespan into the ground by doing this, run it off the mains ffs.

the battery is a consumable. the device's lifespan is unaffected.

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Belaptir 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 9:59

引用自 Red Star Gopnik：
引用自 Skullmonkey X：
Don't buy a handheld device and expect to run modern AAA PC games on the battery for more than a couple of hours, in fact don't run modern AAA PC games then complain about anything because you are choosing to run the devices lifespan into the ground by doing this, run it off the mains ffs.
the battery is a consumable. the device's lifespan is unaffected.

I might want to differ in a small particular: the battery lifespan has nothing to do with the device's lifespan. That much is true. But running AAA games making the steam deck going into thermal throttling continuously might not be a good idea for it.

#37

Prezidentas 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 10:08

引用自 Belaptir：
引用自 Red Star Gopnik：
the battery is a consumable. the device's lifespan is unaffected.

I might want to differ in a small particular: the battery lifespan has nothing to do with the device's lifespan. That much is true. But running AAA games making the steam deck going into thermal throttling continuously might not be a good idea for it.

why should it go into thermal throttling?

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Belaptir 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 10:19

引用自 Red Star Gopnik：
引用自 Belaptir：

I might want to differ in a small particular: the battery lifespan has nothing to do with the device's lifespan. That much is true. But running AAA games making the steam deck going into thermal throttling continuously might not be a good idea for it.
why should it go into thermal throttling?

Some AAA games will have that effect, specially if you don't lower down a bit the settings. Some badly optimized indies will too.

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AH-1 Cobra 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 10:28

The Steam Deck is an 11w wonder. You lower the settings and cap the frame rates to try and get the system to run in the 11w range, and then you'll get plenty of battery life. If you can get 30fps at 11w, but 40fps costs you 25w, if you're concerned at all about battery life then you need to maximize your experience for 11w. Steam deck is a 30-40fps machine. If you want a 60fps machine, you're gonna have to pay more for something like a GPD Win Max 2 which runs about $1000-$1200.

最後修改者：AH-1 Cobra; 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 10:30

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Kaivian 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 11:47

引用自 crimsonedge11：
The Steam Deck is an 11w wonder. You lower the settings and cap the frame rates to try and get the system to run in the 11w range, and then you'll get plenty of battery life. If you can get 30fps at 11w, but 40fps costs you 25w, if you're concerned at all about battery life then you need to maximize your experience for 11w. Steam deck is a 30-40fps machine. If you want a 60fps machine, you're gonna have to pay more for something like a GPD Win Max 2 which runs about $1000-$1200.

(Warning, sarcasm alert) Steam dropped the ball! They didn't even fit a $1700 3090 ti card into their handheld device that costs $400! It doesn't have drivers for Mac OS! Plus, occasionally a defective one makes it way to the customers, where all they do is replace it with a working one! Not to mention, they could have put in a Stark Enterprise arc reactor so I don't have to charge it!

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нιт◈ᴘᴏιɴᴛ 2022 年 9 月 10 日上午 11:57

Imagine returning your steam deck because a remastered AAA game couldn't run perfectly on a little handheld.

oh well, steam deck a valve employee can turn around for 400$ profit, your loss.

最後修改者：нιт◈ᴘᴏιɴᴛ; 2022 年 9 月 10 日下午 12:00

#42

Ussul w+m1 2022 年 9 月 10 日下午 1:21

it lasts me whole weekend playing indie/2D games. For AAA 3D games I have pc. Not expecting battery operated device outperform pc or notebook. Use common sense please.

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invision2212 2022 年 9 月 10 日下午 1:39

引用自 Belaptir：
引用自 Red Star Gopnik：
why should it go into thermal throttling?
Some AAA games will have that effect, specially if you don't lower down a bit the settings. Some badly optimized indies will too.

ive never had this problem and ive played upwards of 5hrs playing all sorts of AAA games

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