I bought a steam deck and I’m excited b it after doing so much research, I feel like I regret buying it.

[TheRealSlimShady]

I’m new to steam deck. I don’t have a pc and I usually play on the ps5 and I enjoy it a lot. I was looking for something more portable and on the go. I first couldn’t decide if I should get the steam deck or Rog ally. I ended getting the steam deck. Again, I’m so new to the PC gaming. I was not really sure what I was getting myself into.

I was looking on the steam app and I was thinking that any game I see on the app I would be able to play on the steam deck. I came to find out that you can’t play some games on steam deck and I’m kind of disappointed.

I was looking forward to play “bodycam”, “undisputed” and “ready or not” but I’ve been researching that these games crash a lot or can’t even be played on steam deck.

I kind of regret purchasing a steam deck but I’m not sure if I’m overthinking it.

I do understand that some games can’t be played like “Warzone” which I’m totally fine with because that’s why I have my ps5 for.

I bought the stupid ps portal too and I hate it and that’s why I came across the steam deck.

By the way, I haven’t received my steam deck yet. I’m still waiting for it to come in.

[Haruspex]

Welcome to Steam Deck ownership and PC gaming.

Originally posted by guardiolaisaac:

I was looking forward to play “bodycam”, “undisputed” and “ready or not” but I’ve been researching that these games crash a lot or can’t even be played on steam deck.

Hmm. This is really the sort of research you should have done before pressing that buy button. For me, the only one of those games I've tried on my Deck is "Ready or Not". Some maps are a good experience and run well. Others not so much. These aren't really the kinds of games I typically enjoy on a handheld though.

Originally posted by guardiolaisaac:

I do understand that some games can’t be played like “Warzone” which I’m totally fine with because that’s why I have my ps5 for.

This is good. There are a few games with aggressive anti-cheat that just don't work on the Deck, so you're going into it with the right mindset at least. A lot of the early complaints here were from people who bought a Deck to play something like Fortnite, which I compare to buying a Super Nintendo to play Sonic 2.

I recommend you treat it like it's a console, at least at first. Not like a PC. On a console, the games available are the games available. There are thousands of games on Steam marked as Verified or Playable on Steam Deck. If you stick to those initially until you settle in and get comfortable with the device, you are basically guaranteed to have a good experience.

When you feel bold enough to start branching out and looking at emulators, or running non-Steam games, or other game launchers, rely on the community. There's a ton of community support for this thing, and if you can be patient enough to follow a guide, you'll be okay. For starters, it's not just Verified/Playable games that play well on the Deck. In my experience most Steam games will just work without any coercing. Check out ProtonDB[www.protondb.com] for a crowd-sourced place to see how well you can expect a game to run, plus tips on how to get certain games that don't run out of the box working. Chances are though that if you just install a game anyway and try it, it will most likely work just fine.

You might want to start with Aperture Desk Job.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902490/Aperture_Desk_Job/

It's free, made with the Deck specifically in mind, and will help familiarize you with the Deck's controls.

You may also find that the Steam Deck is a better Playstation Portal than the Playstation Portal thanks to Chiaki4Deck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpnXsSB533I&t=1s

Another helpful tip is if you are wondering how a game might run/play on the Deck, just pull up a Youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpSchIQ5IiI

[tfk]

https://www.protondb.com/app/1451190?device=steamDeck

[Mahjik]

Bodycam is still in development so who knows how the final version will perform.

Many, many years ago, developers used to take time and optimize their games for lower performing devices. At the time, those were laptops (they initially couldn't do games). Lately, devs have either gotten lazy or publishers have not allowed time for optimizations and they just expect users to continue to upgrade their devices to play their games.

Valve intentionally is not releasing newer, fasters Decks as they want to entice developers to get back to way things used to be... i.e. not an arms race in gaming.

What all that means is that if you don't believe in Valves premise, you won't be happy with the Deck. For those devs that just don't care, those game will not run well on the Deck. Bodycam is looking to be one of those.

[Prezidentas]

I play ready or not on Linux and it doesn't crash.

[[?]legit]

Originally posted by guardiolaisaac:

I was looking forward to play “bodycam”, “undisputed” and “ready or not” but I’ve been researching that these games crash a lot or can’t even be played on steam deck.

I kind of regret purchasing a steam deck but I’m not sure if I’m overthinking it.

Overthinking? Bodycam lists a i79700k and an RTX2070 as minimal specs, the deck doesn't even remotely have the power to run this game.

Undisputed is unsupported for the steam deck. Looks more like you didn't think enough about it.

Also, if you never had any experience with PC gaming, prepare for a rough start, especially on the steam deck. PC gaming can be a real hassle compared to the simplicity of console gaming. Unfortunately the steam deck is a lot more complicated than "regular" pc gaming. Good luck!

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by ?legit:

Overthinking? Bodycam lists a i79700k and an RTX2070 as minimal specs, the deck doesn't even remotely have the power to run this game.

Undisputed is unsupported for the steam deck. Looks more like you didn't think enough about it.

Also, if you never had any experience with PC gaming, prepare for a rough start, especially on the steam deck. PC gaming can be a real hassle compared to the simplicity of console gaming. Unfortunately the steam deck is a lot more complicated than "regular" pc gaming. Good luck!

For once I partially agree with you, but I do disagree with the abrasive manner in which you present it. It is important to do your research ahead of time when purchasing any piece of gaming hardware, and the Steam Deck is no exception. What do you expect from the device? Will it meet your needs?

I will say that system requirements don't always tell the whole story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbfyHHNJOE
As you can see here, I would count undisputed as "playable", but only just, and depending on your tolerance for low FPS you might disagree. This would be a reasonable assessment. As we go forward, the newest and most demanding games will become less and less playable until a Steam Deck 2 comes out with more power.

Here's Bodycam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NOv8nTSJps
It looks pretty rough with FPS in the 20s sometimes dipping into the teens. I'm not sure I could enjoy the game like that, so I wouldn't call this a good experience.

Your last point is why I usually recommend Steam Deck users new to PC gaming in general treat it like a console at first by staying in game mode and sticking mostly to verified or at least playable titles.. It's certainly not more complex when you do this, and the experience is about as seamless and console-like as you can get. It's when you want to branch out beyond this with third party launchers, non-Steam games, mods, custom versions of Proton, and so on that things get "complicated", but even then having a little patience, doing your research and following available guides carefully will go a long way. A nice thing about the Steam Deck is that once you go through this process once and get something working the way you like, you typically don't have to do it again. From there it goes back to being that dead-simple console like experience.

[invision2212]

if you primarily play first person shooters than the deck is going to severely disappoint you.
it just doesnt have the hardware to push those games to high FPS to compete online.
also look into the Lenovo Legion go, its a great handheld that easily outperforms the steam deck.

[Prezidentas]

the legion go simply uses more power to achieve the higher framerates, so for portable use you won't be playing such games on legion device either. also, for first person games you need trackpads, and only steam deck has proper trackpads.

[🌎Earth]

Keep in mind that just because Valve deems a game as unplayable and labels it as such, doesn't always mean it's not going to work on the Deck.

I play tons of "unsupported" games like Q3 Team Arena, the old Unreal tournaments and Hexen 2 and others. Sometimes they just haven't had time to play those games, or their rating gets knocked because the developer doesn't support the Deck for online, or over something more trivial.

So yeah, research will really be your friend here. ProtonDB is a great site for you to check out where Deck and Linux users share their experiences with certain games on these devices.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by 🌎Earth:

Keep in mind that just because Valve deems a game as unplayable and labels it as such, doesn't always mean it's not going to work on the Deck.

I play tons of "unsupported" games like Q3 Team Arena, the old Unreal tournaments and Hexen 2 and others. Sometimes they just haven't had time to play those games, or their rating gets knocked because the developer doesn't support the Deck for online, or over something more trivial.

So yeah, research will really be your friend here. ProtonDB is a great site for you to check out where Deck and Linux users share their experiences with certain games on these devices.

I know a few publishers that had knee-jerk reactions to submit their game as "unsupported" even though it worked fine. They were afraid that they were going to have to dedicate special attention to ensure it worked. They didn't realize that Valve had pretty much already done all the work for them.

Konami did this with the Castlevania collections here. That's since been rectified.

[invision2212]

Originally posted by Prezidentas:

the legion go simply uses more power to achieve the higher framerates, so for portable use you won't be playing such games on legion device either. also, for first person games you need trackpads, and only steam deck has proper trackpads.

so nobody on Playstation or Xbox can play first person shooters because none of those consoles have track pads? cmon man........

ive also posted a bunch of my own videos showing how the Lenovo Legion go outperforms the deck in games at 15w using the same settings

deck......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5E6l0POY2M&t=567s

Legion Go....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_MF3EHN3gI

[[?]legit]

Originally posted by Prezidentas:

the legion go simply uses more power to achieve the higher framerates, so for portable use you won't be playing such games on legion device either. also, for first person games you need trackpads, and only steam deck has proper trackpads.

You don't need track pads for fps games, you never needed them and you'll probably never need them in the future, especially if in this tiny size from the steam deck.

[[?]legit]

Originally posted by 🌎Earth:

Keep in mind that just because Valve deems a game as unplayable and labels it as such, doesn't always mean it's not going to work on the Deck.

I play tons of "unsupported" games like Q3 Team Arena, the old Unreal tournaments and Hexen 2 and others. Sometimes they just haven't had time to play those games, or their rating gets knocked because the developer doesn't support the Deck for online, or over something more trivial.

So yeah, research will really be your friend here. ProtonDB is a great site for you to check out where Deck and Linux users share their experiences with certain games on these devices.

And in return there games, which are labled with the highest rating as deck verified, but have actually a very bad experience on the deck.

The whole system is a bad joke, OP is going to be shocked how much of a joke PC gaming is on the steam deck, especially when he finds out that some "unsupported" games would run perfectly fine under another OS. Warzone is one of these games.

[Drak3]

Originally posted by ?legit:

Unfortunately the steam deck is a lot more complicated than "regular" pc gaming. Good luck!

Only if you make the conscious effort to to make the Deck more complicated. Which isn't remotely necessary for 90% of people, it's simpler than running Windows on other handhelds.

[invision2212]

Originally posted by Drak3:

Originally posted by ?legit:

Unfortunately the steam deck is a lot more complicated than "regular" pc gaming. Good luck!

Only if you make the conscious effort to to make the Deck more complicated. Which isn't remotely necessary for 90% of people, it's simpler than running Windows on other handhelds.

In the 2 years I’ve own the deck, I’ve had to tinker with way more games than windows.