Where do you primarily play your Steam games?
playing them on steam deck.
or two of the games on my brothers pc
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winter is when i play games that stress my pc the most
who needs a heater???
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Im still primarily on potato. tho i just built a 9800x3d PC...
that said, the GPU is a r9 290, so maybe i can still say potato until i get a card whose age isnt measured in decades
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deck is nice but its got a lot of problems with the OS and steam takes ages to fix things.....
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I chose desktop because I feel that's more descriptive but I'm definitely in the potato tier at this point, my PC is from 2013 and the last time I upgraded anything in it was in 2015 or 16. My laptop is newer (2018 I think) but it is so underpowered that my phone can beat it sometimes, it has a slow AF i3 with an iGPU so crappy that it feels like a joke... still use it for gaming occasionally because 2D indie games don't ask for much.
BTW did you know you can run PC games on an android phone these days? x86 emulation on ARM has improved a lot in recent times, although you do need it to have an Adreno GPU to get good results, performance and compatibility for Mali is all over the place, or at least I haven't had particularly good ones. I'm hoping for DXVK support to improve over time, with a bit of luck it might get as solid in Android as it is in Linux one day.
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with a bit of luck it might get as solid in Android as it is in Linux one day.
Possibly. But aren't you generally locked into specific closed hw setups most of the time on Android? (vs PC you can upgrade more modularly, laptops too to some extent). I only really have Android on my phone and couple embedded devices so I could be uninformed / misunderstanding. I would also consider my phone as a definite potato in terms of being able to play anything more than emulated retro games and browser puzzles on it
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Oh yeah you're stuck with what it came, but to be fair when we're talking about a device small enough to fit in a pocket that seems like a pretty unavoidable thing, if they tried to add more modularity to the design they'd need to make it larger which doesn't seem to be something any manufacturer is willing to do right now.
It's not like I have much experience with Android outside of phones either, I do have one of those TV boxes hooked to my TV and I honestly kinda hate the fact that it uses Android because it's really not ideal for that use.
I was previously just talking about how the few projects floating around trying to make Windows games run on Android through a sandwich of compatibility layers and emulation seem to target Adreno GPU's always with a custom driver and Mali (the GPU used by most cheaper phones) support is an afterthought at most, so performance and compatibility take a huge blow even when trying to run pretty old games that shouldn't be all that demanding, when I was messing around with that (last time was like a year ago) my hope was to use my phone to play some of my GOG library but after realizing that even Rayman 2 or Bit.Trip Runner were not running well enough to be enjoyable despite trying different versions of Winlator and a bunch of different settings I gave up. No clue of how some people manage to get Steam with modern indie games going on it when I managed to wreck the whole installation just by changing some graphical settings.
And yeah I also mostly play puzzle games and emulated retro games on my phone :P
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Ah ok, thanks for the explanation.
No clue of how some people manage to get Steam with modern indie games going on it ...
No clue there either. Tbh, outside of a few select games, I also wouldn't know how to play on phone using only touchscreen... I'm terrible w gestures and have been known to use controller remap sw on desktop to get more complex controller mappings.
That said, I know there's an app on F-Droid called AnLinux which according to the description lets you
Run Linux On Android Without Root Access
Possibly there are other ways to do the same thing (I am aware it can be done but have never really looked into it). So I guess one possibility would be running Windows games on Linux on Android but that sounds horribly inefficient so probably not lol
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I get you, also never managed to get used to on-screen controls for most games, I have a bluetooth keyboard and a bt controller for my phone, although to be fair I never use the keyboard. But in Winlator after you set up a desktop it uses the whole screen as a touchpad to control the pointer so it's like using a laptop, except it's missing the secondary click, they really managed to figure out a reasonable way to use a Windows-like desktop interface on a phone's screen. I even saw comments from people using it to run old versions of MS Office instead of games, but I assume those were using something with a larger screen like a tablet.
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What if it's a potato laptop, which should I pick ?!!!!
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Mine's old enough that when I look at some of the newer games, it's starting to feel more and more like a potato (fx 9590 + gtx 970 + 32gb ram / 13ish yrs old). But since I can still play most things I picked desktop.
Next fresh install, I'm going to switch to xfce (desktop option on linux) so hopefully that'll give me a very slight boost.
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