Steam Deck OLED is now available : games

[-] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 31 points 6 months ago

sighs heavily in Australian

[-] MrShelbs@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

Joins the heavy sigh in Canadian

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 24 points 6 months ago

Steam deck has HDR support now, which means HDR support for AMD gpus on linux will improve at accelerated rate going forward. Nvidia users (me included) can can only look with envy I guess.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 6 months ago

Is HDR generally unavailable on Linux right now? I primarily game on a Windows desktop but I'm considering trying to make my next build in a few years the equivalent of a "Steam Deck Console" but I've been trying to anticipate issues that might make it too limited or frustrating to use.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 6 months ago

If you have an AMD GPU, the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 will have experimental HDR support. Or you can use gamescope (a compositor made by valve for steam deck) as your login session which will launch steam in big picture mode (afaik you can't run other apps except steam in this desktop session).

[-] keyez@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

I was able to grab a limited edition one almost 2 hours after release time. Was clicking through carts dozens of times and purchase pages about 5 times, what a mess.

[-] Spacecraft@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

I'm dying over this. I preloaded my steam wallet, left a meeting early, and started spamming the buy button the second it released. Couldn't get the purchase to go through for 30 minutes so I'm panicking the whole time. Turns out 5 hours later it's still in stock rofl.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

From what I could observe of the launch, it looks like they decided to not put all the stock up to grab right away, and added it little by little to spread out the load and give people more time to get a chance to get the limited edition. It actually got "out of stock" multiple times already.

[-] Spacecraft@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah looks like the case. I'm happy to see them going this route and taking steps to alleviate bots and scalpers buying them all up.

[-] SocialMediaSettler@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

If that's true, that's impressive. Kudos with Steam being ahead of the game.

[-] Lesrid@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Well shoot, I saw it was out of stock and never checked back. Oh well the colorway wouldn't really show through the protective case very well anyway

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

And they're gone.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 points 6 months ago

They're not? It's still possible to buy them.

[-] Spacecraft@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It seems like maybe they're being updated in batches on the store. I've seen it show out of stock for a few minutes and then come back in stock.

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 4 points 6 months ago

The Limited Edition model is predictably out of stock, but the other OLED models seem to be available.

[-] Ahmmeeeeeeeeed@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

i wait for steam deck 2

[-] Goronmon@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

You'll probably be waiting a while.

[-] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

This is Steam Deck 1.5. They've said Steam Deck 2 won't be for another couple years.

[-] SamBBMe@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but it's not really worth spending the money to upgrade to the OLED

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Probably not but this is a good buy for those of us who didn’t buy 1.0 for whatever reason

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

Don’t wait for the Steam Deck 3.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

But what about the Steam Deck 2 version 2?

[-] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Or Steam Deck Alyx?

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[-] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 57 points 6 months ago

Let me get this straight. Valve decides to break into a market with a niche product few people have purchased from other vendors in the past (GPD, Aya, etc), says "we want this to be affordable and just work", releases a 1.0 to test the waters, and you think their initial device should have had OLED?

I can see why you don't run any companies.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

It was led, imo more than good enough for my use, and I don't have to worry about burn in.

[-] Squeak@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

The original uses LCD, not LED.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Ah thanks, I'll try to remember this going forward.

Alas I've already forgotten, old man brain syndrome. Crystal display not diode.

[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Do you worry about burn in on your phone? Your phone probably has way more static elements that are constantly on than the Steam Deck will.

I used my last phone for 4 years and thousands of hours and could only barely tell there was some burn in if I used a white image at max brightness and looked at the status bar. Burn in isn't really a problem with modern OLEDs.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

No i don't, because my phone doesn't have an OLED screen. Easy fix.

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

About a dozen OLED devices in my household. Never seen burn in.

[-] Melonpoly@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

It was a poor quality lcd panel and burn in hasn't been an issue on oleds for years now ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I still don't get the fuss about OLED. As someone who prefers relatively low brightness and contrast settings on most displays that are not used in the summer sun, I've never felt like decent non-OLED panels were lacking for me.

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