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Coming This Week on Digital Foundry (Week 8, 2022) (Patreon)

Published:
2022-02-21 12:03:09
Imported:
2022-03

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Hello there and welcome to your regular, scheduled weekly update on everything happening within Digital Foundry, subject to last-minute pivots, of course. Last week's major pivot was, of course, the Cyberpunk 2077 1.5 patch release, where Tom Morgan had to drop everything he was doing, de-archive his existing patch 1.23 data and then re-test the whole game over across three different platforms and five different modes.

This week? Just the one pivot... potentially!

* Rich (ie me) continues to work on the Steam Deck review. Valve has been quite open about various SteamOS updates and I finally feel that after Saturday's updates, I can actually review the system. I'd also like to send a shout out to the supporters on the #Steam-Deck Discord channel for helping a painfully green noob to actually navigate Linux. End result: our FCAT-based PC benchmarking system does now work on the Deck. Lots of fun and hard work over the next few days though...

* John starts work on his next retro project, ready to switch over to Gran Turismo 7 at any given point.

* Alex will be taking point on the PC version of Elden Ring.

* Tom is handling the console versions of Elden Ring. It's worth pointing out here that this coverage may be delayed as we've agreed with Namco that we would not put out performance data from anything other than the day one patch. 

* Audi  will be bringing retro supporters the next instalment of DF Retro Pick-Ups!

* Will is still in the midst of reviewing the Core i7 12700K, 12400F and - yes - due to popular demand, we'll be looking at that quad-core Core i3 12100!

* Oliver has completed work on CrossFireX for ALL Xbox consoles, which we'll be putting on early access for premium/retro supporters soon!

Exciting times ahead! Obviously the Steam Deck coverage won't stop at the review so let us know what you'd like to see us do with it. 

Have a great week!


Comments

Anonymous

Bandais insistence on the performance issue hopefully means they actually cleared up the major problems on ps5/series X 🤞

Anonymous

I'd like to know if you can "side load" games onto the Steam Deck without using Steam.

Allistair

I know these things are hard to schedule but sure would love another stream with the MLiG crew around playing eShop games before service is closed like ya'll did around PS3 last year.

digitalfoundry
>>78325536

It's common knowledge that it has a full Linux desktop mode, plus you should be able to install Windows on it.

Anonymous

I recently bought a used original PSP for £40 off eBay. I've never owned one, but its power is impressive for its time. I think a DF Retro retrospective of it would be great to see

Anonymous

Retro pick ups ftw! Preferably daily.

Anonymous

There's so many things with the steam deck, some off the top of my head, How proton compares to Windows 11 and what are drawbacks or overhead differences in each OS for native games and emulation/retroarch. There's also storage testing, most people will want a large sized for some extra space like a 1tb+, is that size of sd card up to the task of running steam games or best used for emulation, is the weird type of ssd in the steam deck even upgradable yet? And are rts playable on those trackpads, there's just so many things.

Anonymous

Large sized sd card*

André Scheffler
>>78341047

The SSD ist replacable, iFixit already did a tear-down of the device and shows that this is pretty easy to do. Follow: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1675180/announcements/detail/4347665658888576969 If you want to get a feeling of how good games will be running on the Deck in general, the closest you can get is to install Manjaro on your PC and try to play some of your games and see how much of a performance loss there is or if they even run properly at all. You can also get a very nice overview of your library (and wishlist) using: https://checkmydeck.herokuapp.com/

André Scheffler
>>78325536

To be precise, you can install games (or any program) if it is either stand-alone or a Flatpak (this is where all files and dependencies come in one big package), maybe AppImages (basically the same thing as Flatpaks) will be supported, too. If you want to install programs, that require the installation of additional packages (i.e. using Pacman on the Steam Deck, as it is a fork of Manjaro) or are only provided via the package manager, you need to enable the "Dev Mode", otherwise your filesystem is read-only. But setting it to Dev Mode will exclude you from further updates, Valve indicated, because they'll probably provide updates as differences to the SquashFS file that holds the base-image or "firmware" of the Deck.

Anonymous
>>78341047

So we're talking only portable USB drives and high capacity sd cards for extra storage then, Large sd card in particular will need testing then for a variety of things.