Steam Deck Update vs Launchers! Valve's Plan

No more launchers!

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Valve Fights Back Against Launchers
06:33 - DeckHD Abandoned?
12:00 - Elden Ring DLC on Deck?

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Valve Does its Best to Fix Launchers

The next stable update for Proton has arrived, and it brings with it tons and tons of game fixes, new playable titles, extra controller support for different launchers, and much more. The launchers themselves are for specific titles rather than other storefronts, and this includes Fallout 3 and 4, Clustertruck, Skyrim, and two of the older Tomb Raider games. This means you should be able to use your controller to navigate the launchers instead of needing to use the touchscreen or trackpads.

Steam Deck Third Party Screen Abandoned?

According to users on the DeckHD Discord server, there have been a lot of people who have purchased the screen within the last month and a half and have heard of no updates regarding their orders. On top of that, almost all the support tickets that were submitted went silent, making people a bit worried about their products and whether they were ever going to get them. It got so bad that a lot of individuals started thinking that DeckHD was an abandoned project. Well, luckily, that isn't the case, though there are still some issues to be wary of.

According to Francisco_, a staff member on the DeckHD Discord server, the project has not been abandoned and isn't dead at all. They were in the final stages of automating everything for DeckHD. After I got his messages, Rema, another DeckHD staff member, posted an announcement to the server, going into more detail. A warehouse relocation caused shipping delays, and I reassured everyone that all orders would be fulfilled and shipped within 1-2 weeks. As for customer support, it is currently limited.

Response: Warehouse relocated and there have been delays in production and shipping caused by that move.

Shadow of the ErdTree is more demanding than base game

Found that our recommended 30 FPS settings for the base game do the job 90% of the time, but for some of the bigger areas and bosses, I did find lowering some settings to help slightly. So, with most of the settings on low and a couple on medium or high, I could keep a stable 30 FPS in the open world with some minor drops in boss battles or when a lot of effects are on the screen. This is all at a resolution of 1280x800 as well, so everything looks crisp. You can lower the resolution to 1152x720 to mitigate some of these drops, but it wasn't enough to justify a change.
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[DangerVision]

The launcher problem is 100% a sloppy developer problem and the best Valve can do is work around it and make them as easy to interact with as possible.

[herreramartos]

the truth is, with this launchers, pirates have a better experience than customers that actually pay

[jeremiahmast]

Just ordered my steam deck Oled yesterday I am super excited

[lexcelius]

PC Gamers have always hated Launchers. Some of the Most Downloaded Game Mods remove or make the Game launch without a Launcher

[HoleLeashIt]

Launchers for individual game settings never really bothered me. It’s when the publishers force you to install their stores like uplay, EA play, and rockstar that I really find annoying.

[Manic.miner]

The only reason I'm considering buying a steam deck is to be able to use it without internet access when I'm out and about.

[tomoprime]

It also sucks the Epic Games Store requires your game to always be online for being on the go.

[PiRRob]

Yeah, there's no call for banning paying customers for asking legitimate questions about that status of their purchase. That alone is proof enough to me that these people have no business running a company.

[theLonelyLemnn]

EA app is the worst, everytime I install it with Nonsteamlauncher it never works and says the Launcher needs to Restart.

[jmoo]

I don’t understand having anti cheat on sports games with offline modes. EA needs to fix this. No reason why I shouldn’t be able to play the new fifa or madden on my steam deck offline

[lalalandKing]

I’ve had mine for over a year it’s a love hate relationship! Originally dual booted windows but the is fried so now it’s back stock !

[Cyberbrickmaster]

The launcher problem is why I don't like to download games from Ubisoft and EA, unless there are work arounds to bypass them. Screw playing Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered! I'll just play the original with a proper unofficial remaster mod.
And I'm not going to bother with any Trackmania game that goes beyond the Mania Planet entries, either.

[daeganj]

I’d love to play black ops 2 zombies in a hotel that has crap WiFi, because I did that last week and it constantly booted me out even just trying to play solo

[cixtos]

Any tips for getting XDefiant to run? I think it’s the anti cheat that isn’t booting properly

[thebeatles]

Do you think we're going to see a sale soon with the OLED decks since the summer sale is a few days away?

[Bonktacular]

I've had my hd screen for most of a year now and the use case you may have missed is remote play. My deck is great for playing games with lots of dialogue text, remotely playing demanding games that it has no business running, and remote playing my ps5 through chiaki is absolutely worth the effort for me. 😊

[trentoncadegavin]

Is anybody still having an issue on the steam deck where all Bethesda games including fallout four and Skyrim have no launchers at all and won’t let you use one and so they’re just stuck at whatever settings they were at

[LISTEDGames]

They should really fix the internal FSR, doesn't work with fullscreen nor windowed, it locks the fps to 20..

[DarthTinderalla-qmzw]

I just refund games with launchers, or always online garbage if they're not mp only. Already have enough annoying games with garbage launchers and don't need more. Then again I've been avoiding modern AAA and haven't run into most of these issues very often

[PyroTech]

Any idea what's going on with deckcord? It hasn't worked for me for awhile now.