Games ¶

I played several games on it and I noticed that it’s easier decision to buy a game after I got it.

Portal 2
The witcher 3
Dead cells
Hades
Cup head
TMNT
Skul
Vampire surivors
Brotato
Celeste
Yakuza 0

Build ¶

Material and build quality feels very good. it also feels good in the hand more like a PS4 controller feeling than xbox controller.

Performance ¶

Some games really get on it’s nerves, the witcher 3 for example. the fan kicks in after couple minutes of gameplay
Some games plays really smooth and doesn’t make it sweat. Dead cells for example.
I tried to install an epic game from the desktop mode “Nioh” and it struggled with it and the experience awful it didn’t regognize the correct controller layout even. so I stuck to steam games.
I got to install google chrome and play youtube videos which were cool.

Game library ¶

It felt good that I got a game on steam deck and also played it on my PC. I got TMNT and then found that it can be played split screen so it felt good that I could just run the same game with the same save history to let my wife join on a bigger screen.

Issues ¶

On 4 February 2023 the device audio sounded weird after exiting Skyrim. I restarted it and it got stuck on the logo after booting. the recovery system can’t start too.
I contacted Steam support, the helped with troubleshooting
- The first troubleshooting was to try to get into BIOS by powering on + pressing the volume up (+) and that works but still didn’t solve the problem
- The second step was to put it in “Battery shipping mode” from the BIOS power menu and leave it a couple of minutes and then connect it to power. that solved the issue.

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