I use a PS5 controller paired wirelessly with my deck. I think the touchpad just worked for me with no extra settings (apart from picking a steam input configuration that supports it) but in practice I almost never use it for gaming.
Not sure what chiaki4deck is but I don’t believe it’s necessary for PS5 controller support.
Update: i may have installed something for gyro support at some point but it wasn’t chiaki4deck
I think the minimap gets colored in red in such areas but I agree a better indicator or a hint could be nice.
In case of moonrise towers, if you just cross the bridge back to town you can long rest there and come back.
This seems to be implemented in the Steam Deck client update from November 16th
Haven’t tried it myself though.
My experience with the official dock has been quite negative, it would sometimes not work until the power cable is unplugged and then plugged back - that is with all the latest stable updates for everything. Other people on Steam forums run into this issue too.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/3/3472864793317268180/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/y3wbad/i_have_to_unplug_dock_every_time_i_change_inputs/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/137tiut/steam_deck_dock_requires_unpluggingreplugging/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/y59bl9/no_signal_when_i_connect_steam_deck_to_tv_using/
I’ve noticed the issue too late for a simple refund process and their support was not cooperative at all.
I recommend looking at other docks instead, will cost you less and work better.
The way I understand it, disabling FSR is supposed to make performance worse, or at least GPU more busy. That and increasing some settings from medium to high has the potential to slow things down to unplayable level. But maybe if you decrease the FPS to 30 it’ll be okay, dunno.
For me changing the FSR mode from the default was more of a way to get rid of the blur.
Eagerly waiting for FSR2 which I’ve heard is going to be implemented in one of the patches.
Works really well so far in act 1. With the above settings GPU seems to be the bottleneck. But, as the others pointed out, later acts are more demanding.
AirPods Pro gen 2 are problematic with Steam deck: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/1/3370405530896320680/?tscn=1689301955
Dozens of people reports issues, most commenters are able to pair but experience various stability issues on top of the headphones not connecting automatically.
With no visible response from Valve, the hope is that kernel and relevant Bluetooth and pipewire packages upgraded in the upcoming SteamOS 3.6 contain some fixes.
AirPods Pro gen 1 are not affected.
I’ve played the GOG version on Deck but if anything Steam version probably runs even better. Text and UI size was sufficiently large - I would maybe want to increase the text size by another 10%.
It has really good in game controller support with all sorts of hints on the UI. The movement is done using a joystick IIRC. I don’t remember using trackpad or joystick as a mouse much, but maybe for some object interaction?
All in all I’ve played through the whole game on Deck and highly recommend it.
Another one here! Mostly playing Witcher 3 at the moment. And before that Disco Elysium.
Focuses on garbage these days