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Ryan390

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Steam deck eligibility
« on: August 08, 2023, 01:07:06 PM »

Has anyone tried it on a steam deck yet? I'm wondering if it'll be worth a try or how difficult / finicky the key bindings are.

Obviously one advantage of a game released on Steam is you get pretty good community control bindings, but with it being non steam, is it viable?

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Re: Steam deck eligibility
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2023, 04:19:02 PM »

Has anyone tried it on a steam deck yet? I'm wondering if it'll be worth a try or how difficult / finicky the key bindings are.

Obviously one advantage of a game released on Steam is you get pretty good community control bindings, but with it being non steam, is it viable?
I think the biggest issue getting it to run well. Controls really shouldn't be too much of an issue. I've used a 360 controller to play SS before via Joy2Key before and that wasn't too bad. And the Deck has several more buttons, plus many ways to use the pads as well

Sadly the GPU and CPU brand of the Deck (AMD) doesn't work all that well SS. Neither does their More Cores = Better stance on CPUs as SS is mostly bound to a single core. And mods would just exasperate all these issues too...
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Re: Steam deck eligibility
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2023, 07:29:33 PM »

It works fine in gaming mode, though I do get memory warnings.  The game itself never seems to suffer except for very specific effects.

Desktop mode seems to require a monitor plugged in.

I'll see if my control config is ready for the public and post a link.

You will have to add it to Steam.
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Re: Steam deck eligibility
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2023, 11:00:44 AM »

 it works alright it has odd vram warnings that don't seem to actually matter for some reason though
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