• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    In my opinion this would be a bad move, the steam deck has an iffy enough game library and emulation is notoriously more difficult on architectures they weren’t designed for, considering the steam deck has too emulate %99.999… of its library that would be bad.

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      1 month ago

      An iffy game library? It runs almost everything that isn’t an online game with certain anti cheats. It’s pretty not iffy at all.

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        1 month ago

        My Steam Deck plays a lot of games, more than I even expected it to. Honestly I’m not sure where this “iffy library” crap comes from.

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      1 month ago

      Can you provide examples of this?

      I realize anecdotes aren’t data, but my older LCD deck good with everything up the PS3 and the Nintendo Switch, everything beyond that I could obtain directly from the Steam Store.

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        The steam deck runs Linux and has to use a modified version of WINE(Wine Is Not an Emulator, that’s the downvotes I assume) but almost all games are made exclusively for windows, the games you can play on the steam deck are all running through a translation layer, now steam handles this well and they make it almost seamless but that doesn’t change the fact that you get some Jank and incompatible games, AntiCheat is the big one that comes to mind but hardly everything, I know it has troubles with Dx9 and earlier Dx, I have trouble with the Arkham Knight games, Gta 5 just borked the update, Vr isn’t playable,

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        1 month ago

        It redirects API calls technically not that that changes much since that is essentially all emulation does on the same architecture but if ever they switch to arm it will be full on no asterisks emulation, yeah I was a little sloppy with my language but same difference.