Steam Deck Goes On Sale For Steam's Spring Sale

[Paradigm Shifter]

I loved my PS Vita back in the day, but as much as I'd like a Steam Deck I barely get time to play and I rarely travel by any method which I could actually utilise a Steam Deck.

One question, though, for owners: how fast is it to wake up? Basically, could I do what I did with my Vita and be gaming two seconds after waking it up?

[TemplarGR]

Neither is a cheap laptop for a fraction of the price and probably 10x the specs (and screen size).

So I don't really think "openness" is what the Steam DRM platform users are going for as a market.

I would definitely like a link pointing to where that laptop is so i can insta-buy it....

[Snaipersky]

I loved my PS Vita back in the day, but as much as I'd like a Steam Deck I barely get time to play and I rarely travel by any method which I could actually utilise a Steam Deck.

One question, though, for owners: how fast is it to wake up? Basically, could I do what I did with my Vita and be gaming two seconds after waking it up?

It's quite fast, so long as you don't have a number of applications open. Interestingly, if you have a large number of applications open, it takes longer. ~2 seconds sitting at the library, ~3 on desktop or with a game open. ~5 with Firefox, dolphin, and konsole open. I suspect part of how it handles sleep so well is done custom arrangement using SIGSTOP and SIGSTART on all running applications.

[tweak42]

Its Zen 2 based so it's kinda dated. I wouldn't be too surprised if there's a hardware update coming soon and they're clearing the warehouse.

I might be wrong but I thought the reason the Steam Deck custom Zen 2 apu performance is holding up so well against newer Zen 3 apu's was because it uses LPDDR5 unlike the majority of Zen 2 apu's that can only use DDR4.

[slalomsk8er]

I loved my PS Vita back in the day, but as much as I'd like a Steam Deck I barely get time to play and I rarely travel by any method which I could actually utilise a Steam Deck.

One question, though, for owners: how fast is it to wake up? Basically, could I do what I did with my Vita and be gaming two seconds after waking it up?

While playing "The Witcher 3" I guess about 5s but I now enabled the PIN unlock (+ 5s) so I guess it takes me over all 20s - 30s to sit down in the bus and start playing.

[Paradigm Shifter]

It's quite fast, so long as you don't have a number of applications open. Interestingly, if you have a large number of applications open, it takes longer. ~2 seconds sitting at the library, ~3 on desktop or with a game open. ~5 with Firefox, dolphin, and konsole open. I suspect part of how it handles sleep so well is done custom arrangement using SIGSTOP and SIGSTART on all running applications.

While playing "The Witcher 3" I guess about 5s but I now enabled the PIN unlock (+ 5s) so I guess it takes me over all 20s - 30s to sit down in the bus and start playing.

Thank you both!

[dc740]

I missed the offer

I ordered mine on Sunday night, and got it a few minutes ago (in Spain). The shipping was really fast, considering all the issues it had in the past.

[slalomsk8er]

I missed the offer

I ordered mine on Sunday night, and got it a few minutes ago (in Spain). The shipping was really fast, considering all the issues it had in the past.

week earlier access = +10% -- now you need to play the heck out of it in the first week to make it worth the 10%

[aviallon]

They did mention that there wouldn't be any new hardware with bumped specs for years. Also, based on a recent comparison from Digital Foundry this Zen 2 APU is doing relatively well against Zen 3 when you compare the same power bracket, so the APU at least is still in a good shape and isn't expected to be replaced anytime soon. But maybe they are planning a new Steam Deck with the same APU but other updated hardware components (screen, battery, etc).

A new APU with Zen 4 (or 5), 3D Vcache and the yet to be RDNA 4 would certainly be very interesting to see.
I do hope RDNA will become powerful enough to enable raytracing on the future steam deck evolutions without anahilating the performance.

[TemplarGR]

Raytracing is overrated. Especially on such a tiny and low resolution screen, what is the point of having RT? It is a handheld, you won't get to appreciate the graphical fidelity anyway. Far better to improve framerates and make more advanced games fluid.