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How well does No Man’s Sky run? Is it a locked 60fps experience or more like 40fps? What about Death Stranding?

Looking forward to playing both those games on the Deck. Thanks!

It absolutely does feel like the future of personal computing is headed down a highly integrated path.

This does have positives such as lower power consumption and more efficient designs. However, normally these types of devices are fairly locked down while running proprietary OSes.

That’s where the Steam Deck shines. Valve is showing that not only can you have a highly integrated and power efficient design it can also be an open platform running Linux. That’s a big part of what makes the Deck special, at least for me.

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No worries. Thanks for trying to help.

It seems like the failure of Battlenet to update on restart is a fairly common, possibly even universal, issue at the moment.

What I ended up doing was using Lutris from within Desktop mode to install Battlenet. I made sure to install Battlenet to a folder I created on my SD card. The guide you posted should work as well but I found Lutris to be a very easy and beginner friendly way of adding Battlenet.

After that I logged in, downloaded my games, and set Battlenet to close after launching a game. It’s an option in the Battlenet settings. Lutris handled creating a shortcut within Game Mode for Battlenet. So once back in Game Mode I just have to launch Battlenet, launch the game, and Battlenet closes and my game launches just fine.

I’m sure that I could probably go ahead and create shortcuts for the individual Blizzard games but I don’t mind having the extra step of launching the game from Battlenet. It at least gives me visual confirmation that Battlenet does indeed close and does not remain in the background potentially using any resources.

Hopefully this is helpful for anyone searching.

Thanks for all the help. You are a champ!

Do you happen to know if that is just a bug currently with Battle net on Deck? Do I need to worry about the fact that the launcher constantly tells me that an update is available? Does the same thing happen for you?

Thanks a ton!

Yup, that’s one of the guides I followed. Unfortunately Battle net refuses to update properly, at least on my system.

Thanks for the help.

I was able to install Battle net using Lutris and while the install was much smoother I still can’t update the launcher. What happens is either Lutris thinks Battle net is still running and it never restarts or Battle net crashes and triggers Blizzard crash reporter.

I am able to install games though and I am doing that now. Hopefully things will work fine.

Thank you. I am going to give that a shot.

One other question. Part of the reason I tried doing it the way I did was because I wanted to install the games to the SD card and all the guides that included that mentioned doing it through adding the Setup as a non-Steam game.

Will I be able to install games to the SD card if I use Lutris?

Once again, Thanks for any help.

I have not tried with Lutris.

What did you search on Lutris? Just Battle net?

That’s awesome and it makes it sense. I didn’t imagine it to be very much but I also understand how Valve would want to take advantage of every energy saving feature by default.

I see. That makes sense.

There is a good chance I’m wrong and I’m failing to take into account something important but Microsoft has announced that the game with run at 1440p/30fps on the Series S.

1440p is 3,686,400 pixels. 720p is 921,600 pixels.

That makes 1440p exactly 4x the pixel count of 720p. So at 720p with slightly reduced settings compared to the Series the Steam Deck should be able to hit a solid 30fps, no? Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Edit: Had to correct the math from 3x to 4x.

That’s good to know. It probably has only a small effect, maybe only 1-2% over the course of an entire battery cycle.

I know that Fallout 4 is pretty notorious for having some areas that aren’t very well optimized but it seems to run fairly well on the Deck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud3y7QZod5I

I hoping that 720p low should be doable.

I totally understand about being excited to see it working properly. No pressure but any testing would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I did know that but I appreciate the information.

I’m only waiting because I’m not having too much trouble with the 64GB internal SSD and 512GB mSD. If I end up noticing something that might need an RMA I don’t want to have to do double the work.

I’m not very familiar with the Series S, has the Deck had trouble running games that are locked to 30 on the low-end Xbox?

I own a 64GB Deck and have not yet purchased a replacement SSD but will eventually.

The plan is to continue to use the Deck for at least another 6 months and make sure nothing is wrong with it or any issues develop that would be covered under warranty. Once that’s over I will install a 1TB internal and a pair of hall-effect joysticks.

My current 512GB mSD card and a 1TB internal drive will realistically be more than enough for anything I plan to do with the Deck.