Luckily, not everyone is buying AAA games on release day and waiting for discounts instead. That’s the rule I usually follow for the AAA games I buy because that’s been the trend for some time now, where it goes full price and then, it’ll get cheaper months later.

I still own a PS5 and Steam Deck and don’t see any reason not to have both since not every AAA game on Steam Deck runs great because there are compromises in performance or graphics while at the same time, the PS5 would run those same games better. Also, you could remote play from the PS5 to Steam Deck if you wanted to, which makes it nice to have both.

One advantage of owning a Steam Deck is that you get access to games that the Switch doesn’t have, along with the fact that it’s more of a PC, where you can add emulators, third party launchers and Windows on it if you want. Also, you can stream your games over from another PC, PS5 or Xbox using the many programs that are available on the Steam Deck while the Switch doesn’t even do this at all.

Another advantage of the Steam Deck is that you can find a lot of cheap and good games on sale almost weekly from Steam and other legit keyshops. On the Switch, you have to pay the full price for indie games and ports of games like Batman Arkham Trilogy that play and look terrible while on Steam, you can get those same games for way less than that while having it play and look great as a bonus. Overall, it’s more versatile than a Switch without dealing with some of the nonsense that Nintendo is known to do with their games and online practices.

Of course, if you like playing first party Nintendo games, then you should stick with the Switch since the emulators are a hit or miss when it comes to emulating Switch first party games on the Steam Deck.

Now, for which model to choose from, I’d say go with the OLED if you can get it but if not, the LCD should serve you well.

Try using the Steam Deck Remote Play feature first to see if you get good streaming quality and if that doesn’t work well, you can go with moonlight + sunshine combo.

I’m trying to remember how I got this game to work, but I believe you use ProtonGE and use the latest version and from there, if you get the game to boot, it’ll show you a launcher screen. On the launcher screen, you can use the touchscreen unless you have a mouse handy since it doesn’t recognize controller input.

Another thing I can’t remember is how to bypass the launcher screen on every launch but once you disable it, the game runs really good. Good luck and post back here if you still can’t get it to work.

To get the most out of FSR, you have to lower the resolution so that it can upscale it and you have to fiddle around with settings until you get it to look as close to native as possible.

Use Proton Hotfix since that’s what I used at the time I was playing the RE4 Remake DLC because it was crashing at a certain cut scene and I’m surprised it’s still happening even though it should’ve been fixed by now.

Nope! Ask Lord Gaben for the answer.

Search the thread for the same question you’re asking and that might help with your decision.

Did you install any software like emulators from the Desktop Mode? Those updates and installs of software from Desktop Mode can also affect the amount of space on the internal SSD besides the shader cache.

At this point, you might as well just go full Windows if you’re struggling to get games to run the way you want them to.