Touchscreen goodness

released on oct 202 latest update is on december 2020, I doubt it'll be updated

Can you sale me this steam deck for $600

[ 2022-02-27 23:38:47Z ] 👍 7

LOLWAT

[ 2022-02-27 22:54:50Z ] 👍 8

Why would he ever do that? Not only was he sent this unit by Valve specifically but the price you're offering him isn't even worth giving up possibly the only Deck he has.

Can you try Football Manager 22 please? There’s a free Demo if you don’t own it.

Looks like the majority of current available screen protectors for the steam deck will greatly hamper the usage of its touchscreen. Apparently the deck requires rather thin protectors in order for the touchscreen input to properly function. Something to keep in mind for the Q1 folks.

[ 2022-11-24 09:19:49Z ] 👍 1

I've found no difference in protectors or not. It's always off.

[ 2022-02-28 01:27:39Z ] 👍 2

Dbrand has theirs available to purchase already :-D

[ 2022-02-28 01:15:22Z ] 👍 4

Dbrand is the only valid option atm

[ 2022-02-27 23:26:00Z ] 👍 1

There's a video of someone testing several screen protectors. Some are indeed better than others

[ 2022-02-27 21:34:54Z ] 👍 1

I think that might depend on if you have the anti-glare glass used by the 512 GB model or not, but don't quote me on that.

Could you try playing BeamNG drive please

That is awesome. I play Sudoku games and bet they would be perfect for the touch screen. I might even try Candy Crush and Angry Bird if available. Those are games that I play on my phone specifically.

[ 2022-02-28 02:12:30Z ] 👍 2

I forgot android emulation, or even android ports on this machine... Even greater game pool to emulate!

[ 2022-02-28 01:22:17Z ] 👍 5

Waydroid would probably be the best for Android apps/Android in general, especially since Steam OS is using KDE Plasma with Wayland by default

[ 2022-02-28 01:14:21Z ] 👍 1

@@jasminebugielski690 People have probs remade it

[ 2022-02-27 23:53:38Z ] 👍 2

I believe you would be able to, if you felt like getting an android emulator to work on linux.

[ 2022-02-27 23:38:26Z ] 👍 5

Absolutely, for *tons* of casual games it's gonna be pretty great!¬

Is it the game that doesn't support multitouch functionality or the console? Seems like a basic feature for a touchscreen in 2022 so i hope it's just the game.

[ 2022-03-02 18:52:56Z ] 👍 0

@@mar2ck_ Are there even any games for Linux or Windows that support multi-touch directly?

[ 2022-02-27 23:59:37Z ] 👍 1

Steam Deck supports multi-touch but the game has to have touchscreen support for it to work. If the game doesn't have that then it just acts like a mouse.

[ 2022-02-27 23:51:36Z ] 👍 1

The reason it doesn't support multi touch is because when he touches the screen he's just moving the mouse

Oh wow, was not expecting anyone to actually like this video :O

[ 2022-02-28 02:37:51Z ] 👍 0

@@madjunir Check out our new video 😄

[ 2022-02-28 02:30:50Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux Awesome! I think it would be best to show the easiest way or shortcut to activate it . Maybe show how to do that and also some screenshots or capture from the deck itself if possible

[ 2022-02-28 01:16:58Z ] 👍 2

@@gamingonlinux I'd honestly love it if you could do both. I'd love it if when you're doing the screen capture you had a camera view in like the bottom right to see. I think it'd also do a lot(especially on twitch stream) to drive home to casual viewers that you are in fact playing on the deck.

[ 2022-02-27 23:27:59Z ] 👍 4

@@madjunir Ah yes, don't worry that is on my list - however, do you want it captured directly from the Deck or a camera pointed at the deck to show it?

[ 2022-02-27 23:27:01Z ] 👍 4

All your videos are great for the community. Also would like to see the Screen Magnifier in Action with small text when you can

Pawnbarian great game! Can you try some space games? Grand Strategy like Stellaris ? Also the steam Deck Magnifier for small text!

Something I've been dying to know is if you can play apex legends on the steam deck. I've seen it in the recently played of multiple reviews but no one has straight up said it'll work, and there's no way to get it working in linux.

[ 2022-03-02 18:51:21Z ] 👍 0

@@jasminebugielski690 It's working now. No official announcement yet afaik, but the test branch was merged into the main branch on Steam and people have successfully been playing it on both the Steam Deck and regular GNU/Linux desktops. Also Gaming On Linux has uploaded a video showing it off on the Deck 20 hours ago.

[ 2022-02-28 01:18:10Z ] 👍 0

@@JustSomeRandomIdiot I really hope it's soon, because I want to wipe my terabyte ssd and put steamOS on it when apex comes to linux. Unfortunately we haven't much on when either of those two will come out.

[ 2022-02-27 23:57:11Z ] 👍 4

I suspect the answer is "Not yet - But very soon!". It's actually possible to see a bit behind the curtain on Steam and see what test branches game devs are uploading to Steam. And we've already seen that EA created a hidden test branch of their game to test Steam Deck compatibility, and we've seen code patches going into Proton updating it to fix Apex Legends related bugs too. So it seems like it's all but a given now that Apex Legends will probably work after EA has finished testing and working with Valve and the Proton devs, and put out an update to make it happen. There's no timeframe on this, but assume there's no major issues, I would say probably would happen before most people will get their hands on a Deck.

0:43 The game is called what now? JK, good video, accents are fun.

Could you try Re8 or rdr2 pls

Is it because the game doesn't support it, or is the touchpad driver configured for mouse emulation? You can test it out in chrome and do a pinch test. If you can do pinch zoom in chrome it's good. If you can't, then we have to wait. But to be honest, I think it will mostly be just mouse emulation in games, because does windows have a real single multitouch API?

[ 2022-02-28 01:33:24Z ] 👍 1

Well, this isn't Windows, it's SteamOS 3 ;)

can you test the render speed of the blender example scenes on this thing?

Are there any styluses it works well with? Could you maybe even draw on it?

[ 2022-02-28 07:12:46Z ] 👍 2

Maybe you can draw on it because my Sony Vaio laptop has 10 points multi touch technology like the Steam Deck and I don't know if it has pressure sensitivity but it does work well with drawing and I can make thick and thin lines.

[ 2022-02-28 05:48:56Z ] 👍 2

I don't think you could get pressure sensitivity on this.

Is that a nintendo switch dock on the baground ?

[ 2022-02-28 12:05:24Z ] 👍 0

Maaaaaaaaaaybe

Literally the worst game you could have tested with touch screen..

From what i seen, this touch screen support make it perfect possible to play rts games on it, as it mimicks mouse point-clicking which is what rts games a based on mainly(keyboard is only for shortcuts), so playing games like AOE and AOM Series must be a good experience.

[ 2022-03-03 22:00:04Z ] 👍 0

I don't think it would be that good. Touchscreen is always clunky imprecise and slow, you never see what you're doing since your finger is in the way and the ergonomics of the device don't really support it. I'd use right touchpad and gyro as a mouse and left touchpad for a selection of shortcuts. I haven't held the device yet and I won't for a while but I think a 4x4 touch menu would fit comfortably on the left touchpad, if not you could do a 3x3 and have nested menu under it, or just use a modifier like the a grip button to change that out for a different 3x3 menu.

It makes me wonder about the older PopCap games, especially the Bejeweled series.

Slay the spire touchscreen here i come

[ 2022-02-28 12:03:10Z ] 👍 0

Hold my beer.....

For frick inc, is that native Linux build or using Proton?

[ 2022-02-28 12:02:39Z ] 👍 0

Both of those games are native builds.

Do Steam Deck Support Windows10 and Every old games ? I want to play Conflict Desert storm on it

[ 2022-02-28 11:06:29Z ] 👍 0

i think you can play that game with proton

please tell me, is steam deck support FIFA 22 steam? thanks a lot for your answer.

Flight Control HD.

This might sound like a strange request, but could you try playing TES3: *Morrowind* on the Steam Deck? I have a feeling that the UI in that game will be really nice to navigate using the touchscreen (since it has a click and drag inventory). Though you may need to a mod it a bit using Open MW first to get the text size to be bigger.

[ 2022-03-01 14:49:28Z ] 👍 1

You read my mind, special video on that coming soon ;)

The people wants to see Dying Light and Dying Light 2 on Steam Deck!

im really curious to know how styluses work on it. especially the disk kind a lot of people use to draw with on phones and tablets.

[ 2023-01-31 05:51:15Z ] 👍 0

BINGO !

How responsive and precise is the touchscreen? Like if I wanted to play a fast paced rhythm game like Spin Rhythm or Osu would that be doable? I assume not but am curious anyway

[ 2022-08-04 12:02:49Z ] 👍 0

@@remulaevergaze5342 I hope it gets addressed on the current gen... If the issue is not completely hardware related, which I doubt is.

[ 2022-08-03 17:57:51Z ] 👍 0

@@SnowTerebi Wow, thanks for the thorough testing. Hopefully the touchscreen gets a little more focus on the Steam Deck 2 at some point. For osu there's actually 2-key keyboards that can be used, which would make for a pretty portable setup. Probably something I'll look into when I get the Deck.

[ 2022-07-30 21:00:27Z ] 👍 2

​@@remulaevergaze5342 Tried Spin Rhythm with the touchpads which is actually not bad at all. OSU however is a whole different story. First of all, if you are running OSU in the "Steam Mode", I can't figure out how to get the touchscreen to work at all. In the "Desktop Mode", the touchscreen "almost" works, but there seems to be some input issue. It looks like when you tap the touchscreen, OSU will register it as you clicked at the original position first, then move over the cursor, which renders it pretty much useless, and I haven't figured out how to make it work. However, I did get it to somewhat working by assigning touching the touchpad as an M2 click (M1 is the touchscreen for my setup), and I can just use one hand to sort of drag the cursor around, meanwhile using the other hand to tap on the touchpad (tap, not actually clicking it because that feels horrible). But there is another issue: for me, it feels like there is some delay when you drag the cursor around. And you can sort of seeing it in this video, too. When he is dragging the control handles for the first game, it looks like the handle has a bit of delay after he drags his finger on the screen. I'm not sure how this issue can be improved, but tapping on the touchscreen seems to be responsive enough, so really have no idea why the dragging seems to have some delay.

[ 2022-04-29 13:46:51Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux Thanks, I figured it wouldn't be, the deck can't be amazing at everything, but it'll still be a useful feature sometimes

[ 2022-04-29 11:24:51Z ] 👍 0

Mmmm, I wouldn't say it was all that amazing honestly.

Can you use the touch screen for cursor control and map the two left SD back buttons for left and right mouse clicks? The reason I ask is could it be used with strategy battle games where you can lasso a selection of troops?

Try testing it without charging, the touch screen responsiveness will be decreasing a lot!

[ 2022-08-10 10:49:27Z ] 👍 0

Oh really? Didn’t know that was a thing

had my steam deck for a few days, so far i find the touch screen to be not very responsive and I don't have a screen protector either. just doesn't feel as fluid as a mobile phone for example and i have to press my finger in rather that lightly touching the buttons. Other than that I'm enjoying the deck.

[ 2022-09-10 18:02:19Z ] 👍 0

@War on Winter I think capacitance base touch screen tech is quite refined now that i would have expected the decks screen to be better. I can't comment on apple devices as I'm an android user but they have never give me the perception of a laggy interface. not sure if this is a software thing or to do with the hardware. do you notice a lag to the cursor tracking. for example in desktop mode?

i want touchscreen controls for walking dead taletales series and strategy games like starcraft ,age of empires etc..

Hello. Do you think it would work also with old point and click? For instance, the ones using scummVM.

While obviously if I get a Steam Deck, I’d use it mainly for gaming, how good is it for drawing digital art? Also, how can I got about watching Netflix, Disney+ etc on it?

[ 2023-02-15 05:54:26Z ] 👍 0

its awful, cursor is consistently off center from where you touch and ive straight up got deadzones in the top corner of mine, found this vid looking to see if there was some way to calibrate it or something but its probably a hardware thing.