I kinda forgot about Sunderfolk. I see it has a demo now, I’ll need to try it out with my kids.

Basically it can play lower power games directly, or display higher power games from your PC.

Both the Quest and the Steam Frame use ARM hardware, this is the same type of hardware used in phones. This hardware is noteworthy because it’s more power efficient that x86 type hardware, which is what traditional PCs use. Many VR games are made to run directly on the Quest and should be hardware compatible with the Steam Frame too since they both use ARM.

The Steam Frame can also run x86 games thanks to an emulation layer called FEX that valve has been working on. This is something the Quest cannot do, but many PC games will likely be too demanding to run this way. VR games are naturally performance demanding since the game needs to be rendered twice for both eye perspectives, and needs decent resolution. Valve has said that it will be slightly weaker than the current Steam Deck in performance, and that’s probably before we consider the extra performance requirements of VR and the performance overhead of FEX.

So based on that, I would assume NMS would not run well directly on the Frame itself, and you would instead need to run it on your PC and display it on the Frame.

I paid roughly $20 for Spiderman Remastered, and I think that was a pretty fair price. Miles Morales goes for even cheaper I believe.

Oh I saw someone covering Seance recently (maybe Second Wind?) and I’ve been planning on getting it since.

I’ve mostly been playing Spiderman Remastered and Oblivion Remastered. For oblivion I’m using an edited engine.ini file to disable lumens, which has pretty significantly improved performance.

I’ve also been playing RV There Yet with friends, and it’s been great. The new snow map has been really fun (and hard!).

Tbf the native windows version is also muddy looking with not great performance.

There’s multiple parts.

First there was a massive pandemic relief fraud. A bunch of people exploited programs meant to feed kids, because those programs had relaxed checks during the pandemic. The main organization here is “Feeding our Future” who helped various individuals fraud the government.

Basically they claimed to be serving millions of meals to kids, with fabricated invoices/etc.

In exchange for Feeding our Future helping individuals with the fraud, they required kickbacks from the individuals. A lot of this money was used to buy real estate, especially in Kenya and Turkey (which makes it very difficult to recover the money).

Not everyone involved was Somali, be the majority of the people charged were part of the same Somali-american community.

Recently it was found out that some similar fraud was happening with Somali run daycares. They were getting millions in subsides, while having few to no children present at the daycares.

Tim Walz and the Department of Education are being criticized over various parts of how they handled it. The Minnesota Department of Education had warnings about the fraud as early as 2018, but ignored them. Later on they asked the Feeding Our Future to investigate themselves for fraud (which obviously didn’t work).

When the pandemic meal fraud was discovered in 2021, the MDE decided to continue payments to the fraudsters because they claimed they didn’t have enough evidence to win in court. Tim Walz later claimed a judge forced them to continue payments, but the Judge released a statement saying that was a lie. There’s some speculation that Walz was originally trying to avoid it going to court to avoid it being a big scandal.

Finally when Walz did announce the fraud, he framed it as a success that they caught these people, even though it had gone on for years and huge amounts of money had already been stolen.

Alright I might be an idiot. I bought Alice, spent forever trying config edits, registry edits (locale registry for it is at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\EA Games\Alice Madness Returns btw), and no matter what I did the game either would launch in english or not launch at all. And then I tried just setting the game’s language to “French” in the steam properties for the game, and it worked, booted in french.

So yeah, that’s all you need to do probably.

As for Dino Crisis, I don’t own it, so I can’t troubleshoot it directly.

I’m thinking the right price is about $80, and I’d be very happy if the price is lower than that.

I sometimes play with my Deck docked, but a lot of my games aren’t playable without the extra buttons/track pads/gyro of the steam deck.

Ok I did some searching. Try this:

For Alice, go to ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/19680/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/Alice Madness Returns/AliceGame/Config/

Check the different .ini files there, one of the engine ones should have a Language value that needs to be set to FRA.

For Dino Crisis, the language is apparently set by a registry value. The game may include a language_setup.exe or something similar that you can run to change the language. In Lutris you’ll want to use a “run exe from inside prefix” option to run it.

If the game doesn’t have an exe to set language, you can edit the registry directly. Go into wine settings for the game inside lutris, and look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> CAPCOM -> DINO CRISIS or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Wow6432Node -> CAPCOM -> DINO CRISIS.

Hopefully there’s already a key there called language, try setting the value to 2 for it.

You may need to adjust more environmental variables than just LANG.

These are for English not French, but the variables I had saved for fixing language issues are:

Key: LANG, Value: en_US.UTF-8Key:

LC_ALL, Value: en_US.UTF-8Key:

LANGUAGE, Value: en_US:en

Also I believe Lutris has a spot to set environmental variables without using a launch option. Try going to the game>configure>system options>environmental variables.

Here’s the article where he gives his full bad experience with Linux. He was running Ubuntu when things broke, and had previously had lesser issues trying Nobara.

You might check out some of the different game bundles available right now, they can quickly give you a lot of good games to play for cheap.

One month of humble choice ($15) will get you Nine Sols, Like a Dragon Gaiden, Streets of Rage 4, and a bunch of other games.

Fanatical has a ton of build a bundle available right now for their winter sale. Of those bundles, the Prestige, Best of Platinum, Winter SuperStars, and Play on the Go bundles are all especially recommendes.

Right now, they sell a 256GB LCD, 512GB OLED, and a 1TB OLED. The 256GB LCD is going away, leaving only the 512GB OLED and the 1TB OLED.

Previously they had offered 3 sizes of LCD, 64/256/512.

When the LCD models sell out for good, they might start offering a lower price OLED with less storage, but that’s just speculation.

A lot of people have done burn in tests on the OLED, and it’s barely a concern. The tech has really improved.

There are some video on youtube, it’s still kinda blurry but the game is still pretty beautiful imo. Definitely won’t look as good as it does on desktop.

Yes, especially after the recent performance update.

It’s a lot better after the update a few days ago, but back when I played it I actually installed a performance mod to make it run a lot smoother. I thought it was very playable, but I’m also trash at dodging/parrying consistently. I’m assuming it was more of a skill issue than the game’s performance though.

They make specific hall-effect sticks for the OLED models, I know Gulikit make a set, possibly other companies too.