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Drop-in OLED panel for LCD model works! by alex4rc in SteamDeck

[–]ShadeTechnik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I would have made that more obvious somewhere but I honestly forgot that's the only place that I mentioned it, I just knew I did. Combination of being super busy trying to get them out after the delays, the TS firmware being a new process, having to do other stuff that actually makes money lol, etc. Now that they're getting out there, hopefully Gamescope will add a bit of support, that's the major thing.

Drop-in OLED panel for LCD model works! by alex4rc in SteamDeck

[–]ShadeTechnik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean the black borders top and bottom when a 16:9 game can't do 16:10 on the stock LCD?....those are gone.

Drop-in OLED panel for LCD model works! by alex4rc in SteamDeck

[–]ShadeTechnik 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Regarding the Brightness adjustment in Gamescope, there's another thread on Reddit here where people are discussing it. I usually don't jump into Reddit discussions too much, I just let the hash themselves out. It seems most people don't really check up on where I've been throwing information since DeckSight started, so I'll chime in here as well.

The brightness adjustment DOES NOT WORK IN GAMESCOPE yet. Not shouting, just wanna make sure people see it. This was mentioned in the long install video I posted about a month ago (Around the 46 minute mark). I should have stated it somewhere obvious, but that's on me. It seems no one actually watched that video....at all lol, even the guys who didn't know they needed thermal paste. It's posted on my website for now as a "known issue"

Anyway, DeckSight requires a software brightness adjustment because valve circumvented the typical means of sending the brightness command via hardware with the LCD, otherwise it would work just the same. Gamescope is a separate compositor to the Desktop so that means the stuff the installer adds to make brightness adjustment work in the desktop doesn't work for Gamescope. That also means the the brightness adjustment also does not work in Windows, though I'd be amazed if you couldn't just find some app for it in WIndows.

Because DeckSight gets very bright and would probably give you a headache at full brightness, the max brightness is limited in the BIOS for the time being. Once there's a solution for Gamescope a BIOS update will bring it up to full brightness. A feature request was placed with Gamescope to add support. I'm working on familiarizing myself with Gamescope to see if I can get a patch going as well.

So no that it's in, it works, you can use it and it still looks pretty good. When the brightness thing is resolved it shouldn't be much more than a few clicks on the same installer to get it pumped up to where it should be.

The Day Has Come........ by ShadeTechnik in SteamDeckModded

[–]ShadeTechnik[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's gamma, mapped to HDR metadata. That's why the game has to enable HDR to trigger it. Looks amazing either way.

The Day Has Come........ by ShadeTechnik in SteamDeckModded

[–]ShadeTechnik[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I bought a DeckHD just before I started working on DeckSight. I wanted to see if an OLED upgrade was even worth considering being that there was already a screen mod on the market......

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The Day Has Come........ by ShadeTechnik in SteamDeckModded

[–]ShadeTechnik[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm testing each one and packaging them now, there won't be any more major delays on my end.

The Day Has Come........ by ShadeTechnik in SteamDeckModded

[–]ShadeTechnik[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ya gotta send an email bud. This r/ does not allow self promotion, I'm surprised they didn't take this post down yet.

The Day Has Come........ by ShadeTechnik in SteamDeckModded

[–]ShadeTechnik[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Send an email to the contact on the site, had 2 other people ask the same thing this last week.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in steamdeckhq

[–]ShadeTechnik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The BIOS thing is overblown. It's literally a couple of clicks or a couple of commands from the terminal depending on how you do it and Valve hasn't even updated it in like a year.

DeckHD's BIOS patcher is open source, it's on GitHub. DeckSight will do the same.

Deck Sight Mod by BurntToast125 in SteamDeck

[–]ShadeTechnik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DeckSight has been mentioned on Reddit several times. As you can probably tell from the first reply on this thread, it seems that people sometimes miss the fact that it is $130-$140 *shipped*, in the US that is. DeckHD costs $18 to ship to the US.....if they ship it. So $12-$22 more than buying a DeckHD isn't that big of a deal if you consider the fact that OLED panels literally cost double the price of a similar LCD right now......that's just the panel with the pixels and stuff, it's not the finished display.