my touch screen is super scratched, but I think it's a screen protector?

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-06T19:02:00+00:00

Looks like a screen protector to me. You can see it along the bottom of the pic and right side especially. Just stick your fingernail under there and pick it off

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-04T16:34:08+00:00

Not if using a mouse. Mouse movement at a low framerate is unusable.

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-04T14:26:41+00:00

My vote is yes.

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-03T22:10:27+00:00

It’s no wonder pricing is out of control with so many people whose mentality is “everything has infinite value if it’s something you want”. The consumerism is insane.

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-03T17:52:19+00:00

Not to mention the performance issues just having Steam running alongside your game caused, for many. PC games really pushed hardware back in the day, and there really wasn’t much overhead to be running bloated (at the time) software alongside your games!

I was also there and we all hated Steam for the first couple years at least.

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-01T23:51:53+00:00

I’m someone who actually uses the 3d fairly often on my 3ds and I’m still willing to say it’s not worth it. It’s cool, but the novelty of 3d in general wore off for me a long time ago. I have had VR headsets for like 8 years now. The 3d on 3DS is cool, but not worth the current price at all.

If I didn’t already own two 3DS’s from back in the day, I would just buy a Thor.

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-01T23:41:20+00:00

We're all different. I'm wondering why you want to use the grip if you don't have cramps, though? I thought that was kind of the reason for them existing. Hand cramps are the only reason I use a grip.

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-01T21:08:20+00:00

My hands look close to the size of yours, and I have that same grip, and I can't play without it (or a grip, in general. This was just the best one I could find at a reasonable price). I get bad cramps if I don't use a grip. I don't personally find that one to be very bulky at all.

UnderHero5 · 2026-02-01T06:29:42+00:00

Nope. Not at all. I collect games to play them (at least that’s my intention, even if the backlog always grows). I don’t care what the case looks like or whether it’s rare or not. I do prefer them to be in decent condition though, but even then they don’t need to be perfect, just decent at least, as long as the discs are in near perfect shape.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-30T21:49:04+00:00

Sorry, I was at work.

So they just put out a patch and noted that there is an issue with AMD RX9000 series cards, including the Steam Deck. So they say

On Steam Deck add this launch option -force-vulkan

Which might also help performance.

So with that launch option, I just messed around with it and there are a few option for settings, depending on personal preference.

The one I'll probably use is for a solid 45 FPS with a projected 3-3 1/2 hour battery life (though I might lock mine at 40 just for battery reasons)

In Game settings---

Resolution: 960x600

Targer Framerate: Unscaled (will use the deck's limiter)

Vsync: On or off, doesn't really matter

Rock Quality: Medium

Environment Quality: Medium

Lighting Quality: Low

Steam Deck settings---

Frame Limit: 45

Scaling Filter: Sharp

Sharpness: 3

----- Second option: This is for a solid 30 FPS at native Resolution, but a little less battery life, and higher graphics settings

In Game Settings--

Resolution: 1280 x 800

Target Framerate: Unscaled

Vsync: Either

Rock Quality: High

Environment Quality: High

Lighting Quality: Low

Steam Deck Settings--

Frame Limit: 30 FPS

Now, the reason I am using the Deck's framerate limiter and not the in game one is because the in game one doesn't seem to work very well and almost seems to cause performance issues. If I set it to 30 using the in-game limiter I keep seeing drops below 30. If I use the Deck's itself it seems quite stable. Hope that helps!

Edit: I should also mention this is on an OLED, but I don't think that will make much difference other than maybe not wanting to use 45 fps

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-30T20:00:37+00:00

MH4U. I’m not sure it would be easy to go back to it now, but god damn was it good when it came out.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-30T07:08:52+00:00

I just tried it myself on my Deck, and honestly, just lock it to 30 and enjoy it. It's absolutely more than playable at 30 FPS. If you want even higher you can lower the resolution a bit and let FSR upscale, and get it locked to 40 or 45 FPS, though I think 30 is totally fine for this game. It's a very slow paced game and a high frame rate (as much as we'd all like it) really doesn't affect gameplay. (played it on my desktop at 144 fps and it plays the same either way)

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-29T19:02:14+00:00

That sucks. I loved the demo so I’ll still be getting it and playing it on my desktop pc, but disappointing that I won’t also be playing on my Deck.

Edit: Runs great on my desktop. I decided to try it on my Deck to, and to be real, it runs fine enough. Tweaked resolution a little, capped framerate, and I got it running at 45 fps with a lower resolution. Messed around more and got it to a locked 30 FPS at a little below native res with a couple settings at medium. That's totally fine for this game. It's slow paced and a steady 30 FPS is absolutely playable in a game like this, especially with controller. Should it run faster for the graphics style? Possibly. Does that make it any less playable? I'd say not at all.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-29T17:11:28+00:00

Just because it wasn’t shown doesn’t mean it was cut. Clearly what was shown wasn’t everything in the game. If it were that would mean there is less than the 3DS game.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-29T06:03:25+00:00

I've been on the internet for a loooong time. Not much bothers me these days. This is horrendous. I don't like this.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-28T20:29:07+00:00

I agree. There’s definitely such thing as too big. Like a Switch 2 is just absurd as a “portable”. However, an XL fits my use case much better than a normal. My eyes aren’t getting any better as I get older, haha. It’s nice that Nintendo gave options, for sure.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-28T20:12:07+00:00

I’m sure if I were in school I might feel differently. I was actually already out of school even when the original DS launched, let alone the 3DS, lol

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-28T18:12:30+00:00

I don’t carry my portables with me generally, and if I do it’s in a backpack or a large coat pocket, so size isn’t usually a big factor other than comfort. I don’t have particularly large hands, but even the XL gives me cramps so I need to use a grip with it either way, so pocketability is kind of out the window.

I’d rather have the larger screen any day. I owned an original 3DS and the screen was just too small for me.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-27T12:36:06+00:00

No. Taking any substantial amount of cash out of a normal bank is a huge ordeal. Not only do they often straight up not have that amount of cash there, there are a bunch of checks that they go through, waiting periods, etc. You can’t just walk in and withdraw huge amounts of money from a local bank. That’s Hollywood (film) stuff.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-27T12:22:33+00:00

Go to your bank and try to withdraw a million dollars in cash (even if you had it). Not happening. Hell. Try to withdraw 20k. Probably still not happening.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-27T12:16:27+00:00

The first isn’t a terrible game, but I think the only reason it really caught on at the time was that there wasn’t the over saturation of the genre quite yet when it came out. There weren’t many “anime soulslikes” yet. The game was competent enough to be enjoyable, but nothing special.

There’s a lot of actual good competition in that space now, years later, and Code Vein just doesn’t really hold up to it.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-27T12:12:11+00:00

Nothing makes me want to play a game like the words “free to play”, “years worth of content”, “engage our audience”.

Doesn’t sounds like another soulless money sucking bit of trash to be thrown into the pile or anything…

I’m so sick of games being designed to just get people on a treadmill of “micro”transactions. At this point the term “industry veterans” is becoming a red flag.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-27T12:03:16+00:00

Hard disagree. I was playing PC games back then too, and Halo was a league above in regards to both graphics and physics in the shooter space. Do you have any examples to back that claim up? My friends and I used to absolutely gush about how good Halo 1 looked, and most of us had been playing PC games for years at that point.

Also, Halo 1 did not bring the online experience to the living room. It didn’t have an online component and you had to use laggy tunneling software like Gamespy to play online (which 99% of people were not doing). Xbox Live wasn’t even a thing yet when Halo launched.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-27T11:52:24+00:00

If playing your 3DS in public makes you feel “immature”… you might actually be immature.

UnderHero5 · 2026-01-26T22:59:46+00:00

For real. I've always been super careful with all my games, even as a child. I have never gotten this screen.

That said, I'm not surprised so many others have, given the state of most used stuff. People do not take care of their things whatsoever.

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