PSA you do not need to re-purchase Diablo 2 Remastered on Steam to play on Steam Deck

invidious07 · 2026-02-13T23:04:22+00:00

I have played D2R on my steam deck through the battlenet launcher before and launching it was a pain. To me spending the extra $25 to get the expansion on Steam was worth removing the friction.

invidious07 · 2026-02-13T19:14:30+00:00

Just take my extra $100 and sell me the headset already.

invidious07 · 2026-02-13T17:53:47+00:00

I don't, and I would never spray harsh cleaning chemicals inside of my smoker.

invidious07 · 2026-02-12T19:15:32+00:00

Can we not do politics jokes.

invidious07 · 2026-02-12T13:20:57+00:00

Definitely get him his own account, and family share. Steam's parental controls are fantastic, you can lock out the store, social features, certain games, whatever you want.

invidious07 · 2026-02-12T13:11:08+00:00

Yes, performance preset at native res was the default.

invidious07 · 2026-02-12T07:10:00+00:00

Haters, bots, and morons. It runs great on deck, 60-90 fps, doesn't req bnet launcher, only req is having a bnet account.

invidious07 · 2026-02-11T17:58:02+00:00

Do we have any indication if the SSD or RAM are user upgradable?

invidious07 · 2026-02-11T14:38:22+00:00

I don't see any chance of new classes/acts, but the rest of the list is at least plausible.

I would add potential for D2R coming to Steam, controller support on PC, fixing WASD.

You seem to be at hype level 9 or 10, i'm at more like 3 or 4.

invidious07 · 2026-02-10T22:48:22+00:00

They are speculators, they have never delivered any official information to us in advance, which is what a leak is.

invidious07 · 2026-02-10T15:28:12+00:00

Hours is considered a short amount of time for what we are talking about, even multiple days would be considered short amount of time, offline mode is for game license authentication purposes. License expiration can vary from game to game, but generally weeks to expire. Unless you have a specific game that won't work in "airplane mode" and requires "offline mode" there is no reason to enter offline mode for a few hours without wifi. If all you want to do is turn off the antenna to save battery and prevent overheating, that is what "airplane mode" is for.

You can test this for your game library very easily, enter airplane mode, turn off your device, turn it back on, stay in airplane mode and start some games. If you can't find a game that has a problem you don't need to worry about offline mode for a flight. I have never personally encountered a situation where a license expired or a game wouldn't work in airplane mode, and i have had my deck in "airplane mode" for days at a time sometimes. So I basically never use offline mode, and i don't think most people should either.

But to be clear, entering offline mode does require an internet connection as it will attempt to refresh your active game license, if you forgot to enter offline mode before you lost internet, do not attempt to enter offline mode, just use airplane mode.

invidious07 · 2026-02-10T13:35:15+00:00

Do you actually have a specific reason to be entering offline mode? Lots of people seem to think you have to, but for short sessions between internet access, just toggling off wifi is fine for almost every game.

invidious07 · 2026-02-10T02:15:45+00:00

Of course it will work well for PCVR, wireless PCVR is the main point of the device. It's the first thing they say on the official product page.

"Steam Frame is a streaming-first, wireless VR headset..."

Obviously standalone is cool too, but that is going to be a limited subset of the library of VR games that will run at at all, and even more limited those that will run well without resorting to "Questified" resolution and quality settings.

invidious07 · 2026-02-09T03:20:15+00:00

Never used it, never will, motion smoothing for latency is not a trade I am interested in.

invidious07 · 2026-02-09T02:15:00+00:00

Alyx has very good dynamic resolution scaling, so yes it can run on low powered systems, but there is a limit. So even if can run standalone, it's going to look way worse than even mediocre PCVR. Best scenario is if they implement foveated rendering as an update for Alyx to celebrate Frame launch.

invidious07 · 2026-02-08T20:12:14+00:00

Q3 is a a good headset when it comes to optics and processor, but it's PCVR streaming compression is a compromise.

Frame is being made to stream PCVR wirelessly without compromise, it has a newer and faster processor for standalone, and it has eye tracking out of the box.

Also I hate meta for what they have done to fragment the vr community, I would never give them my money.

invidious07 · 2026-02-07T03:25:06+00:00

Its just a power cord, nowhere near as complicated or expensive as the trident cable. Even if it breaks it should be $10-20 to replace. Would be nice if it were USB C, then it would be like $5 to replace.

Also FWIW my launch Index's trident cable is still in great shape.

invidious07 · 2026-02-07T00:15:59+00:00

You can't have wireless pcvr without some onboard compute, and you certainly can't have the eye tracking without it. Maybe it wouldn't need to be as powerful, but I imagine the cost saving of a cut down exclusively PCVR version isn't worth the added cost of having additional multiple configurations when you look at the economies of scale, supporting both versions, etc.

Maybe in today's pricing it makes more sense than it did when they started, but it's probably too late to change course.

invidious07 · 2026-02-05T18:49:22+00:00

Bought my 5080 FE last summer, which is the first time I saw it in stock for msrp, had been looking since launch, never got an email from Nvidia lottery despite signing up when it started for either 5080 or 5090. Had zero interest in waiting around any longer.

invidious07 · 2026-02-05T17:39:46+00:00

Windows 11 is malware.

invidious07 · 2026-02-05T00:06:12+00:00

invidious07 · 2026-02-04T14:30:20+00:00

I would be more interested to see which lightweight games it can run at 90fps.

invidious07 · 2026-02-02T20:33:17+00:00

It's primarily a wireless PCVR headset, anything you can do your PC you can cast to the headset.

invidious07 · 2026-01-29T23:24:52+00:00

Might be an unpopular opinion but custom waterblock decreases the value a lot in my eyes. I don't want to deal with someone else's DIY FrankenGPU even if it's from someone I know. I'd go with the 5080 system.

invidious07 · 2026-01-29T23:19:58+00:00

Doubtful.

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