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how's it going everyone as always my
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name is Jimmy champagne this is deck
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ready my Channel all about the steam
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deck can you guys believe it's already
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August I'm like pretty bummed about it
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when I lived in California the weather
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was the same every day and I hated that
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but then I moved here and now summer
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feels like it goes by way too quick
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anyway in today's video I've got three
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news topics to cover for you guys the
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first one is that because of an Easter
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egg on the steam deck box steam decks
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are being stolen the second news story
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is that in the latest Steam beta valve
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has shown the steam deck even more love
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and third a new game got added to the
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list of games that get a specific
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Graphics boost on Steam deck so it might
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be worth trying out all right let's jump
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into the first news story here which is
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definitely a weird one so if you've
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bought a new steam deck like a LCD or an
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OLED you probably notice that on the box
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that you get it in uh it basically is
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like the box and then the case there's
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no outside box like you would have on a
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PS5 or an Xbox series X or like a laptop
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or any other Tech that you really buy
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and on the outside of that box is an
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Easter egg that references portal it
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shows the direction that the Box should
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be facing and it's using a compion Cube
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to signify that like to show that the
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Box should be like facing down when you
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deliver it so that when people open the
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box the steam deck case is facing
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upwards towards them I remember way back
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to when the steam deck came out I
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thought that was so cool I'm pretty sure
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you could go back to the unboxing video
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I did like around the time I created
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this channel because I actually started
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it before the steam deck came out and
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did some news updates on when it would
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be coming and everything like that but
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once I finally got it I did an unboxing
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and I was so excited about the portal
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Easter egg because when I was growing up
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portal was awesome I didn't really have
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this knowledge of valves earlier games
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because I didn't grow up with a gaming
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PC I had an Xbox an Xbox 360 a PS3 and
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everything like that I also had a Game
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Boy and all the Nintendo consoles but
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like I did not have a PC so when the
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orange box came out I was stoked to play
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that because not only was it awesome to
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see this bundle that was just a regular
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old full price game that came with
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halflife 2 all of its expansions it came
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with Team Fortress 2 and it came with
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portal but once I got it with my friends
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at Blockbuster for my birthday that year
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like I was just so excited to play
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portal because it seemed like this
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totally new and revolutionary game and
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then when I graduated high school Portal
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2 came out it was one of my favorite
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games that year I actually played it on
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my MacBook Pro I was so excited that was
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actually my first gaming PC I got a
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15-in MacBook Pro for college with a
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dedicated GPU the first thing I did was
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use boot camp to install Windows 7 on it
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and my first two games were Portal 2 and
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Call of Duty Black Ops so that was like
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a great nostalgic moment for me to see
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portal reference not only on the box of
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the steam deck but also in aperture desk
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job the sort of like wi Sports packing
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game that you could use to get to know
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the way that your steam deck worked but
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it turns out that little logo on the box
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that references portal is resulting in
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Steam decks being stolen by delivery
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drivers which really sucks now I
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originally read this article on PC games
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and and I was honestly shocked at how
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many people have listed this happening
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on Reddit it's not just happening to the
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steam deck LCD it's also happening to
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the steam deck OLED and it's such a we
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can't have nice things situation because
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if valve wants to fix this the only
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thing they can do is remove the fun
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little Easter egg from the steam deck
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box when they ship it out and that blows
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because you know it was a cool thing for
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me personally as someone who grew up
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with portal and Portal 2 to see those
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reference by Valve even if they're not
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making a new game it's still cool to see
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that history work its way back into the
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steam deck and now because delivery
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drivers who just want to get a free
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steam deck are stealing them the only
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solution like I just said is to remove
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that Easter egg from the box thankfully
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valve seems to be one of those companies
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that actually cares about their
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customers I mean we just talked about it
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in the last video where they're
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providing official support and updates
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for the deck HD screen because even
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though there's only a few people out
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there who got them the fact that they
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have to reflash their operating system
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every time a steam deck gets an update
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kind of ruins the whole experience of
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upgrading your screen so valve went out
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of their way to include uh drivers for
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that screen in future updates which I
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think is cool and also they've replaced
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steam Decks that were totally voided
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their warranty like through people doing
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user error upgrades that would
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eventually break their steam deck valve
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has been extremely cool about fixing
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them I mean when they switch to United
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Radio things got a little bit
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wishy-washy like my experience getting
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my steam deck replaced was much better
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before United Radio came into the
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picture but still with that one caveat I
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still think they are pretty much the top
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tier when it comes to replacing things
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under or out of warranty and making sure
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that people who buy a steam deck are
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supported in as many ways as possible so
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yeah if your steam deck is still stolen
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off your porch I would assume at the
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very least valve will be forthcoming and
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cool about making sure they ship you out
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a new one without charging you for the
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replacement which obviously they should
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do but like talking about this whole
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Asus situation talking about how many
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other PC manufacturers like my preferred
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one Razer I pray that nothing goes wrong
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with this laptop because you basically
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have to pay the shipping cost to get it
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to Singapore to get it fixed and then
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you're not going to have it for a matter
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of months which really sucks so yeah
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comparing valve to everyone else I think
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they are pretty much the cream of the
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crop but still I'd love to hear if this
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has happened to you I feel really bad
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but like I just want to know how
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widespread this issue is so if your
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steam deck was stolen because of that
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Easter egg that's on the box please let
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me know down in the comments below
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anyway that brings us to the second news
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story here which is me giving my
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endorsement of the steam deck beta
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Channel at least the current one because
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the features that are in it were already
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announced but they've added some other
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features that I think are pretty cool so
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the first small feature that's going to
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come along with using the beta so the
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first small feature that's going to come
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along with using the beta software on
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your steam deck is now when you're
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playing on the steam deck there will be
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a little icon next to your name on your
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friends friends list uh I think this is
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really cool I thought it was weird that
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like this never happened because if you
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play uh ghost of tsushima on PC like
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your PlayStation 5 friends will see a
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little PC logo next to your name and I
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added all of the people who wanted to
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add me from PS ready on my Playstation
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network account and people were
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messaging me left and right when I was
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testing out ghost of sushima on PC
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saying what is this little icon next to
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your name and I got to tell tell them
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that I was playing on PC so like it's
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basically free marketing to have a
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little logo for the steam deck next to
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people's names when they're playing on
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the steam deck because I can't tell you
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how many of my friends that I talk to
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who you know play on PC they use Xbox
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game pass they use steam they're like
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tuned into the PC ecosystem but they
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still don't really know what even a
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steam deck is let alone an Rog Ally or a
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legion go so it' be really cool if I was
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playing a game like conscript or
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something like I have been in my
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backyard or Crow country or any of the
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Resident Evil Gam games I've been
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playing and then on my steam friends
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list they all see a little icon next to
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my name that shows that I'm on my steam
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deck and then they say what is that logo
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next to your name and then I get to tell
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them all about one of the greatest
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handhelds if not the greatest handheld
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of all time it's like free marketing for
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valve so I think that was a smart update
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the steam family sharing revamp has also
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been implemented if you don't know how
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this works basically you can add your
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friends who are in your country to your
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steam library and they can request
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access to play games that are in your
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library so like I mentioned I think I'm
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PS ready but my comes and stays with me
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on the weekends cuz he lives out in the
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woods he loves using the PS5 in the
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basement but I've also added him to my
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steam family because I gave him one of
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my old iono devices and he's been
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playing Elden ring like crazy on it and
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he wanted to play Call of Duty Modern
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Warfare 3 while I wasn't playing it so I
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was really excited to be able to add him
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to my steam family so that's just like a
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really cool example of how you could use
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this new feature versus the way it
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worked before which is like you had to
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add people to your sharing group and it
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wasn't the best experience out there I
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know they kind of changed things around
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so there are a few drawbacks to the new
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steam family sharing but it was
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languishing it needed an update I think
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it's effective how they did it and then
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finally I noticed that when I updated my
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steam deck that game recording is
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finally there I wasn't sure how many
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developers were going to take advantage
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of the timestamps feature so basically
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if you don't know how this works
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developers can use the steam game
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recording to let the recorder understand
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what you're doing in a game so it'll
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actually put a little marker on the
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steam recording to say hey from this
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point on to that point you were in menus
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from this point on to that point you
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were in gameplay and from this point to
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that point you were in a lobby waiting
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for the game to start so that's actually
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really useful for someone who's a
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YouTuber Who records a ton of footage
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I'd imagine that this would be a great
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feature for someone who does a lot of
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multiplayer gaming and maybe makes
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compilations or like you know edits of
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their gameplay you could just like look
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at the footage you could see when you
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were in the lobbies immediately cut that
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out you could see when you're in menus
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immediately cut that out and just be
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left with raw gameplay that would make
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cutting it down to just the best Clips
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so much easier and for channels who test
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out games on the steam deck I would
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imagine that would improve their
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workflow tfold if they already knew
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going in when they were in menus when
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they were in the settings when they were
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in gameplay and it seems like it's kind
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of catching on like it's not a lot of
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games I'm pretty sure the list of games
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that took advantage of this feature is
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up to 17 and I looked at it and I had
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heard of some of them like there's a few
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jrpgs and action RPGs and stuff but
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hopefully people kind of respond to this
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well and start using it because that's
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going to convince valve to talk to other
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developers and say hey we have this new
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feature with game recording that'll let
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you allow markers when people are in
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different parts of your game and then
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those developers will take advantage of
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it because we've seen this a million
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times over on the PS5 side there are so
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many features the PS5 launched with that
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people just didn't use that Sony then
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took out in software updates and I don't
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want to see that happening with game
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recording or I don't want to see them
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kind of abandon it and never really
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update it because people aren't using it
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so if you're on the beta channel of your
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steam deck maybe try out game ing share
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some clips see if it works right and
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provide feedback if it doesn't because
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as we all know it's still in beta
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they're still collecting feedback and
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valve actually goes out of their way to
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take feedback from their users into
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account so the worst thing you could do
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really is not at least try it out you
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know what I'm saying anyway that brings
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us to the third new story here which is
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we have yet another game that's been
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updated to allow FSR 3 frame generation
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on the steam deck and it's one that I've
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had on my wish list for a while it's
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called enshrouded so the reason I
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haven't bought this game yet is because
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it's in Early Access I was so excited
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did when Early Access was announced I
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thought it was the coolest thing ever
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and then I've just been burned too many
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times by either games being in Early
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Access and never coming out or being in
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Early Access not selling enough and then
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they say it's finished like it's
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reaching 1.0 and then the game really
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isn't at 1.0 it's just like they stop
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put a bookmark in it and then released
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it and then they just let it go out into
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the E and that's my hard earned money
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going down the garbage disposal so I
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kind of stay away from Early Access
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games and wait till they actually make
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it to 1.0 get some reviews out there and
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see how they're performing but
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enshrouded looks like one that I
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wouldn't really feel too bad if I bought
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in Early Access and it looks like it
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still has quite a few players making
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their way into the game it kind of
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reminds me of the situation with valheim
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because it's an open world action RPG
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that's also a survival game so they're
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very similar and since it came out it's
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been listed as unsupported on Steam deck
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but I know other channels out there have
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figured out how to get it running and it
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hasn't really been a pretty situation
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when it comes to Performance because
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like most early ACC games it's not the
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most well optimized game out there but
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they just put out an update that not
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only added in frame generation which uh
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I'll talk about my thoughts on frame
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generation in a sec but it also added in
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a default setting for the steam deck
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that allows it to apparently run a
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little bit better because they've
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optimized a lot of the game since it
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released in Early Access reading into it
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like on Steam deck HQ and everything it
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looks like it's a little optimistic in
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terms of the default profile that they
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use like it's still going to be running
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between 15 and 30 FPS but the big
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Improvement here is that you can drop
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the settings a little bit lower and get
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a very comfortable 30fps out of the game
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and that apparently really comes down to
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FSR 3's integration now when it comes to
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FSR 3 integration on the steam deck I
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saw a lot of people get excited for this
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when it was added into Spider-Man
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remastered but when you look into how
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frame generation actually works the big
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caveat that makes it not the best for
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the steam deck is the fact that it
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mainly works best when you have a high
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input frame rate so the best way to use
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it with something like Spider-Man on the
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steam deck would be to drop the settings
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to their absolute lowest to get the
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frame rate as high as possible so the AI
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frames aren't being inserted like really
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what it's doing is inserting those AI
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frames when frames are dropped so you
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want to make sure that you're not
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dropping as many frames because when
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you're introducing a lot of frames not
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only does it introduce things like
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visual artifacting that looks terrible
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it also introduces higher input lag so
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what you want is to be running a game
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that was traditionally running at around
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60 fps to be running at 120 and then
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with the frame generation everything
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will be buttery smooth but on the steam
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deck where the target profile for games
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is around 30 FPS at around medium
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settings using FSR 3 to double it to 60
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results in not only degraded visuals but
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also insane input legs so it's not
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really worth it I did notice when I
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talked about this last time a lot of
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people were down in the comments saying
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that they don't really care or notice
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the frame generation issues but like me
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someone who wants the best visual
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quality and the most consistent frame
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rate I'd always prefer to lock a game at
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30 FPS and use higher settings than to
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lower the settings to the lowest of the
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low and get higher frame rates out of
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the game mainly what that comes down to
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is the fact that if a game can't run at
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around 30 or 40 FPS I have a backup
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which is my main gaming PC or the Rog
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Ally X in some cases but I've really
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found that if a game doesn't run well on
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the steam deck it's not going to
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magically work perfectly on the r Ali X
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outside of like a few like outlier type
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games mainly games made by Microsoft but
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the one silver lining is that if the
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steam deck is the only option you have
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like it's your only gaming PC it's the
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only way you have to really interact
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with steam having the option there is
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cool I think it's a smart thing to do
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and obviously there's no drawbacks
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outside of those visual ones that I've
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really already talked about so hopefully
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as time goes on we start to see FSR 3
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make its way into more games AMD seems
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to be going way out of their way to buy
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sponsorship deals with pretty much any
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game they can so I would imagine that
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we'll see more and more games
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compounding on each other that include
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FSR 3 but until theam deck gets its true
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steam deck 2 and we get that power jump
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that allows us to run these current gen
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games at higher frame rates to begin
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with it's kind of like a cool feature
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that I'm really not going to take
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advantage of but for those of you who
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wanted to play in shrouded on your steam
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deck you're definitely going to be happy
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to know that now you can and you can
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keep it at a pretty much hard loock 30
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FPS which is great at the end of the day
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anyway guys that's all I've got for you
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in today's video as always my name is
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Jimmy champagne I'll see you in the next
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one thanks for watching and shape on
