Probably fits well with having game pass on handhelds; that’s one of the notable disadvantages of the Steam Deck, even with all the great emulation for other stores (I’ve been playing Odyssey off my UPlay account) it can’t handle WinStore games.
That’s MS being shitty, but hopefully they’ll change their tune soon. One of the artificial restrictions is needing to have the games installed on an NTFS file system. I actually formatted my ROG’s SD card with NTFS so I could install my MS games to it.
Made me sad, because doing that makes me have to commit entirely to keeping it Windows. Otherwise I would have probably dual-booted ChimaeraOS or something.
They still use EXEs but they’ve heavily obfuscated and restricted the file access. Games are definitely not UWP.
If you go and look into a directory you’ll see more or less the same thing you’d see in the Steamapps directory, but it requires admin access and other funky stuff to even view, let alone touch.
Functionally the difference is basically just MS has heavier DRM which causes problems for things like mods. Starfield on Gamepass is already worse than Starfield on Steam because it’s incompatible with a bunch of mods without weird shit like running Cheat Engine.
Sure it can. Install Windows on it. I don’t get why people consider the default OS of any of these handhelds to be a downside. They’re computers. Just install what you want.
Probably fits well with having game pass on handhelds; that’s one of the notable disadvantages of the Steam Deck, even with all the great emulation for other stores (I’ve been playing Odyssey off my UPlay account) it can’t handle WinStore games.
That’s MS being shitty, but hopefully they’ll change their tune soon. One of the artificial restrictions is needing to have the games installed on an NTFS file system. I actually formatted my ROG’s SD card with NTFS so I could install my MS games to it.
Made me sad, because doing that makes me have to commit entirely to keeping it Windows. Otherwise I would have probably dual-booted ChimaeraOS or something.
If you want to dual boot you should be able to mount the NTFS partition in Linux and run games off it using Lutris/Proton
Isn’t cause they use a different format (UWP) instead of an EXE?
They still use EXEs but they’ve heavily obfuscated and restricted the file access. Games are definitely not UWP.
If you go and look into a directory you’ll see more or less the same thing you’d see in the Steamapps directory, but it requires admin access and other funky stuff to even view, let alone touch.
Functionally the difference is basically just MS has heavier DRM which causes problems for things like mods. Starfield on Gamepass is already worse than Starfield on Steam because it’s incompatible with a bunch of mods without weird shit like running Cheat Engine.
not user admin access, their admin access
Sure it can. Install Windows on it. I don’t get why people consider the default OS of any of these handhelds to be a downside. They’re computers. Just install what you want.