Changing the screen was easy peasy. The glue is tough to get off, but my screen was already broken. I did my buddies screen too, which wasn’t broken, and he wanted to save it, so I had to be more careful. That took a bit more effort to do carefully.

But that’s the hardest part, everything else is easy.

The hard part for me was changing the front case, that took significantly more time and effort. A million little parts and screws and stuff. Took hours.

But if you’re just changing the screen? Not so bad.

I’d still do it all again though, looks great

Thanks! And you should! For $300, it’s hard to beat the performance per dollar.

Other handhelds have more oomph these days, but not that much more, and your battery lasts much less time when your cranking those new chips that hard. None have matched the efficiency of the deck, frames per watt. To me, that’s what counts.

If I’m out and about, I want efficiency, not raw performance. If I’m at home? Well, I can stream from my PC and get all the performance I need. So what’s the point of these other machines?

No drama so far, though I admit I STILL haven’t had time to play with it. Busy weekend, even now 🤦‍♂️

Slow Internet users unite!

Mine could be worse, it’s 30/10. Had it for a few years. Before that it was 10/1 though, for like 10 ish years. And before that? For a significant portion of my teenage years, it was 1.5/.5.

Before that, my young childhood was all dialup. DSL existed, we just didn’t have it 😬

Right now they’re putting fiber in my town though! Soon I’ll have access to 8000/8000 if I wanted! That’s way too much though, I’m gonna go for their lowest tier, which costs the same as I’m paying now, but gives me 300/300. Plenty fast for anything I need to do these days. Nice to know the capacity is there if I need more 🤷‍♂️

I mean, it kind of is a toy 😬

To each their own though 👍

See my comment below for advice on an SSD swap, it’s super easy

Yeah SSD swap is one of the easiest upgrades, with the most benefit. Plus if you get an external nvme enclosure and take some time to play with RescueZilla, you can clone your old drive to the new one and you won’t have to reinstall anything at all. Pretty slick!

Can confirm 🫠

Nah, every little button and board are all individually screwed into the front case. So swapping it is literally removing those things one at a time, setting them aside, doing the rest of the work, then putting all those little pieces back in exactly where they go.

The instructions have over a 100 steps, then you do them an in reverse. So over 200 steps to do it all.

I bet you could get fast at it, but first time? Gonna be slow.

But the screen swap is just the motherboard in and out I’m pretty sure.

You’re very welcome.

The creator seems to be pretty on top of things, I bet we’ll get some fixes before too long.

While not as enticing, it should be much easier for the deck to handle.

People’s concern with the increased resolution is that games that are already marginal, like horizon forbidden West, will slip further down in frame rate.

If hardware accelerated 720p becomes a thing with a software update, I’ll most likely bump it down for a net INCREASE in performance 😬

I’ve sent a support message to the creator, hopefully he’ll have an answer 👍

It’s 1080p, which is unfortunately just a little harder to drive. Apparently the hardware in the new screen technically supports hardware downscaling to 720p, but that isn’t implemented yet, and may never be.

Thanks! I thought I was keeping up with development but I guess I missed that somehow. I guess I’ll just have to be patient 😬

Thanks!

The new case was like $35, and the OLED screen is like $140. I bought a deck with a broken screen for $150, so $325 from scratch? Plus taxes and odds and ends 🤷‍♂️ Not bad!

Well, I’m sure I could’ve gone faster, I did stop to help my buddy a number of times. But yeah it’s at least 2 or 3 hours, lots of little bits and bobs and they all have to go back in the right spots. It’s not hard per se, except for the screen removal, it’s just tedious.

Thanks I think it looks great too! 😄

You know I’m not sure, and I’m not sure how to check. That might be a good question for someone else? Or maybe it’s in the documentation? Or if you can tell me how to check I can check,

Easy peasy, he created a tool that does it automatically, with prompts and everything. Literally just double clicking a file from his website, done and done 👍

Yes unfortunately. I thought I wouldn’t have to, that’s half the reason I got the extra case. But the way the steam deck is designed, the internal frame is screwed to the front case with 6 screws that are under the screen 🫠

Edit: Swapping the screen without swapping the case would be significantly easier, you’ve only gotta go down as deep as the motherboard.