Good news! It does! My desktop was out of commission for a while due to a hardware issue, and I used my Steam Deck exclusively as my PC during that time. Hunt ran fine, with anti-cheat working, and I even racked up some kills and wins (with mouse and keyboard and a monitor ofc and at 720p). The handheld experience would be rough but obviously playing Hunt against PC players with a controller would be nearly impossible in 3 star and up.

ALVR works great, assuming SteamVR in general works with your DE (no Gnome support atm but KDE works for sure).

So glad you wrote this first so I didn’t have to point it out lol

That display out will be hard to match with an old optiplex or laptop, but I agree, the pricing is getting less absurdly low and more just moderately low.

Since you mentioned darktable I assume you already know this, but depending on the camera’s raws and the presets that imagemagick has for converting these photos the results might be undesirable if not inspected or tweaked. Not disparaging any advice given here, just mentioning that generally raws are edited on a case by case basis to fix camera artifacts and color issues. Hope the solutions others have posted work out for you!

Looks cool! But the GitHub mentions needing a 40-80GB GPU? Was really hoping to test this out myself but it looks like that may be out of the cards for me.

This is legitimately terrifying and extremely impressive if the demo they show in the gif reflects the quality of the output. Especially if this is going to be a free feature.

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