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by tomwojcik 35 days ago
Today I had to disable dual band WiFi on my windows gaming machine because PoE2 has this bug when a group of mobs surround you, network latency suddenly spikes, but only if the network card works on dual band... Sigh.

I assume many issues like that will still exist on Steam Machine, as it's kind of unrelated to what's running the buggy software.
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Borealid 34 days ago
That issue cannot be a bug in the game, because the operating system should not allow a game to (by any means) produce that type of behaviour. So it's a bug in your OS, potentially the network card driver.

There are fewer of those on Linux but they still exist.

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jrm4 34 days ago
Given my experience with Steam Deck, I strongly doubt this?

My guess is that the extra $200 (over a custom built pc) will precisely be "everything mostly just working."

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