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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Tscowan on 2025-08-06 02:17:38+00:00.

Ending up selling my steamdeck on eBay since I haven’t used it enough to justify having it, and I’ve seen varying feedback on what needs to be done to it before selling it. Is a factory reset good enough or do I really need to reinstall SteamOS? Thanks.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Elet_Ronne on 2025-08-06 05:18:43+00:00.

505, to be precise :3

Been waiting until I made it to my 'goal' to post this. I didn't rush, I didn't download any crap for the sake of the goal.

I've obtained 500 solid, unique games, vetted through metacritic, reddit, and more, over 8 months of owning my Deck. No duplicates, not counting re-releases, and collections count as one game.

I have spent at least 20 individual nights researching, downloading, formatting my file system, and adding the games to my Deck. This has been the hobby of my spring and summer so far.

I'm in love now more than ever.

Having all of this available, at my fingertips, in my hands, is a childhood dream come true. The sheer breadth of possible experiences, over five generations of gaming history, all in beautiful bright color, blows my mind.

About 35 games are from my Steam library (though I have maybe 60 in all; most of them are indie titles and I switch out my AAA titles depending on what I want to play to save space). The rest are roms. This is where I went wild.

I had emulated on my PC before. But, like a normal person, I only had my favorite titles...maybe 25 or so. It was only with the advent of the Deck in my life that I began considering collecting game libraries for the sake of future security. And just for fun.

After breaking through the dry spell of finding a good rom source (as everything I'd previously downloaded for my PC came from a now defunct site), the floodgates were open.

Started with Gamecube, the system I was most excited to play in handheld. Before I knew it, I was up to 78 games.

Then it was N64. 49 games later, I move back to SNES. Then came the handhelds; GB, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS. Remembered the NES around this time...45 games later, I remembered something else:

Sega.

I call this part the 'Larry Collection'. Sounds funny, but it's because the only person I ever experienced Sega through was my Uncle Larry, now deceased. He loved his Sonic and I just remember long summer days playing Genesis in his cool room.

50 games (I found Sega's libraries not as much to my style as Nintendo, but that's okay), and many rounds of fine tuning (my emulators had a hard time with some of these, for some reason) later, I finally think to myself: damn, have I done it? And I go in for the count. I honestly didn't expect to have made it.

But I did! And I'd say that, for now, I'm finally done.

You may be asking yourself why I would bother getting so many games when I couldn't ever possibly play them all.

Well...options!

I believe in the rule of 20%, when it comes to libraries. Physical libraries, to be precise. The only thing I physically collect are books, and I have hundreds. But have I read all of them? Noooo. I've read, at the most, 20%. And this is a good thing.

I get to 'shop' my own collection whenever I want something new to read. I love that for some reason. I love looking at my own stuff, still full of potential, still waiting to be explored.

Well, game collecting is a 0 footprint business when it comes to the Steam Deck. It's all right there, on my PC, on my flash drive, on my Deck. 500 games to choose from.

Am I in the mood for an RPG? Well, I've easily got at least 75 of those. CRPG? Sure, I've got eat least 30 of them suckers. Oh, I want a faithful port of a 90s CRPG? Choose from these 10.

Every Pokémon game I'd ever care to play. Almost every Zelda, Mario, Sonic. SpongeBob, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings? I've got every one worth playing on console.

Crash, Spyro, Earthworm Jim, Pikmin.

I've even got a couple ROM hacks :)

Tired of thinking about retro gaming? For those so inclined, I've got Skyrim, Oblivion Remastered, Morrowind. I have Elden Ring, The Witcher 3, and Baldur's Gate 3. Disco Elysium? Sure. Dwarf Fortress? Hell yes, brother.

Binding of Isaac, the time sink of my summer. Hades! Barony! A holy trinity of roguelikes.

No Man's Sky, Terraria, Stardew Valley, GTA 5, Balatro, Dave the Diver.

I could go on. I want to go on. But I've gushed long enough.

Conclusions: I love this dang thing. But the love I have for it is multi-layered. I love it as an entertainment piece, sure. As a console, as a handheld. But I also love it as a computer, as a way of organizing and tinkering with my games. Having come from the guardrails of the Switch 1, the Deck is constantly a breath of fresh air.

I love to tinker, add games, research games, grab the thumbnails, modify the appearance of my collections, etc.

It's just a lot of fun.

8 months after buying this thing (after a year of wanting it very badly), I'm still in love.

Handheld goals going forward? I want a proper DS/3DS handheld. That's about it. Maybe another that's more travel-able. Aside from these blind spots, the Deck is just perfect for me.

It's comfortable, it's sleek, it has great battery, and it's pretty much my favorite thing.

I promise I'm no shill. I just really have enjoyed this product and have been thinking about making this post since I hit about 300 games. This feels like a natural stopping point. But man, it was fun.

Thanks for reading!

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/IroquoisKaram on 2025-08-05 17:27:18+00:00.

Try enabling gyroscope and setting right trackpad hold to activate gyroscope... Makes Half Life 2 and other first person shooters incredibly fun and immersive.

Btw you can get 6 hours of play time on a single charge in Half Life 2 if you limit fps to 40 fps/40hz and TDP to 4W. This is on the LCD model so OLED should get even more battery life.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/snodopous on 2025-08-06 03:40:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Ok-Potato5688 on 2025-08-05 17:31:43+00:00.

As someone with limited computer knowledge, I largely rely on the community for my Steam Deck game settings. I see time and time again that when folks ask for settings help here, posters will (often with attitude) say to simply check ProtonDB for assistance. This isn’t necessarily bad advice, but what folks forget to mention is that ProtonDB is, at best, a mere starting place.

I have found on many occasions that ProtonDB is either lacking in actual game settings information or it is simply wrong about the state of a game. And I reckon this is because you’re relying on community updates, which are not guaranteed to be consistent.

1. Let’s take a quick gander for instance at ProtonDB’s entry for the Dead Space Remake. A quick glance will tell you this game runs perfectly with some tweaks. Anybody here who has taken an honest stab at this game on Deck already knows this is false. The game always has been and continues to be a stuttering nightmare. And while that stuttering can be reduced in some clever ways, it can not be eliminated. Yet ProtonDB and its comments will not reflect that, and the page will mislead you to buy this game for your Deck.
2. Let’s take another gander at Expedition 33. We are aware that this can barely run on Steam Deck, and there are heavy compromises. For a game focused on parrying, the questionable performance is a deal breaker. So why does ProtonDB tell its readers this is a Platinum title, perfect out of box? At the very least, the comments do warn readers to proceed with caution. But the label is misleading.
3. There can be so many examples here, I’ll just point finally to the Alters. There is no issue with the label here, it is correct to say this game is playable on Deck with minor issues. Because this game is demanding, it requires some more advanced tweaks to graphics settings. But if this Reddit just dismissed someone and said “check ProtonDB”, there would be very little guidance here on making finer tweaks. There is a mention that FSR 3 with medium settings may work, though no further specificity. Also, this page does not educate readers that actually TSR is the ideal choice over FSR for this title. I only know that from researching outside of ProtonDB.

Honestly there are tons of example, but I have come to the conclusion that, for the best settings, one still does best by just asking the Reddit community what the current consensus is for a game (especially when it’s a new or demanding title). I have seen plenty of special tips for improving performance that came from this Reddit community rather than ProtonDB. Yet, this community can often be quite rude to anyone asking for setting assistance, suggesting they were just too lazy to use ProtonDB. We gotta cut people more slack when people are posting performance questions with harmless, good intentions

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Txordi on 2025-08-05 16:54:47+00:00.

Seems as a rebase is in the works judging from the activity of the staging holo&jupiter repositories. And with it, plasma 6.4(.3) is apparently coming. Will the default desktop session be Wayland this time? I hope so.

Sources: https://steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/archlinux-mirror/sources/jupiter-staging/?C=M&O=D, https://steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/archlinux-mirror/sources/holo-staging/?C=M&O=D

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/InformationLast5358 on 2025-08-05 11:04:04+00:00.

This is a really simple observation and there'll be alot of people that picked up on this and this post is for the people who have repasted and noticed that temps haven't dropped as they expected...

turn off the updated fan control after repasting... I repasted my deck with thermalright tf8, turned on my deck to find that temps hadn't dropped at all and in certain situations it was 2-4 degrees hotter...

I then realised that my fan wasn't even reaching 4500rpm at 80C with new paste compared to before repasting it was 6600rpm at the same temps on the updated fan control. on the stock paste with the old fan control profile it would instantly hit 7000rpm and blow my windows open.

after repasting, updated fan control had dropped nearly 2000rpm on the fan! the problem is that now the paste was left to do all the work and I was still hitting 87C on loading screens on the CPU.

I disabled the updated fan control for the first time in 2 years and realised that because the paste was now so much better that the fan didnt need to run itself into the ground trying to accommodate for the poor stock paste.

now the fan runs at 5500rpm maxmum with the old fan control, just under 6000rpm if using 15 watts and never breaks 75C w/15watts or 70C w/12 watts with the highest graphical settings in spiderman and hogwarts legacy.

to avoid neg posters, I've seen alot of posts saying they repasted the deck and didnt notice any difference so this is why I'm posting this...

if you've repasted and your fan is running 1-2000rpm slower on the updated fan control... TURN IT OFF. the other positive of this is that once your fans start hitting 7000rpm you know that you're close to having to change your thermal paste as well as keeping the charging chips and RAM cooler in the process extending the longevity of your deck and categorically avoiding any possibility of throttling.

again, if this is obvious to you, you dont need to reply, this is for the people who repasted and got confusing results or no difference. whatever way the fan control works, the updated FC seems to neglect high temp loads and let the paste deal with it while the old fan control works amazingly well as long as the paste isn't the limiting factor... basically the original fan profile was struggling because the stock paste isn't great and the fan had to accommodate for that

so repasting seems to only drop fan speed and not temps on the updated fan control... for me anyway that was the case which completely defeats the purpose of repasting

I'm not trying to save a $10 fan by repasting, I'm tying to drop 15C not 2000rpm

anyway hope this helps

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Potatozeng on 2025-08-05 16:04:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/jimmy-boof on 2025-08-05 13:51:09+00:00.

I got a shit ton of overtime in July and completely on impulse bought a 512gb OLED without thinking twice, and safe to say — this thing bangs.

I love it. So comfortable, steam OS is so slick and smooth, I have the full emulation setup on there and everything.

Except one issue. I can’t seem to play a single game. What I mean is my impatience rather than a hardware limitation. Did anyone else experience this issue? I think I’m still just riding the high of having it (I’ve had it for about 2 weeks now) that I can’t seem to sit down and play a game longer than 30 minutes. I just want to constantly switch games and look for more that I can’t actually enjoy it lol. Still a 10/10 device, zero regrets. But I’m unironically not even enjoying it lol.

TL;DR: Steam deck fun. Can’t choose game to play.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/madeleine61509 on 2025-08-05 06:38:37+00:00.

I have spent weeks debating getting it. In that time, I have repeatedly read glowing review after glowing review. I get it, it's a good product... But I know that it is physically impossible that no one has ever had a single issue or frustration, yet it feels like no one talks about those for the Steam Deck. For me to feel like I am making an informed decision about a product (especially tech), I like to know about the negatives as well as the positives.

So, I want to hear the worst parts of the Deck: What made you question this several hundred $/£/€ purchase? What features get on your nerves when playing? What puts you off of getting out your Steam Deck on a day where you "just don't want to deal with it"? Does the weight interfere with you actually using it for its main purpose (gaming on the go)? Have you had a terrible customer service experience with Valve? etc etc etc

How does the saying go? 'If you have nothing mean to say, don't say anything at all.'?

EDIT for reference: I have a decent gaming PC (4070, 13th gen i7, 16GB DDR5) that is less than two years old. While I would mainly get the Deck for the "on the go" capabilities (I have a few trips coming up), I want to know if there are flaws that will put me off from using it even when my gaming PC is accessible- screen size isn't a big deal for me.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/nobraggingrights on 2025-08-05 06:17:42+00:00.

A love letter to Heroic Games Launcher

I never thought playing these 3ree games with GOG, Epic games and Amazon games was possible on the steamdeck, without a bunch of hoops to jump through. Recently, GOG gave away a bunch of NSFW games and it reminded me, I already had the game Blade of Darkness in my library, a retro game I loved from my childhood.

It was easy as downloading the program, logging into GOG and adding the game to steam, boom, that was it, all controls were already there, absolutely amazing. Highly highly recommend for anybody, keep an eye out on these games being g1v3n away because it's more easy than you think to play them.

That is all, that's the post.

Auto mods, this is NOT a give away.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Endoky on 2025-08-04 21:32:44+00:00.

I don’t mean they shouldn’t upgrade the apu and maybe give it a 1080p Oled. But I wish they don’t come up with a new design/ergonomics. It is perfect like it is, simply a masterpiece. Please Valve, don’t go the route and give it a Xbox controller type of design with asymmetric control sticks or something like that.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/MacVanRainin on 2025-08-04 22:08:11+00:00.

I have to say wow. This is a game changer for me. The visual upgrade is outstanding. The service is smooth and no issues at all. Highly recommend. I went with the performance 2K option. Worth it.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/steve_dy on 2025-08-04 21:58:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/rickydp on 2025-08-04 23:44:28+00:00.

I mean: which game you played and maybe finished on Steam Deck thinking about the fact that was the best way to enjoying it?

For me it’s Dave The Diver.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/NewEnglandAnon on 2025-08-04 21:03:33+00:00.

So I'm not an expert at the technicalities of this stuff, but I had enough faith that I could replace my thumbsticks because I replaced my SSD and it was really easy.

My left thumbstick started to drift after 3 years (a pretty good run from constant use, I think) so I got the pair of gilistik replacements. My right thumbstick was still doing fine because it didn't get nearly as much use as the left, so I figured I'd just replace the left one at the moment. I never read anywhere about having to do both at once. Well after I booted it back on I almost had a heart attack and thought I broke my deck because the Steam button and the B button were swapped for some reason and the gyro was constantly activated and going crazy; it was all messed up. I rebooted it, nothing changed. All I could think, and that I was hoping and praying to be true, is that because it was 2 different kinds of sticks they were causing some kind of problem. I had no clue why that would be, but it was my only hope that I didn't fuck something up. (I made sure both were switched to the proper A position btw).

So I installed the right stick as well and to my great relief, that was the problem. So if you're an amateur like me, learn from my mistake. I guess two different brand sticks are just incompatible? Idk, all I know is that it works great now again. Killing my deck would have been really depressing, I use it daily.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/pwatarfwifwipewpew on 2025-08-04 08:16:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Difficult_Sample_932 on 2025-08-04 07:42:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/BossaNovva on 2025-08-04 17:20:10+00:00.

Desperate to play but don’t really want to buy an Xbox, PS5 or PC just to play the one game

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/mushaaleste2 on 2025-08-04 13:36:12+00:00.

So 4 days ago Intel released xess 2.1 with frame generation for non Intel hardware.

For a lengthy overview, here is a video (not from me) with all bells and whistles

https://youtu.be/vxWxZIr2mJ8

I thought if it would work on the deck and just tried it and yes, it works.

Just get the 4 files either from Intel sdk or from a nexus "mod" which are only the dlls anyway

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/23171?tab=files

(Note: files have nothing to do with cyberpunk).

Or the sdk:

https://github.com/intel/xess

Just copy the 4 dlls into the right place of your game. That's the place where the old files are. E.g. in expedition 33 it's in a subfolder. In death stranding DC it's in the main game folder.

On deck the main game folder is easy to be found in desktop mode. Just right click on the game, and search in the settings the button to the installation folder.

Off course this only works for games that use xess.

Now I tested it with expedition 33 and death stranding DC.

In expedition 33 (also shown in the linked video) you see that it works, if you go to the settings and choose xess and you see two new slider with xess frame gen and xess low latency.

FG can only be switched on in window mode, full screen it's greyed.

It does not make any big magic in terms of frame gen and the issues BUT the latency is magic. Even if the game goes under 30 in native frames, it still feels ok, playable. It's surprising.

In death stranding DC as it uses normally only xess 1.x there is no frame gen but the upscaling works and for me looks better and has a little performance boost.

The biggest thing is, in cyberpunk (see in the video) they have also now the ability to do "adaptive FG" where you can just put in the fps that you want to achieve and it adjust dynamically.

So they catch up to lossless scaling.

Note: before overwrite your files, make a copy of them because exchange the files can break the game. Anyway, if not you can just delete the 4 files and let steam repair your game.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/MPFuzz on 2025-08-04 00:40:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Accomplished_Run9449 on 2025-08-03 17:47:21+00:00.

1. Previously enjoyed games: Hogwart's Legacy, Resident Evil 6, mobile card games.
2. Preferred Genres: No idea.
3. Budget: No budget. Any game i can buy from steam or emulate on my steam deck.
4. Other notes:

Some days ago my wife asked me to let her play with my steam deck. I gave it to her and helped her find a game to play starting with stardew valley. She didn't like it so I tried to find different games from gamepass list (via geforce now), my steam library and my emulators (and i have a lot of roms believe me)... Her respond? "You don't have any good games" 😱. So you understand i have to change that by finding a suitable game for her! She is not much of a gamer, we played it takes two, split fiction and resident evil 6 together and some fifa because she is a football fun 🤣. She also played Howard's legacy because she is a big HP fun. She enjoyed RE6 and HL more, takes two and SF not so much because those were too difficult for her (moving the camera around was the biggest problem i think). She also likes mobile card games so i was considering about balatro but I want something she can play without internet connection because we are going on vacation tomorrow. I'm looking for something with simple controls and gameplay and not much talking and cutscenes so she wont lose her interest at the beginning.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/DendoVenolo on 2025-08-03 15:04:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/thecherylmain on 2025-08-03 19:30:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/SpazzyIsJazzy on 2025-08-03 08:31:19+00:00.