Steam Deck

Freelancer is the precursor to Star Citizen, a fantastic entry in Chris Roberts' collection. It runs great on Deck, and is an awesome classic space simulator, if you're looking for one!

I’ve heard the new OS with the Mesa driver updates will bring significant performance increases but haven’t heard anything recently.

Anyone know of any news?

It really is a cozy 10/10 game.

Has anyone put stickers on theirs? I want to know if the temperature of the Deck ruins them, or if the carrying case's materials can handle stickers without ruining both.

I bought the official dock on sale. While I have other docks that kinda worked, the continued support with firmware updates and an extra excellent usb-c charger sealed the deal. 20pt off helped off course too! 😎

Now I’m dreaming of the day I can use this dock as my go to solution for traveling and even at home use. I have a multi story home, and lots lots of usb-c devices. This will be perfect!

Except.. I also like TOTK a lot. And I have a first gen switch, anyone know a hack to let the switch play nicely with this dock? Just screen hdmi and charging would be sufficient.

The charger works perfectly for the switch, the hdmi.. was a no go with the other docks. Still have to test with this new one but……. I fear it will not. :((

EDIT: Mods have been found and appointed. We are no longer looking for mods.

Steam Deck has now over 6,000 subscribers! Insanity.

However, with such a large group of people, more moderators is probably a good idea.

I am looking for an additional 2-3 mods. If you would like to become a moderator, send me a DM with reasons why you would be a good fit.

I’ve had difficulty finding any information on my question, so figured I’d ask here.

I’m trying to play Yuzu offline(installed through Emudeck) through game mode. When I click play, it gives the loading circle then kicks back to game mode screen for yuzu. As soon as I turn wifi back on, it will load the program and work as normal.

Question is, can you play emulators in offline mode/airplane mode through game mode, and if so, how.

I feel like I’m missing something, or a setting.

I’ve been on the fence for a while thinking about getting myself a steam deck. I got a great gaming computer and I’m wondering if it can possible accompany it in some way, or is it just the excitement of getting new tech kicking in.

What do you do with your steam deck? What makes you glad that you got it?

Can phone powerbanks powerful enough to charge a Steam Deck, or at least keep it alive?

Excited to have bought the steam deck during the sale! I was planning on grabbing a dock and micro sd card and I noticed there were a bunch of accessories and customizations people could do with this thing. Was wondering if there were anything the community loved in particular?

Are there any power banks that output enough to charge it while playing? I have some PD power banks but when I connect them it says they charge too slow.

Are there any power banks that output enough to charge it while playing? I have some PD power banks but when I connect them it says they charge too slow.

When trying to save a game or use the DOOM console in GZDoom, I cannot type anything, even with a keyboard plugged in (and on the virtual kb as well). This means that I cannot save the game.

Anybody know of a fix?

I can type when launching outside of Steam in desktop mode, so seems like an issue with Steam Input.

I found this one, for example but I don't know the brand. The only 2240 SSD of a company I know on Amazon Italy is Kingston, but has the wrong screw placements.

Useful information about SD cards.

Hey all! So I've been dealing with some issues recently in regards to modding SkyrimSE on my SD. I have tried a lot of things, and recently my best option has stopped working for some reason...

I have been using SteamTinkerLaunch for launching Vortex, but all of a sudden when I hit start, it just hangs and doesn't do anything. I can't seem to figure out why that is... I have resorted to manually installing mods, but it feels a bit hacky and I can't install FOMODs from the looks of it.

My question is this: does anyone have a good and currently working solution to modding SkyrimSE? I have tried that one MO2 script that I see floating around all the time, and obviously the STL Vortex, but I just need something that is working on my SD that isn't an ancient solution that has a form post speculating it working from when the SD came out.

Thanks for any help you guys can give!

Hi, I'm able to play this game with medium-high settings at stable 40fps but battery life is not great then I realized that I can limit TDP so I did it with 11w. Still 40fps but much better battery life. My question is why FPS is not changed with TDP limit and increased my battery life?

• Does the Steam Deck use PWM for the screen? Does the screen flicker?
• While gaming, is there some kind of screen tearing or is there some kind of VRR/Freesync being used? Otherwise, what settings do you use to avoid screen tearing (FPS locking, etc.)?

Thanks!

Hey all,

Old time gamer here, haven’t played anything recent in years. Picked up a deck with the sale and looking to pick up a “premium” game. So far I am going back and forth between

• Cyberpunk 2077
• FFVII Remake
• No Man’s Sky

I am not a huge fan of shooters and I know these three have more of an action gameplay style. I have Skyrim which I have played a tad on PC and could see myself playing that on the deck.

What I’d like is something I can pick up and play for an hour or less and put back down for a few days.

Things I’d love in a game

• some level of replayability / open world content to mess around with
• good story
• good ambience / music

And obviously something that plays decent on the deck.

I am leaning on Cyberpunk even with reading and watching mixed-to-negative reviews.

Today I pulled my steam deck out of my backpack to find that it ate 15% of the battery sitting in the bag. I swear I heard the fan running in the bag.

Now, the fan is just running all the time whether I'm doing anything or not. This is incredibly suspicious battery eating behavior that I don't recall experiencing before. I've checked what's running with top and the Steam instance and two web helpers seem to constantly be eating up 30% of the CPU.

Has anyone experienced this before? Any tips or ideas on how to debug? I don't think the fan should be running all the time, just sitting on the main menu doing absolutely nothing.

The Deck has been sitting here on, doing nothing on the home screen for about an hour, and 20% of the battery has been used. This thing would never last 48 hours doing absolutely nothing.

cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/478649

I dual boot Kubuntu ~~22.04~~(edit: 23.04) on the SD. Using a Pinnacle 801e TV stick and NextPVR for viewing.

The TV stick does most of the heavy lifting, CPU usage was really low. Drivers weren't an issue. It's already supported in the kernel.

I just got sick of that damn hedgehog struttin' around like he owns the place.

I've had the green "update available" icon forever in battle.net, has anyone tried anything to finish the update?

I want to play games like civ that are better played using mouse controls via the touch pads, so I want to use the steam deck as a controller. But the screen is a little too small and some games don't have good ui scaling so I want to be able to play on the TV. What's the best/easiest/cheapest way I can play on the TV while still using the steam deck as a controller? I have a Vizio tv that doesn't support steam link but does support casting. Thanks!

Hey there, my Steam Deck just arrived (after ordering on Friday morning!) and I've been messing around with it but running into some issues and wondering if anyone else has:

1. I got Decky Loader installed, but when I tell it to install plugins it doesn't seem to do anything.

2. I tried using Non Steam Launchers to install EA & Amazon games, and it seems to work (it gives me the success message) but then there is nothing in Steam. I even tried installing the EA App separately using guides online and I even got it installed but then when I try to run the launcher it just says the services were disconnected and refused to do anything. Super frustrating, especially since I just want to play Fallen Order which I only have through my EA account.

3. And finally, has anyone had any success getting their PC Xbox library on the Steam Deck? I got the 'cloud gaming' thing working only to find out that's not what I want to play a game in my library.

On the other hand, Heroic Launcher worked great for getting my GOG and Epic games on there! Having a blast with it already. Thanks in advance!

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