I’ve been streaming games from my big boy PC to the deck for a few weeks now. Everything so far had streamed pretty well, but streaming Ratchet and Clank, it just runs like ass? It runs perfectly fine on the PC when not streaming. I stream Miles Morales and it plays great, so I’m not sure what it is and looking to see if anyone else has run into the same thing.

The head of publishing at Larian says that Baldur's Gate 3 "really holds up" on Steam Deck, even if it might not be verified by launch.

Also, Digital Foundry ~~tweets~~X’es their Steam Deck capture: https://twitter.com/digitalfoundry/status/1684221473819447298

I'm interested in buying a Steam Deck purely to run FOSS games, e.g. OpenTTD, 0ad, Minetest, Torcs etc.

What is the experience of playing these games on the Steam Deck? Do they work out of the box with the controllers on the device?

Additionally - does anyone have any experience running a standard distro (e.g. Debian, Arch) on the Steam Deck, without installing a lot of Steam Deck specific cusomisations?

I'm guessing there are a lot of patches that have not been upstreamed or not made it into certain distros yet - does anyone know of any resources to show what contributions have been upstreamed and which are still outstanding?

https://www.printables.com/model/455910-steam-deck-grip-extension

Sega is giving away Steam keys for the Dreamcast era game Sega Bass Fishing here: https://games.sega.com/bassfishing/?lang=en

You have to verify your email which will sign you up for their email newsletter and they aren't going to send out keys until Aug 1. But still free game!

The game has a Platinum rating on ProtonDB and I've read that the Dreamcast Fishing Rod unfortunately won't work with the Steam version very well due to how the rod is set to emulate the analog stick. It makes the menus impossible to use.

I was wondering how well it is because I've read online that Linux support for Xenia was extremely unstable and even CI/CD says "failure" on the README, so I was curious if you can even compile it, and if you can, exactly how bad it actually is

Wondering if there are any recommendations for city-builders on the steam deck. Preferably with a realistic 3d style. I'm not fond of 2d games or cartoon graphics for these kind of games. Also war shouldn't be the biggest focus. I prefer a more relaxed game. Really would like to find one which people can recommend for the deck.

I had 6 hours of trouble last night and thought I'd share this information with you as many people will be doing the same. So here's the story:

My girlfriend bought a SteamDeck in the summer sale and I told her to get the cheapest one and upgrade the ssd as soon as it arrived. For 2 days everything worked fine. Swapping from 64GB to 512GB worked perfectly and installing SteamOS on the new drive was no problem at all.

While I was at work, she texted me that the deck was getting very laggy in games and in the UI itself, so I asked her if she had already rebooted or set any kind of tdp or performance limit (which she denied).

So she rebooted her machine from the laggy ui and it got stuck with the boot logo. After a few minutes it went black, the backlight was still on and the fan stopped.

When I got home, I reinstalled steamos for her from the usb stick we made a few days ago (went for the reimage). I tried to boot, but the same problem occurred. After a few minutes it went to the TTY login screen and asked for a user, but the cursor froze immediately. I also tried to switch TTY sessions with ctrl - alt - f4-f6 - but that did not work either.

So I flashed the USB stick again, but nothing changed. Then I deleted all partitions manually and nothing changed. I booted my windows sd card which worked fine. So I thought maybe the SSD was broken, so I went into recovery live boot with "smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1" to check, but everything seemed fine.

I also filled the whole SSD with zeros and tried again. Nothing.

I searched a lot and somehow found this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/3410930083331964510/

Exactly the problem I was facing and I could not believe the comment the user "Healer" (https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198835118084) wrote:

Same problem. It's weird, but it was solved by putting the battery in power saving mode: Enter the BIOS at power up (Power + Vol+) with the PSU disconnected. Inside the BIOS, use the D-pad to navigate and the A-button to select. Navigate to Setup Utility. Navigate to the Power menu. Select Battery Backup Mode. Select Yes to confirm. Your Steam Deck should now enter storage mode.

Then plug in the power supply and switch on the deck.

In my case, it booted correctly.

I know it's weird, but it actually worked.

Good luck with that!

And my fucking God, that thing fixed it. I have no idea why that would fix it and I'm happy for anyone who can explain it to me. I'm fucking curious :D

And my fucking God, that thing fixed it. I have no idea why that would fix it and I'm happy for anyone who can explain it to me. I'm fucking curious :D