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

Just got a 64gb steam deck and replaced the SSD with a 1tb sabrent Rocket and it's not showing up as an available drive. I reinstalled the old drive and it works fine. I have no other way of testing the drive. Most likely DOA?

I was watching this video the other day and our friend Bob made a comment about the steamdecks trackpads, essentially calling the bad. I want to know what the community thinks.

For me, they are a game changer. They are not the best implemented trackpads I've ever seen but on a handheld it made a world of difference setting up any desktop software like emudeck, and any of the associated emulators. Civ games in my opinion are easier to navigate and I would be hard pressed to try to play any type of RTS game without them. Not to mention that after a year of having the Deck, I just learned how to comfortably type with them. I've bound them to be a radial dial of tools within games and with the desktop mode.

This morning I heard of the Aya Neo Kun, a 75 watt hour x86 handheld with trackpads. Outside the GDP WIN 4 with it's physical keyboard this is the only other x86 handheld I think I could consider using. I believe its physical trackpads would help me navigate the nightmare that is windows 11. I will always prefer a mouse and keyboard but on the go, they've been a handy tool to getting things done.

Love em, hate em, or just don't care about em, I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.

cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/627289

Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh.

Added the jsaux backplate and stuck a 40mm heat sink on the plate to help with passive cooling, not sure how much it helps but the fan is quieter so I’m happy with it!

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!

Hey deckers!

I grabbed Elden ring in the summer sale, but it keeps freezing and crashing after some time. I found a few posts including Github - all of them are about 2 month old that seem to have similar behavior.

I was wondering if anyone here has the same issue and maybe even a workaround & fix. I've tried a few things, but nothing worked so far.

Elden Ring (and only Elden Ring) freezes after about 5-30 minutes of playtime. Had a longer session once - but only once.

Tested steps:

• Same behavior in Desktop-mode or Game-mode.
• Same behavior when Limiting Wattage
• Same behavior turning of the new fan curve
• Same behavior when Easy Anti Cheat is disabled (launching elden ring.exe and creating steamID.txt)
• Same behavior with multiple Proton versions (including GE)
• Same behavior after deleting protonfiles
• Same behavior after reinstalling the game
• Same behavior after verifying files
• Temperature of the device is normal

OS 3.4.8, No Beta Hardware is about 6 month old, no other issues. Almost any game runs without issues.