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Hello, can someone direct me to a guide, preferably a video guide on how to install ffxiv using my mog station account onto system deck. I have watched videos but still can't get it to work. Is ther a video for dummies cuz I sure am one. Appreciate any helpful responses. Ty

Just got my steam deck (official refurb from Valve) and it won't progress past the steam deck logo. It just cycles through over and over. I've tried booting up through the BIOS menu, same issue. I've tried just about every trick I've found online to no avail.

Any ideas/advice? Could this be related to the new update?

I have misplaced my deck and don't know where it is now . Is there any way to see where it was last used?

Everyones making a deck now

I recently got dr robotniks ring racers added on my steam via the flatpak download and im trying to make an addons folder but its not letting me add anything into the folders

I'm searching for a solution to securely attach my Steam Deck to a neck strap. Ideally, it would be a case with the ability to hook it onto a carabiner on the strap. Has anyone come across similar solutions, DIY ideas, or perhaps even ready-to-print 3D models? Any recommendations or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Has anybody tried the recently released OG Red Dead Redemption on Steam Deck yet? How does it run?

The Steam website currently lists the compatibility as “Unknown”

Been having issues with streaming GoW Ragnarok. The game doesnt respond to any inputs on the steam deck, this is with both moonlight and remote play. Every other game works so not sure what’s causing it for GoW. It was working fine when the game first released.

The game does respond to mouse inputs allowing me to exit. But thats it.

Any help appreciated

Hi everyone. I bought a new steam deck OLED 3 weeks ago, but I have a huge library from epic games free games, and I tried shadow of the tomb raider with heroic, but every time I try to open the game it shows the luncher and then the load up screen with logos of the company who made it and then just a black screen with sound on, anyone faced the same issue before ?

Any help will be appreciated))

I'm definitely getting salty about this. I pull out my steam deck to play a quick bit on a break or on the train and I'm staring down a 650MB-1GB download and then what seems to be a full patch of the entire 50GB+ game. I understand the shaders etc... but this isn't shaders and even if they were why can't I opt out of updating them on occasion when I'm bandwidth or time limited? Yes if I do it at home on fiber the download is quick but then I still have to wait thru a 5+minute patching process. That doesn't sound like alot but when you are only planning to play for 15-20 minutes it is. What's the deal here?

I was just playing and it ran out of battery cause I sat it down for a minute with the game running. And I plugged it in to charge and it’s just not charging or Turing back on. Never had this issue before. Any recommendations?

Since I got a steam deck, I bought so many games from steam and from Humble Bundle. Now, I have roughly 500 games and I don't know wich one should I play. I feel totally burned out and I don't know if any of you guys felt that allready and achieved to get some pleasure from gaming again ?

Trying to decide between kb/mouse (bulky!) or controller (imprecise!) and curious how other players are steering things.

I live with a disability which makes it super uncomfortable/painful for me to sit at a desk and I really missed playing my pc games so I finally caved and ordered a Steam Deck!

Is there any advice you'd like to give me as a first time Steam Deck owner? I'm not super tech savvy so any advice would be great

Also do you have any laid back / cosy game recommendations for steam? :)

It's the Injustice 2: Legendary Edition and Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate Edition bundle.

I actually bought Injustice 2: Legendary Edition years ago. But I think this bundle contains some shaders DLC that are/were exclusive to a delisted edition.

But Mortal Kombat 11 is officially unsupported on Steam Deck, which makes me vaguely worry.

£8.49

What do you think?

SD came in yesterday and I've installed Sea of Stars to it (dumped windows version onto deck and added). At first it would freeze when loading but changed proton and the load was fine, now it freezes when you try to exit the game.

Any tips?

which one are better in your opinion also do you play at locked 60fps or 90fps?

All, an other color was not available im germany from jsaux, so I bought the red one and fitted some perfect red aluminum heat sinks. Fan is not on high speed anymore 👍🏻

i have a gamestop close by and i wanted to know if they have any newer or refurbished steamdecks. my reasoning is cus on steam there almost never on sale and my budget is around below $350

Bought a new card, installed it in the backplate. In an effort to install the SteamOS on the bios screen, I tried installing the image on the Steam website onto a flash drive after using Balena Etcher. Changed the partition to GBT and everything. Noticed the installation process started but stayed at zero.

After trying a couple different methods, including a different USB, I opted to try Rufus via Windows. But then I couldn’t change the partition to GBT, it stayed on MBR. I’m not tech savy, most of this info I learned online while troubleshooting. Does the partition have to be GBT when using Rufus? I’m debating going to like a Best Buy or something because I’m just at wits end. Any advice on solutions?

1080P OLED retrofit for LCD Decks is bonkers

DeckSight: OLED mod for LCD model Steam Decks

I have the 64gb model, and i was wondering if lowering my vram from 4gb to 2gb might give my cpu more headroom to run the game at a faster speed? I also have cryoutilities, but i dont really understand how changing settings in cryoutilities gives better performance in games. Any help is appreciated.

has anyone experienced this problem? My steam deck and Jsaux hub while plugged into my TV will disconnect randomly, almost like a tick before reconnecting back. If I play for a while tho it eventually just loses all connection to my TV.

I do have 4-8k HDMI Cables, I have tried putting Gaming mode on and off, and I tested my computer and my wife's lapto and those work perfectly fine. The problem is only with the Steam Deck.

I notice if my TV labels the SD as "gaming console" it seems to be a bigger issue where as if its just HDMI 2 then it never happens.

On the deck, specially for Days Gone, my deck randomly closes the game and starting an update. Even weirder thing, the update always have the same size. I never had this problem on my regular steam on the gaming pc.

I somehow broke my screen (picture attached) and I have no idea how it happened. It didn't fall, nothing fell on it, it didn't bend, no water, nothing, it just sad on my night stand and looked like this when I turned it on earlier today. It certainly looks like something fell on it but I live alone so no clue how it happened. "But okay, I still have warranty since it's not even two years old" is what I thought but steam support told me that it wouldn't be covered by warranty and quoted me 200€ to repair it. Money is kinda tight at the moment so I don't have that kind of money to spend on repair plus even the diy variant is 100€ at least since I need to buy a screen and screwdrivers, new glue, suction cup, etc.

Has anyone had a defective display and managed to get it covered by warranty somehow? Because at 200 bucks for a replacement screen, I might as well just buy a used Steam Deck instead of repairing the screen on my old lcd one, it's so expensive

TL;DR: Two steps to this PSA -

1. Be sure to download the image from Steam first, before going through the SSD Upgrade process.
2. Also, be sure to power down the Steam Deck after using the recovery tool and disconnect the bootable USB recovery stick before proceeding with the reimage.

Hello all,

With Black Friday coming soon, as well as the recent spate of sales for NVMe SSDs, I wanted to post a quick PSA about the Steam Deck reimaging process. If you are cloning your SSD, I don't think you'll have this problem, so ignore this post and follow the cloning tutorials out there as they are all excellent and spot on.

Everything I had read online made it seem like installing the SSD would be relatively painless. The tutorials here on reddit, as well as the break down post on iFixIt are spot on and were very helpful in the actual physical work. I am sure that many of the reimaging tutorials are also good, however Valve looks like it has broken some of the processes over the last couple of years, and the current process does not seem to match any of the tutorials I found from 2022, or earlier (which are first to pop up in Google Searches).

What does this mean for you? Steam Support as well as the Reimaging site leave a lot to be desired and you should not follow what they say, or at least take it with a grain of salt.

First issue I ran into: When I Googled Reimage Steam Deck, the first link to pop up was this FAQ. While the information in the FAQ is good and seems accurate, as of yesterday at 3pm - when I clicked on the download link and accepted the terms of use for the image, the download link was broken.

Second issue: When I contacted Steam Support about the issue, they blamed the computer I was using and said that I should try a different browser or computer. This was mildly annoying as I had already checked on two computers, and when I clicked on the link they provided, as well as the one I sent to them in the FAQ, suddenly the image was active and available for download on the server. Links break and sometimes servers may not be online. I get that. However, blaming the customer and saying that it is some vague problem with my computer(s)? Not OK IMHO.

Third issue: While all of this had been mildly annoying up until this point, the "fun" really began when creating the bootable USB recovery stick and the erroneous process the outdated FAQ runs you through.

As of 10/30 at ~5:00pm (when I downloaded the image), this particular recovery image behaves differently than all of the online tutorials out there. Unlike the online tutorials, this image will automatically boot up the recovery tool (no need to go to the firmware and choose the Boot Manager, not really a problem right? Just surprising but easy enough to ignore since it streamlines the process, but maybe update the FAQ so the customer knows that this is no longer the process?)

Choosing to reimage the SSD is also rather straight forward, but what is hard to catch is the fact that once the recovery files are copied to your new SSD so reimaging can run through the final steps, the Proceed to Next Step window and confirmation button don't need to actually be agreed to. The system will automatically restart without clicking on Proceed. ***Additionally, and most importantly, it doesn't clearly say that you should disconnect the USB stick.*** Maybe it has it somewhere in one of the EULAs or something, but the window passed by quickly enough that I didn't notice if it DOES say that, but I want to be sure to point this step out. Otherwise, you'll be stuck in a seemingly endless loop.

If you do not disconnect the USB stick (like I didn't the first time I reimaged) the system will restart and go into the Linux terminal and begin running diagnostics. I unfortunately am not proficient in Linux, but I did notice that all the errors that it seemed to be displaying seemed concerning, so I emailed Steam Support to ask what the messages mean and Googled a few of the errors. Online, the closest parallel I could find were Raspberry Pi troubleshooting articles stating that the storage media could be faulty. Steam Support on the other hand declared that the Steam Deck was not getting enough power and needed to be plugged directly into the OEM plug (?!?!?), plus I could not use a dock to reimage. This would be particularly hard to do since I had created a bootable USB stick and the Steam Deck only comes with one USB-C port. So.... If I have to use the OEM plug.... How do I plug in the USB stick? This didn't make sense to me, plus Steam Support wasn't clear on if I should power down the unit, despite having all these error messages continuously running through their process.

In the meantime, because I did not understand the Linux error messages, I was worried about turning off the Steam Deck in case I caused some type of file corruption. I let the process run all night, and when I woke up this morning it was still going with no end in sight.

Finally, realizing that Steam Support is pretty much useless, and hoping for the best. I powered down the Steam Deck and rebooted up the reimaging tool. I reimaged it again and this is where I confirmed that the confirmation screen will automatically proceed to restart the system, and I got the list of Linux Error codes again.

Instead of trying reimaging again, I decided to see what would happen if I boot up the Steam Deck without the USB stick attached. Flagrantly ignoring Steam Support, I proceeded without the Steam Deck even being plugged in (Gasp), but Lo and behold Steam OS was installed and I was ready to proceed.

Looking back on the process, it looks like Steam Support was trying to CYA for a bunch of errors and broken procedures. They blamed my computer for broken links on their server. They blamed my Steam Deck for having low power and instead of telling me that there was a problem with the image or process, they made it sound like I just needed to use the OEM plug and that would somehow, magically fix the Steam Deck.

What they should have done instead, was just be honest and explain that the reimaging tool is not used very often so they didn't notice that the link was broken. And they should have just come clean and explained that the boot disk was having a hardware conflict as two bootable drives were being detected (the newly imaged SSD as well as the USB stick).

I'm somewhat lucky in the sense that I've been modding computers my entire life, so I can usually take educated guesses on what to do so I don't brick my stuff. However, the Steam Deck is meant to be somewhat user friendly, but Valve doesn't seem to be very good at documenting ANY part of what they are doing to make it user friendly. It's a shame since I really love my Steam Deck, but with this lack of documentation and inability to keep up with changing processes, it looks like the Steam Deck is doomed to always be more of a modder's gadget, rather than a fully fledged console. In the meantime, I thought I would put this PSA out there for anyone who is looking to upgrade their Steam Deck and happens to run into some of the issues I did over the last day.

*edit: a few typos

Hello, as tittle says, with Firefox the web doesnt load, brave and chrome the chat loads, with some bugs but the video stream frame is forever loading..
I have just bought the steam deck a week ago, and its not modified at all. Youtube works flawlessly, so I dont know where the error can be. Can you guys watch twitch or kick at the steam deck? I have tried in game mode with chrom, but the streaming is for ever loading.
I have everything working at home, so I think is not my internet/router problem.

Deutsche Bahn is the worst thing ever but the Steam Deck is coming in clutch!