Hi, I've been off work for health reasons (nothing serious) for a few months and so have been using my Steam Deck a lot. Although I have my main PC upstairs it requires me to be seated, and while a good quality office chair, sometimes I like to lie on the sofa downstairs with the deck docked. I have Xbox controllers and just completed Tomb Raider 2 in this way, but when on the main PC I've also been playing games like Exapunks and Opus Magnum which require proper keyboard and mouse input. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a compact and reasonably priced KB solution that would let me play these downstairs on the docked deck for the few times I'd need this - nothing fancy but has to be suitable for someone with big hands and not too uncomfy for typing on. Doesn't have to be combined but KB with trackpad combined would be good if it works well, the keyboard part is the most important, cursor less so as I'm not gonna be playing any CS2 on it. My "dock" is just some cheap usb-c hub but it has a spare usb3 and 2 slot if that helps. Any suggestions appreciated, thanks

I was trying to have a cleaner desktop, and I don't know what I selected or what I did, but every time I open a program and try to minimize it, it closes. Whether it's the browser, Spotify, or the Dolphin folder. In short, the system detects it as if I'm closing a program. Also, when I open it and hover the cursor over the taskbar, it doesn't show a small preview window, it's as if I've never opened it. Any idea how I can fix this?

My Steam Deck is stuck in a boot loop and I think I have to re-image it but I stupidly haven't backed up in awhile (everyone has that moment where they never forget to backup again, this is mine) and I am worried about losing some of the non steam setups and tinkering I did on the SSD.

If I were to get a USB interface compatible with the Steam Deck's SSD would I be able to open the Deck, take out the SSD and just plug it into a PC with the proper cables, copy the files and move them back on if I need to?

I've had a problem for a while that just became blocking yesterday...

I've always played my Gog and Epic games by downloading the launcher and installing the games from there. The method suits me perfectly, it's easy enough and I see nothing but advantages.

However, for some time now, I've been unable to start the applications on the first try; they launch and close directly once or twice before wanting to launch correctly.

Since yesterday, I've tried 10 times, but nothing seems to work, and then it closes. Sometimes I get the Gog launch window and then it crashes on a black screen.

On the other hand, if I launch the app from the desktop mode, it works!

I've uninstalled Decky and changed the version of Proton, but there's nothing I can do...

Any ideas?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/GtokdTU4Fe

planning to buy Sennheiser momentum headphones to play online with my friend.

how is the sound levels in the headphones and mic?

what are the pros of connecting it with USB to steamdeck?

any connectivity issues on wireless?

I use my Steam Deck OLED with my Rokid Max AR Glasses. It displays things a little too dark for my taste. In Windows I can go to the Nvidia Control panel, set the gamma to 1.12, and all is well. Is there a way to set the gamma on the Steam Deck?

This is driving me insane. Every time I try to uninstall it says failed to uninstall half life 2 due to: missing shared content. I have tried many things included deleting every single file from the game nothing works. I don’t want to factory reset cause then I would lose my save progress in mass effect legendary edition which doesn’t have cloud saves to my understanding.

https://steamdeckhq.com/announcing-the-2024-steam-deck-game-awards/

This year has been an amazing one for games in general, but definitely one that has been extremely eventful for the Steam Deck. Gigantic AAA releases like Metaphor and Sparking Zero, as well as smaller, but impactful indies like Balatro and UFO 50 have graced us. So, we at SteamDeckHQ want to highlight a lot of these amazing games, and we are doing so with a new awards show!

This awards show focuses on Steam Deck compatible games, and celebrate being able to play them wherever we go! This show is not affiliated with Valve, it's just something we are putting together as a wonderful celebration.

There are more details about this in the article linked above. We don't have a set date yet, but it will be either before or during the Steam Winter Sale, and we are talking with a lot of awesome content creators to be presenters, with some big ones having already accepted the invitation!

We look forward to announcing our presenter lineup, categories, and nominees soon. And again, thank you all for your support!

I tried looking for a more seamless solution to using discord while gaming on the deck. Saw a few old comments mentioning deckcord but it is no longer included in the decky plugins. Does anyone know where else I can install it or if there are other options?

I was trying to free up space on my deck’s internal drive, but there’s 12 gigabytes of background recordings that don’t respond when I try to delete them in storage settings, even though I only have 1.35 gigs reserved right now. Any advice? Is there somewhere that these stray recordings exist where I could delete them manually, if that would help?

What's everyone buying for their Steam Decks in the 2024 Steam Autumn Sale?

🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/

Share your recommendations and purchases below!

Hello,

I got my dock and wanted to do a couch session on my TV.

I wasnt sure how things are supposed to work so I just plugged and played but immediately I was greeted with slideshow. I toned renderer settings in PCSX2 way down and it was a lot better in terms of performance (looks like crap obviously, esp. on bigger screen) but it was still choppy and inconsistent although fps was good-ish, frame times were all over the place - simply put not really pleasure to play.

CPU & GPU were utilized pretty high but not at 100%... I tried turning off SMT, set cpu core count to 3, manual GPU clock to max and other common advices when struggling with performance.

Then I noticed FSR is active, which is not the case on built-in screen which left me wondering if its trying to upscale to 4K (native resolution of display) and that's why it's struggling so bad.

What are your experiences while playing on TV, best practices in terms of settings what I could try?

Hello everyone. I tried to play docked today for the first time and I'm trying to understand something in regards to the resolution. I'm docking my steam deck to a 4k TV and I see that the resolution in game changes to 720p which is fine as I have no problem playing games with this resolution. The issue I have is that when I undock the steam deck the in-game resolution stays at 720p and does not revert back to 800p. Is this normal? Do I have to manually change my in-game resolution to 800p every time I undock my steam deck?

I use the Vesktop (Vencord) client to talk to and stream with friends on Discord from my Steam Deck. I know that while Vencord is in the foreground, I can press L3 to mute or unmute my microphone.

However, I would like to know if it is possible to set a global keybind to mute and unmute my microphone or for push-to-talk (PTT) while Vencord is running in the background, such as when I am playing a game or browsing the Steam menus or library.

Thank you in advance!

Hey everyone! I am working on an upcoming project for SteamDeckHQ and I need some community input.

What has been your favorite game to play on the Steam Deck that released this year?

I am looking to play some games on my PC(in my game room), and I would like to stream my gameplay to my TV in the living room (too far for wired). However, my TV is a Samsung and it no longer supports Steamlink app. I am also unable to use miracast as my windows 10 is not of pro version. I do not own a chromecast.

I had the genius idea of trying to stream/broadcast the gaming feed to steamdeck to be displayed on the TV while i play in my room, is that feasible?

PC via steamlink -> Steamdeck Docked -> TV

I know it would work if I play on my deck, but would it still work if I play on my PC?

I'm quite keen on the Steam Deck OLED for its controls, Linux support and repairability. However, I'm ironically mainly planning to use the Deck to play my pretty extensive GOG library via Heroic as much as possible, since I'm not a fan of Steam's DRM (and I'm not hugely interested in the controller remapping etc of Steam's launcher). I've done a lot of Linux gaming so no problem there.

With that in mind, I'd be quite keen to avoid a big Steam button or Valve logo on the device if I can. Has anyone swapped out these for blank replacements? If so can you recommend something with decent quality plastic? I'm wary of something untested from AliExpress.

Many thanks!

It’s so confusing I am not Linux literate. Could anyone help me figure this out? Would be much appreciated.

So the bottom left icon has changed while I was looking this global theme window, I changed theme clicked a checkbox that said everything would change and to my surprise everything changed. Help is appreciated. Thank you.