r/SteamDeck

strange question I know but I had a heart attack. I was on my last 15m break for my shift and I plugged my Deck into a battery back that supported laptops and such. I was playing a 2d side scroller when all of a sudden my screen froze up. it was 4 lines and the rest of it slowly faded into a black void. I restarted my deck and on the start up it did the same thing. I unplugged my battery back and it stopped doing that. so im wondering if my battery back is too powerful for my deck?

I love how Valve has democratised their hardware and software: you own it, you change it, you make it yours. I love that. For me, stability is priceless so (barring a custom boot video😱) I keep my deck as vanilla as possible. I have a little chuckle whenever I see requests for support because they’re almost always rooted in the software customisation that Valve’s design philosophy invites. But it’s also beautiful to see how this community steps up and assists each and every time. You do you steam deck customisers - it was built for it!

7inch peakdo screen

mechanism phone stand with magsafe adhesive magnets

mechanism gaming pillow

mechanism 3d printed custom double grip for jsaux modcase

jsaux mod case

limited edition aluminum buttons from deck buttons

wrap from dbrand

ugreen revodok pro 3121

ugreen cables

jsaux 180° usb-c

90° (to the left) mini hdtv to hdtv (hdmi)

sorry for bad quality, photo taken with Laptop

I’ve owned my deck for about 2 years, it’s a refurbished LED. For the majority of its life with me it’s been played docked as a way to enjoy my steam library from the comfort of my living room sofa. Hence, it’s rarely unplugged and the battery is consistently charging from the dock.

I used it the other day undocked and played it until the battery died. Noticed when recharging it only goes to 78% despite being charging all day.

Is it worth worrying about it battery health if i primarily play it docked anyway or is it something to worry about in the long run?

Some water got into the back vent of my steam deck and now the device is acting wonky. Its reading as if the "Steam button" is being pressed the whole time and giving incorrect button inputs. As you see in the video the brightness goes up and down, thats because the shortcut to doing so without going into the display setting is "Steam Button" + Up/Down on Left Stick. Im only holding up so there is proof the System is reading the button as bring inputted or held.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to remedy this? I know Bluetooth is a fair option but I would want that to be final choice in the matter.

(btw this is not a dual boot)

So my Steam Deck became my main Desktop Setup a couple months ago, with a keyboard, a monitor, and a mouse.

I started getting interested in tinkering around, because i only used windows for years (on my laptop which is now outdated).

Anyways it has been a smooth experience. I'm aware that steamos is based off arch, but its not arch. It sometimes has trouble installing tools and apps for arch.

I decided to go with GNOME because steam os uses kde, which i kinda got sick of (and gnome has good touchscreen integration for handheld mode). I don't really play much games, but i tested one game, which is not that demanding: Getting over it. The performance is good. just Default settings. But this definitely will vary from game to game. I'm going to install some way more demanding games and see how the performance changes. I'm not expecting any massive boosts though lol. So just stick to steam os if you just want to game.

They seem to both inject optiscaler DLLs in games, and both from the same developer.

> There's no good way to type on a Linux HTPC with just a controller. Steam's keyboard works but requires Steam running. Every other virtual keyboard on Linux (Onboard, Florence, etc.) needs a mouse pointer, isn't feature rich, or is a dead project. The console-style grid keyboard that takes D-pad/stick input directly just doesn't exist on Linux. > > So I made one: <https://github.com/0x90shell/gamepad-osk> > > - D-pad/stick navigates the key grid directly, no mouse emulation > - Second stick moves the mouse at the same time so you can click into text fields while typing > - Copy/paste support > - Face button shortcuts (backspace, space, enter) > - No Steam dependency > - Works well with Sunshine + Moonlight streaming > > Written in Go. Hook it up to an evsieve chord, a Sunshine prep command, whatever works for your setup. Open to bug reports and PRs. Note: Wayland auto-positioning not currently implemented as it's non-trivial but I'd look at it if enough people wanted it.

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My deck was working fine yesterday, and it was even working fine an hour ago. I went into desktop mode for a bit, but when i went back to gaming mode, it wouldn't load in. So i decided to just power it off and power it on again in hopes of loading into gaming mode, but no. It just got stuck on this screen. I have no idea what to do.

Here are some things i've tried:

Multiple hard resets

Boot into BIOS menu and see if there's anything useful there

Waited for ~15 minutes

What do i do??? I'm scared. I don't want to lose my minecraft worlds 😭

About two years ago I was working on a mod for EFBB to try and add controller prompts. I only managed to ever do the tutorial text and abandoned the project as I no longer have a Deck, but people ask about it from time to time so this is a release of what I had for anyone to use.

Download this and drop it in Assault on Dark Athena's install directory and agree to overwrite. Then in steam's controller settings bind F1 to a paddle to see the tutorial text (B exits them in-game)

The game has a very simple keybind and is short enough that this should get you through the whole game. If you want to use it as a base for Ogier engine research and/or to finish it off, credit is appreciated. :)

Notes:

• Textures are not altered as I had corrupted files back when I was working on this. u/salitoshater seems to have a promising fix for anyone who wants to finish it; replacing the E keyboard icon with a Y button and F1 with a paddle would fix almost all of the remaining problems.
• Dark Athena's tutorial prompt wasn't altered, but shares the same controls.
• I did try experimenting with having overlapping keybinds within the games files to have a match with console (Help prompts on console are B/O) but this prevents cutscene skipping.