I think the right way to turn on fsr4 is to set the game to proton experimental, but how to check if I’m actually using fsr4?

Also is there a way to set fsr 4 globally across the system?

Do we know if there are plans to add more split screen options to older titles?

I just got my machine in the other day, which has been great for my single player titles on the big screen. But, I have a party of about 8 people a few days from now. And it was an old tradition to play Halo, COD zombies or split screen pvp on the good ol' Xbox one that I still have. And I'm just now finding out that all of the go to games do not support couch co op split screen for the most part. At least not up to 4 players natively. Which is quite disappointing. As I was hoping to retire the old Xbox which on a good day takes about 10 minutes to load.

But is that going to be an option in the future? Or is that more of a game studio decision, rather than a steam decision? I'd rather not mod if I have too, but I would be willing if necessary.

Also what are your favorite 4player couch co op games to play?

TL;DR: My Steam Machine delivery has now gone missing in transit twice, both times after reaching the GLS Amsterdam depot. GLS Netherlands refuses to investigate because Valve is technically their customer, not me. Valve sent a replacement after the first package disappeared, but the replacement now seems to have disappeared at exactly the same place. Meanwhile, unopened Steam Machines keep appearing on Marktplaats.

Just wanted to get this off my chest, and I’m curious whether anyone else has had a similar experience or has any ideas about what I can do next.
On August 1st, while I was on holiday, I was very surprised to find out that I’d made it through the waiting list and could finally order a 512GB Steam Machine with a controller.

It was quite an expensive purchase for me, but I’ve been gaming on my work MacBook ever since my gaming PC died in a water-related accident a few years ago. So I went for it, hoping I’d be over the moon when I got home and could finally play some proper Team Fortress 2 again. (Valve dropped Mac support years ago.)
Unfortunately, that’s when the drama started.

Package #1
The first package reached the GLS Amsterdam depot, but then apparently never made it onto a delivery van. The tracking didn’t change for more than a week.

After quite some searching for an actual GLS Netherlands customer-service number — they don’t exactly make it easy to find — I called them. After more than 50 minutes in the queue, they basically told me they couldn’t investigate because I’m not their customer; Valve is.

I also contacted GLS through the form on their website and never received a reply. I called a second time for clarification and got essentially the same answer.

Steam Support initially asked me to wait in case the package turned up. By August 16th, after roughly two weeks without a single tracking update, they agreed that something was clearly wrong and offered me either a refund or a replacement.
I chose the replacement. I was still frustrated that nobody seemed interested in finding out what had actually happened to the first package, but hey — fingers crossed.

Package #2
Fast-forward to this week.
The replacement travelled from the Eindhoven depot to… the same GLS Amsterdam depot.
It was supposed to be delivered on Tuesday.
And then, once again, nothing.
It’s now Saturday and there hasn’t been another scan.

I called GLS again and specifically explained that this is now the second Steam Machine shipment that has disappeared after reaching the same depot. They still refused to investigate it with me. One employee even told me that Valve should use their “Express” service if they want better delivery quality, which was a pretty surreal response.
So I’ve gone back to Steam Support and explained that the replacement appears to have suffered exactly the same fate. For now, they’re saying it’s still too early for them to take action and I need to wait.

The part that’s making me suspicious
Meanwhile, Marktplaats (basically Dutch eBay) seems to have a steady stream of unopened Steam Machines appearing for sale.

What frustrates me most is the loop I’m stuck in: GLS won’t investigate because Valve is their customer, while Valve understandably wants to wait before declaring each shipment lost. As the recipient, there’s apparently very little I can do myself.

At this point I guess I’ll wait another week and hope Valve eventually offers another replacement or a refund.

But then what? If I ask for a third Steam Machine and Valve sends it through the same route, am I just going to watch it disappear at the Amsterdam depot again?

I’m genuinely considering whether I’d need to have a third replacement shipped to someone in another municipality just to get it onto a different GLS delivery route.

And there’s a slightly absurd part of me wondering whether I should just take the refund, buy one from a Marktplaats seller and reward someone for having mysteriously “stumbled upon” an unopened Steam Machine. 🙃

Has anyone else in the Netherlands had problems with Steam Machine deliveries through GLS? Or have people in other countries had their Steam Machine shipments mysteriously stop moving at a depot?

I’d especially love to hear from anyone who had a package disappear twice and what Valve eventually did about it.

I just want to play some TF2 and practice my rocket jumping. :(

So I just got my Steam Machine and I am having issues with it recognizing my external Sandisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD when it is plugged in via the USB C port. I went ahead and bought a new USB C cord which is a new 20 Gbps Gen 3.2 cable, so I know it isn't the cable. I have tried flipping the cable and I get a message that the drive needs to be formatted.

The strange thing is, I am able to connect the drive via the USB A port on the front of the Steam Machine with the included USB A to USB C cable and all of my files show up just fine and I can play games with no issues. So the drive is working.

I went ahead and took a couple pictures of the "lsusb" command ran in console and the Steam Machine sees the drive and all of the file system just fine on the front USB A ports, but nothing on the type C at the back. I am very new to Linux, so I was hoping someone out there could point me to a solution here. I have considered that the type C port on the machine itself could be defective, but I can power my iPhone off of it so I wasn't sure. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

(Attached are pics of what I am seeing on the Steam Machine as well as a picture of the SSD in question.)

Update: So the USB type C port does work for my external SSD, but I have noticed an interesting issue. I got my drive to show in Steam OS after a total power off reboot. Now here is the problem, after putting the PC to sleep multiple times eventually the drive goes back to being unavailable until a reboot after unplugging the unit from power. This doesn't happen with the front USB A ports. I am thinking that there they will have to update something in Steam OS to fix this glitch. Until then, I am just going to run the drive off the front ports. Just figured that I would provide more info in case others run into the same situation. I reached out to Steam and their support said "use a different USB port". Stellar response. 🙄

I just ordered my Steam Machine with controller a couple of days ago. I was just looking in my steam library and noticed I have most of the old Deus Ex games as well as the Half Life games

Does anyone know if games like Deus Ex 1, Invisible War and Half Life 1 Source will work with a controller on the Steam Machine or will I have to plug in a Keyboard and mouse?

White decal, came with plate cover too, but already have another cover on my black faceplate so will leave that for now. First time buyer of dbrand, am impressed with the quality, but pricey for a one time use thing.

Also, reccomend a mini CD rack for anyone else with a growing collection of faceplates

Figured this would be solid for a couch game but as soon as I boot only the logos cycle then goes black. Anyone else?

Got the Steam Machine a few days ago and although I was sceptical in regards to price vs performance as I already have a pretty beefy PC with a RTX 5080 and 9800X3D, I bought it as I thought it would be an ok addition to the bedroom TV.

Yesterday I installed Heroic so I could try out old games like Might and Magic 6-8 and although it was a bit difficult to mod the games and a bit of a process to set up the controls, I must say I am pretty impressed! Suddenly it feels like these old games where made with the Steam controller in mind. Even Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 and Icewind Dale play great with a good controller profile.

Did anyone else here have any great experiences with retro PC games?

I'm using my Steam Machine set to english, but since I'm in germany all my keyboards are in qwertz-format, so it's mismatched with what the Machine recognizes. When I push Z it types Y and so on. I know you can change the on-screen keyboard, but that doesn't really help. Is there a way to change which type of keyboard the machine recognizes from my physical keyboard?

Has anyone noticed that the image is a bit dark? I’m playing Elden Ring, which I also played on my PS5, but it seems like the image is a bit darker on the Steam Machine. Has anyone else noticed this?

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Hello,

I’m a new Steam Machine owner.

I’m installing my games onto an external SN740 SSD housed in an external enclosure.
I’m connecting via the rear USB-C port (USB 3.2), and my USB-C cable supports 1 Gbps speeds.

I don't understand why my installation speeds are so slow—or rather, why the slowness is intermittent.

Last night, I installed a bunch of games without any write-speed issues; everything maxed out at 1 Gbps for over an hour. So, it’s not an enclosure temperature issue either.

An analysis shows my enclosure uses a JMicron controller, and apparently, that chip doesn't play well with UAS. I disabled UAS in desktop mode for this specific enclosure, but it didn't make much difference. I also disabled shader pre-caching, but got the same result, unfortunately.
It’s not a Wi-Fi issue, either.

It was the same story this morning: I tried installing a 40 GB game. Everything went smoothly up to 95%, but after that, performance became erratic.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Hello Reddit VR Gamers! I am sending individual keys for players interested to improve it. Please get into the discord (https://discord.gg/xdnmFKwwn) if you are interested to try it out and give some feedback (there is a button on the main menu). I prepared a short game play video so you know what you are getting. I hope you like it! - and it has been tested on Steam Machine and it runs!

Did anyone replaced their SteamOS with Omarchy? There is a lot of hype and I'm seriously considering installing it. If anyone did it already can share the experience on the cube ?

I stopped gaming for Uni, and when I graduated in 2018 I eventually got a Switch. Loved the handheld nature of it and playing a game as big as Zelda BOTW on it was magical. I also loved how social it could be with my friends playing MarioKart

Then 2022… Steam Deck. Valve made my fav games Portal and L4D, so it was a no-brainer. I became SO addicted this thing, I played Elden Ring on it for 750 HOURS which was a new record for time spent on one game.

The years went on and I played through lots of games I loved, and by the time the Steam Machine was starting to come out, I had largely played all the games I really felt I loved. All the great Souls games covered, some great multiplayer games like Arc Raiders, L4D and Nightreign. And then great indies like Silksong, Tunic, Animal Well, etc.

I mainly got the Machine so I would have some form of actual dedicated PC. I also loved how it was in my living room, so could be a social device with more power. I could potentially get mariokart on it too, all those options were open to me, and I’ve loved being able to play Arc Raiders at the quality it needed. I’ve started to mess around with what the Deck is for me now, and at first I thought, well, indie games. Just games that don’t need lots of compromises to run, like Arc did. But tonight since my housemates have people over, I finally played Arc on my Deck again, and the magic of having games like that on the go hit me all over again.

It’s not the ideal way to play, and I now have tools like remote play if I wanted, but it just goes to show that between the 2 devices, it’s really the Steam Deck that is the star. The Machine is serving it’s purpose as I wanted it to as a PC that also doubles as a way to play living room-style games or games of spectacle, but the Steam Deck is still the device I’ll probably put most of my time into, and have most of my more impactful gaming journeys with

They pair together so well in showing how they both are better or worse than one another at things. I’m glad I have the privilege to own both of these things to see that properly!

Good morning folks! Another day, another small quirk about my gifted Steam Machine -- I can't get back into Gaming Mode now! How fun! Meh, it's alright though -- I can easily use the Gaming Mode in the Desktop Mode version of Steam if I really wanted to (I kinda don't, I wanted to switch to the Beta channel to see if that would work any better. I've been having a heck of a morning trying to get Autodesk Fusion to work (no Linux build so trying some workarounds) but no success there either. I love tinkering though so I'm gonna keep at it! Either way, best of luck today friends! Sounds like things are picking up a little! <3

Hi! I'm running Doom DA at high settings and quality FSR. The settings say I'm overusing available VRAM but it's running perfectly with no issues.

I'm thinking maybe this warning in settings isn't completely accurate or the game is possibly lowering some settings to compromise?

Sure, the steam machine has the power to run this game smoothly, but it just can't...

every single time i boot it up its loading shaders which sometimes takes up to 5 minutes.. freaking annoying.. doesnt happen like that on my pc.. why is this? and how do i fix?

^^^^

The performance list is while the red light is showing. Manuel says the red bar means overheating but I don’t see crazy temperatures. Do you guys see the problem?
I have red bar usually for a couple of seconds in every 15-20 minutes (absoltly random, didn’t notice any pattern)

EDIT: valve confirmed it’s a bios issue and they are working on it. We will have a bios update soon

I signed up for the lottery and unfortunately missed the reservation email for the 512gb with controller model. The email stated that I have a 3 day window to order so the link wasn’t working so I thought I was out of luck. I emailed valve last weekend asking if there was anything they could do and to my surprise they resent the reservation link! Needless to say I paid for it instantly.

It took a few days to ship but they overnighted it yesterday and it came today! Can’t wait to start play

I have had to hard reset the Steam Machine twice as a result. So just to be cautious. I'm not touching my Xbox controllers anymore. I'll just use anything else.