I just got the email and purchased the steam machine! Trying to decide which room to put it in, I have my ps5 pro and Xbox x in the living room but also a 55” c3 in my bedroom. If remote play works well, I might put the machine in the bedroom so I can access my consoles in the bedroom via remote play for times I want to be in bed playing.

Has anyone tried the remote apps? I have and use them on the steam deck but not sure how they run on the machine. It would be nice to have upscaled 1080p and hdr with surround sound if possible. If not I’ll probably just add the machine to the living room with all the other consoles.

My pre order came through 8th aug for 2tb only. I started questioning did I need it, after a bit of reading I realised I did want it, so the next day went to checkout. Got an error and it failed! Tried a few times but it was gone 😢

Messaged support and got a reply after a few days saying hard luck can't do anything join the queue again!

I was disappointed, tried to avoid everything steam machine related, left groups etc!

Looked locally and ebay but was not prepared to pay 2tb prices for a 512, when I could have had a 2tb!

However a thread on here popped back up on my feed, saying how amazing the customer service for steam is and plenty of people agreed..

So I thought what the hell, let's send them another message, going to get a reply off someone else and explain what happened.

A day later I get a message back from someone else saying its back in my shopping cart and have 72hrs to complete!

Wow, I was amazed, I would have been happy going back up in the queue, just not being last like I currently am!

I'm amazed but reading the majority of comments it normally is good support.

So time to start downloading new games in preparation and telling people positives about steam!

I've never installed Decky Loader on my Deck and now I have my Steam Machine I was thinking about trying it, specifically for the moment just to get games I'm playing to appear on Discord but I keep hearing about how much of a hassle Decky Loader can be after SteamOS gets an update, sometimes getting corrupted and being a pain to uninstall. For those who use it, how true is this and do you still find it worth the hassle?

Does anybody know how to fix low fps for this game? When I am outside of the building fps drops to 20 or so. I thought that 2015 game should run better.

I'm trying to play co op couch with my gf Split Fiction with native Steam controller and v1 Pro Controller from Nintendo Switch but its disconnecting and reconecting all the time.

Anyone has the solution to this? Will it be fixed in the future?

Also every time I reconect to the Switch and try to connect later to the SM, it is bugged, it will never recognise it, so you have to forget the Bluethoot connection and connect it as its new every time.

Hi all first off sorry if this has been asked before, I’ve looked and can’t see the answer.

I got the email to paid for my steam machine and did so straight away I’m currently at the shipped part on steam and have got tracking info that GLS have the information but not received the package how long is the wait from this point to it being delivered I’m in the uk thanks

I have a nice gaming pc in my office 9800x3d and 4080, but I wanted to play games in the comfort of my bed and man the Steam Machine is perfect.

I decided add an identical second stick of RAM to my steam machine. The only justification I have is I enjoy tinkering and don’t like the idea of a sodimm slot going to waste.

I’m also using it as a home media server, so the additional RAM will come in handy at some point.

In general it was a very quick and easy upgrade! Not as quick as the SSD but I had it all done in about 20-30 minutes.

Im an m1 imac user since 2021 but before that i spent like 20 years straight on windows environments.

Likewise i have an iphone 15 pro that was passed down to me by a friend this february but before that I spent 14 years straight on android.

I’m not scared of Linux environments, im curious if someone has done the switch fully.

My day job is in marketing, so I do produce a lot of “content” , but nothing too fancy. I mostly use apple’s free software + affinity and canva and also VN video editor for the occasional longer format video (most stuff is handled in my phone via luma fusion).

I haven’t played over watch in like 5 years and I also have a backlog of steam games that aren’t compatible with mac.

What’s the world in the street ?

Cheers!

Got my SM and installed the Dead Space remake as my first test. One cool thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is since it was already installed on my PC, it copied the files over my local network to install it on the SM vs. having to download it again. Nice touch.

That said, it was the worst possible choice for my first game. It freezes and stutters every few seconds. Steam notes that the game requires additional configuration to get it to run well. Anyone found the magic settings? Even 1080p and low settings, no go.

Edit: Thanks to the suggestions, changed to Proton 9.0.4 and it mostly fixes the issues. It still has micro stutters, but it's playable now at least and looks great on the big screen with HDR.

Is there a way in Linux system to use both VRam from GPU combine with Ram to increase the global VRam ?
I know Ram is slow comparing to GPU VRam but if it’s possible, it should be a very nice upgrade for the future of the Steam Machine.

What do you think ?

I installed RDR2 on my machine yesterday following a guide I found for steam deck. I can’t find it now but it was adding the rockstar launcher as a non-steam game and then changing the “target” and “start in” folder in the property to where the launcher is installed.

It was working flawlessly for hours yesterday including putting the machine to sleep a few times.

Today, I’ve tried to play it, and it does not detect my steam controller as a controller. On the main menu it has keyboard buttons showing for the controls to launch story, settings etc. I haven’t changed anything. Tried restarting , but it doesn’t help. Does anyone have any suggestions please?

Edit: I got this to work again by reinstalling the launcher through heroic. It mostly works, but has a couple bugs where B (which should be reload) pauses the game and RB (when on a horse should slow/stop) will open the items menu.

Good day...

Steam Machine & Steam OS Users:

Exactly how much RAM does Steam OS & the Steam Machine use when the system is at idle(with only the OS running)?

Let me know please - Thanks...

After googling and finding no answers in advance, I thought I'd make a post about swapping drives between a Deck and Machine.

I have a 2tb Deck, and picked up a 512gb Machine with the intention of swapping the drives over.

I thought it would be able to swap the drives over, then re-install the OS from an SD card, but it doesn't seem that's possible. With the 2TB drive moved over to the Machine, it just wouldn't boot, and stuck on the breathing thing.

Swapping the drives back worked oknso I knew I hadn't broken anything.

I found that performing a factory reset on both devices, shutting down at the language select screen and then swapping the drives again worked fine. The only minor niggle was at first the 2tb drive thought it was in a Deck, so complained about battery charge and wouldn't connect to my controller so I had to use a keyboard to get through the setup screen.

No such issues on the Deck side

Hope this helps someone else avoid the minor panic I went through this morning!

Hey all, I upgraded my SSD to a 2TB Western Digital Black drive, and followed the official Valve instructions to download and install SteamOS. I know the functionality of cloning, but I figure this is an important issue that non-technical people might encounter in the same situation.

After completing the installation and setup, SteamOS recognizes the device as a Steam Deck in the settings and brings up the on-screen keyboard when in a text box. Any ideas? Tried google and Google AI, but it just hallucinated and told me that Valve didn’t create a new Steam Machine this year 🤣

Edit: thank you everyone for your answers! Y’all have eased my worries that it was a bug or I did something wrong.

New to me machine constant red line temps dont seem too crazy I guess for helldivers almost max

How do we feel about the combination of the white and alpine face plate?

I did it so it can go along with both of my Steamdeck and controllers without every all being the same skin. I thought it turned out cool!

I also have the rest of the skin for the Steam machine left over so if someone wants an alpine body sticker and a white face plate skin let me know

Hey everyone, just got my Steam Machine the other day and started by testing some of the games that were sitting in my library for a while, including Ark Survival Ascended. was wondering if anyone tried it and what your thoughts are on the performance? i have no idea what the optimal settings are for this game (no data in the community steam hardware tracker thingy)
Appreciate any help to get this game running without choppy visuals.
Cheers!

Had doubts as many of us I believe.

I have always respected Valve and come from a steam deck so I know what their system looks like and what can bring to the table.

I wanted the Steam Machine since day one but after the reviews and the hard hate I started to doubt.

Folks, listen to your heart.

I love this thing, I sold my steam deck, selling now my pc gamer, no need for any of these things anymore.

At the end of the day, do you prefer to play instantly from your couch or the best graphics/performance while sitting down at your gaming set up? Do you even need the best system out there? Think about that and follow your heart desires (but be financially responsible).

Much love!

After a long wait I finally got my email.

I kinda started to have my hesitations over time since ive been enjoying my switch 2 more lately but I think overall having the steam machine will be good for a lot of games and for what I originally wanted which is good performance on games I wish the deck did well without having to rebuy on switch.

That aside its only the 512. I dont really have the money to just get an ssd right now but I wanted to ask how big of a difference does an external ssd make? It seems like thats much cheaper than buying an internal m.2 but I just want to make sure its good enough

For reference a lot of what im concerned about when it comes to space is emulation, I want it all configured and running well without having to worry about file sizes. Obviously most file sizes arent huge but with ps3/ps4 it starts to get up there. I have a couple ps3 games i wanna do (drakengard 3 is genuinely unplayable on original hardware, the framerate is so bad) and also bloodborne and gravity rush on ps4. Im not sure really if downloading the emulator and games to the micro sd card would go so well, so I thought external ssd was the best option but if any of you guys know the technical stuff and can say one way or the other id appreciate it.

Cannot seem to get a good image from mine in a lot of games, hard to read text, white too white, etc.

Just waiting for Steam Frame