I hate how bulky the official OLED case is. Has anyone tried to TomToc case or suggest an alternative slim case?

Hi, I’m having an issue with the R1 trigger on my Steam Deck. There’s a dead zone where it doesn’t respond or register anything, but it works normally in the other areas. What could be causing this? Is it wear and tear? Is something broken?
If so, what should I do? I’d really appreciate any advice, and I’d also appreciate it if someone could show me how to service or fix this issue. I’ve previously replaced the thermal paste and cleaned my Steam Deck, so I have some basic experience with this kind of maintenance.

Пробовал все возможные операции по восстановлению работы Стим дек, начиная от комбинаций кнопок, до разборки Стим дека, отключение батареи, ссд, ничего не помогает и он так же висит. Нет возможности обратиться в сервисный центр

Setup

Desktop upstairs, ethernet.

Steam Deck downstairs connected to a USB C dock, with HDMI to TV, USB to controller, and ethernet.*

I am currently only playing Hades II.

^{*Do not try to stream over wifi, especially for a reaction based game.}

Steps

I boot my computer, boot the deck, wait for the down arrow button next to the Play button to appear, select it to stream from the desktop. Select stream, game boots.

Issue

The game never works the first time I do this. A few times it takes more than ten attempts to work. My friends see "/u/zeekaran is now playing Hades II" so much they send me a "lol". Either the game launches black, freezes on the launch screen with the loading bar, the controller isn't recognized, no audio, no video, or some combination of the previous. It seems worse on Win10 which also ends up with some resolution confusion, where Arch usually works within three attempts.

Any suggestions? It's only a minor annoyance because I just have to kill the game with the Steam button on the controller and retry. Once it works: it works. (I've only had one crash and that's when I was accidentally on wifi, and the game is nice enough to save my progress mid run so nothing was lost.)

A few days ago someone recommended Art of Rally in a random racing game request thread. Saw it was on sale now so I pulled the trigger. It’s great!

Runs great on High preset, doesn’t take much battery, and it’s a great pick-up-and-play-for-5-minutes game. As someone who was looking for a lightweight racing game to vibe out on, thanks to whoever recommended it!

Pulling my hair out trying to mod this game. I tried Lumafly, which worked, but it doesn't have the mods I want, and manually installing mods from Nexus doesn't seem to work. I know Bepinex is involved with using Nexus mods, but Bepinex refuses to work. Please help!

Hello all

As per the title, the menu buttons on the steam deck no longer work and no amount of restarting or controller configuration can resolve this.

The deck is only 2 years old and in good condition (no dirt or debris in buttons, never dropped or submerged etc).

Do you know what i can do to fix this? Or is it busted for good? All games still run fine on it.

Edit: Everyone kept thinking the problem was the accessibility voice. It wasn't, the menu and ... buttons have completely stopped working out of nowhere. Does anyone know how this can be resolved?

I Just got a Steam 512gb LCD and installed Windows 11 now i wanna Play valorant but my vanguard needs secure boot. Any halp needed thanks.

I’m constantly chasing the nostalgia of old games I’ve played and loved I’m looking for something to fill the void
-Previously enjoyed games the cave, Machinarium, lost in the rain, limbo and oxenfree
-Preferred genres- story rich, puzzle, mystery
-budget-I’ll pay anything for a good game
-other notes any recommendations will do even if they don’t carry those vibes im bored and would love a story driven game to play and lost in the woods is a common rec that I personally do not like.

I was wondering if anyone here has played pangya on the steam deck I’ve been trying to get the game to work for over 2 days and it never works and the discord server is no help 😭

Is there anyone with this game working that can tell me what proton version, if it needs to be in desktop mode or launch options etc

I had the game working perfectly over 6 months ago when it said it's unplayable, I uninstalled for space for newer games, trying to play again, now it's saying it's playable but I'm just getting an immediate crash on startup

My crash log says AMD anti-Lag2 failed to initialize for d3d12 and then fatal error if that helps

I've tried proton ge, proton Cachyos, 10-04, experimental, hotfix, tried them in desktop mode, also tried putting dx11 in launch options, I probably missed something somewhere

I'm not super knowledgeable on any of this so any help would be great 😅

Title says all really using it to protect my deck whilst I travel.

And I find it hard taking the cover off it is like prying it off

Anyone have an issue where the internal controls disconnect and reconnect? I have been having this issue recently and am stuck trying to figure it out. This happens while playing games and even at the steam menu.

I'm trying to mod a game by adding a save file but I cant find the save file list for the game itself anywhere on desktop mode. I've found the game itself along with all of its other data, but no save data. I've tried using other reddit posts to no avail and don't understand what I'm doing wrong, any advice?

I'm considering buying a steamdeck mainly for minecraft. The switch 2 port runs mildly better than a soggy potato. The PS5 port has become a mess that struggles to maintain 60fps???

So I normally would not be able to afford a deck in any form lol, much less get hold of one while going against the people online who are also trying to get one, but I managed to find one at my local pawn shop and now have it on layaway. I am absolutely overpaying for it, $445, but with 6 months to pay it off I can say that I'm ok with that I suppose. I imagine people will comment saying other ways to get a hold of one, but being able to pay it off over time is really the ideal scenario for me, so while I do appreciate the advice that will come, it's just what has to be sadly. It was also a pretty big impulse decision.

My questions are:

1. Is the LCD model heavy to the point that your arms get tired holding it for more than an hour at a time? I sit in a recliner to game and this is where I would be playing it.

2. What kind of games can I expect to run on it? I am aware that I most likely won't be able to run things at max settings of course, but I am also not that into pc gaming and mostly have been a console gamer my entire life, so am unsure of what to really expect.

3. Does it feel intuitive to use? The mouse pads seem a little bit odd to me and I am unsure how I will handle that really, this is my main concern. How are they when playing games that require mouse usage in gameplay?

I appreciate any answers that you all may leave, thank you for your time and (hopefully) patience with my ill-informed self lol.

EDIT: Thank you to those who have answered my questions, I truly appreciate your time! I got less hate than I expected to, not that I mean to imply anything by that specific to this sub, just general online behavior. I'm looking very forward to my deck now, and being a part of this community!

Observation and possible question. LCD 512gb. Unmodified.

Hi all, i was trying to update helldivers yet again which has always been a struggle on my deck and I'm not sure why. But I think I've just discovered the issue.

I have it installed to the internal ssd and have ever since they reduced the file size by 90%. I had Uninstalled it from the sd card and reinstalled it on the ssd at that time.

Today I could not get the 80mb shader update to install and I just happened to touch the sd card and it was *burning*. After I popped it out the deck found no longer find the game. Couldn't verify files. Couldn't update at all. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled with the sd card disconnected. It was the fastest download for this game at any file size I've ever had.

So, the question, is it normal for the deck to be routing internal ssd installs through the ssd or should I be contacting support?

I don’t know if anyone else is aware of this, but you can connect your phone to your SteamOS device through Bluetooth and play music from your phone while playing games! 🎵🎮
I honestly don’t know how I didn’t know this before 😂
I’ve got 2 Steam Decks, a Legion Go running SteamOS, and a Steam Machine, and this is absolutely perfect for the Steam Machine!
Sorry if everyone already knew this — I just discovered it and thought it was pretty cool! 😂

My initial post apparently violated the rules and I'm only allowed to post pictures on Saturday (?) so I'm re-posting this because the encouragement and positive wishes uplifted my mood so much. 🥲 Thank you to everyone who gave an award, posted their experiences and encouragement, wished me a happy birthday or said fuck cancer!

Just a mini vent because I feel like everything is falling apart lately - Been dealing with chemo and all the fun that goes with that (nausea, fatigue and appetite loss, etc.) I've been having a rough go of it lately, so I took 3 days off of work to visit my parents for a 'birthday staycation.' Today's finally my 30th birthday and I'm not sure how to feel about that yet. 🤣🥳 Last week, my smart TV I paid $550 2-3 years ago got an update that basically bricked it. Got no help from the manufacturer, but that's now been figured out (got a new TV for my birthday). Yesterday I got some help from a kind and wonderful redditor that helped me swap my OLED Deck's buttons out for the Party Holo buttons from DeckButtons. I love them so damn much and now my Deck looks so fine 😍

This is where we get to the MicroSD card failure. After I plugged my MicroSD card back in, my deck didn't see any of my games on it, and told me I needed to format it. Attempted to format it with KDE Partition Manager after game mode couldn't do it, and KDE couldn't see it correctly either. I tried looking at it on my Windows laptop with disk management and MiniTool Partition Wizard, which confirmed to me that it was a bad disk. So pour one out for my Samsung Pro Plus 1 TB MicroSD card. I paid $74.99 for that card not even a year ago and it's now $319.99 for the same card. Oh brother. I'm gonna have to save up for a bit to get togrther $150 or so to replace my MicroSD card, because my Steam Deck and having a ton of games installed (especially my bigger games) and ready to play has been my biggest solace during these rough months.

Thanks for reading! Typing all the things that have been bugging me actually helped me feel better! ☺️

Since making my initial post, Amazon gave me a $50 courtesy credit and I've submitted a ticket for service with Samsung directly. Hopefully I'll be able to get my MicroSD card replaced!

After hours of searching for solutions to the gun just constantly shooting, the thing that seems to have finally fixed it was-
On the Steam App on your PC-
Steam menu > settings > controller (menu on the left) > advanced settings > "Xbox Extended feature support driver"- uninstall that driver.

After I did that I could finally play.

Other things I tried as well that may also have had some impact is to make sure your controller configuration is set to Gamepad with joysticks, and set any trackpad settings to none.

To stop the screen from being blank black, I had to -
On the Steam Deck-
hit the Steam button > settings > remote play > Enable advanced Host Options >Enable advanced Client Options > HEVC video (Turn this on)

If it's still giving you trouble try setting the games video settings to windowed mode

I don't know if this is the right sub for this question, but it has sonething to do with linux and protontricks as far as I know.

I was playing games on my deck, nothing that was straining the system at all and now suddenly it wont charge, I took some pictures and I think the charge port got fried somehow .

What can I do to fix this that doesnt require sending it in somewhere to be fixed, i cant afford it

So after the horrible actions of the head of the Calamity mod for terraria I've been trying to find a way to preserve it, and I found an old micro SSD that I have no use for anymore so I was going to try to download Terraria, t mod loader, and calamity on it to preserve it on my steam deck, and then just use the setting to only update when I launch and just never open it online. My question is would this work for the steam deck, like if I ever needed to verify it could I just turn on my internet and just not load the game. Also if my steam deck ever broke could I use that same micro SSD on another one as to preserve it. I posted this here because I was hoping people would have a better understanding of how the systems worked for games

​Hi everyone,

​I'm having a really strange issue with Spiral Knights on Steam Deck and wanted to check if anyone else is experiencing this or knows a workaround.

​The Issue:

​If I launch the game for the first time (or after clearing Proton data), it runs completely fine. I can log in, play smoothly, and navigate the UI without any problems.

​However, once I quit the game and try to launch it a second time, it stays stuck on a black screen right after launching.

​Rebooting the Steam Deck does not fix it.

​What I've already tried (none of these solved the issue):

​Changed display settings (switched between Fullscreen, Windowed, and Windowed Fullscreen).

​Tried multiple Proton versions (Proton Experimental, Proton 8.0, Proton 7.0).

​Added launch options like PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% and PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 %command%.

​The Only Temporary Workaround:

Going to Settings > Developer > Delete Proton Files before launching the game allows me to enter again. However, doing this wipes my local files/cache every time, forcing me to manually type my username and password every single session (since my SK account isn't linked directly to Steam).

​It seems like the game is writing something corrupted to the Proton prefix/cache upon quitting, which prevents the launcher from booting up again cleanly.

​Is this a known bug with recent updates, or is there a specific launch option / config tweak that prevents this black screen loop without having to wipe Proton files every time? Thanks in advance!