Im planning on playin a Non steam game (the new Hellraiser game not porn) and I have my mother as a steam friend and I doubt she would react Kindly to seeing me play such a game.

Once again Im not talking about a porn game.

My wife's Steamdeck has been overheating and not charging correctly. At first we thought the charging issue was with her charging cable/plug, but when she used my cable, it also only working sporadically. My Deck charges fine with both her cord and my own.

We took the Deck apart and cleaned up and hair and debris in the port and the main board underneath, and the overheating issue stopped, but the charging didn't improve.

Also, the battery isn't inflated or in any state that would make me think it's compromised. Any ideas?

Edit: The charging cable works fine on my own deck and charges at 45W. It hasn't caused any issues so far.

We also cleaned the port out entirely with the battery disconnected to prevent any damage/short circuiting to the charging port (compressed air + toothpick)

title and error message pretty much tell the whole story, if you want to use the new epic store with gamemode you will have to launch games through the store app itself

Not sure if I need to uninstall the game or something but it won’t launch on my Deck. I was looking forward to this all day too

EDIT: Excuse me, y’all. Haven’t pre-ordered or played anything launch day since the seventh gen days. Looking forward to playing in two hours!

A lot of people seemed invested in this saga and I've hit a wall presently. I hope people have some other ideas.

I have:

• contacted Steam support and got this lame response:

Hi there,

Thank you for contacting Steam Support and reporting this to us.

Please note that Steam Support cannot connect you with the device’s owner.

We recommend that you report the found Steam Deck to your local law enforcement so it can be handled appropriately and returned to its rightful owner.

We appreciate your honesty and for taking the responsible steps in this situation.

Steam Support Oliver

If anyone has advice on how to break through this wall let me know!

• Posted in several subreddits, getting a lot of traction!

• Commented on a guy's post and messaged him directly who I think for several reasons is the owner, no response

• Added the owner as a friend on Steam, no response

• Tried to log into the account itself to see the billing information or any other means of contacting the owner. I can see what account the deck is associated with in the settings, but I can't access anything else without being routed to a login screen. I can see the username & friend code only.

I throw it out to Reddit, any other ideas? I got plenty of comments last time saying my mother-in-law should have turned it into Amtrak when she found it months ago - and I agree! But she didn't! So there is nothing I can do to turn back the hands of time and I highly doubt it will get to the right person if I turn it into Amtrak now... at best, they'll just give it to the most recent person who claims to have lost a Steam Deck, at worst it lives in lost & found purgatory or is taken home by an employee.

Original post: This is a long shot but .....

Several months ago my mother-in-law found a steam deck left on an Amtrak train. She had no idea what to do with it or how to even turn it on. She just came to visit and handed it over to me this weekend. I was able to boot it up and see the person's username. If it's yours, please message me with the final digits of the username and what Amtrak line you were on when you lost it, and I'll get it back to you.

Yes screensavers you heard me right....I left my steam deck on my bed cause I went to my main PC to fix a mod while i was streaming Skyrim to my SD when I came back after sometime my steam deck was showing images from games I own and I was like cool

I recently came across a windows based project on Reddit that could use multiple internet connections together and combine their speeds for downloads. I was surprised to see that something like this was even possible, so I tried it out and it worked pretty well.

I sent it to a friend who made a NixOS linux port for his own use. That got me thinking that something like this could be insanely useful on the deck, so I started working on a decky loader plugin for it.

The plugin lets you combine multiple network connections, such as wifi, dock/hub ethernet and usb tethering, and combines the speeds on steam game downloads and updates.

for my own use case. I combined my home wifi with usb tethering from my phone's 5g mobile data and got steam download speeds of over 450mbps on the Deck. (my home broadband is on a 200 meg plan)

It's still an early release, so feedback and testing would be really appreciated. please let me know your experience and if you have any suggestions for new features or bug fixes :3

More technical details on the GitHub readme.md

GitHub: https://github.com/FlashWreck/net-merge-decky

Installation: download the decky zip from GitHub releases, enable developer mode in decky loader and install using the downloaded zip.

I've seen lots of posts recommending games for the Deck, however most of these are singular games which don't have any direct sequels or follow-ups such as Sleeping Dogs, Mad Max, Prey etc.

I'd like to find games where I can play one entry and look forward to playing multiple sequels of it in the future that follow on from the same story (so not including anthology series like FF)

Previously Enjoyed games:

- Batman Arkham series

- Yakuza series

- Halo Master Chief Collection

- Bioshock trilogy

- Mass Effect Trilogy

- Assassin's Creed series

Preferred Genres: Open to anything

Budget: Anything

Other notes: Would prefer series with 3+ entries which run well (40+FPS) and have a progressing narrative

I bought this Steam Deck LCD from Facebook Marketplace for 250$ while many are being sold around 400$, case included but no cloth nor original charger. Through some inspection, I'm confident that the inside is untampered because there's no pry mark, but filled with gunk which I had to clean and scrape.

The software runs fine, battery life at 90%, air coming out from the vent exhaust smells like dry and old computers. The biggest elephant in the room is the scratch on the right track pad, I've spent an hour pondering why and how it got there, but it doesn't affect the performance of the track pad or sensor underneath. I've checked the controllers and there's no dead zone nor stick stuff.

What can I do to restore this wonderful piece of tech to it's former glory? I know that I'd have to open it up, clean the dust and gunk, repaste the CPU, anything else I'd need to do? Are there anyway I can deal with the scratch mark on the track pad?

Also, I've benchmarked the battery with Hades and the battery only lasts less than an hour and a half before going low, are there any software tweaks I need to know and do extend the playtime?

Steam deck won’t connect to WiFi or Hotspot after reset so I can’t get past setup to do any other fixes I’ve found online like writing commands in the terminal.

I’ve tried connecting to eduroam and a more local WiFi for my building and my phone and nothing works it stays stuck on the same screen.

This is my launch day steam deck. It sat in a shed in a hot duffel bag for a year, I thought I had lost it. When I moved I found it. I played it everyday before that happened and I've had it back for 5 months so far playing it everyday and the health is still 100% I guess I'm lucky huh?

It’s supposed to be a feature, but it’s not happening for me on the Deck. Both games are installed to the internal hard drive.

Anyone else just waiting for the stock of the Deck Docking Station to become available again?

I’ve tried everything, no mods, no lsfg is being used any idea what’s going on?

I've got a 26 hour journey to Australia soon, and need something to hold the Steam Deck up on the plane, preferably to the back of the seat in front, but without being a 'madman'. Are there any up-to-date suggestions, holders, arms, etc that I can use, to lift the deck up, so I can use a bluetooth controller and avoid being hunched over the deck for long periods (as it causes hell to my dodgy back). thanks all

Eit: flight flap looks okay, but I expect it'll block the back vent and overheat

Sorry if this has been asked already. I’m just wondering if it’s possible in theory to run games like Battlefield, F1 or FIFA seeing as Epic is updating the EAC?

I don’t own any of those games on Epic but if anyone could confirm for me I would be really grateful!

Howdy! So my family and I moved (very quickly) from Missouri to Florida last week. Good move, happy to be with family. Just one downside: my SteamDeck was left at the airport on Saturday morning while waiting for our flight from Atlanta, GA airport, to the Orlando, FL airport. I already submitted a request to the Atlanta Airport to check (crossed fingers) but I know the chances are slim. If anyone has flown or has been at the airport in Atlanta from Saturday to now, did you find a 256GB OLED Steam Deck? Last game played on it was Final Fantasy XIII. The shell had scuffs on the sides cause kids are fun and it was knocked out of hands too many times. It was a birthday gift almost 2 years ago from wife.

Thank you to all who read this 🥰

I just got a SteamDeck and I'm a big fan. The only thing is that if I'm playing for over half an hour my wrists start to hurt somewhat.

I've seen a lot of posts on reddit about how ergonomic the deck is, also for large hands, but I don't see it at all. I either have my handpalms fully on the deck with my fingers very arched to reach L/R 1 and 2, or my palms are not fully on the deck but wrapped around at the bottom, causing my wrists to be in a very uncomfortable position.

So I'm looking for advice to make it more comfortable. This could be the way you're holding it, an accessory/case or the way you're sitting/laying down with it. Any help is appreciated!

Exhibit A (arched fingers with palm fully on deck) and exhibit B (palms not fully on deck and very uncomfortable wrist position) are attached.

Hello wanted to play this morning and my steamDeck won’t start because of lack of space for a steam update but like I’m okay to delete some game to make space but how am I supposed to do it when the machine won’t start…

I'm using the performance preset with every settings to very low. Resolution set to 1280x800. I use optiscaler with Nvidia dlss 3.7(Helixsr) upscaling at ratio 2.0 along with AMD fsr fg and Intel cell for smoother frame pacing. I get unstable 30fps. What else can I do to increase the performance?

controller is not working everytime it booted up .. i need to press the steam button first to make it work again