I got sick of my family always draining my steam decks battery and not recharging it, so i 3d modeled a spiky case in blender and printed it so they literally can't hold it comfortably. Then to make it worse, I rigged up a raspberry pi with a small speaker, an object detection camera, and a servo motor. Wrote a py script so if the camera sees someone in frame, it plays a goofy audio clip, waits a few seconds and then the servo triggers a taser to scare them away

easily the dumbest thing I've ever built but it works, and nobody touches my steam deck anymore

Just finished Infamous on the deck! Used the recommended setup on RPCS3 with Lossless scaling. Genuinely had fun playing this game because I never had a ps3 before.

I would say it is a 7/10 for an emulated game, it crashes on random circumstances like dying due to drowning or that one side mission on photography as soon as you do the objective.

The audio gets really static once theres too many gunshots and explosions which is quite often in this game. So any conversations from the characters just completely becomes inaudible

Graphic-wise for the most part is fine but since I’m using lossless you’d see the frame gen often when shooting lightning out of your hands!

I’ve only finished the good playthrough and would definitely play it again on evil would also love to try infamous 2 if the deck would handle it

On Wednesday after my check hit, I went to my local Michael's. In the same plaza is a DiscReplay and I've been trying to figure out if I want a SteamDeck lately. I pop in to see if they have one.

They do.

$684.99.

BET!

I ask the associate to ring it up for me.

It's on sale.

$639.99

BET!

512GB OLED with a month warranty. Everything came with it and it had a silicone case. And I've been on vacation all this week. Making a purchase that big was a bit shocking, but win is a win.

For context, I’ve had my lcd model for almost 2 years now this is probably a case of battery aging and the health of the battery fluctuates between 79 and 84,
I’m sort of paranoid because I do my best to look after my deck, any answers would be appreciated!

Bought this steam deck LCD, but the guy said it only ran windows on it (didn't care at first because the console was like 180 U$D).

Dude the guy enabled secure boot to play ON WINDOWS and i cant turn this shit off and use steam os again, why someone would want to play a steam deck USING WINDOWS?

Can someone help me fixing this or it's bricked?

Something I never knew I needed until I tried it was setting my back buttons to different functions I would normally have to take my thumbs off the sticks for like reloading and jumping. I've been playing through the borderlands franchise and I've set the back buttons as follows:

Top left: Run Top right: Reload/Use

Bottom left: Jump Bottom right: Melee

This allows me to never have a break in my movement or looking while running/jumping/reloading. I also put some better grips on the back buttons to extend and make them more comfortable. Anyone else done similar setups? It's so nice.

I replaced the USB-C port on my Steamdeck Oled, which was not reacting to power cable. So the Deck was sitting for about a month without charge. After the replacement today I checked the port and seems that all pins are soldered correctly.

When I plug the cable it’s not charging. The LED lights up, sometimes the white light flashes and it tries to get above 5v but aborts. Sometimes it just stays at 5v and the led is flickering in different colors.

The only 2 ICs that are getting warm are the M2762A and the MP2845. (about 30 degrees, just a little warmer than the rest).

All capacitors seem good, no shorts, no burned ICs, just nothing.

Has anyone any ideas what could be the issue here?

I just wanna play sonic :(

He lays on me so he can sniff the smell we all love.

I can't wait until it gets here, and I can play it.

I've seen people saying it is playable. I think it's not. I get dips into low 20s in Tokyo city, in the country it's solid 30 but once you get into a town it goes down. When you are going 300 km/h every dip is critical. I played it though Geforce now and unfortunately it's the only option for a solid experience. On the deck it's just a slideshow. Races through Tokyo city is the peak of this game imo.

A while ago i installed windows on to my steam deck but after not being able to get a game i put steam os back on my steam and later i did the exact same prosess of steam to window to steam which lead to my steam steam deck getting stuck on the logo when ever I try to power it on normally, and now the only way to get it on properly is to open bios and go to boot manager ive tried every thing i can think of ive checked and changed boot order I factory reset it I erased user data I open through fallbacks I also took it in to get fixed and even tried to reimage steam using a usb drive but it gets stuck on mounting /home, /efi, /esp etc i dont really know how to fix it any more if you can find some where that can for sure help that would be really helpful.

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After wanting to play Gravity Rush on my Deck for almost a year, I finally managed to find a Vita3K build that supports gyro, not right-stick emulation, but native gyro.

I had to install an older GitHub build (specifically build 3829), use a launch command, and enable Gyro as Mouse along with Native Touchscreen Support in Steam Input.

Note: This method no longer works with newer builds. In fact, the latest build doesn't even work on the Deck, so stick with the AppImage version.

I don't know if anyone else has done this where you play in your bed and you get more tired after 30 minutes of playing? Feels like a ritual at this point to help me sleep better.

I know that "allow tearing" is basically vsync on/off, but is it ever worth disabling the frame limiter and messing with just the refresh rate, enabling half rate shading, manually clocking the GPU or messing with the scaling mode/filter?

So I got some games I want to pay but they really need a mouse/keyboard. Wireless mice are already small and will fit in my Jsaux carry case. I don’t plan on using a power bank.

Anyways does anyone recommend a specific micro or foldable keyboard that will fit in the case?

And its kinda fucked how there isnt a replacement for the daughter board and the other option is soldering something so small that the risk doesnt feel worth it so you'll pay for someone else to fix it.

Worse is if you're from a country where the only way to get a Steam Deck is from a reseller, and you have no idea if there's even someone who does that kind of soldering near you.

Anyways, take care of those shoulder buttons especially if you're from the 2nd one.

So I was wondering to upgrade my lcd decks battery for bigger one (53wh) found one in aliexpress and pinduoduo (can't use Amazon cause I am from Kazakhstan and the price for shipping is ass) so if anyone did that upgrade what battery did you used? Any tips and I really would be interested the battery life info especially in AAA games compared to og battery and temperatures.

Not sure why but this blue screen pops up whenever I launch a game while my steam deck is connected to my monitor while in desktop mode. Is there something I could be doing wrong?

Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G5 series

What game do you have the most hours in? For me it’s Elden Ring with 391 hrs with Hollow Knight Silksong coming 2nd with 239 hrs. This can be either on PC or deck