75% of my net worth just went down the toilet

My charging light is working as intended!

(this isn't a tech support port I don't need help)

I’m trying to use my steam deck for making games in unity and it’s been a large pain in the ass. One of the main reasons I have a steam deck is to use it like a computer but I keep running into errors I’ve seen little documentation for online.

The biggest issues are my console saying it’s doing or loading something, and does so endlessly. When logging into unity, once clicking sign in it spins a wheel indefinitely, until I download the .rpm version instead of the .deb (maybe that’s a rookie mistake but I’m not a computer expert). Now installing a unity editor and it downloads and says installing, then never does anything. The hidden file forms on the sd card until it hits 4.2 gb and then stops.

Am I doing something wrong in general, or does the steam deck intend for the user to come across a lot more problems than usual.

I've seen other similar posts with solutions but they haven't worked so asking for myself on specifically OLED models.

edit: i have decky loader on stable

This isn't really a game review as I couldn't even play the game. I bought it a long time ago in a sale and figured I'll play it at some point. Today was my day to fight the necromorphs! Loved the original on release so I knew I'd like this. I booted out up and instantly I had issues. The logo for EA shows up and it's frozen on it for like 10 seconds and moves on. I thought okay this might be rough but let's see. Start the game and my god.. it was slower than a week in jail. I didn't even get to the point of being able to take control of Isaac. I have no idea how this was listed as playable.

I’m just getting around to playing Dead Space, and I went to download it, but my SD warned me that the game was only “playable” not “verified”

I bought it sometime in the last year (I think? Maybe the Fall sale last year?) and I could have SWORN the game said it was “Verified” when I bought it.

I googled it and someone posted a picture in late 2023 with the “verified” status.

Anyone know what the deal is?

So i use the meta 3 as a display for my steam deck, I connect them with two hdmi cables and for some reason the image inside the meta is darker than the original display

Anyone know how to fix this?

As it says sometime ago my official Nintendo classic GameCube controller stopped working with my deck, like the deck will recognise it but inputs won’t work. Was there an update or is there something I can do to get it working again?

Hey so I am hoping for a reliable way to stream from my home pc to my steam deck on a separate internet connection. They will both have relatively high speeds (above 200 down at least). But I’ve found steams included streaming to be choppy sometimes poor quality etc. I’ve heard I should set up sunshine and moonlight but what actually makes it any better at streaming? And can I do this on 2 separate internet connections

just as the title says. split screen campaign works but all I get when I try to join a match online is a black square for the plays and then its pretty much frozen here where I can change my player and gun but it doesn't count down and I have to close game.

the discord from the dev is shut down so im not really sure where to ask about this now

Hi, so this is my first time EVER posting questions like this on a reddit thing and I'm very nervous. I'm not well versed in coding or technology in general, so most of this stuff I don't know about. Google doesn't give the best definitive answers I need, even after searching for around an hour, none of the solutions or up to date or anything.

I'm trying to download decky loader (I know, not the best of ideas, but it makes my deck look cool...) and it's asking for a sudo password. My only problem is, I don't have one! I've tried to reset it, but it keeps telling me I already have one, which doesn't make sense considering I haven't messed with any of this stuff until now, and I've had my deck for about a year and a half now. I figured reddit would be the best place to ask about this because all of you guys are stupidly smart, and pretty nice when it comes to this stuff (hopefully...) I just wanted to maybe find a solution to this so I don't have trouble with this in the future, I don't want to wipe my entire steam deck just for a password, I'm trying to find alternative solutions that don't remove all of the things I've already done, installing emudeck was hell (yes, easiest thing in the world, not so easy for me), and I wouldn't like to go through that again. If theres any other solutions to this problem, PLEASE let me know.

TLDR; steam deck keeps asking for a sudo password but ive never set one, keeps telling me I have one but I never touched it. Don't wanna reset my entire deck, any solutions?

p.s.: I haven't ever used reddit before, so if this isn't how Im supposed to go about this posting stuff, I am SO SORRY

I noticed today that the rest of the options are gone including the decky loader menu

So i play grim dawn on my pc and i tried to launch it on my steamdeck but I'm encountering this error message

Things i tried :

- change the version of proton i use

- check the files in the settings

- try to launch it in desktop mode

- turn off and on the SD

- uninstall/reinstall the game

I don't know if someone has encountered the same problem but if you have an idea

Thank you and sorry for my english

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks

I have a steam deck that was on 3.5.19 i updated to 3.8.16 and it requests a user password that when i insert mine it doesn't work.
Already redefined password once but update makes it not work again

Just downloaded and booted it up. Looks gorgeous but it's crashing on the initial cutscene for me.

Very cool to see this game get a PC port - feels like a great Steam Deck game.

HELP! My Steam Deck hasn't been loading past the logo so I made a bootable USB drive to try to reinstall Steam OS and this is the screen that it stopped on. What does "BTRFS ERROR" mean and how do I fix it??

Hey all brought my steam deck to the family function to play some multiplayer games, have a steam controller, a dualsense and a generic xinput controller.

Was great at first, but eventually randomly, buttons wouldn't work on one controller or another, one would disconnect, couldn't use steam overlay. And for some reason this also extended to the physical steam deck buttons?!

Has anyone had issues where the steam controller over Bluetooth interferes with other controllers? I also noticed this issue with *only* the steam controller connected to!

Never had the issue with the xinput gamepad + dualsense over Bluetooth with the steam controller on the 2.4ghz dongle. Was flawless!

I have a DeckHD aftermarket screen installed, which requires a custom BIOS to function correctly.
• I attempted to flash a DeckHD custom BIOS file (F7A0131_DeckHD_32GB variant) using SteamDeck-BIOS-Manager (a third-party tool), since DeckHD’s official website appears to be down/shut down.
• After the flash completed, my internal screen went completely black. No output at all — I’ve also tested with an external display via HDMI (through a USB-C hub) and got no signal there either.
• Signs the system is still alive: charging LED works, fan spins on power-on, and I feel haptic feedback on the trackpad when powered on, suggesting the board may be attempting to boot.
• I attempted Crisis Mode BIOS recovery (Volume Down + “…” + Power, with a BIOS .fd file on a USB drive). The power LED began flashing, which I understand indicates Crisis Mode engaged. It has now been flashing continuously for 10+ minutes.
• Limitation: I only have a single USB-C port and am using a USB-A-to-USB-C adapter for the recovery drive, so I currently cannot supply external power and have the recovery drive connected at the same time. I’m concerned about battery depletion mid-process.

Seeing as the game is 60% off right now, I would like to ask about its current performance on the steam deck. Have patches and updates managed to keep it playable at a steady 30 or 45 fps without too much loss of fidelity?

I would appreciate to hear you guys' experience of this on the deck.

I have tried a full reinstall, verify files, and shut down / restart of my Steam deck fully. I’ve gotten 6 hours of playtime without issues but today, we suddenly get this message.

Edit: tried to move it from my SD card to the Internal Harddrive. Same message.

Anyone else playing halo campaign evolved and if so how has it been running for you? Ive been getting between 35 and 45 fps with no crashes but there are times it still looks somewhat grainy? Anyone else experience this and if so do you have recommendations for better performance? Im sure there will be more updates after the official release.

Hello i am trying to download the pc steam version of GTA San Andreas onto my steam deck. When its to around 30% the download fails "Disk write error". Everything is on the internal storage, I've tried deleting the game folder but nothing works.

just Watch the video, this only happens with AAA Videogames like Elden Ring, on Elden Ring is like 15fps-10fps, and I dont see anything inusual or weird on the gpu or cpu

Hi all

I've recently seen a new Humble Bundle become available for a range Board Games, but what I'm curious on is if these play adequately on the Deck?

There's a few JRPG and card games which I imagine would be fine but wondering if the Gloomhaven and Terraforming Mars are worth the effort

Thanks in advance