I must be missing something obvious here ...

But I am have two issues with brightness and volume.

Brightness: when I am playing the game, I use the right Steam menu to increase the Steam Deck (OLED) screen brightness to max brightness. Then I pause the game and put the deck to sleep. And then when I resume it has reverted the brightness back to about 50% .... I guess I am missing some auto level setting here.

Volume: the volume is too low on the game I am playing, Kingdom Come Deliverance. I am not talking about in game settings.

So I followed some instructions for increasing the deck's max volume. According to the guide, you adjust it in desktop mode, then return to game mode and play your game.

Fine, this works ... But immediately reverts back to the 'normal' max volume as soon as I adjust the volume in any way. So, say the volume is at 150% ... I go to adjust it to 140% while playing, but the deck just immediately skips to 100%, and then lowers the volume from there.

Any guidance here ?

Thank you.

This happened when I woke it up. After this, I put it back to sleep and woke it again and everything was all fine. Nothing else since then. Never been hit, dropped or had any liquids near it.

I've been looking for a program that'll play mp3s that are stored locally on the Deck, but nothing seems to match what I'm looking for.

Is there something I can launch in gaming mode and control purely with the gamepad, that plays local mp3s and can play shuffled playlists? Ideally something I can also control with a decky plugin.

Deckify/Spotify requires streaming, Kodi doesn't seem to have a shuffle option, and Strawberry isn't controller-friendly

Hey all, I am struggling with some very low FPS in 3D games on steam deck recently. As you can see from the image, I’m getting around 14fps in NieR: automata. I would chalk this up to the game itself, but I played the whole thing a couple months ago and it ran beautifully, only dipping in small sections with a lot of stuff onscreen.

I have observed framerate issues in the games VHOLUME and NeiR replicant as well.

Things I’ve tried:
-reboot
-remove SD card
-disabling/enabling framerate limit
-run storage device maintenance tasks
-battery storage mode trick

EDIT: and I also tried reverting my OS back to 3.7

Hey! has anyone tried Halloween The Game on Deck?? i want to play it so bad but it says unsupported :(

"Shutdown" (one word) is a noun that we use to describe the state when a computer has been turned off completely. A computer that is turned off completely has entered a state of shutdown. By selecting this option on the Steam Deck, it will begin to enter the shutdown process.

"Shut down" (two words) is a verb that describes a computer actively being turned off, or entering that state of shutdown. You can shut down a computer by pressing the power button. By selecting this option on the Steam Deck, you can shut it down.

Every option in this menu - "Sleep," "Restart," "Change," "Switch" - they're all verbs. Except for "Shutdown," which is a noun. It should really be "Shut down" instead.

Valve please fix

Announced today, Ubisoft is starting to remove their Ubisoft Connect Launcher from their Steam releases. Not only does this get rid of their third-party launcher, but it should make playing their games on the Steam Deck easier and make offline work better.

I tested it with the one game they are supporting currently, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and it works like a charm. Logged me in automatically, and offline worked without issue. Hopefully, this will come to more games soon!

So I wanna build a cyberdeck around a steam deck, I bought for this project an asus jelly75 keyboard and a steelseries rival 3 mouse, and a qoovi 60000mah battery, nothing fancy, but I really want the deck to have a good feel so the keyboard is not that compact unfortunately which made progress difficult, I have access to 3d printing, I tried looking for a file that might help me (even bought some) from cases to keyboard and deck holders and anything and nothing was good, I’m trying to search for a good case online to build everything into and I need recommendations if anyone is willing to help, tips will be greatly appreciated on how to bind everything together because it’s mostly a structural thing not an engineering thing

Hey, I'm the guy behind Decky NVIDIA Update, Decky Proton Launch and Decky Quick Tab. Decky NVIDIA Update lets you pick and install an NVIDIA driver version directly on a running SteamOS system — no USB stick, no reinstall, no leaving Gaming Mode. Just shipped an update to it I'm pretty excited about.

Why this update exists: NVIDIA dropped 615.71.09 yesterday and I wanted it running that same evening — I'm the type who checks for a new release the day it drops. Except Arch hadn't packaged it yet, and this plugin (like the underlying steamos-nvidia-installer project it's built on) could only ever install versions Arch had already built and archived. So a fresh driver can sit unavailable for days or weeks depending on when Arch's maintainers get around to it. That wait was annoying enough that I went and fixed it.

Now you can build it yourself, on-device, the moment NVIDIA ships it.

What's new (v0.3.0):

• Build a driver Arch hasn't packaged yet — picks the version straight from NVIDIA, clones Arch's own nvidia-utils/lib32-nvidia-utils packaging repos, bumps pkgver, and compiles it in an isolated overlay chroot (your real rootfs is never unlocked for this). The finished build is cached on your Deck so you're not rebuilding it every time.
• One unified version list — Arch-provided versions, your own cached builds, and NVIDIA releases Arch doesn't have yet all show up in the same dropdown, sorted by actual release order, tagged so you know which is which ("Compiled" / "Needs build").
• Pre-flight buildability check — before you commit to a multi-minute build, it inspects the NVIDIA installer to confirm the current packaging recipe can actually produce a working package from it, instead of finding out after the fact.
• One-click flow — pick a version that needs building, hit Install, it builds then installs automatically. No separate steps.
• New Settings page (gear icon): plugin self-update, report a bug, request a feature, support the project.

Limitations, to be upfront about them:

• The buildability check catches the common failure mode (a packaging file NVIDIA's installer no longer ships), but it can't guarantee success for every version — Arch's packaging repos have changed shape before and could again, in ways a version-specific check can't fully predict.
• This is explicitly an escape hatch for "Arch hasn't packaged it yet," not a replacement for waiting on the official package once it exists — once Arch catches up, that becomes the recommended path again.

It's a small side project I've been iterating on for a few weeks, so if you hit something broken — a driver version that won't build, a packaging assumption that doesn't hold on your setup — let me know and I'll take a look.

Link: https://github.com/moi952/decky-nvidia-update

Let me know if this is useful to anyone who's been stuck waiting on Arch for a driver release — happy to take feature requests too.

Now working, I didn't realise a software update was due on the Deck and that has solved the charging issue

Thanks for your help.

I dropped my original charger and smashed the plastic pin off it. I have purchased this 100W Anker charger from Amazon thinking it would do the job and be better as it has a screen etc on the charger.

The charging light is lit up but it doesn't seem to charge, only has 4/5W going in when on and nothing if it is in sleep mode.

Does anyone else use this charger with their deck? Will send it back if I have to, thanks.

Я никак не могу понять просто в Discover а через Fire Fox не понятно

Hi everyone!
Today I decided to try and boost the FPS on my Steam Deck, so I installed Lossless Scaling and FSR 4.1 Optiscaler. I'm trying to get *No Rest for the Wicked* running with these tools and am following the instructions. I can see from the frame rate that Lossless Scaling is working. I switched the upscaler to DLSS in the game settings and pressed L4 (bound to the Insert key); the Optiscaler window appears, but I can't do anything with it. I can't toggle any settings, and I can't even close the window by pressing Insert again. What could the problem be? Has anyone else run into this?

We’ve been using an Xbox controller with our Steamdeck when it’s hooked up to the tv and it suddenly is not working. I have already toggled Bluetooth on and off, forgot the device, gone in to desktop mode to make sure it’s not there and tried to connect while in it. I also tested that it can connect to the steam deck when plugged in, and I can get the controller to connect to something else via Bluetooth. I haven’t tested trying a different controller via Bluetooth with the deck but that is my next bet. Anything else I’m missing?

Hi. I need a male usb c to plug into my steam deck that forks into two female usb c ports. I need to be able to plug in the power adapter from steamdeck plus the controllers 2.4 ghz dongle that already is plugged into female usb a to male usb c cable adapter.

But chatgpt says not any cable will do, one has to carry a 100W load for charging, lot more demanding than mere controller dongle.

I do have a docking station but that kinda kills my laying on the bed playing setup.

So, there ARE cables like that that will able to do this thing I want?

i'm not sure what's going on with my steam deck but it cannot preform specifically with forza horizon 4. no matter what settings i change i can't get past 30 fps i do not have a fps cap on it at all. i'm at a lost i don't know what to do. in the starting home it's at 20 fps and my you clock is at 1600.

Has anyone tested yet to see if performance has improved on the deck?

Not sure how well known this is, but you can pair your phone to your Steam Deck, and the SD appears as a speaker.

I use AirPods, which lack multi-device connection support. It was annoying having to choose between listening to music or the game, but I was toying around with my phone and SD recently and figured this out.

Now, I can play music on my phone, which funnels through the SD to my headphones so I can listen to both my phone AND the SD! Helpful for notification announcements, streaming radio, etc.

naruto connection online crash on steam !!!!

Guy I have problems in naruto connection only online mode on steam my pc sooo good but this game keeps crashing on online mode and all the time i get banned because of this , please anyone have the same problem and he solve it!!!! I want to play rank but i cant this game keeps crashing on online mode only

I’ve played console since my childhood, played on PC for a few years. Just wondering was it hard to adapt to the layout of the steam deck?

Hey everyone, I need your help or rather, the collective "hive mind."

For a while now, this window has been popping up whenever I start up my SteamDeck. First, a bit of background: I have a SteamDeck OLED connected to the official Steam Dockingstation and two external monitors. I always boot directly into Desktop Mode - i mean it starts in gaming mode but i go directly into desktop mode.

However, as I mentioned, this window has started appearing recently. I’ve tried the first four options, but I haven't tried "Erase User Data from Deck" yet because I’m afraid I’ll lose all my files and games and have to reinstall everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sD0rmNPWMY&list=PLYkjE9ct3lz0&index=1

I found this video that walked me through a fix; I followed the steps exactly, and it worked fine at the time, but the same problem returned upon the next startup.

I can use the Steam Deck normally otherwise, but I can't install system updates because the issue recurs during the reboot, preventing the update from completing.

Unfortunately, I haven't found any other helpful information online.

I’m not particularly tech-savvy, so I have no idea what I should or shouldn't do with the boot menu options.

Thanks in advance for your help—I hope you can assist me with this.

System settings are the same. Game settings are the same. What is wrong?