bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Steam Controller is Out of Stock 1 week ago:
- Comment on What driver would the Steam Controller come with if not xinput? 1 week ago:
That is basically the current state of the Steam Deck’s controller driver.
You probably could already find the new controller’s driver in Valve’s repositories and compile it for your kernel. Maybe Bazzite and Co have it already integrated. No idea. But if that isn’t the case it’s just a matter of time.
- Comment on What driver would the Steam Controller come with if not xinput? 1 week ago:
I actually tried to do that but I didn’t find where the buttons and axis are defined.
- Comment on What driver would the Steam Controller come with if not xinput? 1 week ago:
When you check KDE’s gamepad page without Steam running it appears like any other controller. Back buttons are just additional buttons.
It’s a shame that the capacitive joysticks aren’t buttons as well. And I’d expect the gyros to just appear alongside the other axis as pure numbers but unfortunately they do not. Same with the touchpads.
- Comment on Anyone manage to order a controller? 1 week ago:
In the EU it switched to 6 to 10 days. Hope I can get it before it’s out of stock here as well.
- Comment on Anyone manage to order a controller? 1 week ago:
Had the same idea but I still can’t order.
- Comment on Steam Controller early review leak claims $99 launch price 3 weeks ago:
The Steam Deck had a European release. Will probably be the same with this one.
Earlier today (or yesterday) the Steam Controller page on Komodo, the official Asian reseller, went accidentally live. I’d say that’s a good indicator that they’re gearing up for a more or less worldwide release with dedicated shipping centers.
- Comment on Steam Controller early review leak claims $99 launch price 3 weeks ago:
It’s awesome. Especially when you need a ton more buttons Steam Input together with the touchpads is a godsend. You just create two or more menus and access them with the touchpads.
- Comment on Steam Controller early review leak claims $99 launch price 3 weeks ago:
I was hoping for less but bracing for more.
Let’s see if that price is true.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 3 weeks ago:
It actually isn’t.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 3 weeks ago:
As if people are incapable of making silly pictures.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 3 weeks ago:
Here it is: getmechanism.com/pages/about-us
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 3 weeks ago:
I think that’s a relatively common issue that can be fixed by resetting the battery. I think it starts by loading it for a day even when the indicator isn’t lighting up.
Look it up, I might be wrong.
- Comment on No input on volume after disassembly. 3 weeks ago:
Do the speakers still work? Can you change the volume from the taskbar in desktop mode?
You could try running
alsamixerin the terminal. That should give you more control over all audio devices. - Comment on Looking for a battery bar for the [deck] 4 weeks ago:
The Deck uses MangoHUD to draw FPS over the screen. Maybe it can be utilised to show the battery.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - April 2026 1 month ago:
I finally finished Spider-Man: Miles Morales and just started Spider-Man 2. Man, that game runs like ass on the Deck while I have to make it look worse than the previous two.
And it actually feels like what I’m experiencing are bugs and not necessarily the Steam Deck’a fault. Stuff like models popping in without animations. I remember seeing pictures of that when it was new. Strange that they didn’t manage to fix it. Couldn’t they just have stayed on the old engine? It worked perfectly fine!
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 1 month ago:
But they make the numbers bigger! Biggest number is best number!
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 2 months ago:
Probably one of the early videos when they were announced.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 2 months ago:
Yeah, that as well. But that will probably be over my budget.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 2 months ago:
As far as I recall they did say that you can use them with the Steam Machine.
I just want a good controller where the hands aren’t forced to be together. The Switch ones are too small for me.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 2 months ago:
Just gimme the controllers (I want the Frame controllers as well) and I’ll be happy.
- Comment on [HELP] Windows game from GoG on vanilla Steam Deck 2 months ago:
If you don’t want to go the Heroic route (you really should go the Heroic route) you can
- download the offline installer from GoG
- add the installer as a none-Steam-game to Steam
- select Proton for compatibility
- run the installer
- add the installed game’s exe to Steam as a none-Steam-game
- select Proton for compatibility
Trouble with that method is that Steam always creates a new Wine prefix (a kind of fake Windows drive) every time you run a new none-Steam-game with Proton. They can pile up and take unnecessary space away. It also makes it harder to install dependencies or mods or add ons.
So yeah, Heroic is the way.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 3 months ago:
I don’t think the RAM prices are going to go back down again any time soon. So there wouldn’t be any point in waiting.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - Feb 2026 3 months ago:
I started playing Earth Must Die. Pretty funny although I haven’t at the earth must die part yet.
- Comment on A Steam Deck Has Been Turned Into A Steam Machine 3 months ago:
I have this beautiful small case lying around here. It can passively cool up to 65 W. Since the Gabe Cube announcement I’ve been itching to revive it with new components. Unfortunately I lack the energy. But all this time it’s sitting there on the shelf, whispering to me.
- Comment on [Help] ext4 or btrfs or xfs for Proton and Wine prefixes on Lutris or Steam with an external ssd ? 3 months ago:
On BTRFS you could use deduplication to make the prefixes take up approximately no extra space. But that requires you to run a deduplication program every once in a while.
Its compression feature can also save some space and decrease load times.
But the impact of this stuff isn’t that big. Much easier to just go ext4 and be done.
- Comment on Valve If You Are Listening Here Are More Accessories That Would Be Awesome!! 3 months ago:
You’re looking for Mcon (or however it’s spelled).
- Comment on Mouse Clicks not registering in desktop mode 3 months ago:
Just thought of something. When you press Ctrl+Alt+Escape your mouse cursor should change into a red skull and bones. Clicking on the invisible app should kill it.
- Comment on Mouse Clicks not registering in desktop mode 3 months ago:
This sounds like some invisible app is open and intercepting the clicks. If you can get into kDE’s settings configure it to always start an empty session and not start the same programs that were open when it shut down. Maybe you can get to that window by alt-tabbing.
- Comment on The sorry state of saving (mostly a rant) 3 months ago:
I think there’s a Decky plugin that allows you to save the whole state of a game and suspend it. Kind of like save states for emulators. i never needed it but from what I hear it works well.
