BlueSquid0741

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dave the Diver. I was playing a pirated copy through October, it was a lot of fun so when it went on sale last week I bought it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to find the github issue, but it’s eluding me, so I’m going to go into detail since I spent about 3 weeks troubleshooting this.

  Hard crash when playing a game. Restarts steam deck with a “verifying installation” message.

  This happens anywhere from 2-15 minutes of playtime. Game didn’t matter, Terraria, Skyrim, Borderlands 1, Dave the Diver, Shredders Revenge, Doom 2016 … It was also reported by users with both LCD and OLED decks, so hardware revision didn’t matter either.

  Anecdotally you find people saying that some of these steps work:

  Memory retraining, re-imagining steam deck, Flashing different bios versions, Messing around with gpu clocks

  But almost all of those threads loop back to the OP saying something like “nope, still crashing”. Any reprieve they did have seemed to be coincidental.

  Valve themselves recommend those first two steps and then an RMA if it doesn’t fix it.

  A Brazilian user in the issue tracker worked out you can flash BIOS 0116, and disable two specific memory power management flags. I believe the settings are hidden in other versions of the BIOS.

  A Valve rep on the tracker confirmed that would work, but suggested not to do it as the deck is not functioning properly and needs to be replaced. They then closed the issue and advised to only use that fix if you can’t RMA.

  Worth noting, 0116 is a pre-OLED BIOS, and can only be flashed to the LCD models. There is no way to reveal these BIOS flags on the OLED model, so you can only RMA in that case.

  This has absolutely solved the problem. But I think I’m having a few dodgy side effects that weren’t happening before, like updates failing, and USB connection has become iffy and needing a few restarts to recognise devices are plugged in.

  At least I can play games again, which work flawlessly now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner bought me one a few months ago from Kogan for my birthday. But it does have a problem which needs to be RMA’d and I knew there was no hope of that.

  I thought we could try our luck with Kogan, but they only have the OLED model now so don’t know how that would go. Especially as it appears to work fine ( until you get 5 - 10 minutes in-game then it hard crashes).

  I found on the github issue tracker for steamOS someone from Brazil (who also had to resort to grey imports) found a way to flashback to an older BIOS and adjust memory power settings. That fixed it, but it’s a bit bodgy and introduces other issues. This is a known issue that the Steam rep on the issue tracker said only follow that process if you absolutely can’t RMA it. They closed the issue in the basis that you just RMA it if it happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what you mean. I just started playing Borderlands and it’s so hard to do the shooting. I don’t know how people play these games on consoles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you been playing lately?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dink Smallwood and various dmods.

  Sonic 3 AIR, and the Sonic 8bit Remakes because my daughter can’t get enough Sonic.

  I just this afternoon rolled up a new character in Stardew Valley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just an fyi for those of you that have the 500gb model and enjoy no mans sky.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your family needs to replace that 2tb with 500gb and then you’ll be all set!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turn Your Steam Deck Buttons Into Game Boy Ones With New Upcoming Button Set⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  North American or Non-American colours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still use your Steam Deck much?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner bought me one last month, so it’s still new but I don’t think I’ve stopped playing it. I can’t make time to sit at my pc unless I’m working, all my time is spent with the kids or in my workshop. So I can finally play games again.