DarkAri
@DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild) 2 weeks ago:
Well good luck getting them to do that.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild) 2 weeks ago:
It’s not terribly important because steam can make their own drivers and update them but they have to usually have a working driver to start from or good documentation from Qualcomm. Patching bugs isn’t all that difficult even with binaries.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild) 2 weeks ago:
I think you would only be using this for either games designed for VR or older games, and also be using FSR and frame gen. This is actually a perfect use case for those.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild) 2 weeks ago:
It’s likely because of valve needing Linux support. I’m surprised they even got Qualcomm to agree to give them drivers for that chip.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild) 2 weeks ago:
It’s about 30% faster than the quest GPU wise or similar to a 1050 in shader performance, a bit behind a 1050 on some other things.
It will probably be playing PC games at 720 to 1080p, upscaled and framengend to 4k at 90hz. That’s not terrible considering the power usage of the device. It has to run off of batteries. If it’s much over $500 it won’t be a huge hit, if it’s 650 or less, then it will likely become the best choice for VR but not break into the mainstream. The steam machine, if it can hit $500 would be very popular, although $500 is not really a lot of money these days with all the inflation.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 month ago:
One way to fix it is to probably clear and reset the bios, and reinstall steamOS, if you can’t find a solution. I would do this about every year or two anyways while they are updating because you might get little issues, and also it helps to clean up some trash like logs and extra shaders, and proton files that tend to stick around.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 month ago:
I had this issue and it was because I changed something in the bios for the power states. Maybe upstate switching or something.
- Comment on I have joined the ranked of the steam powered. 1 month ago:
Yes they also bring billions in taxes back into the U.S economy.
- Comment on I have joined the ranked of the steam powered. 1 month ago:
Steam is an amazing company. Probably the best company in terms of customer support in the U.S. many businesses could learn from them. There is hardly anyone who has a bad thing to say about them.
- Comment on I have joined the ranked of the steam powered. 1 month ago:
You can send it to steam to get it repaired
- Comment on I have joined the ranked of the steam powered. 1 month ago:
You need to use the right screwdriver. Not one that’s close but the right one. This applies to everything. Don’t damage your screws! Buy an Ifixit kit and pick up random screwdrivers when you have some extra money.
- Comment on Steam Deck desktop and Mozilla VPN problems 2 months ago:
In steamos, you have what is called an immutable file system. This means if you try to install anything outside of a flat pack in the user directory it gets wiped on updates and maybe reboots. This is probably because the VPN is trying to install something lower than the user level and so it breaks, and so it’s only working temporarily. Idk though.
You have basically two options. You can hack steamOS a bit, mount the system as rewritable, and install an overlay file system, and write a system D script to do this at boot, but a better way would be to download bazzite and install it on your steam deck. It has a ostree file system which is annoying in its own way but it’s relatively easy to install software and modify the system with. All you really have to do is follow a guide on the internet to download the ISO, copying it to a thumb drive, and boot using the power+volume down key to install it.
This will solve most of your issues, but you have to learn to use the fedora system which is a bit different mainly that you use rpm-ostree to install software rpm files if you don’t have a flat pack.
Flatpacks are great for many things, but for installing lower level stuff you might need to install it to the actual system with rpm-ostree in fedora or pacman or whatever in arch which is what the native steam deck is built on.
You can also try another VPN which might work better. It may or may not work.
I would just install bazzite until steamdeck catches up a bit. Get KDE if you want a steam deck like experience.
Also after bazzite, id get protonup-qt, to install proton-GE versions which make some games run work much better due to it’s better .net implementation and shader code. Bazzite also has a better flat pack repository out of the box. The steamdeck repositories have a lot of common software missing.
You should also overclock the CPU to 4.0 ghz which should be stable on most decks. I wouldn’t mess with the voltages because this causes issues in many games. Don’t do this before you install an operating system, do it and rest for a few days with a known working config to make sure it’s not crashing more often. This overclock will help many games run much better, especially sim and strategy games. The option to change this is (fClockMaxOverride), and the value that you would set is 4000 you have to patch the bios, maybe downgrade it, and download a tool called smokeless_UMAF to do this. I downgraded my bios using steam deck bios manager to 106, and used some script I forget to patch it to unlock the debug options. Bios 106 which gives the best compatibility with overclocking in my experience. This won’t make the GPU any better which is the main bottleneck in most games, and overclocking the GPU in my experience caused thermal throttling and stuttering, but overclocking the CPU is a nice boost in many games and also improves the feel of the device. If you combine this with smokeless_UMAF you can add 2 w to the tdp, 2w in my experience is about all you can add before getting your SoC in the 90+ range, but you also have to write a systemD script to use ryzenadj to set this on boot, or use a desktop script to set the TDP in the desktop. Every time you open the bios however without snoklessUMAF, if sets the max TDP back to 15.
I also disabled performance limitations reason, which allows the GPU and CPU to draw the full 17w. If you need help with any of this feel free to message me and I’ll get back to you when I can.
For right now, if that seems like too much, you should just try to get bazzite on a USB.
Personally what I do is I use a windows PC to format it into fat or fat32 or whatever the thumb drive needs. You can do this in Linux but I always have issues trying to format drives into fat on linux, I use a program off the flat pack store or whatever to copy the ISO.
Then I go into the bios and disable TPM, and if available on some systems, disable uefi, and go back to legacy boot, and install bazzite. (UEFI and TPM are trash) Disabling either of these will likely break whatever OS you are currently running.
Then in the setup after you boot from the USB, you need to set it up to delete everything on the drive, and then let it auto install on the drive. After you install, let it sit for a while and you can install some of your stuff like firefox and log into your stuff. Then shut the machine down fully and repower it if you decide to do any updates. This really helps.
Install proton-GE, maybe think downgrading your bios or overclocking. Set up your extra drives on steam. Ask chatGPT to help you understand how to add your drives to auto mount with the fstab file lol, oh Linux. You don’t have to do that immediately. Maybe a project one day.
Anyways like I said, hmu if you need help.