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- Comment on 2 days ago:
I got the reservation email 9/29 and got the order email 10/2 (late at night). I am in the US.
- Comment on Note about issues upgrading Steam Machine SSD (Solved) 2 weeks ago:
I can’t say for certain there aren’t restrictions, but I just bought something that didn’t put me straight into bankruptcy and was reasonably modern.
Notably the one I bought is PCI Gen 3.0 and the one the comes installed in the device is PCI Gen 4.0. So I technically put a slower drive in, but I’m less worried about it and have not experienced any problems.
- Comment on Note about issues upgrading Steam Machine SSD (Solved) 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, and good to know. I couldn’t find any such information when searching.
I think the clone in place solution is superior in any case as the Rescuezilla image is a bit more mature than Valve’s “Arch with some scripts” recovery image. It also transfers installed games, and only needs the additional NVMe enclosure.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for relieving some anxiety lol
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Did you get the order email at the same time? I’ve seen numerous reports of this, but didn’t happen for me.
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 4 weeks ago:
That’s just what a cold boot takes. 60 seconds on my most recent attempt. Compared to about 5 seconds to wake my Steam Deck.
The lack of suspend/resume is the real issue here.
- Comment on Steam Machine - Waitlist only 3 weeks? 1 month ago:
And yet lots of people want one and can’t get one, and they’re being scalped for several hundred USD markup on eBay.
- Comment on Steam Machine - Waitlist only 3 weeks? 1 month ago:
What region are you in?
I’m annoyed that I originally picked that queue and then changed to just 512GB without controller. I did not get selected and am stuck on the waitlist and I can’t change without losing my spot, without any information about where that is. I’d literally buy any model available, although I understand why Valve doesn’t want to encourage queue-hopping.
I imagine the bare 512GB is the longest queue.
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 2 months ago:
Definitely a valid use for a living room PC!
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 2 months ago:
I’ve read that, but haven’t come across any issues with gaming … is that strictly an issue if you want to also use it for media?
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 2 months ago:
Yeah… having done similar research (and it was less the price and more the waitlist), there really isn’t much that’s comparable, despite what YouTube dudes and commenters will tell you. Their view of “the market” is months old. I put together multiple builds on NewEgg and even using an NVME I already have, I could really only match the price, and there was always at least one additional compromise.
Frankly, the whole exercise with the BC-250 and pricing out ITX builds has only convinced me that the SM is actually the product I want, and a much better “value proposition” than we’d all like to admit. I do enjoy the BC-250 and it’s allowing me to play games I didn’t want to or couldn’t play on Steam Deck, but the downsides are real and effect every play session (waiting 90 seconds for boot-up, can’t play my emulator because I followed some sketchy ass vibe-coded instructions from a YouTube video and broke something, noisy fan on moderately demanding titles, playing at desk vs. living room, etc.) I haven’t turned it on in a week for many of these reasons.
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 2 months ago:
First thing is the power envelope and cooling requirements. The stock cooler is just so customized for server rack there aren’t really any good no-compromise quiet and cool solutions.
Second is just a lot of software tweaking. While the community has done a lot of really impressive things… they’re also vibe coding a lot of this stuff. It changes often and it’s hard to tell what the code is doing.
Finally is the sleep mode: there is none. You either leave it on all the time (I’ve dealt with Bazzite crashing in this case), or you boot and shutdown every time. Also no power control via controller or HDMI-CEC.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s been a fun side project while I languish on the infinite waitlist. If you have a 3D printer, it’s a good opportunity to utilize that. But the end result, even if you go full AIO cooling + soldering ESP32 power control boards, you won’t have that plug-and-play, set and forget SteamOS experience.
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 2 months ago:
I have a BC-250 and it is so far in the opposite direction of what the Steam Machine is offering. It’s weird to me they’re being compared…
It’s a fun DIY hobby project, but if I ever get the chance at a SM, I’ll buy it because plug and play is valuable to me and this is the exact opposite of that.
- Comment on I love my Steam Machine but there's lots of work Valve need to do 2 months ago:
Do note the BC-250 can be LOUD with air cooling, uses much more power, and has no sleep or hibernate state.
That’s to say nothing of the pretty substantial tweaking and modification that’s needed to get it that 1:1 performance level. It’s also not 4K/60.
Still a fun project but certainly not the same type of thing as “open box, play games” which is what SM aims to deliver.
- Comment on Steam Machine Reservations Should All Clear This Year - FullCleared 2 months ago:
The only hope for a waitlisted loser like me is that they are moving people off the waitlist “when we reach the end of the reservation queue for that product and region.”
Meanwhile I get to watch every YouTuber getting one just to make ragebait videos about.
- Comment on Steam Machine Reservations Should All Clear This Year - FullCleared 2 months ago:
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- Submitted 3 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine) 3 months ago:
- Comment on Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine) 3 months ago:
Weird to congratulate someone for randomly earning the right to buy a product…
But, ya know, congrats.
- Comment on Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine) 3 months ago:
Full email:
You are on the waitlist for Steam Machine 512GB
When we did the one-time randomization of the list, your place in line ended up beyond the number of units we’ll have in this production run.
As we work our way through the reservation queue, some customers may cancel their reservations. If that happens, you may be moved into the reservation queue, and you’ll be notified via email that you have a reservation after all.
This is the only email you will receive about the results of the randomization. If you ended up with a waitlist spot for one or more models, you’ll be placed on the waitlist for the model that you were closest to the front of.
- Comment on Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine) 3 months ago:
Just got my email. I’m on the waitlist, no date given.
- Comment on The recent SteamOS 3.8 update seems to have greatly improved steam remote play 3 months ago:
Does Remote Play work for non-Steam games running in Steam?
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - June 2026 4 months ago:
Sure, with the caveat that everyone’s definition of “playable” is different.
I am using the latest Eden AppImage and a 1.4.2 ROM. I didn’t change anything in Eden besides controller setup and increasing the RAM to 8GB (this has to be done in the game config). This gets you fps in the teens and 20s.
Then I ran the NX Optimizer AppImage. I used the Steam Deck preset and chose the 2nd of the 2 TotK entries on the game menu. The only change I made was the lower shadows to 512x. I don’t know if that did anything… the shadows do look pretty bad. Then I clicked “Apply”. Note that if you have multiple emulators, NX is going to try to figure out which one to apply to. I’d get rid of anything that’s not Eden AND the settings folders that are in
~/.local/share.NX adds a “mod” entry you can view and turn on and off in the game settings. It also installs something called UltraCam, and you’ll know that because it changes the game opening and adds UI elements. Now I have no clue what any of this stuff is doing. It’s poorly explained… Like is it just modifying emulator settings you could do yourself? Is it doing something to the ROM? No clue. You can make adjustments to UltraCam settings by hitting both triggers combined with left stick click. I changed resolution to 900p, and turned on FSR. But it’s unclear how much that helped.
Anyway, the result is a max, locked 30 fps. It will dip while shaders are caching and when you first use ultrahand and in villages and other areas with fire. It is not smooth by any means but it’s “mostly smooth”. Usually in the open world and in shrines it’s stable. There’s also some banding from what I assume is anti-aliasing, but I don’t see any turned on in any setting I can locate, so who knows.
Like I said, it’s good enough for me. Like you the ergonomics of the Steam Deck are so much better than Switch that I’ll take the compromise here.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - June 2026 4 months ago:
They’ve published a bunch of updates, with pretty detailed change logs. Have you checked to see if they addressed the issue.
I haven’t got nearly that far. It’s an absolutely amazing recomp and I love that it exists, but as I’m fiddling with the controls and the camera and the combat I’m just thinking “Breath of the Wild exists, why am I doing this?”
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - June 2026 4 months ago:
Last month I finished up Transiruby, which is a really fun and breezy Metroidvania. The art style and the incredible chiptune soundtrack gave me big Axiom Verge vibes, despite being quite tonally different.
My June project is getting TotK emulation working satisfactorily, which finally happened last night after far too much trial and error. I know Nintendo’s lawyers have made everyone scared but the amount of vagueposting around this subject is maddening. This means I can likely sell my Switch as it was the only game I had left to play. It also means I have to play the first 10 hours of the game again…
- Comment on It didn't have to be this way | Nerdnest - Youtube (Invidious link) 4 months ago:
I was confused by this news because I buy games cheaper from other retailers all the time, even Steam keys. I assume this about full retail price, but since PC games go on sale so often, it seems like “average retail price” can easily be lower through another store front.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, I’d put up with weird looks for that + the more powerful chipset.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 4 months ago:
Still $999 here, although that’s for a more powerful processor. Those grips though, lol.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 4 months ago:
Valve probably needs to implement their waitlist system for all hardware at this point.
But the point remains, if it’s “not worth it”, who are scalpers gonna sell it to?