Right now in the UK you can buy a steam leigon go s z1 extreme for £674 from very. You can buy an egpu thunderbolt 4 adapter for £115 from AliExpress and get a 9060XT 16gb from Currys for £399. Similar price to the steam machine expect you're getting 32gb of system ram and 16gb of vram when docked and then of course you also have the option of taking the device on the go with you too. I find it a very intriguing idea. I plan to do this and I will update the community with how it goes and how steamos handles egpu.

I have my Steam Machine connected to a 4k TV. SteamOS has the resolution set to 4k.

When I go into the video options in Star Wars Galactic Racer the resolution drop down shows ONLY 2160p. There is no way, in-game, to select 1440p or 1080p.

Is there a way to make those (and all other) lower resolutions show up in game? Or a way to change the resolution without having to quit the game and set the resolution in the game properties in Steam?

My wife bought the steam machine to replace our old batocera beelink mini pc, she got a great deal, 700 bucks... But as we are trying to set it up this happens, signal strength is great, but it won't let us continue from here

What gives? WTF man

Guys, after the new update to steam/gamemode/steamOS the Steam window is somehow...pushed down? Anyone had same issue or know about a fix?

I'm the developer of HoloMapper, a projection mapping application on Steam. Users operate the software from one display while projecting to another. Steam Remote Play currently streams both displays, making remote operation difficult. A monitor selection option in Remote Play would greatly improve support for professional multi-monitor workflows.

For clarification, HoloMapper is a Unity application that uses two displays:

- Display 1: Main editor and controls.

- Display 2: Fullscreen projector output.

The actual problem:

Steam Remote Play initially streams Display 1 correctly. However, as soon as the projector output is activated on Display 2, Remote Play switches to capturing both displays side-by-side in a single stream.

This causes the editor to occupy only half of the Steam Link/Steam Deck screen, with the other half wasted on the projector output.

What we need is the ability to stream Display 1 only, while Display 2 continues operating normally on the host computer.

The newer "Primary Display While Streaming" setting doesn't resolve this behavior. We need an explicit option to select which display Remote Play captures, even when an application uses multiple displays simultaneously.

so I decided to finally check out some of these Recomps that are heavily criticized but I have to say the King Kong,saints row 1 360 Recomps are very good. King Kong had one crash during a play through. Haven’t beat saints row but it’s playing 98% like on console but I’ve locked it to 60 fps with very low cpu and gpu usage on both games. Cod 3 requires protontricks or something but it’s supposed to be decent too just not as developed.

Hello! So I finally got everything set up, trying to switch to linux/steamOS for the first time, I'm running it in desktop mode and this issue is driving me crazy. When I open a game through steam, the game forces itself to be the active window even if I tab out to firefox, or discord etc. Expected behaviour is that when I tab out, games are a "background window" and pause, or get muted, or have lower fps, depending on the game and its settings, but instead the game window remains active and even when I tab out and wiggle my mouse over the game window it keeps moving the camera, and sound keeps playing. Tested this with multiple games, and none of them trigger the background status/focus lost status as I'd expect them to.

The only time I can force a game into becoming a background window is when I switch to Another steam window. Like for example if I tab out and open steam settings, or steam library, or steam store. This will force the game to become a background process and get muted/paused/drop fps as expected.

This is leading me to believe this is some kinda setting that steam or steamOS has, that forces games to remain active for as long as it can keep them there. And it's driving me crazy, because I specifically DON'T want that to happen.

Does anyone know what settings I could change to fix this?

Finally Achievement Plugin is a Decky Loader plugin that replaces the plain Steam achievement popup with 18 popup templates, rarity tiers with their own sounds, an achievement browser and an on-screen tracker. I’ve just released 1.6.2, and I want to introduce what the recent updates added too.

New in 1.6.2: faster, complete popups

• A tester on a Steam Machine reported popups only appearing after pressing the Steam button, or 1–2 minutes late, and then with just a title.
• The plugin now reads Steam’s own stats file directly, so an unlock should show up about a second after Steam writes it.
• Names and descriptions now come from Steam’s local schema first. It has every language and includes secret achievements, so descriptions don’t go missing.
• Nothing is shown twice if another detection path catches the unlock first.
• Unlock history: a list of recent unlocks with the game, rarity and time. It starts from the day you install 1.6.0 and keeps the last 500. There are “Show more” and “Clear history” buttons.
• Share card: select an unlock to make a 1200×630 image with the icon, name, description, rarity, game and date. It’s saved to Pictures/Finally Achievements and previewed in the panel. The plugin doesn’t post anywhere. You open or copy the file yourself.
• Session summary: when you close a game, one popup such as “3 unlocked, 1 rare”. It only appears if you unlocked something.
• Almost there alert: a popup such as “Only 2 achievements left”. You set the count from 1 to 5, and it fires once per count. It skips finished games and games with very few achievements.

Languages: English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese and Polish

Install or update: download from the latest release. In Decky, turn on Developer mode and use “Install plugin from ZIP file” (or install from the URL). Your settings are kept.

GitHub: https://github.com/otisabiburada/finally-achievement-plugin

I CREATED THIS PLUGIN WITH CLAUDE JUST FOR MY PERSONAL USE, BUT WANTED TO SHARE IT, IT IS MADE WITH THE HELP OF AN LLM. PLEASE KNOW THAT BEFORE USING IT. HAVE FUN!

UPS should be here with my new htpc any moment now.

I recall hearing that there was a different Decky from what I use on Steam Deck. Can anybody tell me if there are any additional steps on a steam pc v. deck.

Thanks.

I started playing Deadlock and tried using my PS5 controller. When I go into the controller settings and change the inputs and commands it does change them in the game but it doesn’t show them as changed in the actual controller settings in Steam. So if I want to make an ability activate when I press both bumper buttons I can’t because I can’t see when I add the command. Does anyone know what’s happening?

Surely this can't be right I was playing 007 at high settings 1440p on a 9060XT my system has 32gb of system memory and it was reporting only 8.6gb ram usage. On bazzite the same game reported 13gb usage and on my legion go s it reports 10gb system ram usage.

Pure SteamOS not Rocknix or Droid Deck, also, no phones, I don't think SteamOS should focus on becoming a phone OS, there are solutions like Droid Deck and Game Native in android and their respective IOS counterparts for that. I also know this is very new and isn't good for day to day use. I only have the curiosity if someone has been able to test it.

Recently installed Steam OS on my legion Go 1 and its been working well but I wanted the option to limit the battery to stop charging at 80% like I could on windows. Me and Claude (mostly claude tbh) made a decky plugin that adds that feature. Made the plugin for myself but thought some people here would use it.

Instructions: https://github.com/MavrexSoftware/Decky-Legion-Go-Charge-Limit

Download: https://github.com/MavrexSoftware/Decky-Legion-Go-Charge-Limit/releases

Can someone let me know, I don't want to destroy my computer by not being able to revert it if it won't work

Hear me out (lol) I know the steam deck would be awesome but what if Valve at the same time of release brought out an 8 inch Oled steam tablet with the latest snap dragon , boot loader fully unlocked and it ran steam OS like the frame with full desktop support ect..

It would be able to run android apk or whatever ever

Alongside a new extendable steam controller and app like droid deck for devices that can't run the os without boot loader unlocked

That would be pretty cool no need to change the form factor of the steam deck 2 allowing it to be pushed to the max but giving people a more small portable option.

Has anyone installed the chatgpt (codex) app created for Linux on SteamOs successfully?