Anybody else getting steam deck gaming Paralysis, every time I fancy playing on it sat on the sofa, I just spend 10min looking at my installed games, then my library, look at my emulators…. Then close it down and put it back away. Then if I find something I feel like I’m forcing myself to try something I give up after a few minutes not really getting invested into it.

I’ve had my steam deck for 3 years now. Loved it at the start. But for the last 18 months I doubt I’ve played a total of 1 hour in actual games in it.

Gaming isn’t the issue, when I’m at my parents with my PC (my partner doesn’t have space for a PC in her small apartment) I can spend hours on it.

Is there a way to fix the screen touch distance problem

Even though I use the touchpad sometimes in other games for the cursor and touch screen the distance is quite far so it's difficult to press it.

Hi everyone, I am attaching an image, in TW3 remastered why sun is looking like this:

Hey guys, so after 3 years of everyday use my R button gave out and I was wondering if I should take it to a repair shop or just buy the daughter board online and replace it myself and what would be the best place to find that daughter board (I’m balling on a budget)

I am getting this error while trying to register my Steam Deck through ProtonDB. It's the first time I thought I should be helpful since the last post on Lemon Cake was from a year ago and of course it's deciding to punish me for trying to do so 😭

Am I missing something? I am clearly in desktop mode, and I truthfully don't know how to fix this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated :3

We are going to have a launch lan party with friends for WoW Forever. Game is not accessible right now and wont be before the launch - but besides little bit disappointing performance I noticed one quirk that seem to be somewhat common - when I clicked the mouse to for example move camera (but not related to movement itself) game microstuttered. And it's consistent, if I spam click, game is presentation.
I was doing some updating and testing yesterday on different (accessible) version of WoW - Classic and the same quirk happened there (but performance was amazing, incredible).

I am split on whether to pack main PC which will be PITA or yolo it with SD and hope for best (main rig is too AMD system, CachyOS, no such issues with mouse in neither version of WoW).

Did you guys encountered the click/stutter issue, is there a known fix? I googled and found few rabbit holes with no clear 'fix' unfortunately, however, it looks like this issue is well known for about 2 years.
Other question would be general tips and tricks on performance uplift, although, I understand that new engine and graphics of WoW Forever is probably too much for SD, every bit counts!

I managed to make PokeBonk work on Steamdeck (gaming mode). It runs very well but sometimes movement input is bugged and your Poke move some way until you choose this direction with analog stick (it gets bugged sometimes when you move and rotate camera). Other that that its completely playable

I've just found my favorite emulation frontend for SteamDeck. It's called NeoStation - https://neostation.dev/

I wanted to share because I couldn't find any other posts about this frontend on this subreddit. I love it because it looks beautiful and supports RetroAchievements so you can see all your achievements the way it's done on all modern front-ends (PS, Xbox, Steam). It also supports cloud saves and I like it much more then Emulation Station because of these reasons.

I'm not affiliated just enjoying it heaps.

How to make it work on a SteamDeck - https://github.com/misobadev/neostation-frontend#steam-deck

Bought my OLED Deck in December 2024.

Yesterday when I turned it off the battery was at 97%, today when I turned it on it was at 40% and drained completely in a matter of minutes. Anyone else here run into something similar?

I’m Interested to play Psychonauts 2 so I want to play the first. I read Controller doesn’t work, some say it does, some say it requires serious workaround especially on Linux but those results are old -I'M SO CONFUSED.

Is there Controller Support? and if not or so what’s the process?

+P.S. I'll be playing on Steam Machine but I felt to ask here I hope y'all don’t mind. 🩵

I'm aware there are ways to get it with Google Play, but I don't have it on Google Play and I'm not spending money on a game I already own.

Hi I bought a second hand limited edition in white and I don’t have the special start up and keyboard. Any idea how to get it? Thank you

For most of my childhood I only had a PC, and I was only used to using keyboard and mouse, controllers just felt less precise and harder for me. But at some point about 10ish years ago I got a controller just for Rocket League. Once I actually got comfortable with it I started using it for more games, eventually I came to prefer it over keyboard and mouse in pretty much anything that wasn’t in first person or some sort of strategy game with a lot of menus.

Never felt tempted to get a console, even during the era of exclusives I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything. But when the steam deck came out I decided to get one, always been a bit of a valve fanboy and it kind of seemed like a PCish console in a way, basically a handheld PC (Though I never had any ambitions of using it for anything other than gaming). And I’ve been enjoying it way more than anticipated, especially for certain games I don’t ever wanna go back to playing on PC even with a controller. Most roguelites, metroidvanias and platformers pretty much feel like they were made for handheld, just using a controller with a screen (console or PC) can’t compare at all.

The best explanation I can come up with is that the screen is right there between your thumbs, it feels so tactile. It makes the controls feel more direct somehow, I guess it might have something to do with the fact that you can actually see your fingers while you play as well. I play way better, especially for fast paced or precise games.

Right now I’m revisiting Celeste a bit to see if I can beat some B side levels that I was struggling a few months ago, really determined to get actually good at this game this time around. Before that I played through Nine Sols, really hard but solid game, the combat especially felt great. I also have Croak on my radar, I tried out the demo a bit and it feels really nice, very smooth movement. It's a platformer with hand drawn graphics kind of like Cuphead but a more modern cartoon style, definitely gonna check that out when it comes out.

I still go back to the PC but pretty much only when my friends wanna play something multiplayer that I really can’t play well on the deck, mostly Counter Strike, Dota 2 and Deadlock. Other than that I stay away from my desk aside from work. I have a cozy couch setup and a nice little enclosed balcony with a hammock I sometimes use. It also feels so nice when I visit my family (they live 4 hours away) and I can just bring the deck for some gaming before bed.

I don’t even know if I would have been into gaming at this point in my life if I never got a steam deck. I really feel chained to my desk sometimes with how much work I need to do when we have some sort of crunch time, feels nice that my gaming hobby is separate from this now.

I bought a 2nd hand steamdeck LCD 2 months ago and i always play 3-8 hours a day so far it works great the only issue i have is the battery health goes to 82% to 92% sometimes, but now i notice that my deck won’t charge at all to 80 while playing it’s stuck between 70 to 75, i always set my charge limit to 80% I also tried testing the steam deck charger to my phone and i notice that sometimes it works and sometimes it’s just stuck on that percent while charging for an hour? I always have my steamdeck charger in my power cord extension and never remove it but i did test it also in my wall socket but still it does the issue sometimes where its stuck on a percent should i replace the charger? I’m not really tech savy so i’m confused on what to do. Also sorry for my english

All buttons colored in blue are functioning. This happened recently and I don't know what caused this and what's the solution

For some reason, the VERY left-most edge of the right trackpad does not want to register any movement unlike anywhere else. I dont believe this is a hardware issue as this ONLY happens whenever im moving the cursor, be it during desktop mode or during a game. Whenever im using the keyboard or performing a calibration the entire trackpad works fine and i dont know what is causing this to happen ONLY in mouse mode and nowhere else

Is that too much to ask? Apparently so. Trying to play Farcry 5 and Watch Dogs 2 offline but I can’t because of the stupid launcher needing internet….and I remember you could launch it without internet but now you can’t…wtf is happening??? LAUNCHERS ARE SO ANNOYING. Isn’t Ubisoft working on a way to get rid of the launcher? I hope so

I've seen a similar post where people recommended the 8-bit controllers and they seem great but idk if I can get past the xbox joystick layout.

I'm having a hard time finding any from that brand with the right layout on regional amazon.

This is to play with the deck docked on the tv with more players so that's why I wanted something cheaper than a PS4 one. But I've also been considering getting one to keep close to my desktop.

So something with Bluetooth and cable would be perfect.

Any help is greatly appreciated, I'm in western europe if that helps recommending stuff.

im trying to play kingdom hearts 2 on my steam deck but the game keeps freezing, i dont have any mods set up, i have zero idea whats going wrong

Relatively new steam deck user. I have used Xbox and PlayStation remote play on my laptop, phone and Logitech G cloud over the years and had minimal issues with them when it comes to remote play. I have been trying remote play with my steam deck and it seems to lag severely. Xbox remote play barely even works on it and runs super slow and delayed. PlayStation remote play seems better but still not as good as I have had it on other devices. Any advice people have?

I put a new battery in my Oled Deck. Now I need to calibrate it of course. Now here is the problem: It’s apparently impossible to drain it completely. I’ve done the steps so many times and it’ll always just charge to 99% after, this time only 98%. I had the same problem for calibration with the old battery before it crapped out completely. I can drain it to a point where it doesn’t even light up the red led when you try to power it on, leave it unplugged for 2 days and it’ll still power up right away when you plug it in and only show 99% charge after it is done charging through a whole night. What can I do to fix this fucking calibration? I’m losing my mind as I’ve tried everything I read on the net. Also I’m not new to stuff like this, as I’ve repaired lots of consoles over the years. I even remembered to get my sd card out before opening the back and everything 🤣

Please tell me if anybody had a similar experience and found a fix or if I’m maybe missing something worth trying in this case.