I just got my email to order the Steam Controller (yay!), and googled “Steam Controller” out of curiosity, to see if other platforms sell them nowadays, and for how much.

And then I saw this listing from Power, in Finland.

I don’t need or want the Steam Machine, but this is just upsetting. I understand that Finland may have taxes and whatnot, but come on man.

But anyway, can’t wait for my Steam Controller ❤️

I was wondering if anyone is in the same situation as me. My steam machine just arrived, I plugged it into a standard wall outlet, heard a loud pop and saw a tiny explosion in the pc itself. It actually managed to cause a power outage for my entire apartment. I cant find any similar stories to mine, am I just really unlucky?

Has anyone else come across this issue for Restory? I feel like the only one on the planet since I don’t see anyone else talking about it. A new update for the game recently came out, I’m on the most recent SteamOS update and everything and this game absolutely refuses to work on here now. I tried multiple version of proton and proton experimental but nothing works for this game now.

EDIT: I feel really stupid for discovering this till now but I had the old version of LSFG in the launch options tab. Got rid of that and the game loads now. Thank you all for trying to help though!

Is anyone else having an issue with their mouse cursor being super tiny after updating to the most recent Steam OS in the stable channel? Before the update, I had a mouse cursor that I could see with no problem on my 65" LG OLED, and now it is super tiny - imagine your typical cursor size on a normal desktop but on a huge TV. It is practically invisible when sitting on a couch that is about 8-9 feet away from the TV.

I went into desktop mode and increased the size of the cursor there and it has stayed at the proper size, but when I switch back to gaming mode it goes back to being tiny again. I had the default resolution set to 3840x2160 for the Steam interface in the display settings, but I recently dropped it to 1440p in the interface and it has helped somewhat - the mouse cursor is definitely larger, but it is still smaller than it was previously.

I did not do anything other than update my Steam Machine when this happened. If anyone has any ideas on how to get the cursor back to a decent size in gaming mode I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

I’m trying to set up my MetaQuest 3 on Steam Machine to play Alyx but I keep getting error 450: Host Not Responding with instructions to restart SteamVR. Sometimes this will happen immediately when using Steam Link, other times it will happen after 5-10 minutes. Tried running it through the desktop version and the above errors popped up.

Hello Steam Machine community!

I'm still pondering on buying a steam machine. I generally play on 1080p so the performance of the machine is good enough for me.

But I wanted to ask the community about the performance of the machine when Steam Recoding is active, the latter is a feature that I use often and I really like, but I heard that if this feature is On, the performance drops significantly, is that true?

Hello everyone!

Has anyone managed to run Final Fantasy XIV (non-Steam) version on their Steam Machines?

I have seen several tutorials on YouTube to install it on the Steam Deck; but they are all different, requiring third party tools like a third party launcher. Is this safe to do? Also, some of them are like 4 years old, and people in comments state that it does not always work.

Could I download the regular exe from the website, add it to Steam and run it via Proton Experimental? Or alternatively download the free trial and add some command arguments to redirect it to the Windows launcher? (Similar to GW2 non-Steam version).

I heard that there could be some performance impact by doing the first method, but don't know how significant those could be. I'm just targeting 60 FPS on the TV and nothing too fancy.

Sorry if these questions are silly, but it's my first time using SteamOS and I'm fairly inexperienced with Linux in general. Thank you all so much!

So for reasons that you guys wouldn’t care, I live at 2 different places during the week and on weekends. I have a PS5 Pro but I can’t really carry it with me at weekends. Is Steam Machine good for it ? Is it small, light and sturdy enough ? Are there good protection cases out there for it ? Also how is it compared to ps5 pro ? Since I should sell that first if I wanted to get a Steam Machine.

Would love to hear your opinion.

Sorry if this type of question(s) gets asked a lot.

So when my Steam Machine boots up for the first time and defaults to Big Picture mode everything works as intended. If I launch a game and press the Steam button the overlay pops up, if an app has an on screen keyboard it works, etc, it all works.

However, if I switch to desktop mode to do some stuff then switch back to big picture mode. Those features seem to be hit or miss. From what I've noticed, primarily it breaks on non-steam games.

Any ideas what might cause this? The only fix I've found it to completely restart my Steam Machine.

I’m planning to move countries in a month or so and need help moving my steam machine, was wondering if the JSAUX carrying case is a good enough for this ? My only gripe is that it doesn’t have bands that let you attach it on top of the suitcase securely.

Has anyone else had experience with other cases ? p.s. I’m from the UK so UK Amazon limited

I love my Steam Machine, does everything I want it to and more but I'm having a frustrating problem. For the last few weeks it's been behaving completely normal until now. When I try to exit a game from the Steam overlay there's a 70% chance it's going to completely freeze up and not exit. Sometimes the colours of the game shift a little and I often see the led strip resume it's download process suggesting that the download manager thinks the game has exited even though it very much hasn't.

Steam + B does nothing, no combination of button presses solves it. I've cleared 100GB of space in case it was a drive space issue (I did finally finishing installing all the games I wanted this week), uninstalled decky in case it was causing the problem and cleared Steam's cache in desktop mode.

Nothing I do seems to solve this newfound instability.

Does anyone have any similar issues ?

I did search around a bit but didn't find anything recent, is there a way to save window positions in desktop mode between reboots?

thx in adv .pb

hello! I got my steam machine a few weeks ago and I love it! some games just don't open though. I click play, it loads, updates the steam cloud and just closes the game. like nothing happens. I tried in big picture mode, desktop mode, nothing. maybe it's because the game compatibility is unknown? I was expecting some issues in game but...not even opening?

Made custom art for our steam machine’s faceplate!!

Hey everyone!

I’m looking for some honest opinions.

I currently own a ROG Xbox Ally X, but I’ve realized that I barely use it as a handheld. Honestly, it spends about 97% of its time docked to my TV.

I recently ordered a Steam Machine (512GB model), and I’m seriously considering selling my Ally X once it arrives.

A little context:

I mostly play games on my 55-inch LG OLED B5.
I already own a PS5 Pro and an Xbox Series X.
I don’t really use PC Game Pass on my Ally X.
Portability isn’t a big deal to me. Whenever I’m away from my TV, I usually just use my phone instead of playing handheld games.
I have a large Steam library, mostly indie games, adventure games, strategy games, and some AAA titles.
I’m perfectly happy gaming at 1080p with good settings and stable performance.
I prefer running games locally rather than streaming from another PC.
My main question is about performance and the overall experience.

Would the Steam Machine be a meaningful upgrade over the ROG Xbox Ally X when both are used primarily on a TV?

I understand that the Ally X has the advantage of portability and Windows compatibility, but neither is particularly important to me.
I’m wondering whether selling the Ally X and keeping the Steam Machine as my dedicated living-room PC would be a smart move, or if I’d actually be giving up something important.
I’d especially appreciate opinions from people who’ve used both devices.

Thanks in advance!

Im going to make this real simple. I was going to buy a Machine, BUT today someone posted a 64gig Deck for 250€ (new decks are 350-400, new Machine+Controller is 1150€). I have no interest in the portability, even my Switch i maybe played 3x anywhere thats not docked to my TV. I dont care how much work it is to make it run nice on a TV in a dock. Games ill play mostly are TF2, Half Life series, Gothic 1 2 and 3, Oblivion (remasterd if it runs okayish on the Deck), Morrowind... I dont really care about new games, maybe Read Dead 2 and Elden Ring (but even those arent new new), i dont need the most cinematic experiance... Again, ill take Morrorwind over Skyrim any day.

Question i have is how much im giving up long term... Not with new games but... I dont even know what. I was sold on the Deck when it came out, then on the Machine, and its not like i cant afford it, but 250, vs 1150... And yes i know ill have to spend an extra 100 for the Controller and betwean 50 and 100 for a dock.

Hoping someone with more knowledge can tell me if there is any significant difference between this part number and the one I was supposed to get.

The module I ordered off Amazon and that is in my Steam Machine is PN: HMCG78AGBSA095N.

This is one is the same PN with the exception of the 2nd to last digit being a “2” instead of “5.”

Is this just a revision or is this an entirely different part? Not sure if I’ve been ripped off.

Hi all,

I just wanted to share my findings in case anyone else is looking for an affordable RAM upgrade for the Steam Machine.

I purchased a single 16GB stick, even though I normally avoid mixing memory brands or batches. However, with RAM prices being what they are right now, this was the best option I could find, and I wanted to share that it works perfectly fine in my Steam Machine.

OEM — original RAM

SK hynix 16GB DDR5 1x16GB SODIMM

PC5-5600B / DDR5-5600, 1Rx8, CL46

PC5-44800, 1.1V

Supported CAS latencies: 22, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36, 40, 42, 46, 50

Part number: "HMCG78AGBSA095N"

Alternative — replacement RAM

Micron 16GB DDR5 1x16GB SODIMM

PC5-5600B / DDR5-5600, 1Rx8, CL46

PC5-44800, 1.1V

Supported CAS latencies: 22, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36, 40, 42, 46, 50

Part number: "MTC8C1084S1SC56BD1"

Results

The original SK hynix module and the Micron replacement share the same rated capacity, DDR5-5600 data rate, PC5-5600B rating, 1Rx8 organisation and 1.1V operating voltage.

SteamOS detects both modules correctly and reports them running at 5600 MT/s, with one module in each memory channel (A and B).

Both modules are reported to be running at CL46, and the system has been working as expected so far.

Hopefully, this helps anyone looking for a compatible alternative without paying a premium for the original module or like me was about to purchase 2 brand new 16gb modules.

I keep getting this message everytime I both into Desktop mode, I think it's on game mode too because I hear the notification sound, but it goes away by the time Steam OS interface loads.

Ok, cool, but I don't have a Steam Controller, lol. How do I get rid of the message? I go to the firmware update screen and it tells me I'm already up to date and there's no separate option for controller firmware. I go to the controller options and I see no option to update the internal adapter, only options to pair controllers or update the controllers themselves (which again, I don't have). What am I supposed to do here?

As the title says I broke my install, even after changing partitions and setting my 3.8 partition to 1 it still boots into the broken partition. What should I do? Worst case ill have to use the steam os repair image but im really annoyed.

is there maybe a way to clear the other partition so that gnu grub boots into this one witouth breaking the AB root?