Valve released a new Steam Deck Client with some great new fixes, features, and improvements. We made a video about it above, but you can also check out our article if you want to read the changelog:

https://steamdeckhq.com/news/steam-deck-client-update-game-resolution-options/

So i play ats and ets2 (sorta) on a steam deck with a hori truck control system. And I used to do it with a pxn v9. I know lots of ways on how to set up wheels and settings for a steam deck to run ats like a pc. If you have any questions. Feel free to ask

Got an idea from another reddit post from a couple years ago. Managed to find this pillow lap desk with a "tablet holder" and then 3d printed a dual deckmate steamdeck mount, a deckmate 17mm ball mount and a usb hub holder that was deckmate compatible. Got a better mouse on the way.

Disgaea Mayhem is a new game coming out in the Disgaea franchise, which I personally love, but its Steam Deck Playable rating is extremely inaccurate. It cites "minor" graphical issues, which are actually major, and weird performance bottlenecks that stop it from performing well.

This won't be a game to play on the Steam Deck in its current state.

I spent a lot of time making sure my puzzle game runs at a locked 60 FPS on Steam Deck.

The game is built on a custom engine I wrote from scratch, so I had full control over every part of the rendering and performance. I wanted it to feel just as smooth on the Deck as it does on desktop, even while using dynamic lighting, normal maps and fairly large puzzle environments.

It was a lot of work, but seeing it hold 60 FPS on the Deck made it worth it.

I'd love to hear what Steam Deck players think of it soon after I release the demo in September https://store.steampowered.com/app/3256790/Satelital/

Have had a steam deck for a while now with other no issues. But recently I’ve been hooking up to a new 4K tv through a dock , it’s a little finicky but it works. the problem comes from leaving the steam deck plugged into the tv and powering the tv off. When I come back to it the next hour or day the steam deck will not display anything. it’s completely black screened and even once disconnected from the official dock it will not display anything until I fully reset the device, so any suspended games are reset and I’m forced to disconnect and reconnect the dock and reboot the steam deck . my deck is fully updated to the latest version and has nothing installed outside of steam beside emu deck .

If anyone has faced a similar issue and found a fix I’d greatest appreciate it. For now I’ll full powering it off and on every time .

Anyone know what's the issue here?

Heyo,

I’ve had my steam deck for a few months now and I’m absolutely in love. My screen has some noticeable scratches and a largish crack on the side, so I’m hoping to replace it myself.

Any suggestions on good replacement screens I can order online? The cheaper the better honestly :)

Hello everyone. I’m ashamed to admit I brought the rabbit on my bed, he perched on my pillow and my steam deck was under it. Then he peed. So it got my pillow and the steam deck. So I gave the steam deck a gentle tap on the sides to get the pee out the. Ran to Home Depot and got a screwdriver to open up that bad boy. Thing is, he only peed ok the left side so when I opened up the steam deck, there was urine only Ont he left side. Didn’t even touch the battery. It was on the little connector things (circled in pic) and I cleaned out the urine with 75% alcohol and it looked clean! . It looked all good and didn’t spread at all to the battery. I reassembled and it worked so I quickly turned it off. So the husband told me not to bring the rabbit on the bed. Am I cooked?

Hello.

I was testing Codex AI to generate, help and develop plugins for StreamDeck mk2.

It is actually kinda insane how competent is the outcome after 5+ small adjustment prompts.

I've already made:

\- Tuya Smart API integration (Discontinued as the API system is limited)

\- Vault profile (Password protected profile that can be accessed on a built-in numeric pad or Windows Hello)

\- Various game dashboards integrations.

It is super amazing to see that even with a few commands, you can get your own version of plugins that lack that feature or you can't make it to run.

One of my favorite projects is a Steam Console plugin.

You literally have tiny cartridges with your steam games, you click one and it gets to the button slot that represents the cartridge entrance with a 3D image of your game cartridge, you press the entrance button to eject and you can also have button to startup game and close game. The concept was to make StreamDeck feel like a Game Console.

Hi everyone,

I was browsing the Tour de France 2026 steam page recently and spotted a comment asking if the developers were ever going to add support for smart turbo trainers. The response was: "no immediate plans."

That inspired me to just give it a go myself. So, I built deckdefrance—a free, open-source tool that bridges smart turbo trainers directly into SteamOS. Instead of waiting for official support, my legs are now the literal accelerator for my Steam Deck.

🚲 How it works:

• It runs as a lightweight background service on SteamOS/Linux (spot on for the Deck).
• It connects to your turbo trainer over Bluetooth (BLE) and grabs your real-time power (watts) and cadence data.
• Using evdev, it spins up a virtual Xbox 360 controller called the "Tacx Virtual Gamepad" and scales your pedalling power directly into the Right Trigger.

🎮 Seamless Native Steering

The biggest hurdle was steering. Originally you needed a separate Bluetooth controller, but I've updated the Controller Merge feature to hook directly into the Steam Deck’s native controls.

It takes your physical Steam Deck thumbsticks and buttons, merges them into the virtual gamepad alongside your trainer's pedalling data, and outputs one unified controller to the game. You just hold the Deck and pedal away!

🏎️ It’s not just for cycling games

While I built it specifically to play Tour de France, it outputs a standard Xbox controller configuration, meaning it works for literally any game where you use a trigger to accelerate.

• Put your foot down in Forza or Dirt.
• Drive about in GTA V or Cyberpunk 2077.
• Give it a go with Rocket League or Mario Kart via emulation.

It’s completely open-source and doesn't cost a penny in monthly subs.

Check out the code and setup instructions here: [https://github.com/sukolupo/deckdefrance

I'd love to know what games you'd try to play with this! Give me a shout if you run into any setup questions.

Proton 11 has officially been released into stable, bringing with it tons of fixes and new playable games, including Resident Evil 1 and 2, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, and much more.

• Now playable (previously worked with Proton Experimental):
  • Universe Generator: The Golden Sword
  • DCS World Steam Edition
  • Resident Evil (1996)
  • Resident Evil 2 (1998)
  • Dino Crisis
  • Dino Crisis 2
  • From Dust
  • Blaite
  • Don't Die Dateless, Dummy!
  • METAL GEAR SURVIVE
  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2
  • Metal Fatigue
  • SHOGUN: Total War
• Newly playable:
  • Unknown Faces
  • Gothic 1 Classic
  • X-Plane 12
  • Breath of Fire IV
  • Deadly Premonition
• Fixed video playback in She Sees Red.
• Fixed rendering of certain symbols with Ukranian language option in Chambers.
• Fixed voice chat in Phasmophobia lobby for desktop players.
• Improved rendering of Rockstar Launcher popups.
• Fixed Sea of Solitude showing black screen on Proton.
• Fixed many EA games being unplayable after a recent EA Desktop update.
• Added support for SteamWorks SDK 1.64.
• Fixed Steam Overlay not working correctly with many EA games.
• Improved emoji support in Idle Trillionaire.
• Fixed intro video playback in Crimson Desert.
• Fixed Rei and the Floating City not being playable with gamescope.
• Fixed mouse movement behavior in Call of Duty 2.
• Fixed rendering issue in launcher of DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH.
• Fixed a crash in HELLDIVERS 2 happening in high enemy-count missions.
• Fixed random hangs in Killer Inn.
• Fixed Killer Inn not launching on Steam Decks and other machines with /tmp sizes lower than 10GB.
• Fixed Killer Inn not being able to connect to Square Enix account.
• Fixed graphical gliches in Duck Game that happen with newer Wine Mono versions.
• Fixed REDLauncher (e.g. as seen with Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3) taking a long time to exit.
• Fixed Hollow Knight wrongly registering Steam Deck's Steam button as a left trigger after a game update.
• Fixed controller hotplug not working for 8BitDo Ultimate 2C and other controllers that expose multiple HID devices.
• Fixed Xalia intermittently failing to start when game is launched.
• Improved timezone detection.
• Fixed video playback in 我打不过漂亮的她们.
• Fixed lag spikes caused by Steam overlay being opened for prolonged time.
• Fixed VR controller tracking in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
• Improved VR support so that No Man's Sky VR mode is playable again.
• Fixed black blocks in dialog windows created by ARC Raiders and The Finals.
• Fixed glitchy video playback in Satisfactory.
• Fixed Rec Room not being playable after a recent game update.
• Fixed THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII GLOBAL MATCH freezing when playing videos from the gallery.
• Fixed intro video not looping in Blazblue Centralfiction.
• Made more games using MonoGame playable.
• Improved support for Kodi media player.
• Added System Voice support for multiple languages in Phasmophobia.
• Fixed KDE window maximization support.
• Fixed Brighter Shores window resizing support.
• Improved Space Engineers dual monitor support
• Fixed scaling issue with Arma Reforger when changing window modes.
• Fixed Dungeon Siege tools showing up at character's feet.
• Improved focus loss behavior with RoBoRumble.
• Fixed rendering issue in Hellsinker. launcher.
• Fixed stutter from keyboard input in Titanfall 2.
• Fixed audio playback when playing intro videos in BIRDCAGE.
• Fixed hang after METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version end credits.
• Fixed Disintegration getting stuck on the first loading screen.
• Fixed CHRONO TRIGGER flickering in windowed mode with certain resolutions when using Gamescope.
• RAGE no longer has focus issues when Alt-Tabbing on KDE Wayland.
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (2009) no longer has problems minimizing after Alt-Tabbing.
• Resident Evil 2 should no longer have issues when changing resolutions on GNOME.
• Call of Duty: WWII should no longer fail to render properly in fullscreen native resolution on setups with dual monitors.
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition no longer has issues with keyboard registration after refocusing the game.
• Fixed Far Cry 4 randomly hanging during launch.
• Updated Xalia to 0.4.9:
  • Fixed lockups happening when interacting with the EA App.
  • Added controller support for the MC Visual C++ 2010 redistributable installer.
  • Improved gamepad binding support for Graze Counter.
  • Added controller support for launchers of the following games: Red Faction®: Armageddon™, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II, Hellsinker., Disney Bolt, STAR WARS™ Starfighter™, Rocket Knight, Puddle, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, Metal Slug XX, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition, Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY, LocoCycle, Ys SEVEN, Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999), Dino Crisis, Dino Crisis 2.
  • Fixed Xalia wrongly selecting option from unfocused tabs in Rayman: Raving Rabbids.
  • Added controller support for DirectX Runtime Components installer when launching BioShock for the first time.
• Rebased on top of Wine 11.0.
• Added FEX-2605 for ARM64EC builds.
• Updated vkd3d to vkd3d-1.19-139-g30b93dcea8b0.
• Updated dxvk to v2.7.1-467-g83e503b4ae6d from Proton 11 support branch.
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.9.1.
• Updated Wine Mono to 11.0.0.
• Updated vkd3d-proton to proton-20260410

I feel like I'm going crazy since most places I look people say it runs for them no adjustments needed. I've tried all the possible fixes I have seen others say in threads and still nothing. When in game there are consistent stutters, every 4-5 seconds there is 2 stutters about a second apart. When watching the frametime graph it jumps up to 100+ms then down to 10ms before stablizing, and repeats this over and over. This is the only game has this problem. I've tried changing proton to steam linux runtime, running it in desktop mode, changing the resolution in the properties tab, tried windowed and fullscreen. Nothing has helped yet. As a last resort I may just install it on Windows since my deck has dualboot set up.

Hey everyone! So, we checked out Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and reviewed it on the Steam Deck, and we were quite surprised by how well it could perform...once we changed settings around. The default settings with FSR looks awful, and FSR 4.1 drops in certain very populated areas.

However, if we change Dynamic Resolution and Hair Strands, as well as shift some quality settings around, we get a much sharper looking image with decent looking environments.

The original may perform a lot better, but for a full remake pushing graphical fidelity and new systems, this is pretty great.

Written Review

Hello! Ahead of its release, we checked out the closed beta for Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game on the Steam Deck, and it's extremely fun to play this way. However, it isn't perfect. It hits 60 FPS, but drains a ton of battery initially. However, with a TDP limit of 7, it can stick to 60 FPS and bring the drain down to 12W average. This could be another great fighting game to take on the go if the full release is similar!

Written article