r/LegionGo

Might be a stupid question but is installing SteamOS on the windows 11 version of the Z1E bad?

If not how easy is it to swap from windows 11 to SteamOS?

So recently bought the LEGO 2, but can't stand how heavy and bulky it is. Anyone else experience wrist pain and how did they deal with it or make it better? This makes me just want to get a steamdeck oled.

Hello everyone,

Given the steam summer sales, I wished to try out some new games for my Lenovo Legion Go with dual boot (bazzite and win11). What do you suggest I try?

I'd like to explore some games that would be perfect to play on a console, but at the same time I don't seem to like the usual suggestions for steam deck games. I love RPGs, FPS, and sand boxes. I love the classics (Skyrim, Witcher 3), but I want to try something new able to run greatly on a legion go 1. Normally, I don't like 2D or isometric styled games, even though I'd fancy to play a Pokémon-styled game. Additionally, I don't usually like racing games, especially those with many settings to tweak (rally games ), but I loved to play wreckfest which had the right amount of arcade, fun, and realism at the same time.

Are you using bazzite or steamos? How's the experience so far?

Hello, I have a question. I currently have the Legion Go 1, and I'm thinking about buying the Legion Go 2 and selling the first one. Basically, I'm abroad for 5 months, so I use it in handheld mode, and then I spend 2 months at home, where I like to play VR games and am thinking about buying an external GPU. Will it be worth upgrading from the 1 to the 2, especially considering the 2 has 32GB of RAM, and that I'll use it for VR during the months I’m home and in handheld mode while traveling? Also, which GPU and eGPU setup would you recommend for this?"

It’s working fine but I’m not able to turn it off. When I try it acts. As if I’m restarting it and it’ll turn back on. Any ideas?

I’ve followed every guide and every tutorial and googled everything but nothings working.

I want lossless to work but I change the multiplier and the FPS doesn’t change? I’ve tried multiple games.

Have app installed, have decky stuff, limited FPS, turned off framegen in game settings… even got the command set up and in windowed and frameless full screen…

What am I doing wrong?

I just can’t get anything to work.

I’m on steamos

Hi everyone,

I'm posting this as a last resort because I've managed to get myself into a really bad situation with my Lenovo Legion Go.

It started when I was experimenting with a custom BIOS. Long story short, I wasn't careful enough and ended up bricking the device.

At first, I tried the USB BIOS recovery procedure multiple times without success. Much later, I randomly checked the log file that was being created on the USB drive and discovered that recovery was actually starting, but I had provided the wrong BIOS file, so the recovery process failed.

At that point, I decided to try programming the BIOS chip directly with a hardware programmer.

Unfortunately, I have very limited experience with BIOS programming. I relied heavily on AI guidance, and it suggested incorrect settings when reading the chip. Because of that, I only read and saved the first 16 MB of data. I mistakenly believed I had a complete backup and continued experimenting.

Only later did I realize that the BIOS chip is actually 32 MB, meaning my backup is incomplete and effectively useless for a full restoration.

So now I'm in the worst possible situation:

• Lenovo Legion Go
• BIOS chip has been erased/corrupted
• No valid full backup exists
• USB recovery no longer helps
• I have a hardware programmer available
• Device is currently sitting with what is essentially a blank BIOS waiting to be programmed

My questions are:

1. Does anyone know the correct recovery procedure from this state?
2. Does anyone have experience rebuilding a Legion Go BIOS image?
3. Would someone be willing to share a raw 32 MB BIOS dump from a working Legion Go?
4. Is it possible to combine Lenovo BIOS update files with data from another dump to restore the device?
5. Are there any Legion Go-specific security mechanisms (serial number, UUID, keys, etc.) I should be aware of before flashing another machine's dump?

I fully understand this situation is my own fault. I'm just trying to figure out whether the device is still recoverable or if I have created an expensive paperweight.

Any advice from people experienced with SPI programming, UEFI/AMI BIOS repair, or Legion Go firmware would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I have the Gen 1 Lenovo legion Go and it says the minimum requirements and I think it would work but just curious if anybody else has tried and their results

I have had a Legion Go S 32gb running Steam OS for the past few months and loved it so far. I recently bought Subnautica 2, and it has some trouble running the game at the level I would consider acceptable without heavy FSR. For me acceptable is 50fps on medium graphics. In the case of Sub 2, that’s also turning resolution down to 1280x800. My benchmark is generally Fallout 4, which I know is a significantly older game, but can run at Ultra settings at 1920x1200 50FPS almost consistently.

Last week I bought a desktop with the intention of streaming games to my Go S. The streaming has been pretty reliable so far, with a few hiccups here and there and the occasional artifacts from streaming which are to be expected. I don’t really ever envision myself sitting and playing a game natively off of the desktop.

The research I have done points to the Go 2 having 10%-20% uplift over the Go S. The desktop and Go 2 are about equal in pricing right now at roughly $2200 after tax, which is the upper end of my budget. At that price the desktop is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than the Go 2, but if I’m only using it for a streaming box then I’m kneecapping it either way. Battery life doesn’t matter all that much to me as I’m normally always near a charger or have an external battery.

After all that backstory, my question is should I return the desktop and get a Legion Go 2 instead? Would I get a better experience running things off the Go 2 than streaming from the desktop?

So I ran into this issue on my brand new Legion Go. My controllers were only working in Legion Space app but not in games.
I tried checking FPS button, I tried resetting both controllers by pressing on the small pin on each controllers.
Without going too much into what didn’t work. I will write what worked for me.

First I noticed that inside Legion Space> Controllers
It said “D-input “ which was my first clue as it should be saying “X-input” which is the standard compatible mode for majority of games.

So I knew that I have to somehow change it into X-input here’s what I did step by step-

1. Turn off the Legion Go completely.
   Press the small Volume Up button while turning it on.
2. Select System Recovery.
   3.Select Troubleshoot.
3. Select Advanced Options.
4. Select Startup Settings.
5. Press Restart.
6. On the Startup Settings screen, press 4 to boot into Safe Mode.

Once Windows finished booting into Safe Mode, simply restart the Legion Go normally.

That was literally all I had to do.

After rebooting:
The controllers started working again.
Windows navigation worked normally.
Days Gone detected the controller.
Dying Light 2 detected the controller.
Everything was back to normal.

I believe the Legion controller service or the XInput driver somehow got stuck. Booting into Safe Mode forced Windows to reinitialize the controller stack, and after a normal reboot everything started working again.

Hopefully this helps someone else before they waste hours troubleshooting, reinstalling Windows, or returning their Legion Go like I almost did.