r/SteamOS

Enjoy Everyone. Would love to see lots of these on different machines. Im still finishing up the version with a controller puck holder. It kind of works now but I'm gonna add a brace to hold the bottom of the controller so its doesn't fall off so easily.

9070xt + 9800x3d.
How do I get fsr4-4.1? Cuz the onces I find in youtube is based on steamdeck and it does have rdna 2 when 9070xt is 4…

Any other advices?? Right now trying to solve some nonsteam game games you know what I mean by that…

Emulation worked great with Eden but cant update Eden from emudeck, its applimage and not flatpack if I understand it correctly. I am still learning…
Most games works good in emulation, I’m gonna work on fps to get 60 which some games in switch is game locked and not emulation locked..

Gonna add some texture packs for ps2 games like most wanted and undercover….

Please guide me with your advices what I need, what is good to have..

Decky is done, losless is done, animation changer done..
Control settings/layouts is on standby cuz my steam controller is delayed by DSV/GLS/Schenker… should have arrived today but no no….

I want to setup everything before I receive the controller…
If there is some good stuff that I might not found out yet please inform me I like to learn new things and try them out..
Customization on game layout in game mode is my next goal so I have that in my mind.

Also realized that root files in dolphin is locked and couldnt find a way to unlock oposite of bazzite.. I belive steam does not let you fk up the files?

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for some recommendations for new games to play on my home-built Steam machine. I recently picked up Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, but unfortunately I can't seem to get it working because of the anti-cheat issue. 😭

So now I'm looking for something else to sink my time into!

What games are you guys playing right now that you'd recommend? I'm open to pretty much anything—indies, AAA, single-player, multiplayer, RPGs, fighting games, whatever.

I need some good recommendations!!! 🙏

Hey everyone,

I've been building this on and off for a while and it's finally usable enough that I'd rather have real people on it than keep polishing alone.

It's a Decky Loader plugin for OptiScaler. You set games up per game from Game Mode with a controller. No desktop mode, no file manager.

The part I'm most happy with: live changes from the Quick Access panel.

The plugin ships a small ASI plugin that OptiScaler loads into the game. It makes the same writes OptiScaler's own overlay makes, so the things the overlay can change live, this can change live too.

That means frame generation on/off, the upscaler (FSR 4, XeSS, etc), and the FidelityFX FG version, all applied while you're still playing. The panel shows what the game actually ended up running.

Anything that needed a relaunch before in Optiscaler still needs one. The plugin isn't working around OptiScaler, it's just giving you the overlay's live controls easily accesible from Game Mode with a gamepad without opening the overlay. Settings that can't apply live say so plainly and wait for the next launch.

The rest of it. Your game gets matched against the OptiScaler compatibility wiki and there's an automatic setup process that uses the information fetched from the Wiki: install the DLL, write the launch options, apply the settings that entry recommends.

It finds your Steam libraries including the SD card, picks the install folder next to the game's actual executable, and backs up anything it would overwrite so uninstalling puts everything back.

Basic mode is a handful of controls. Advanced gives you all 288 settings. OptiScaler v0.9.4 is bundled, so there's nothing else to download.

Grab it: https://github.com/danielcamilo1/decky-optiscaler/releases/latest

(Decky's Install Plugin from URL with Developer mode on, download the zip and install it through there as well or unzip into ~/homebrew/plugins/)

This is a first alpha. It works, I use it on my own handheld PC, but I'm one person testing against one library and my own habits. There are bugs, and the UI has rough edges I know about plus plenty I don't, because I've stared at it long enough to stop seeing them.

So please tell me what's broken. Bug reports, "this button confused me", "I couldn't find X", "this wording makes no sense", "it failed on this game". The blunt UX complaints are the most useful thing you can send me, since those are exactly the ones I can't spot on my own.

Issues at https://github.com/danielcamilo1/decky-optiscaler/issues, or just reply here, whichever is easier.

Thanks to the OptiScaler devs and the wiki contributors.

Try it and tell me what sucks.

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a little personal side project that I'd love to get some feedback on.

I've built a Decky Loader plugin for SteamOS/Bazzite that lets you browse and install Nexus Mods directly from Gaming Mode. The idea was basically: why should I have to leave Gaming Mode and go into Desktop Mode every time I want to manage my mods?

So, this lets you browse your mods, install them, manage Collections and FOMODs, and generally handle your mod setup without picking up a mouse and keyboard. There's also a health check which reads the game's logs and tries to tell you what's actually broken, rather than just saying "something went wrong".

It's very much an unofficial, beta, personal project, this isn't an official Nexus Mods product.

Everything uses the public Nexus Mods API with your own account. A Premium account is currently required for downloading (free accounts can still browse), and you'll need Decky Loader installed.

I've currently got support for:

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Elden Ring (including co-op)
• Fallout 4
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Resident Evil 4
• Skyrim SE
• Slay the Spire 2
• Stardew Valley
• The Witcher 3

I've personally installed, modded and played each of these on actual SteamOS/Bazzite hardware before adding them, but there's obviously a lot of hardware, game versions and weird mod combinations out there that I haven't feasibly been able to test.

You can grab it here:

https://github.com/RedRanger14/decky-nexus

I'd genuinely love feedback, whether that's bugs you've found, things that feel clunky, features you'd like to see, or games you'd like me to add.

There's a "Report a Problem" button built into the plugin which creates a GitHub issue with your setup information, so hopefully you don't have to spend half an hour explaining exactly what Steam Deck/Bazzite/Game/Plugin versions you're running.

One important warning: this does modify game files, so please back up any saves you care about. Every supported game can also be reset back to vanilla from within the plugin.

Anyway, that's the project! It's something I've been tinkering with in my spare time and I'm really interested to see whether it's actually useful to other SteamOS/Bazzite users.

If you'd like to, give it a try and let me know what you think.

Im traing to revert my Fallout 4, and a need acess to the console.

Edit: the steam console. Not the linux terminal, or konsole.

Solved:

paste this into your web browser: steam://open/console

My original os is windows 10 which I'm trying to switch from I've looked into others and yes it'd be easier but I'm too stubborn so I'm asking for any advice given to me to make this work. I'm also hoping to eventually ditch windows entirely but for now I wanna try and dual boot it.

I've set up SteamOS on a minisforum Mini PC, it works great except for the facts I can't bring up the on screen keyboard in desktop mode using a DualSense.

The PS button opens the steam app, and if I press it again it launches big picture.

Any idea how to get it up from there?

So, since I didn't make the cut for an initial Steam Machine, I decided to build my own. I was looking to spend around $1200(went overboard...). Having a set of 32x2 DDR5 sticks laying around helped this be possible, mostly. It took me about a month of waiting for decent pricing and buying from different retailers. What really put me on board was an insane deal on a 9070xt. Here is the breakdown -

GPU - Gigabit 9070xt - $549.99(Walmart)

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 76003DX - $172.96(Microcenter)

MB - ASrock B650i - $147.02(Microcenter)

Power - Corsair SFF850 - $179.99(Microcenter)

CPU Fan - Thermalright AXP120-X67 - $29.90(Amazon)

Memory - Kingstone NVMe 4.0, 1TB - $164.99(Newegg)

Case - Fractal Ridge White - $144.99(Amazon)

Ram - Corsair Dominator 32x2 - $0($299.99 Amazon at time of purchase).

Total Cost - $1389.84 not including Ram, 1689.83 with.

The whole reason I got the Fractal Ridge was so it would fit in my TV Console but after initial startup it got WAY to hot in the confined space. After removing it and setting it up beside my TV it doesn't look so bad and I'm happy how the system preforms on SteamOS. I don't have much experience with Linux, but I'm excited to dig in. Let me know what you all think!

**Used Gemini to remove the reflection from the TV**

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Anyone got this combo to work at all? The missing link is steamos since I know the game works on the device with windows..

I can live with the concessions with steamos on Intel but I can't figure out this game. Other people got it to work with Intel but their Proton settings and start commands don't work for the claw 8ai. I'm sure this is a super niche ask though

Modding games in this OS has me using a mix of native Linux and fake windows utilities quite a bit. When it is either a Linux program needing the address of files in the fake windows layer or a fake windows program needing the addresses of files in the Linux layer, I get lost and make mistakes.

I have installed Tale of Two Wastelands like 3 times for instance, each time confident that I had found the right folder to output everything to, only to be proven wrong. They are still out there in the drive somewhere wasting space and I'm not even sure how to find them and clean those up.

I have since discovered how to have fake windows programs show hidden files, which was a major hurdle cleared, but I still have a lot of trouble making connections 'across platforms' and finding the hidden area of where fake windows directory is, making things difficult.

I am relatively new to Linux and could really use pointers in this department. TIA.

Do you think they are saying this in an overly simple way to keep the set-up video simple? Since Valve prefers you use their store and apps?

In the screenshot, it shows they are already inside the main OS while logging in and not in a walled-off start page like Meta. Maybe it will be possible to access the Linux desktop and install programs however we want without Steam logged in? Or maybe the Linux desktop is blocked behind that page.

Personally I feel if I am "required" to use an account authenticated from their servers to use my device it isn't "my computer". Valve's other hardware doesn't force this so it would be a major disappointment to me.

Quote is from the set-up video: https://cdn.steamstatic.com/store/steamframe/welcome_videos/04-sign_in.mp4

Is that icon the default everyone will see when not logged in?

I took my first foray into Linux with a Steam OS install on my desktop. I have 2x NVMe drives, one used to have windows & the other was where I installed my Steam games.

After getting Steam OS up & running (a relatively easy journey) I was looking to see if my game drive would just have all my games still there. However, it looks like I need to format the drive to be able to add it for use on Steam OS.

Anyway around this? Do I just need to bite the bullet & format the drive or is there a way to recover the games?

Hi Everyone.

I have a PC and Steam Deck and quiet frankly for some reason i love playing games on my steam deck more than my PC, I think the Major reason is Steam OS its just simple and does not distract and i can just launch a game and play.

So now that steam has made steam OS to work on other AMD PCs i wanted to install it on my PC along with my Windows 11 that i already have. and after searching a little i found that Steam OS installer does not have any option to choose where to install the OS. Luckily i have 2 SSDs in my PC.

My question is if i remove my windows installed SSD before i start the SteamOS installation what option will i be given at the boot to select which OS i want to boot into? Would i have to install something to show me the options or is there a default system in place to give the option.
do i have to set the boot sequence in bios and manually press one time boot option every time i want to use the Secondary OS?

Thank you!

Edit 1:- my nvme ssd did not support the sanitize function. I guess alot of wd ssds dont. For that i just had to edit the repair_os script and put # infront of lines that said sanitize_all. Worked after that. Just setting it up.

As the title, when streaming on steam deck using Moonlight to my host PC also SteamOS which has decky sunshine installed, if I switch to desktop on host it soft hangs on a black screen but the stream is still running.

On host PC switching to desktop without anything streaming to it, it works fine.

Any ideas? Thinking maybe it could be as simple as creating a script to stop sunshine when switching to desktop on host and then restart when in desktop/gamemode.

Unless there is a better way?

RX 9600x
Ryzen 7600x

Hey, just as the title asks, is SteamOS good for anything but gaming?
I thought about installing Linux on my old Laptop got get it running smoother again (hopefully)
And SteamOS got a bunch of positive headlines and I got a few videos recommended on how to install it, but I wouldn’t use this laptop to run steam, or any game.
Sooo is SteamOS a good Operating System in general or just for gaming?