r/steammachine

I saw the other post of the DOA Steam Machine with the red light, but mine seems to be functioning fine.

I was playing Final Fantasy VII Remake when the light turned red. The game continued to run fine, and the only issue I had was that my Steam Controller kept disconnecting and reconnecting in a loop (hence the USB cable sticking out of the front of the Gabe Box). Has anybody else seen this on a functional Steam Machine yet?

Edit:

Seems to be a temperature issue. I was away this weekend and was excited to set up my Steam Machine so I turned it on before my AC had a chance to cool down the apartment. It was 83° F in here. I’ve moved the machine forward and cooled down the apartment and it hasn’t happened again. Thanks for the helpful replies, I didn’t see the color code support article before. I will update this post if it happens again.

I thought this was fun!

to do this: take any .webm movie and put it in ~/root/config/uioverrides/movies (the last two directories I had to make) and then change the startup movie in customization from big picture mode to the movie you added.

Don't see many people talking about this, but for me, SM's small form factor and decent power opens up an area of PC gaming that I've depended on consoles for: local multiplayer.

• Dedicated, built-in wireless antenna means connecting 4 controllers (wirelessly) is a breeze
  • No laggy Bluetooth interference or need to buy an Xbox USB adapter (or just go wired).
  • Plus, unlike console, any controller will work!
• TONS of awesome local multiplayer games easily accessible (sometimes ONLY) on Steam
  • All Fighting Games (Tekken 8, Street Fighter, Soul Calibur, MK, etc.)
  • 4 Player Brawlers (GigaBash, Brawlhalla, Rivals of Aether, Boomerang Fu, Stick Fight)
  • Party Games (Jackbox)
  • Co-op Adventure Games (It Takes Two, Biped)
• Small, portable form factor means this is the first semi-powerful PC I feel comfortable bringing to friends' houses/ hotels / tournaments.
  • I would never even think of doing this with my ultra powerful desktop PC, with its fragile glass panels, expensive graphics card, & large form factor. That thing never leaves home.
• Emulation opens this up even more!
  • Imagine how much easier it'll be to have local tournaments for a game locked on an older OoP console that's difficult/expensive to get?
  • Project M comes to mind!!

Personally, I can't wait! For anyone wanting to expand their local multiplayer library on Steam, I'd recommend following "Couch Gaming (Local Multiplayer)"!

What do you all think? What local games will you be playing on SM?

Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Problematic games

Probably only going to do another 1 or 2 of these posts so I can stop testing and play the damn thing lol. I will probably compile all posts into a spreadsheet or something for people to reference in the future.

I also got a lot of requests to test counter strike 2. I will not be doing that one since I found the game lacks controller support and this is a TV/controller box for me. Seems like plenty of people are receiving their steam machines now so I'll leave the CS2 testing to someone else.

Also, mods why does this sub block me from posting if I add the word v-r-a-m (without the hyphens)??

• Monster hunter wilds: this was my most requested game by far. I caved and bought a copy to test for everyone (plus I wanted to play it). 4k is pretty heavy. I went for 1440p FSR balanced, medium settings. Frame gen looks/feels pretty good so I enabled it for 75-90 fps. Decent result for how unoptimized this game is.
• Borderlands 3: 4k at 100% resolution scale medium settings gets 50-70fps. Dropping to 75% scale gets 90+fps or you can use that extra buffer to increase settings.
• Diablo 2 resurrected: 4k, 85% scale, high settings, 60-80fps
• Spider-man remastered: 4k high settings, dynamic res (with FSR) set to 60 gives a solid 60fps. Frame gen gets you to 90+ which feels and looks really good to play.
• Remnant 2: 1440p medium settings, FSR balanced, 60+fps
• Marvel rivals: default/auto-detect settings, 4k FSR (4.1) ultra performance, 50-60fps. 1440p FSR balanced 60-80fps (I preferred the 1440p option).
• Ghost of Tsushima: 1620p with dynamic resolution set to 60fps, high settings gives a solid 60+fps.
• The Ascent: 4k @ 85% resolution, medium settings, 60-90fps. If you drop to something like 1440p you can increase settings considerably. Looks fucking incredible on an OLED screen. It has traversal stutters but it also does that on my desktop.
• Far Cry 5: 4k with dynamic res set to 60, high preset for 60fps+. "HD texture" exceeds 8gb graphics memory.
• Diablo 4: 4k with FSR balanced at medium settings gives 60-80fps. fairly scalable if you want to drop resolution to increase settings.

Currently doing my first play through of A Plague Tale: Innocence, running in 4K stable 40 fps on ultra settings, unfortunately the game does not have upscalers to hit 60 but honestly the frame rate is so smooth I don’t care, I’ve played a bunch of games on it so far and honestly I’m actually impressed, is it worth the $1k+? Prob not but it’s only that expensive because of the RAM crisis, I am impressed how much juice this tiny box and produce and once developers really start tinkering and putting out steam machine specific graphics presets I think this could be huge for PC gaming as a whole

Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4

I've tested like 40 games at this point and my experience has been largely extremely positive. Here are the 3 games that I've had issues with. There are likely solutions here but the default experience is problematic.

-No rest for the wicked: the game thinks I'm running on a steam deck and refuses to show resolutions above 800p. There are threads online of people having this issue and apparently there's a launch command to fix it, but it's not working. I've tried the latest GE proton to no avail. Not bothering to test performance until I can get this running at a proper resolution.

-Dead space remake: absolutely horrific stuttering (like it freezes for 1-3 sec frequently.) some combination of changing settings, reinstalling, and changing proton version seems to have fixed it but I'm not sure what the actual solution was. Eventually landed on good performance at either 4k FSR ultra performance, or 1440p FSR quality with medium settings (the latter option looked better). Has the traversal stutter present on the PC version regardless of hardware, but it's more noticeable here compared to my desktop PC which has a 9800X3D.

EDIT: as others pointed out, apparently the game keeps compiling shaders after the initial startup compilation finishes. Recommend just letting the game idle for a while before actually playing. My settings and comments about traversal stutter still apply.

-Borderlands 4: this game is not known for good optimization. With some pretty aggressive settings reductions I was able to get the generate framerate generally above 60 but it had frequent hard fps dips that were really unpleasant. It seemed to somewhat smooth out the longer I spent in an area, but using the vehicle to move around the open world was a disaster. Not sure where the bottleneck is, needs more testing.

Hello! For the sub stats I’m in Spain and email was at 19:07, we are in the hospital wife water broke and we are entering labor anytime now! So let’s get both blessings today!

I can rest now. Good luck to everyone else waiting!