r/steammachine

Just got mine yesterday, and there's an not insubstantial amount of games I play in steam that use the microphone function. Such as lethal. Unfortunately I can't plug in my microphone because, well, there's no jack for it. So to anyone who's been using a microphone with the steam machine, do you have any suggestions on which to get? Preferably something cheap, but reliable. But I feel like that goes without saying.

I got my machine for almost two week and personally I am happy with it, recently I read some posts here about people that are returning their machine and I noticed all of them had a better pc at home anyway, I personally got SM since I had a macbook and needed something for casual gaming that isnt locked in xbox or sony system, SM has been great in that regard I play 2h of games before I go to bed sometimes I even use desktop mode and check emails or edit some docs and for me its been a very nice purchase, no hustle no noise just a little device for afternoon chill times, it is for people with old computers or casual gamers not someone with a 4k dollar pc that of course would be disappointed by its average performanc. so for whomever looking if it is for them hopefull this rant is helpfull.

Just received notification that my steam machine is shipped! While I wait, I've been meaning to ask, what games are people playing that specifically are games exclusive on PC (well not exclusive exactly, but have not released on other platforms) that you're looking forward to playing? As background, I've had Playstations over the years (since PS1 way back when) and I've stuck to that platform pretty faithfully up until recently. My wife got a Steam Deck and has been playing all kinds of cute indie cozy games that aren't available on Switch or PS5. So I don't really have a huge library of games on Steam that I like, such as rpgs, action adventure games, and strategy/sim/builder games. For example, I loved Jurassic World Evolution 3, Cities Skylines, Anno series, etc. I know these also are on Steam, but I'd like to hear what other titles people are looking forward to playing that weren't available on PS5.

I’ve been using my steam machine with emudeck cloud saves and it’s been so amazing to seamlessly pick up my steam deck to continue playing on the go or downstairs and then cozy up and crank all the settings up to upscale the same ps3 games on my tv.

I used to try to always dock my steam deck and play that well but it required changing settings back and forth each time and it was awful. This setup is so satisfying.

Obtained my steam machine a week ago, It's been a blast.

However I have a problem: the custom boot-up videos always start in the middle due to my screen not coming out of sleep fast enough (Seems it detects the video, then manages to get out of sleep a few seconds after)

Is there a way for the machine to send a wake up to the screen, wait a few second, then display the boot-up video?

Anyone able to get gears of war reloaded on the machine.

I'm stuck at an endless loading screen when I try to start a campaign.

I tried different proton versions and the offline trick I saw in another post to no avail.

Any tips would be appreciated

I got a text saying it will be delivered today between 8am-12pm. got excited...And at 9.02am it i got another text saying unable to deliver - 'delivery attempted - address inaccessible'.

I was home ready. i have a ring doorbell and nothing on there. i dont understand how my house is inaccessible. What the fuck happened to my steam machine. I wish Steam would use better delivery companies.

I did search past posts but looking for the best recommendations for 1TB that I can switch out for both.

Thanks!

[Mostly solved, edit at the bottom of the post]

So I am a simple gal: months ago when I got the email stating the steam machine waitilist opened and instantly joined the 512 no controller one, like 14 minutes after it opened. Then, a couple weeks ago to my surprise, the email saying I could finally buy it arrived and I paid Valve to send me this Steam Machine. So for now everything went as expected.

Then I quickly discovered the courier chosen by valve was GLS, and I screamed in pain because GLS is know in italy to be one of the worst ever. In my area they simply don’t deliver the parcels AT ALL. Exactly, they don’t ring the doorbell and they don’t hand you the package. How are they still in business? Only god knows.

However, the package didn’t arrive at home as expected so I went to the local warehouse and after complaining they told me they actually had 2 packages for me with the same id so I guess 2 SMs and they didn’t know which one was the correct one. So CEVA (the third party courier VALVE paid to handle EU deliveries) sent 2 erroneously, while exposing all my personal data in the recent data breach.

Then the GLS local warehouse attempted contacting CEVA to know how to handle the situation and they didn’t reply, so they decided to arbitrarily change the tracking to “delivered” while I didn’t have neither the money or the SM, that technically is a crime because the tracking is a legally valid document.

After insisting in solving the situation after almost one week of the SM being officially “delivered” to no one, they magically had a reply from CEVA and proceeded handling the “correct” package. I guess they just handled me one randomly and straight up stolen the other.

So, after like 2 weeks, 4 rides to the warehouse with 40° celsius (around 100F) and many many complaints I have this SM and I’ve been exhausted by the super horrendous handling by all the parties involved, including VALVE support that has been basically non existent, handwashing by saying “we’re not handling the shipping”.

So I decided to return the SM to valve and they straight up ignored all the complaints and difficulties and sent me the return message… WITH THE WRONG SERIAL! Because GLS handled me “some box” randomly and now I have the SM that could be marked as stolen! The famous “customer first” valve support has been again non existant and I’m sincerely exhausted and honestly mad at VALVE for this horrendous process of getting a freaking steam machine that in the end could have make my whole account banned because:

Valve. Sent. Me. A. Stolen. Steam. Machine.

Thank you Valve. Really thank you.

EDIT: they sent me a second message after letting them know the SN they have in their system is different from the SN of the SM in my possession. They wrote to "rest assured that we'll sort out the serial number discrepancy at the returns facility."

I'll update this post, but it looks like that the problem is finally solved.

Just curious.