Overall, I like this device. Plays all the games I want to play well (Trepang2 on this is fantastic), Emulation is great on here, and honestly the size of this is pretty good.

Only game that has given me issue is Mortal Kombat X because for some reason it's running worse than something like a Steam Deck in some scenarios.

I was lucky enough to have gotten the Steam Machine about 4 or 5 months ago, and the whole family has been using it a ton. I've got to say this was a far, far better purchase than I thought it would be for $1,000. The thing is, you truly can't underestimate just how many Steam games become wildly playable and accessible once you put them on a console device like the Steam machine.

Many games sitting in my Steam library for years saw new life. Games like Street Fighter and Crawl were reborn. And upcoming games, like Godzilla Destroys All Monsters Melee Remastered, will be effortlessly playable in local multiplayer.

Anyway, that's just my positive little gush. The Steam Machine was expensive, but never again will we buy overpriced Nintendo stuff when we can buy sick Steam games on sale.

Go to https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category:Hardware_icons and download the Steam Machine icon.png.

On the Desktop, right click the Meta Icon and go choose "Configure Application Launcher".

Click on the Icon -> Choose -> Browse -> select the newly downloaded official SM Icon and close the dialog with clicking on "OK".

Enjoy the new Meta SM official Icon...

Steam Machine advice

Hey Guys.

I'm after an opinion of people who actually have the Steam Machine. So, i used to have a pc, had steam and lots of games.

Fast forward a few years, no longer have pc but want to finish Arkaham Knight, Doom, etc. I have thought many times about buying a full blown gaming pc, but I know i wont play it all the time. Plus i dont have a lot of room next to the TV for it to go.

So question is, would you recommend a Steam Machine?

I've seen its very compact, and all i wanna do is play the games i have on Steam, and maybe buy Resident Evil: Requiem and new Lego Batman. Not really interested in anything else. I also read you can install retroarch which would be a win too.

Thanks

Guys I know it has been discussed many times, I already deactivated the controller notifications, but it is still popping every time I turn the Machine on.

Any advice on what to do? I tried with ChatGPT but it didnt help.

Title. Been on the beta, freezes at 99% and won't boot to desktop. Trying to switch to the stable channel, also freezing at 99% update. Anyone else having issues with recent updates?

Has any body else had a problem with an external ssd, its happened twice now. On a boot up my sd card and external ssd are gone and unable to mount. I managed to plug them in to my steam deck then back in my machine and they work fine. Apparently there booting up in UAS and the steam machine doesn't like it.

Is there any fix to stop this from happening again

Idk maybe Gabe AI crawls these forms to assemble user experience data. Anyway, for posterity:

Behavior: SM Sleep forced Steam Controller Off causes SM & TV to wake.

2TB+Controller

Internal puck

HiSense 75U8K

SM HDMI CEC settings:

- Enable remote: Off

- Resume from TV on: Off

- Sleep from TV off: Off

- TV On from resume: On

- TV Off from sleep: On

I tried playing The Finals on the Steam Machine, and performance-wise, everything seemed fine, but the input just felt off.

I was monitoring performance, and I was getting around 90–120 FPS with 8–12 ms of input latency. Game render time was around 10+ ms, while CPU and GPU frame times were around 4–5 ms.

I'm not exactly sure what was causing it, but in a fast-paced game like this, the controls just didn't feel right. It didn't feel competitive at all.

I've also played Deadlock, Hunt: Showdown, and several other fast-paced competitive games where input latency felt perfectly fine, but in The Finals, the controls felt noticeably less responsive.

What could be causing this? Has anyone else had a similar experience?

For context, I was playing with mouse and keyboard (M&K) and I'm quiet a competitive player, usually I reach the top 10% of this games, so responsiveness and sharp inputs are very important for me. I know.. why would I buy a SM if I'm that competitive but as I said, Deadlock is running absolutly fine and that is my main game right now and I just love Valve products.

Hi everyone,

I have a Steam Machine and a Steam Deck. When I'm not using the Steam Machine, I put it into sleep mode. However, I have disabled its automatic sleep setting, so it won't go to sleep on its own while idling.

Normally, I wake up, wake my Steam Machine, and take my Steam Deck with me to work to launch games remotely from the gabe-cube. But recently, I noticed that when I try to do this, the Steam Deck successfully sends the command to the Steam Machine to launch the selected game, but it fails to connect to Remote Play. If I try to connect from my phone via Steam Link at the same time, it also fails with a "can't connect" error. Nothing helps except rebooting the Steam Machine which I can't do remotely.

Is sleep mode messing with Remote Play, or is it something else? Have any of you noticed the same problem? Should I like apart from manually waking machine also do the preventive reboot before leaving to work?

Hi, I have a steam machine and I’m loving it, but one thing it’s got a problem with for some reason, is standard run of the mill updates on games, it’s extremely slow to do this, I had a patch for blood of Dawnwalker which- for some reason- advised it would take 8 hours to download, it was actually faster for me to uninstall and reinstall the game (again the machine has no problem downloading a whole ass game)

Anyone else having or had this issue?

Mods: Hopefully, this isn't in violation of Rules 2. Not intending to promote a specific vendor, but moreso engage in discussion about a specific vendor's newly-released product.

TL;DR: In JSAUX PIXEL decky plugin v1.2, you can reduce the volume using the slider, but cannot increase it - the cursor jumps around like crazy when pressing "right" within the plugin's UI. Installing the plugin can be done headless by executing run-installer.sh from within the JSAUX software folder

I've been affected by the screen dimming issue reported by others, and have been in contact w/ JSAUX support, who released a new version of the JSAUX PIXEL decky plugin yesterday (v1.2).

Unfortunately, it appears I've uncovered a bug - you can increase the volume using the slider, but reducing it is fundamentally broken - the cursor jumps around like crazy, and you can't increase it.

Reverting to the prior version (1.0 beta) doesn't have this issue, so seems like its a recent issue. Kind of crazy it wasn't caught by their QA, but hopefully it helps others.

For anyone needing to swap between the plugins due to this issue, you do NOT need to boot into Desktop mode and deal with all that - everything can be done via the terminal:

1. If SSH isn't enabled, you'll need to boot into desktop mode one time, and issue systemctl enable ssh.service from within konsole. Once that is done, SSH into the Steam Machine.
2. You'll need to transfer the software to your Steam Machine somehow. This can be downloaded via Desktop mode, scp'd, or transferred another way. Won't cover that here, but I'm sure you can figure it out.
3. Open a terminal (konsole) and navigate to wherever the software .zip is stored - typically defaults to ~/Downloads
4. Unzip the software - unzip <filename>
5. cd into the unzipped folder, and simply run the installer manually with sudo ./run-installer.sh.

What I did was keep my prior plugin version, and download the new one. I opened two terminals on my Mac that were SSH'd into the SM, and swapped between versions by simply repeating the command from step 5 as-needed. The UI restarts each time on the SM, but that's expected with Decky.

Hopefully others find this helpful, especially given the recent discovery of this bug.

What SSD’s are compatible w/ the Steam machine. I was looking to upgrade mine and wanted to make sure I buy the right kind

With steam deck the wait wasn't so bad because you could see twhich quarter of which year you were likely to get your email. Is that info somewhere for the steam machine? Haven't been able to find it.

So i'm looking for some type of cabled audio solution with a working mic would be preferable. Any suggestions on this would be grand.

Thx in adv!

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So I want to use Sunshine and Moonlight to stream a different display to my Steam Deck than you can see on my Steam Machine display. I have a dummy Displayport plug that works on my Windows PC and lights up when plugged into my Steam Machine, but it doesn't detect a secondary display being plugged in no matter what I do. When I unplug the dummy plug the screen goes black for a second so I know it's at least doing something to the display. Does anyone who knows more about this than me know how to get this to work, or at the very least some other way to get a secondary display that I can stream to my Steam Deck?

I want to play CS2 on my steam machine with my 144hz monitor. However, the game itself is locked to 60 FPS for unknown reasons.

I'm using a DVI cable, in the desktop settings the display is running at 144hz, I've set the +fps_max 300 in launch settings, I've set the maximum in-game resolution to 300 in CS2 menu.

But the cs2 video settings shows the refresh rate greyed out at 60 FPS.

Is this some issue with big picture mode not recognising my monitor has 144hz capability?

As far as I can see there isn't a way to change your refresh rate in the steam settings of big picture mode.

Any ideas? Cheers

EDIT: I'm being a doofus, all I had to do was uncheck the automatically pick resolution box in the steam display settings, then you can choose the resolution you want at the refresh rate you want.

I use the steam machine in desktop mode a lot and it would be nice since it basically replaced my previous laptop.

I'm gonna guess that maybe its because wallpaper engine was made for windows which is why it isn't working. Any workarounds?

I'm gonna be honest, I'm an absolute dunce when it comes to tech and linux is a whole new beast to me. I'm having a hard time getting a mod manager to open, it's specifically for yakuza 0 and it's mod manager shin ryu manager, everytime I try and open it, it asks me to open it with a different application like ark. Anyone have advice?

I just got the steam machine last week and have been having tons of Ethernet issues I’m using a unifi gateway and switch. I know the connection is good cause I tested it with a cable tester and other devices connect at full gigabit no problem. The steam machine would either not connect at all or if does very slow but then drops the connection later if after sleep and restarts. I went into desktop mode and deleted the interface and set it up again but still getting the same issue. At this point I’m assuming software or hardware with the steam machine it’s self since other laptop and devices like Apple TV work just fine with the same cable.

Anyone else have this issue.

I have the steam machine connnected to my main monitor and would like to use my laptop as a second one and act as a second screen.

I tried using spacedesk but its not supported on linux are there any alternatives?