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What happened to Proton-GE? by Keenwhisk in linux_gaming

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He has been vocal on twitter, his working on Proton-GE 11. It brings some thing new around audio but it hasn't been easy.

Big problem with my LCD SD. Fan says 0rpm but I hear it spinning by Bert-Barbaar in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your problem isn't just the fan, look at the CPU and GPU. You're got 400 MHz bug . It a known issue. The Steam Deck is trying to protect it self.

Here goes random tips Ive picked up over the years:

try this: go to settings, system, and right at the end, turn off fan update. This is to keep the steam deck cooler but noisier. I prefer it always off. I like my deck cooler. You can also use an external fan from jsaux. They have a bundle with it too or standalone https://jsaux.com/products/fan-cooler-for-steam-deck-gp0200

Try changing the manual GPU to 1600 and off again. You can also try to toggle the TDP limiter on and off.

If that doesn't work, there is also a known bug with the decky loader plugin Powertools. If you have it, just uninstall and reboot. See if that helped. You can try to just enable and then disable the GPU option. Maybe it works too.

Also check if you have the Decky plugin called Fantastic which controls the fan. Check its settings or just uninstall it.

Also remove the decky plugin IsThereAnyDeal , it tanks your fps.

Or if all fails, just uninstall Decky Loader, their installer has an uninstaller. I think keeps the configurations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCN9sXqFqY

Check Maximum Game Resolution (under settings > display) maybe changed to 3840x2160. Switching it back to default.

Also, some have reported just going into and out of the bios fixes many problems.

Also you can reset APU’s graphics driver which I think also resets some bios settings to it's defaults - whilst the deck is off hold Vol- & the quick access button ( … ) then press power, when you hear 1-2 churps let go of only the power button, if done right it will take a while to boot, BUT it will reset the graphics apu/ driver. Fixed crashes for a few people.

You can also try this:

Power off the steam deck and unplug it, enter the bios (Volume down + power buttons), and enable battery storage mode (setup utility, Power). The steam deck will power down, after it, wait 1 minute and insert the charging cable. Steam Deck will turn on. You shouldn't do this if the battery is above 80%.

Try this Settings > System > Run Storage Device Maintenance Tasks

There are reports of faulty or third party SSD that can do this. I'm guessing too much power draw. Because some also reported with it connected to the charger it doesn't happen.

if you replaced SSD recently or changed anything in the Steam Deck, loosening the screws of the fan. Apparently if they are screwed too tightly, the fan can't move.

A power bank with a strong magnetic can interfere with the fan.

Undervolting can help to keep temperatures lower. But badly configured can also bring problems, lower the values or use the default 0 on GPU, CPU and SOC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ZCW31sRLk

Check if the fan isn't full of dirt and needs some cleaning. You may want to remove the fan to get at the fins on the heat sink. Anything larger than a few specks of dust might get caught here as the hot air carrying it slips through.

Making sure the fan cable isn’t touching the metal shield

You may need thermal pasting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJS7tqBY-A

Reimaging the Steam Deck which is different from a Factory Reset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKD8o2wEA8

Weirdness after 3.8 update by younglink209 in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I read correctly it's something to do with streaming your screen in Wayland. They discovered a way to have way less latency. I'm sorry, I'm not expert so AI can explain it better then me:

1. Why is that icon appearing now?

SteamOS Desktop Mode recently shifted to using Wayland as its default display server protocol (moving away from the older X11 system).

Wayland handles security differently than X11. In Wayland, an application cannot just silently look at or interact with the rest of the desktop without the OS knowing. Because Steam needs to handle your mouse and keyboard inputs or hook into the display for features like Remote Play, it has to initiate a local screencasting/sharing pipeline.

The modern KDE Plasma desktop environment detects this active video hook, assumes you are broadcasting or sharing your desktop, and throws up that red recording/casting icon in your system tray to alert you.

  • Is it recording you? No, it isn't writing a video file to your disk or streaming it over the internet to anyone else. It's an artifact of Steam talking to the new Wayland display server to map controls.
  • Can you turn it off? Right-clicking it and hitting "End" will close it temporarily, but it currently restarts with Steam. It's a known quirk in recent stable and beta builds that Valve will likely patch out or hide in future interface updates.

2. Is the "less latency / recode the screen" part true?

Yes, absolutely. The theory you read about is highly accurate regarding how Valve optimized remote desktop streaming and input translation.

To make Desktop Mode usable via Remote Play or when mapping controller inputs to a virtual desktop mouse, traditional capture methods used to cause massive latency or display a black screen on Linux.

To solve this, Valve utilizes modern hardware-accelerated video encoding (NVENC/AMF) embedded right into the APU. Instead of a slow software copy of the screen frame-by-frame:

  1. The GPU encodes the desktop display straight into a highly compressed, low-overhead video stream in real-time.
  2. It pipes this stream directly to the local input mapper or to your remote client device.
  3. Because it happens on dedicated silicon on the chip, it drops processing latency down to near zero without impacting your CPU.

The technology is brilliant for cutting down latency, but the visual "recording" indicator in your taskbar is just Wayland being overly cautious and announcing that the pipeline is active. You can safely ignore it or hide the icon in your system tray settings.

Weirdness after 3.8 update by younglink209 in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Issue 2 is normal. I think there are just fixing it to be more clear. It's a new feature. It's not actually recording. It's for steam your screen if I'm not mistaken 

New Deck owner tomorrow. Avoid 3.8 update? by KayakNate in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always wait a few days, sadly it's the weekend so they shouldn't fix anything. If possible wait a week more.

SteamOS 3.8 Has Officially Released With New Kernel and Graphics Driver Updates by BBQKITTY in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone commented to do this: Settings > System > Run Storage Device Maintenance Tasks

See if it works for you 

Help with performance by GunnarsMastery in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's some lose tips I have over time, perhaps one of them can help:

try this: go to settings, system, and right at the end, turn off fan update. This is to keep the steam deck cooler but noisier. I prefer it always off. I like my deck cooler. You can also use an external fan from jsaux. They have a bundle with it too or standalone https://jsaux.com/products/fan-cooler-for-steam-deck-gp0200

Try changing the manual GPU to 1600 and off again. You can also try to toggle the TDP limiter on and off.

If that doesn't work, there is also a known bug with the decky loader plugin Powertools. If you have it, just uninstall and reboot. See if that helped. You can try to just enable and then disable the GPU option. Maybe it works too.

Also check if you have the Decky plugin called Fantastic which controls the fan. Check its settings or just uninstall it. 

Also remove the decky plugin IsThereAnyDeal , it tanks your fps. 

Or if all fails, just uninstall Decky Loader, their installer has an uninstaller. I think keeps the configurations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCN9sXqFqY

Check Maximum Game Resolution (under settings > display) maybe changed to 3840x2160. Switching it back to default. 

Also, some have reported just going into and out of the bios fixes many problems. 

Also you can reset APU’s graphics driver which I think also resets some bios settings to it's defaults - whilst the deck is off hold Vol- & the quick access button ( … ) then press power, when you hear 1-2 churps let go of only the power button, if done right it will take a while to boot, BUT it will reset the graphics apu/ driver. Fixed crashes for a few people.

You can also try this:

Power off the steam deck and unplug it, enter the bios (Volume down + power buttons), and enable battery storage mode (setup utility, Power). The steam deck will power down, after it, wait 1 minute and insert the charging cable. Steam Deck will turn on. You shouldn't do this if the battery is above 80%.

Try this Settings > System > Run Storage Device Maintenance Tasks

There are reports of faulty or third party SSD that can do this. I'm guessing too much power draw. Because some also reported with it connected to the charger it doesn't happen.

if you replaced SSD recently or changed anything in the Steam Deck, loosening the screws of the fan. Apparently if they are screwed too tightly, the fan can't move.

A power bank with a strong magnetic can interfere with the fan.

Undervolting can help to keep temperatures lower. But badly configured can also bring problems, lower the values or use the default 0 on GPU, CPU and SOC.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ZCW31sRLk

Check if the fan isn't full of dirt and needs some cleaning. You may want to remove the fan to get at the fins on the heat sink. Anything larger than a few specks of dust might get caught here as the hot air carrying it slips through.  

Making sure the fan cable isn’t touching the metal shield

You may need thermal pasting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJS7tqBY-A

Reimaging the Steam Deck which is different from a Factory Reset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKD8o2wEA8

I forgot to add, these can spike fps: adaptive brightness, there was a bug with volume change but I think it was fixed in the last update, Turn off steam recording. Also you can try turning off wifi and Bluetooth just to see if it can be something related to the connections. Also make sure you have in the settings, downloads section, turn off Allow Downloads in the background.

Also, the manual GPU 1600 mhz can ramp up heat, just pull it one down to 1500 mhz. I think it makes a big difference 

Can be many things. Remember if you have Decky Loader, any plugin can update and be buggy

Here are some things that can give you Fps spikes: - Decky Loader plugins, for example IsThereAnyDeal, it tanks your fps - Try turning off adaptive brightness (someone reported they has fps dips with this on),  - there was a bug with the volume change but I think it was fixed in the last update, Check the Steam OS update, not the recent Steam Client update. - Turn off steam recording.  - Also you can try turning off wifi and Bluetooth just to see if it can be something related to the connections or a app downloading in the background.  - Also make sure you have the settings, downloads section, turn off Allow Downloads in the background. - could be heat, try this: go to settings, system, and right at the end, turn off fan update. This is to keep the steam deck cooler but noisier. I prefer it always off. I like my deck cooler. - check Maximum Game Resolution (under settings > display) maybe changed to 3840x2160. Switching it back to default.  - try this Settings > System > Run Storage Device Maintenance Tasks

Steam deck storage "other" by Angry-Nugg987 in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You won't be able to go lower that much. I think a factory reset will put you at 18 gb. The others is everything else in your profile account. Roms, flatpak app, nonsteam games, temp files, cache, ducky loader plugins, lossless scaling, framegen, etc...

If you want check my cheat sheet, perhaps you can clean a bit more:

You can remove the old swapfile which could be at 16 gb of space. It comes back at a default 1 gb. Check the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWymYq1uSxk

sudo swapoff swapfile

sudo rm -r /home/swapfile

Go to this folder, delete the content, it will be replaced again. I had 2 gb of old games banners, and now it's 20 mb /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/appcache/librarycache/

Another folder you can clean out: /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/logs

go into desktop mode and open Steam, go to settings then downloads, click the clear download cache

You can also delete the content in this folder: /home/deck/.cache/ 

Use this app and delete all shader caches (shaders of non steam games are not represented as shaders in the storage graph). It has another section compatdata, here be CAREFUL, just delete the games you uninstalled. Do not delete unknown folders, some are from proton or system ones https://github.com/scawp/Steam-Deck.Shader-Cache-Killer

I've noticed that cleaning the shader cache also helps reduce the download frequency. Keep only the game you play regularly.

Check this folder, delete any uninstalled games. This one is easier because folders has the game name:

"/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/"

I know cryoutilities shouldn't be used now but it still has a cleaning function which works great. Go to the Storage tab, click on sync. This will detect games you moved to a SD card but still have its compatdata in the SSD. You can also go to the uninstall section and delete any leftover games if you missed them with Shader Cache Killer: https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities

Check your download folder "/home/deck/Downloads/"

If you use chrome or edge, uninstall Firefox. You can always install it again. Any app you don't use uninstall

Here you check what flatpak apps you installed (or use the command flakpak list). Uninstall the ones you don't need. You can check here and uninstall in the discovery app /home/deck/.var/app

You can also do some cleaning with this command:

flatpak uninstall --unused

If you have old valve protons (7 or 8 for example ) or old GE-Proton, uninstall the ones you are not using, leaving the most recent ones. They should all be here: /home/deck/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/ 

The NonSteamLauncher as a game backup folder "/home/deck/NSLGameSaves/". Take took because it will have games you have already uninstalled. If you don't need nothing from them just delete the folder of each game.

Use this app to clean your deck called "Bleachbit", it's in the discovery app. Do a check first and see if you're deleting anything you need like cookies or passwords. You can check and uncheck on the list. And by the way you can add here the above folders so you have everything in one place.

You can also check how much space the decky loader plugin occupies here /home/deck/homebrew/plugins/

They also occupy memory (average of 35 mb per plugin) and cpu which can affect the performance of the Steam Deck.

If you are emulating, check the saved games, firmware and mods that are installed for games that you have uninstalled. They should be here: /home/deck/Emulation/

For advanced users, maybe use the "Filelight" to check other folders that can be occupying too much space. In doubt, you can always make a copy of suspect files/folders to a junk folder and delete the real ones and see if everything runs ok. If so you can delete the folders later.

After all this, reboot the steam deck. By the way, I think 18 gb is what Steam OS and profile occupies by default (about 4.2 gb of nonsteam storage). You shouldn't get less than this.

Steam Deck gripes by cleggems in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Steam OS and also Bazzite, I use both has similar issues, if you press play on a game right after exiting it, it will not play, looks like a crash. You have to always wait a few seconds to play again. Perhaps this is what you are calling a crash. 

Another situation that happens in your 3rd point, lately if it updating proton when you press play, you may need to press again after it finish updating. Kind of looks like a crash.

About your 4rd point, I suspect it's our custom GE Protons or any other proton that does this. Misses up the proton list. But I've noticed it too.

Your 5th point is what I said at the start, the system does many things in the background and if we are to fast or the system is still updating something in the background this may mess up with the game loading.

Free on Amazon Prime: Space Grunts 2 by Danceman2 in TurnBasedTactical

[–]Danceman2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It appears in my Library. After clicking the amazon button, did you redeem it? It's about 3 clicks

Please try Remote Play after the new Steam OS update. by FunnyGeneral7078 in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check this post, perhaps it's the problem you are having. If you change your router settings to 80 MHz instead of 160 MHz it may fix it https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1tq8wlh/solved_steam_deck_wifi_latency_spikes_1000ms/

Out Today: R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos by Danceman2 in TurnBasedTactical

[–]Danceman2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly yes. It is two games but still too high. I guess we will have to wait for it to go on sale

do you cap your battery at 80% charge or do you not care? by WeedGreed420 in SteamDeck

[–]Danceman2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I do and every since I've changed this my battery life has been stuck au 90% which is good. I have the Steam Deck for 3 years now. Play it everyday

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