Anybody else getting steam deck gaming Paralysis, every time I fancy playing on it sat on the sofa, I just spend 10min looking at my installed games, then my library, look at my emulators…. Then close it down and put it back away. Then if I find something I feel like I’m forcing myself to try something I give up after a few minutes not really getting invested into it.

I’ve had my steam deck for 3 years now. Loved it at the start. But for the last 18 months I doubt I’ve played a total of 1 hour in actual games in it.

Gaming isn’t the issue, when I’m at my parents with my PC (my partner doesn’t have space for a PC in her small apartment) I can spend hours on it.

How to Play PokeBonk on Steam Deck

I managed to get PokeBonk running on the Steam Deck, and it's fully playable!

Here's a step-by-step guide on how to set it up.

1. Set up Firefox in Desktop Mode

1. Switch your Steam Deck to Desktop Mode.
2. Add Mozilla Firefox to Steam using the Add to Steam option.
3. Open Mozilla Firefox and type about:config into the address bar.
4. Click Accept the Risk and Continue if the warning message appears.

Disable the fullscreen warning

1. Search for full-screen-api.warning.timeout in the search box.
2. Click the pencil icon to edit the value.
3. Change the value from 3000 (3 seconds) to 0.
4. Search for full-screen-api.warning.delay.
5. Click the pencil icon to edit the value.
6. Change the value to -1.

Disable the pointer lock warning

1. Search for pointer-lock-api.warning.timeout.
2. Double-click the preference and change its value to 0.

2. Configure Firefox in Gaming Mode

1. Switch back to Gaming Mode.
2. Find Mozilla Firefox in your Steam library.
3. Open Properties and go to Launch Options.
4. Replace the existing launch options with the following:

text

"run" "--branch=stable" "--arch=x86_64" "--command=firefox" "--file-forwarding" "org.mozilla.firefox" "@@u" "@@" "--kiosk" "--url" "https://pokebonk.com/"

1. Rename the game from Mozilla Firefox to PokeBonk.
2. Launch the game!

3. Recommended Controller Layout

Press the STEAM button and configure the controls to your liking.

Here's the layout I use:

• Left Joystick: Joystick (8-way overlap), WASD
• Right Joystick: Mouse
• LT: Space
• LB: Mouse Scroll Down
• RT: Left Mouse Click
• RB: Mouse Scroll Up
• A Button: E (Keyboard)
• X Button: R (Keyboard)

That's it! You should now be able to play PokeBonk on your Steam Deck.

Have fun! 🎮

Is there a way to fix the screen touch distance problem

Even though I use the touchpad sometimes in other games for the cursor and touch screen the distance is quite far so it's difficult to press it.

This is probably a better fit for something like r/steamOS, but figured I would share here in case anyone has shared my frustrations around streaming from a 16/9 aspect ratio Linux/SteamOS Desktop to the 16/10 steam deck:

Apparently, Linux is limited in it's ability to swap aspect ratios on the fly in the way that you can do on Windows. So, if your monitor is 16/9 (which will be most everyone), and you stream to your steam deck, you won't have a full screen image when you select a 16/10 resolution (like 800p) in game, even if you have the remote play settings set to 800p. The advanced host setting to change the resolution to match the client isn't even displayed. However, in SteamOS Desktop, I've found a very simple workaround in game mode:

On your desktop: select a game, open the settings cog, then open properties. Select the Maximum Game Resolution setting, scroll to the bottom and open More options, then select a 16/10 resolution. My monitor is 1440p, and I used the 1600p option. Now when you stream your game, you can achieve a 16/10 aspect ratio for glorious fullscreen handheld gaming! I'm betting this would work if you set your global max res setting to 16/10 as well, though I have not tested that, and you would want to set it to a resolution greater than your monitors so that you aren't limiting your desktop experience.

Hi everyone, I am attaching an image, in TW3 remastered why sun is looking like this:

We are going to have a launch lan party with friends for WoW Forever. Game is not accessible right now and wont be before the launch - but besides little bit disappointing performance I noticed one quirk that seem to be somewhat common - when I clicked the mouse to for example move camera (but not related to movement itself) game microstuttered. And it's consistent, if I spam click, game is presentation.
I was doing some updating and testing yesterday on different (accessible) version of WoW - Classic and the same quirk happened there (but performance was amazing, incredible).

I am split on whether to pack main PC which will be PITA or yolo it with SD and hope for best (main rig is too AMD system, CachyOS, no such issues with mouse in neither version of WoW).

Did you guys encountered the click/stutter issue, is there a known fix? I googled and found few rabbit holes with no clear 'fix' unfortunately, however, it looks like this issue is well known for about 2 years.
Other question would be general tips and tricks on performance uplift, although, I understand that new engine and graphics of WoW Forever is probably too much for SD, every bit counts!

Hey guys, so after 3 years of everyday use my R button gave out and I was wondering if I should take it to a repair shop or just buy the daughter board online and replace it myself and what would be the best place to find that daughter board (I’m balling on a budget)

I am getting this error while trying to register my Steam Deck through ProtonDB. It's the first time I thought I should be helpful since the last post on Lemon Cake was from a year ago and of course it's deciding to punish me for trying to do so 😭

Am I missing something? I am clearly in desktop mode, and I truthfully don't know how to fix this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated :3

I managed to make PokeBonk work on Steamdeck (gaming mode). It runs very well but sometimes movement input is bugged and your Poke move some way until you choose this direction with analog stick (it gets bugged sometimes when you move and rotate camera). Other that that its completely playable

Heres link to new guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1xht24d/how_to_play_pokebonk_on_steam_deck_guide/

Bought my OLED Deck in December 2024.

Yesterday when I turned it off the battery was at 97%, today when I turned it on it was at 40% and drained completely in a matter of minutes. Anyone else here run into something similar?

I've just found my favorite emulation frontend for SteamDeck. It's called NeoStation - https://neostation.dev/

I wanted to share because I couldn't find any other posts about this frontend on this subreddit. I love it because it looks beautiful and supports RetroAchievements so you can see all your achievements the way it's done on all modern front-ends (PS, Xbox, Steam). It also supports cloud saves and I like it much more then Emulation Station because of these reasons.

I'm not affiliated just enjoying it heaps.

How to make it work on a SteamDeck - https://github.com/misobadev/neostation-frontend#steam-deck

I'm aware there are ways to get it with Google Play, but I don't have it on Google Play and I'm not spending money on a game I already own.

So as of recently I’ve been dying to play some older games, was thinking of buying a ps2 and buying all the games but then I saw someone say it’s just better to buy a modded steam deck and have all the games at the palm of your hands. Was just wondering what to look out for what price is good? Hope you guys have a good day. Thanks for any advice.

Hi I bought a second hand limited edition in white and I don’t have the special start up and keyboard. Any idea how to get it? Thank you

Hey!

I've been trying to find the answer to this myself but I'm having a hard time. I stream a lot to my Deck, but I also play the same games on my desktop occasionally. For anyone else that does this, how do you reconcile settings on the host for a decent experience in both scenarios? Do I even need to when streaming uses virtual displays now? When playing on my desktop I use G-Sync/V-Sync, but does that setting carry over into the virtual displays that streaming uses?

I don't mind changing a few in game settings when streaming, but I'd like to not have to mess with the Nvidia app or RTSS or much else when getting the stream running.

I got a Switch 2 in september, in anticipation of some of the exclusives, so my deck was sat docked for about a month

I loaded it up the other day and did the usual updates, and now om getting a lot of lag. Like even menus are stuttery, games that normally ran smoothly are suddenly having FPS drops out of nowhere.

Ive checked TDP settings and all seems normal and I only use stable channel for updates

Had the latest firmware updates caused problems for anyone else? I havent installed or downloaded anything except the updates, so nothing else on my deck has changed. No plugins or anything

For most of my childhood I only had a PC, and I was only used to using keyboard and mouse, controllers just felt less precise and harder for me. But at some point about 10ish years ago I got a controller just for Rocket League. Once I actually got comfortable with it I started using it for more games, eventually I came to prefer it over keyboard and mouse in pretty much anything that wasn’t in first person or some sort of strategy game with a lot of menus.

Never felt tempted to get a console, even during the era of exclusives I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything. But when the steam deck came out I decided to get one, always been a bit of a valve fanboy and it kind of seemed like a PCish console in a way, basically a handheld PC (Though I never had any ambitions of using it for anything other than gaming). And I’ve been enjoying it way more than anticipated, especially for certain games I don’t ever wanna go back to playing on PC even with a controller. Most roguelites, metroidvanias and platformers pretty much feel like they were made for handheld, just using a controller with a screen (console or PC) can’t compare at all.

The best explanation I can come up with is that the screen is right there between your thumbs, it feels so tactile. It makes the controls feel more direct somehow, I guess it might have something to do with the fact that you can actually see your fingers while you play as well. I play way better, especially for fast paced or precise games.

Right now I’m revisiting Celeste a bit to see if I can beat some B side levels that I was struggling a few months ago, really determined to get actually good at this game this time around. Before that I played through Nine Sols, really hard but solid game, the combat especially felt great. I also have Croak on my radar, I tried out the demo a bit and it feels really nice, very smooth movement. It's a platformer with hand drawn graphics kind of like Cuphead but a more modern cartoon style, definitely gonna check that out when it comes out.

I still go back to the PC but pretty much only when my friends wanna play something multiplayer that I really can’t play well on the deck, mostly Counter Strike, Dota 2 and Deadlock. Other than that I stay away from my desk aside from work. I have a cozy couch setup and a nice little enclosed balcony with a hammock I sometimes use. It also feels so nice when I visit my family (they live 4 hours away) and I can just bring the deck for some gaming before bed.

I don’t even know if I would have been into gaming at this point in my life if I never got a steam deck. I really feel chained to my desk sometimes with how much work I need to do when we have some sort of crunch time, feels nice that my gaming hobby is separate from this now.

Trying to load up my modded version of Black Ops 3 and Whenever I try to boot up I get a message that Says Steam Tinker launch couldn’t connect to Wifi, It then says it’s installing in Offline mode and Never boots

What is the issue

My son and I tried to play DST last night. We'd played a few years ago and it worked fine, but this time the game keeps insisting on using the controller. Does anyone know how to force it to work with keyboard and mouse? Googling brings up others with the same problem, but the solutions they list don't seem to work for us.

Any help would be appreciated

I bought a 2nd hand steamdeck LCD 2 months ago and i always play 3-8 hours a day so far it works great the only issue i have is the battery health goes to 82% to 92% sometimes, but now i notice that my deck won’t charge at all to 80 while playing it’s stuck between 70 to 75, i always set my charge limit to 80% I also tried testing the steam deck charger to my phone and i notice that sometimes it works and sometimes it’s just stuck on that percent while charging for an hour? I always have my steamdeck charger in my power cord extension and never remove it but i did test it also in my wall socket but still it does the issue sometimes where its stuck on a percent should i replace the charger? I’m not really tech savy so i’m confused on what to do. Also sorry for my english