YouTuber The Phawx recently uploaded a video that lowers the Steam Deck’s refresh rate to 40 Hz for smoother gameplay. However, it was done through Windows. Well, now it’s possible to lower the refresh rate on the Steam Deck than the default 60 Hz with Valve’s SteamOS. Additionally, users have better control over the device’s fan “to improve the experience in low usage scenarios.” Here’s the patch notes for SteamOS 3.

Though it has been confirmed that the Delta varient of the Steam Deck contains the whining fan noise, and though iFixit is trying to secure replacement fans, there’s a relatively easy fix that you can do right at the comfort of your own home, and chances are you’ll already have it available: electrical tape. A Redditor made a post about it. They recorded before and after the fix. All they did was take the back plate off the Steam Deck (just eight screws) and put some electrical tape behind the Valve logo.

General Linux Gaming Ubuntu is falling behind, but apparently the newly released Ubuntu 22.04 is “absolutely stunning.” We’re starting to see less and less games that are borked through Proton. Thanks, Valve and CodeWeavers, for all the hard work that you do 21 new games have been released on Steam with Linux support You can update the firmware on your DualSense controller with Sony’s new FW updater app. Works great with wine-ge-custom or GE-Proton The game Overgrowth has now gone open-source Steam Deck Looks like Metroid Prime Trilogy works very well with the Deck You can customize the theme on Steam The Deck was the Steam top seller for the week ending April 17 Variable refresh rate switching is “coming soon” Small Deck client update went out, adding a few bug fixes and some other features The dock, now called a “docking station,” has upgraded ports.

Steam Deck Steam Deck gets keyboard improvements Valve puts up a video that goes over all the things the company has done since the past month as far as Steam Deck improvements EmuDeck isn’t the only solution for emulation on the Deck: there’s also RetroDECK dbrand now has skins for the Deck Deck client received an update for quicker offline mode, dual trackpad updates, and plenty of other additions Steam Deck ships twice a week now during certain weeks Boiling Steam wrote a post on making the Steam Deck a laptop with 3D-printed parts Software Updates New version of GE-Proton is out: 7-14 (updated since 7-12) New version of vanilla Proton: 7.

A little late on this one, but I thought I’d mention it anyway since a lot of us are still waiting for the Deck to get into our hands. Lawrence Yang from Valve had told IGN back in February that the company would be producing Steam Decks by the hundreds of thousands beginning in April. Looks like they lived up to their promise: instead of emails going out once a week to reservation holders, they’re now going out twice a week during certain weeks, on Mondays and Thursdays.

UFD Tech recently put out a video that answers the question: can you use the Steam Deck with an external GPU? The short answer is yes. The extended answer is: this was only tested on Windows any GPU from NVIDIA didn’t work AMD GPUs work but they are bottlenecked by the speed of the M.2 slot on the Deck The process is simple: just take a M.2 cable that goes into the M.

My acquantance Gardiner Byrant recently released a video that, in part, goes over why Valve should slow down the Steam Deck Verified process. As it currently stands at the time of writing this, we’re at 1,929 titles on the Steam Deck that are either Verified or Playable, according to ProtonDB. Over 1,000 of those titles are Verified, while the rest are Playable. That’s a big jump from the 825 that we had a month ago with the Deck’s launch.

Was hoping to get this out yesterday but time flies. Hope a day late isn’t going to bother anyone. News Steam Deck-related ETA Prime – A YouTuber that mostly focuses on emulation – released a Steam Deck review last week, and covers the gaming as well as the emulation aspect of the Deck. Needless to say, the Deck is one of the most powerful handhelds out there for emulation. Gameranx also had a video review That Boiling Steam contributer that got a Steam Deck?

Have a look at these benchmarks: Yeah. In case you hadn’t caught up on the news yet, just take a look at how much better SteamOS handles Hitman 3 than Windows on the Deck from Linus Tech Tips’ video. 15 FPS better on average at Medium settings. Holy crap. Doom Eternal and Elden Ring were also tested, and they also clearly outperformed on SteamOS than the Windows version. Linus Sebastian from Linus Tech Tips said “it was just annihilation…Linux just ran away from Windows.

Great news to one of Boiling Steam’s contributors. John Kehayias – AKA podiki or 9bladed, depending on where he is on the Internet – just got his Steam Deck today. He happened to be one of the few lucky ones that got their pre-order within the first 10 minutes they went live. He got the email from Valve on Monday, paid for it, got the shipping info from FedEx on Wednesday, and received it today.