Steam Hardware

I thought this might be useful as more and more people have gotten their Frames (me included), and many more will be getting theirs.

These are lists of some tools and software that are useful for Steam Deck and can enhance your experience with it, as well as all the websites and other such Steam Deck resources I know.

My left stick started to drift, and I might as well get hall effect sticks as replacement

Hello!

Sorry for the poor title but in every 3D shooter I have it set so left trigger activates my gyro, this is to get precision movement while ADS. What I have right now is on a soft pull it activates gyro, and on full pull activates gyro and send the left trigger command. So no issue there.

I think it would be cool to collaborate on a list of free VR apps (games, experiences, and other VR software) that we have tested to work well on frame and would recommend to others. Even older ones that have been around for a long time could still be fun for those of us who are newbies to VR. I’m going to try all the free apps I can and feel like while I’m starting out and getting the hang of it, before I start shelling out for paid ones. It would be useful to state whether it worked in standalone or streaming mode too. I’m mostly interested in standalone for now since my old gaming box has a fairly old and underpowered GPU.

Which accessories are you all getting for your frame? It would be nice to compile a list of suggestions here. All the official accessories were sold out when I ordered my Frame, but I was OK with that. I have a laptop charger that I’m using to charge it, and the ergonomic kit doesn’t seem really essential.

I have seen a lot of people argue you must use a 45W output power bank, probably because it’s the charger output Valve recommends for continuous play.

I ended up on the wait list from the lottery, but I received an email at 2am this morning that I’m now in the reservation queue. My Steam account also says the same. There may be hope for waitlisters after all!

I posted earlier about initial impressions and how VR streaming wasn’t working on Fedora but I did finally get that working so I figured I’d post an update.

I am in the Steam Machine 2026 reservation queue now. Please convince me NOT to buy one. I don’t really have a gaming PC right now. I am hoping that the Steam Machine can replace my productivity laptop, so I can play modern games on it and also have better general performance for productivity apps.

I’ve been buying physical media and want to save digital copies for SD card. I had no issues with my CD for music but DVDs don’t work.

My partner and I both signed up for a Steam Machine, and I for a Steam Frame. We got waitlisted for all 3, and in the last 24 hours we got into the queue for all of them. Time to decide which machine (2TB vs 512) to get, and if we actually want a Frame!

My main concern with the Frame was the inside out controller tracking. I play Beat Saber at a very high level, and I’ve never been completely happy with my Index. I’ve been able to try all the Quests over the years but none of them impressed either.

Did anyone manage to find a setup to run Minecraft VR on the frame standalone ? Ideally with Prism Launcher (Even tough I know flatpak will have some limitations)

I got my Frame today and found an unlabeled button at the side. Took me a bit to find out what it does. It’s actually a mouse button! When you click it once the cursor appears and from then on works like a mouse. Only trouble is that the cursor is right in the middle of the screen and you control it by moving your head.

I’ve run into an issue with flatpaks not running through Steam on the latest beta update from yesterday, due to missing dependencies in the steam provided runtimes.

Blender ships with a VR scene inspection addon. I’m wondering if you can install blender on the headset and work on your scene with the 2d desktop and then launch the VR scene Inspection to view it in 3D VR? Also can you stream blender from a desktop to the headset and launch the scene inspection from the headset? I’m really curious about these to work flows.

Hey guys,

First time VR user.

I just learned (and successfully tested) that we don’t need an account to use PaySafe. I thought that was mandatory in order to pay anywhere, like PayPal is. And Steam allows paying (or adding to wallet) directly from the PaySafe code. Meaning, we can buy the code in a local shop anonymously and just add it to the account.

I’m so ootl cause I never really bothered with vr but I wanted to get the frame. Now I just discovered that apparently valve dabbled in vr already and I Read about the Index in some titles which got me confused. Why Are people so keenly interested in the Frame when the Index already exists? For what reason would one get over the other?

Guess who got their order email and threw their bottle in excitement?? (me, it was me.) But unfortunately is ergonomic kit is out of stock

Got my Steam Frame yesterday and had a chance to play with it a bit. Figured I’d leave some details here since I haven’t seen much.

How quickly are the order emails going out? I feel like I’m going crazy checking my emails every 5-10 minutes. Like this is taking a serious mental toll on me.

A recent Steam Controller update (possibly beta only update) added a second Bluetooth pairing slot, letting you pair two Bluetooth devices (just like how you can pair two pucks). To start the controller in the second Bluetooth slot, you turn the controller off, and then hold L1 + B + Steam to turn it back on (versus R1 + B + Steam for 1st BT slot, or R1/L1 + A + Steam for the two Puck slots).

I’ve got the latest patch, and this game runs pretty okay.

I landed on the waiting list like many of you, but that’s okay, it gives me more time to read feedback and experiences from folks who buy one in the first round.

I signed up for the wait list for the Steam controller when it was released, but hadn’t heard anything since. When getting on the list for the Frame last night, I thought to check on the controller, and it just gave me a link to get on the list again.

I was wondering how does it compare in terms of complications and performance?

I have been in the waitlist for the Steam controller since the day it was announced.