Any one else seeing random stutters and issues with VRR and performance fluctuations after this recent update ? I feel my system is a little unstable the frame time is a message in many games .. never was the case before this update everything was super smooth and frametime were a flat line in everything but after update major boo boos & stutters .. anyone else ?

Z1 extreme Legion Go S 32GB Ram ..

In star drift evolution on low power mode I get Barely 40fps in such a bare bones game .. never had to use any proton or even touch anything proton ever before this update .. everything seems a little messed up making me a little nervous .. what's the deal here ?

I would like to get one of these device to start tinkering with the new ARM based Steam OS distros. What should I get if I will mostly play Steam games instead of retro?

Also would it be possible to have both Steam and retro games (with achievements)?

I am looking to buy a AMD 7500X3D and RX9070 GPU. And Want to build a pure gaming PC running SteamOS.

Is there anything I should be aware of? I saw Drivers aren't really a thing with SteamOS. Does that mean I do not need to worry about Wireless drivers, Sound Drivers etc?

Should I use a 1Tb NVMe Boot Drive for the OS or is it better to get something smaller. Like a 500Gb for the boot drive. Than a bigger NVMe 2Tb for the game storage. Any issue with having 1 boot drive with multiple storage drives? Being the Steam Machine uses a SD card reader to store games would it be possible to also add one to a SteamOS PC?

I also plan on getting the Steam Controller because I want it to boot right into the games wireless by using the awake feature. Is it possible this feature could be updated to boot-up the PC in the future?

If there is anything else you think I should know please feel free to add anything.

SteamOS is 100% foreign to me. I have built Windows PC's in the past but never a Linux based system.

Thanks

Edit: fixed

I'm using proton cachyos to inject fsr4 with the launch command PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 %command%. With the latest update (11.0-20261005), this does not work and i need to degrade the previous version to work again. This is happening across final fantasy 7 rebirth, crimson desert, stalker 2 and wuthering waves (haven't tested on other games yet). Has anyone encountered this issue ?

FYI, my device is a legion go 2 z2e on stable channels, but i've also tried with beta and preview channels with the same results.

I’m using SteamOS (Bazzite) on a Linux PC (AMD Radeon) and I’m testing Remote Play to my Windows PC.

Does H265/HEVC/AV1/Pyrowave support HDR streaming?

I really can’t tell if it’s working or not. HDR is enabled in SteamOS (Bazzite) so my display is always in HDR mode but I can’t tell if the stream is proper HDR.

Has anyone noticed if there has been an improvement to performance on this update?

Says the Mesa driver got updated but I cannot see any difference on a 9070XT

Also did they do the proper hdmi 2.1 yet as again cannot see any new resolutions or changes

Just picked up this wireless half keyboard for $30 to use with a wireless mouse. It feels a lot more natural to me than some of the other options out there. Worked great for ARC Raiders, DBD and Marvel Rivals. Any other accessories you guys are using that work well?

Link: https://a.co/d/0cfAjoSq

I installed SteamOS 3.8 stable branch on Lenovo Legion Go 2 and I really love it, but I have to rolled back to Windows 11 because its built-in touch keyboard in desktop mode (maliit) seems to only support English in 3 rows layout and no Thai. Is there a guide to install touch keyboard daemon that both support Thai and in full size layout?

On the steam frame, I found a setting that allows me to boot into desktop upon start-up. I, for the life of me after having enabled it cannot find it again and I want to disable it. As far as I remember, it was in system settings.

Does anyone know anything about this and can potentially explain as to why it won't allow me to change this feature?

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

EDIT: I ended up just factory resetting it and when I went into system settings, there the boot option was. I was in fact, not crazy.

Thank you to everyone who commented

I’m running SteamOS (newst Firmware) on a custom-built PC with an ASRock A520M-ITX/ac motherboard and an Xbox Series controller.

The onboard Bluetooth (13d3:3558, Realtek) works, but has extremely poor range (also tried several different antennas), so I switched to a TP-Link UB500 Plus (2357:0604, RTL8761BU). The UB500 has excellent range, but the Xbox controller randomly disconnects and reconnects, especially while gaming.

The logs confirm actual HID disconnects:

Controller device closed after hid_read failure

The controller then gets recreated as a new Bluetooth HID device a few seconds later.

Things I’ve already tested:

• Disabled the onboard Bluetooth completely, so only the UB500 is active.
• Disabled USB autosuspend.
• Removed other 2.4 GHz USB receivers to rule out interference.
• Confirmed the required rtl8761bu_fw.bin and rtl8761bu_config.bin firmware files are present and loaded correctly.
• Valve/SteamOS firmware 0xdfc6d922 works but still produces random Xbox HID disconnects.
• Currently testing newer firmware 0xddd5c761, extracted from TP-Link’s Windows driver. It loads successfully, but I’m still testing stability.
• Fresh pairing/reboots and different USB configurations have also been tested.

So the main suspect currently seems to be the RTL8761BU firmware/Linux compatibility with Xbox controllers (my other Bluetooth Keyboard), rather than USB range or the controller itself.

Has anyone found a reliable solution for RTL8761BU + Xbox Series controllers on SteamOS/Linux, or can recommend a Bluetooth USB adapter with a different chipset that is known to work reliably?
Swapping the Mainboard isn't a option.. (hopefully).

My build with a RX 7600 has issues when i turn on HDR in Gamemode when using 3840 x 2160 @ 120Hz. The colors look very flat and whashedout. Without HDR it is fine. I tried a 2.1 HDM cable and also DP but the issue is with both. At 60 Hz it is fine BUT in Desktop mode it is fine with DP, but not HDMI at 120Hz. I tried the beta (3.9) and preview (3.10) but the issue is the same with all versions. Force Composite also does not help.

So.... should this work right now or do i need to wait for an update? In Windows this works great so the hardware / TV setting is not the problem.

I’ve been having a problem where I get a new game and whenever I try to open I get stuck on the opening screen and then the game crashes. It’s not every new game, but it is most of them. Also, it adds time to the total play time to the game even though in some cases I haven’t even owned the game for that long(like I bought it 30 minutes ago but it says I’ve played for an hour). I’ve tried googling my problem, but nothing works. Some games that don’t work are cyberpunk 2077, mecha chameleon, marvel rivals, and tmod loader but terraria works. Please help me 🙏

I built a Steam OS PC about a month ago with a 9600x, 9070XT, and 16 GB DDR-6000 Ram.

It worked perfectly for about a month. I use it connected to an HDTV like a console. Absolutely no issues, loved it.

Then just today I turned the PC on from completely off and it won’t boot past the Asus Motherboard Splash screen. IMy son played Forza Horizon 5 on it earlier in the day with no issues. We shut it off for a few hours, then this.

Any suggestions? I can access the BIOS menu. I tried disabling secure boot, but rhat didn’t change anything.

I got SteamOS running on a Snapdragon phone.

This is ARMDeck, an open-source project aiming to turn older Snapdragon phones into Linux gaming handhelds.

Currently working: display, touchscreen, audio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPU acceleration, charging and battery monitoring, with Steam and games running.

It’s still a proof of concept, and there’s a lot more to do.

Check out the project on GitHub (github.com/GabrielCRadu/ARMDeck), and if you’re interested in helping bring ARMDeck to more Snapdragon phones, contributions are very welcome!

Hey, I’m sure the answer is no but is there any way to do some specific color management? Also any documentation on how the hdr works and which type is used?

I recently got a projector that does 99% BT.2020 and DCI P3 and I’d maybe like to do some davinci resolve shenanigans as well as just display color managed movies or whatever.

Thnx!

I'm a recent Linux convert. Started with Mint, didn't like the gaming experience, the console use requirement and the lack of HDR, now I'm on Bazzite KDE Plasma and it's great. However, I'm a big fan of Valve and I'm wondering if SteamOS would be good for me. I'm running a RX9070XT, 9850X3D and I'm mainly using my PC for gaming, music, some office stuff and photo printing. I don't use Game Mode.

Would SteamOS be adequate for me, or should I stick to Bazzite?

Giving some serious thought to moving over to SteamOS, but have some misgivings about totally dropping Windows 11.

Most of my games are Steam based but do have others on GOG and Epic. As well there are programs I use such as Photoshop, Outlook, etc that I'd hate to find out don't play nice with SteamOS.

Looking for other people's opinion if they made the switch but kept the dual boot.

Thanks!

If I exit to desktop mode then fully quit steam it functions as a cursor. When I initially quit to desktop (exits game mode, boots DE) cursor moves briefly, and as soon as steam finishes its sequence and relaunches the desktop version the cursor stops being able to be controlled by dual sense remote. This makes seamlessly using desktop mode unusable. Is there a way to allow the controller to continue working as a cursor with steam open?

Tried to play the game again but it crashes after 3 mins after starting the game

Not sure what happened cause i was able to play it before using Steam OS

What i tried

Bleeding-edge proton