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Comment by Forgeties79

3 months ago

We heard this literally with the previous steam machine lol

There’s no doubt they’re tee’d up to radically alter the landscape. But man they better have a truly plug and play, turnkey system if they want to compete with consoles. The steamdeck even after this many years is absolutely trash at going from handheld to docked (better the other direction at least) and is incredibly hit or miss when it’s plugged into a TV in general. I had to buy a special DP->HDMI cable that forces 1080p @60 to get it to consistently appear on screen docked (LG C1 for reference).

I am excited for the steam machine. But yeah, telling me it’s a more powerful steamdeck is super exciting in some ways and eyebrow raising in others unless they got some big SteamOS overhaul coming.

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Normal_gaussian  3 months ago

Most of the deck/dock screen issues are related to dock firmware and USBC display negotiation. The steam machine has built in HDMI and Display port which are presumably relatively bog standard.

  • Forgeties79  3 months ago

    This is the steamdeck official dock plugged into my LGC1, which is one model in a very popular line of TV’s, via hdmi.

    • SchemaLoad  3 months ago

      The official steam deck dock seems to be fairly buggy, it's widely complained about. I've been using an Apple USB-C to HDMI adapter and it's worked perfect on every TV I've tried it on. Since the steam machines don't use USB-C video out this wouldn't be an issue.

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xgulfie  3 months ago

Literally every USB-C dock I've ever used with any laptop has these sorts of issues.

On the flip side, I'm pretty confident AMD will be able to output to DisplayPort