My #SteamDeck is pretty much useless since I lent it out. Every game that's a bit more complex results in a reboot.
Wanted to play Fallout 4 again and despite the fact I reduced the graphics settings and the framerate to 40 after the first crash it still crashed three additional times in the character editor.
Pretty much every 3D game is unplayable since he had it for a few weeks. This is so frustrating.
I wonder if the Steam Deck is just not build for 3 user accounts. Or if some unknown power brick killed it. The Steam Deck is just such a weird device sometimes, it could be everything.
I probably should just reflash it with a clean version of Steam OS to start fresh. Maybe this will solve the problems.
Some of you suggested, that I could just reinstall Steam OS and this should fix the problem. If not I could try Re-image the Steck Deck, as a radical solution.
Well. Reinstalling Steam OS was intended to keep logins and games. That failed, everything is gone. That's okay, but I wanted to try it this is enough.
Anyway, I Re-Image it now so the software is completely "untouched".
@kaiserkiwi Sounds like that person you loaned it to owes you a little sumthin' sumthin' for your time and trouble to undo whatever it was that they did to it. :bec_angry:
@SynAck It's not said that they did something with the Steam Deck that wasn't right. It’s not uncommon that the Steam Deck crashes under the load of multiple users.
It could be that it's a hardware defect. It could be that it was just software. I will see it after the Fallout 4 download is finished, so not today.
If something is still not right after this reset I will ask them if they did something with the Steam Deck, that could have caused this. And then I only have their word.
@kaiserkiwi ah, okay. I didn't realize that multi-user Decks were known to be unreliable. Still sucks, though. Sorry that you have to go through all that rigamarole.
@SynAck It happens. When I was younger I did stuff like this all the time so it was kind of nice and a fresh start is sometimes not as bad as it sounds.
Just annoying that my internet is so bad that I have to wait to check if it helped :D
Yeah I would prefer if tech just works, but to be honest… Not in this capitalist world. Everything is assembled as cheap as possible and sometimes even cheaper that that so stuff like that is expected.
Looks like it worked. I could play absolutely normally and the #SteamDeck didn't even get hot. When I tried it before the reset the fans were loud as fuck and the device was a toaster.
The last time I had to reinstall the OS of a device because it had problems under normal use was Windows 7. And this was a long time ago.
@kaiserkiwi
Oh no :( Das hatte ich mal mit dem damals neuen Akkuschrauber und meinem Schwager. Ausgeliehen, zurückbekommen. Stottert beim Drehen, qualmt, stinkt 🚮 Was hast du gemacht?!? Nichts, bei mir lief der noch 🤷♂️ In diesem Sinne, viel Erfolg, hoffe du kriegst es hin. Auch miteinander.
@iieksi Werde es wohl einfach mal mit einem kompletten Reset probieren. Keine Ahnung ob die Person, der ich es geliehen habe versehentlich was gemacht hat oder ob das Steam Deck einfach von drei Benutzer:innen überfordert war, aber ich sollte teure Technik einfach nicht verleihen.
Habe ich genau aus dem Grund jahrelang auch nicht gemacht, aber naja. 😅 Dumm gelaufen.
@kaiserkiwi You know what might help? Download a copy of the SteamOS Steam Deck image and reinstall it. It helped me. My Steam Deck decided not to work properly anymore out of the blue. Now it works fine.
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