Is it kinda just common for games to crash to “desktop” on Deck? Had mine about 2 weeks, no matter if it’s big, small, or dolphin emulated, games will randomly crash on me, and the Deck restarts itself.

If there’s any known general settings that can stop the crashing, that’d be great.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    2 months ago

    Like complete freezes followed by a reboot? Or straight to complete reboot?

    I had that on my first unit, RMAd it and hasn’t happened again on the new one. I assumed it was some kind of faulty hardware component. Like the RAM or GPU.

  • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 months ago

    No, I have had mine since release and I think it’s crashed maybe 2 times on an unsupported game and I’m pretty sure it was due to bullshit launchers.

    Have you tried resetting your deck completely? Is it only happening with Dolphin?

  • Santo@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    I hope you got it from somewhere where you can return it. This is not normal and seems like faulty hardware.

    • Oka@sopuli.xyzOP
      3·
      2 months ago

      It’s a Valve Refurbished :D so still under warranty. I ticked off the fan setting mentioned before, just need to stress test it some more to see if that was the fix

  • icerunner_origin@startrek.website
    4·
    2 months ago

    Crashing has not been an issue on my deck. I’m 3 days shy of my 2 year anniversary with my steam deck. I can recall it crashing maybe 3 or 4 times, each of those linked to some custom game launcher and all in the default mode rather than desktop. For a while it used to hang when woken from sleep, but that hasn’t happened in 6 months so I assume was fixed in an update.

    I’m using desktop for emulation and games from GOG and Epic.

  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    2 months ago

    That’s what happens on mine if I undervolt the APU too much. If you haven’t touched those settings, it’s possible you lost the silicon lottery, and the only fix is an RMA.

  • DrDominate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    Take it from me. I had the exact issue. I got my deck, and it immediately had that problem. It’s a problem with power delivery to the GPU I believe. It can even be checked if you look at the kernel logs you’ll see GPU error. Sorry to hear it’s still an issue with decks. RMA that poor thing.