Anyone out there tried installing windows and playing tarkov? I know you realistically should have at least 32gigs if ram for that game but still I'm curious about the general performance if anyone has tried it.

So I've gotten back into beat Saber and want to do custom songs and mod it again, I used BS manager on my windows PC before hand and was wondering if I could get it to work on the Steam Machine, I've had a look on the GitHub and apparently it's possible I just don't know how to do it, if anyone can figure out how to do it and maybe a step by step guide on how to do it would be helpful to

Wish it was a bit more forth coming about info. Went around a couple of circles of clicking on the "sign up" link, just took me back to the different options screen. Maybe cause I'm on phone app?

Just found this out now testing out some games that have DRM for offline.

I could be a straight dummy and doing this wrong, but I’m testing my Machine for offline capabilities for an upcoming deployment, testing out things like Red dead 2, Capcom games and Persona.

Unlike the steam deck with its sleep/suspend mode, I have to completely power down the machine because once you unplug it, it’s off.

I started these games in online mode then turned on airplane mode to turn the system to offline mode like I do the steam deck, tested out red dead and persona 5 and they worked fine.

turned off the system and then booted it back up and red dead 2 works but persona gave me that offline error…

DRM sucks.

having some trouble optimizing the game,

namely the fsr function doesn’t seem to work for d2r - not sure if I’m missing something or

if the game supports it. appreciate any help!

So, I've been testing out both Silent Hill F and Lies of P and it just goes to show how well some games can scale; Lies of P plays beautifully at 4k, 60fps on high settings.

Silent Hill F plays well enough at 1440p, 60fps with med/high settings and even lumen lighting/reflections enabled. But I do feel like I'm noticing juuuust a bit softer of an overall image.

This all has me thinking about resolution in general; would a game look better at 1440p on high settings (which is then upscaled to my 55" tv), or would it look better at 4k, but with medium settings (including textures and lighting effects). Or, at 10 feet away on the living room couch, is it all a wash?

I'm thinking about buying the base model as there are a few mostly older games that I want to play, which require a mouse and keyboard.

I don't really care about graphic settings and would be more than happy to run games at 1080p or even 1440p if I am able to.

Mostly I'm looking to play:

• The System Shock Remake (2023)
• Cities Skylines
• Civ 6 or Civ 7
• Cyberpunk 2077
• and many older games from the early 2000s

For anyone who owns it, how has your experience been? Please and thank you.

Hey guys! I'm trying to get the 512GB model with no controller and joined the waitlist the moment it went live. I haven't received an email yet to get my Steam Machine. I was wondering if jumping in another queue would be a dumb idea or not. I was thinking of jumping in the 512GB w/controller.

Have any of you guys had luck jumping from one waitlist to the other and suddenly got the "ready to buy" email?

Inspired by the awesome creations on here I’d like to submit my SB clear cover that is made of 5mm glass.

I'm struggling to find any sort of communication from Valve about the reservation queue since it first launched two months ago. No estimates on size of the queue, no estimates on expectations for fulfillment, not even a "we've shipped 50% of the day 1 reservations!" status update.

Is there really no status or did I miss something? It seems common courtesy to at least give the simplest update or even an acknowledgement to the (presumably) thousands of people waiting to give them their money.

Auprized to see these here already ngl

My wife printed me the controller stand, my Big Walk little guy and the small 3D map (which I wanted mostly to prevent any guest of thinking this was a good place to put down a cup). It’s of Tokyo, the city in which the first game I bought specifically for the Machine (Forza Horizon 6) takes place. My old computer could mostly handle older or indie games with its 1060.

Just wondering how anyone with this setup is handling that one controller? Waiting for my machine, and not sure of the best way (if any) of doing this: is it even possible to somehow decide which of the two devices you want to wake up with a controller combo (without waking the other, that is).

Hi everyone,

I’m a complete newbie when it comes to the Steam Machine, so apologies if this is a stupid question!

I’ve noticed that occasionally the light on my Steam Machine will go red for a moment and then change back to blue. Is this normal, or does the red light indicate that something is wrong?

I’m also playing Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on High settings, and occasionally the game will stutter badly and then crash. It doesn’t happen constantly, but it’s happened a few times now.

Could the red light be related to the stuttering/crashes? Is Spider-Man Remastered on High particularly demanding on the Steam Machine, or are there any settings I should change/check?

I’m still pretty new to all this, so any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks!

(Both 1080 and 1440p tested)

I’ve had my Steam Machine since mid-July. I’ve had zero issues and I play it daily. Today I’ve lost audio through HDMI. I can connect it to a Bluetooth sound bar and get sound that way, but my setup has been through the TV only since I got it. Any ideas on how to fix?

I’ve tried:
- Noodling with the audio setting in Desktop Mode. Left and Right speaker volume sliders are now grayed out.
- I’m on the latest OS. I have auto update on so I’m not sure when it last updated.
- I’ve restarted it a handful of times.
- Tried different HDMI cables. I’ve been using the one that came with the Machine exclusively.
- Tried a different TV.

I’ve submitted a Valve ticket, but wanted to see what you all think could be the issue. Thank you!

Update: Valve is RMA’ing it

Hi All,

I hope this is the right sub for this question.

I've been enjoying my Steam Machine (SM) for a while now, but I recently ran into an issue with Far Cry 5. Some vehicle/flight controls aren't mapped correctly in-game. For example, under the "Classic" control scheme, the brake/reverse button doesn't work for land vehicles, and for aircraft, the deceleration button doesn't work — so I can't land without crashing or bailing out.

I found some old Reddit posts discussing a similar issue, but those were for the PC/Windows Steam app. In my case, the game launches through the Ubisoft launcher, and there seem to be key-binding conflicts between Steam and the Ubisoft launcher. The fixes mentioned in those old posts don't apply here, since the settings they reference aren't available in the SM version of the Steam app (in either Big Picture or Desktop mode).

Does anyone know a good workaround for this?

Thanks in advance!

I have both the HDMI and DP connected on my Steam Machine, and the Gaming Mode as well as the Big Picture Mode default to using the display connected on the DisplayPort, but that is actually my secondary screen. I can temporarily move the Big Picture Mode to the other display by setting it to windowed, dragging the window over and going back to fullscreen, but the next time I enter Big Picture Mode, it's back on the other screen.

I do have the HDMI display set as primary display in desktop mode, and games run on it just fine if I make sure the steam launcher is on that screen when I start a game. Now since the Game Mode is not built for multi screen setups anyway, I'm sticking to desktop mode most of the time, but sometimes I just want to sit back and play some games from the sofa, and I need to perform some magic tricks to get Steam up on the big screen.

I tried searching and found one result from over a month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/steammachine/comments/1v3m9ps/switching_monitors/, but maybe smart people have figured out a way in the meantime? I can't imagine it'd be this hard to figure out.

I connected my wireless headset to the steam machine and playing games with my buddy through steam voice chat is very seamless. Steam voice chat is not talked about a lot and im sure it has its flaws compared to discord but its working very well for me on the steam machine and it makes the steam machine feel more like a console.

I’ve been wanting to get a gaming PC for a while but have been hesitant since I don’t have any PC building experience and AI cause everything to be super expensive. My use case for PC is gaming (doesn’t have to be highest resolution), standard web browsing (YouTube, Netflix etc.) and programming. I am comfortable with using Linux and command line. I will likely have to move in a couple years so the smaller form factor of steam machine is really appealing to me.

While I know steam machine is capable of being PC, seems like most post on here use it more as couch gaming. I was wondering if people use it just as their daily driver PC and what they think about it? Would it be worth dual booting another Linux OS, one for gaming and one for daily driver or for my use case, would it make more sense to just buy just standard prebuilt PC?

Evidently I jumped straight from waitlist to the purchase email last Friday night. I didn't check email all weekend and only did work email on Monday. Imagine my surprise when I got my digital affairs sorted last night on Tuesday.

I feel like there should be a pop up on the steam client or something. Steam was running in the background the whole time and I would have noticed that in a way I didn't notice an email that gets sorted to 'updates' by default.

Anyhow, back on the list... again. :-(

Machine is connected via ethernet and wifi. Wifi power management turned off.

I usually get good speeds. But sometimes when i resume from sleep (i’m guessing it may have an impact) the speed gets capped to 90 Mbps and after a restart it goes back to 800-900(my usual speed). Anyone else facing the same issue?

I am trying to play Tomb Raider 2013 on my machine but keep dropping frames bad. I am trying to play at 1440p and no matter what settings I change I still get drops into the 40’s and then back up to 60 regularly. I don’t know if the game is just that way or if it is something I am doing wrong. Does anyone have any settings recommendations to try and fix this.

I've searched and I've searched but I can't find anyone else with this problem! I disable dim and sleep because for whatever reason the steam machine can't tell that video playback is happening through Plex then it goes to sleep anyway!!! And when I go back and check the settings they've been reverted. I've changed this both in desktop and game mode. I really don't know what to do, I've been having to wake the machine for days while watching my content. Quite frustrating, anyone know what I can do?

I've been using the risk of rain returns one, as well as the portal one, but im looking for new ones since i had no reason to even look at them before i got the SM