If rebooting doesn’t help, we suggest visiting the Steam Deck Recovery webpage and following its instructions to download the recovery image. If you’ve applied the latest updates but games keep crashing, try holding down the Steam Deck Power button for about 10 seconds to initiate a reboot. Valve has released plenty of fixes through its updates, and getting the latest version of Steam Deck’s software could fix your problem the speedy way. Note: Before you try any of the steps we’ve listed below, it’s always a good idea to bring your Steam Deck online and check for any software updates.

'USB-C with DisplayPort 1.4 Alt-mode support up to 8K or 4K USB 3. This is the factor that determines how many monitors can be driven from that a single DP port.

Each stream takes Ygbps based on resolution, color space, and refresh rate. I won't attempt a full MST lesson here, but the tl dr is: Each DP port has Xgbps bandwidth available to it as determined by the DP version and the connected device (hub/dock) and connection quality. It wouldn't technically be wrong for Valve to advertise it if it weren't enabled, but they did the right thing and launched it in a well-functioning state). The point of my post was mostly to validate Steam Deck stated specs of DP 1.4 with Alt-mode support is correct, and MST works (this is unfortunately not a given - sometimes the hardware is there but can't be leveraged due to lacking proper driver support or configuration. I'm no expert, if anyone can clear this up it'd be appreciated! seems the term to use may be MHL, but everything else is the same so I'll leave it as-is.

I would even argue it handles it much better than most laptops I've used since it does in fact have a decent GPU in it and most people use laptops with slow onboard GPUs (2d desktop performance is a thing, it's non-negligible)Įdit: I use the term MST here - which is a valid term, but might not apply to USB-C devices as I thought. That would be a different story if trying to run games on all 3 monitors though of course lol. Driving multiple monitors in desktop mode has no impact on performance of the device as expected (and same for 'gaming mode', though the extra monitors are black).

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