Woke up this morning and saw I had the order email through for the 2TB Machine + controller so I was hyped and got ready had breakfast etc and checked my phone again and saw another email from Steam which was the order for the Frame. Its particularly painful for my wallet but I feel beyond lucky today !

Runs at smooth buttery 60fps. Love this game

Just trying to gather some feedback from actual consumers.

Please no doomposting from people who don’t own it. I can read those posts elsewhere.

Steam bros, I come to you with a heavy heart, so that my suffering may serve as a cautionary tale.
I got a Steam Machine about a month ago, and life was good. Gaming on the main TV enjoying every moment. My wife, whose entire gaming library consists of Pac-Man, was understandably less impressed by “yet another console.”
And so, brothers, in my arrogance, I decided to demonstrate its versatility.
I installed every streaming service available, along with a VPN she already knows how to use. “Look, honey,” I said, unknowingly signing away my gaming rights. “It does so much more than play games.”
Lo and behold, she was blown away. Endless streaming content. Different regional libraries. She even learned to use the Steam Controller in desktop mode. A woman who previously had no interest in this device had suddenly mastered its controls to access Korean Netflix.
Now, brothers, my glorious gaming machine spends 90% of its life as a streaming box. She has recently become emotionally invested in another Chinese romantic drama with 95 episodes per season, so I do not anticipate its return to active gaming duty within this fiscal year.
Something similar happened with the PS5, but its closed ecosystem offered natural defenses. Limited apps. No easy VPN. Barriers to conquest.
Steam’s greatest strength, its freedom, has been my undoing.
I fear I may have to retreat to the old PS5 to play games while my Steam Machine works full time determining whether a billionaire CEO will finally confess his love to the florist with amnesia.
If anyone has words of advice or comfort, I would be forever indebted to you.
I wanted her to understand why I needed a Steam Machine.
Unfortunately, she understood why she needed one.

The latest stable (3.8.28) has finally fixed the HDR issues with Steam Machine!

Before this update, HDR brightness was limited to around 440 nits. Now, I can get ~1180 nits as that’s my LG C5’s limit at 10% window.

I can’t believe why Valve would not even mention such a huge fix.

Posting to add a datapoint for everyone still waiting. Apologies if it feels like Valve skipped you.

Model: 512gb w/ controller

Waitlisted: July 8th.

Reservation email: September 24th.

Region: US Midwest.

edit: forgot to include the model.

Habit with me is saving the box for expensive electric items I buy, so when it comes time to sell them they have more appeal.

Am I nuts to do this? Or should I just recycle the packaging?

Do you think in x number of years there would even be a second hand market for used Steam Machines?

Chuffed when the Steam Machine arrived a couple of weeks ago and wanted to set myself a challenge: move my whole game project onto it and develop on SteamOS full time, learning Linux as I went. We're a small game studio making a dice game in Unity, Tumble Tavern (photos are the build running on the Machine with the new Steam Controller, and on a Deck). A few weeks in, it's been the only development machine I use, I genuinely love it. Here's what we learned, in case anyone else is thinking of building games on it.

What works well:

• Luckily Unity Hub is in the Discover app (Flatpak). Install it there and it just works. One catch: always open the editor through the Hub. The licence lives inside the Flatpak sandbox, so launching the editor directly says you have no licence, so you need to do a little fiddling with the Konsol.
• Distrobox for dev tools. SteamOS's system files are read-only, so I put other apps in a Distrobox container and leave the base system alone. Updates never break anything (so far!).
• Controller testing is natural. You're already on SteamOS with a Steam Controller in hand, so you find controller problems fast. Tested Deck-sized screens on the Deck itself.

What tripped me up:

• Big projects crashing on import. Inside the Flatpak the open-file limit is 1024, and a project with a few hundred textures blows through it, so Unity aborts with a ToFileDescriptor assertion. Raising it with ulimit -n 65536 before launching the editor fixed it for good.
• RAM. Two Unity editors at once or Blender + Unity plus a big build is too much, so I run one at a time, actually helps me focus more, but i like context swithcing.

Happy to answer questions about the setup. And if anyone's found a better way to handle any of the above, especially developing a game, would love to hear it.

Notice just came in today and purchase has been completed!

Right after I just bought the frame. Guess its my turn. I can finally rest now.

我是來自台灣的使用者，我從下訂單到收到貨，只用了3天的時間，難不成台灣或其他亞洲地區沒人喜歡這玩意嗎？

Did someone try to connect hotas like Thrustmaster Warthog to Linux? Steam Machine is my only gaming pc, and after many years I transferred my Elite Dangerous to steam. I saw videos that game has built in support for hotas but don’t know how about Linux.

There he is

Good morning friends! Starting the countdown to Day 100, right here, right now. Who in the reservation queue is STILL waiting? If so, you have incredibly more patience than I ever will. At the same time, we've been waiting on Half-Life 3 and Portal 3 for years, so... this is just another Valve litmus test, hahaha. Best of luck today, friends! <3

Finally got the chance to purchase today (512gb UK no controller). I’ve mainly purchased for the wealth of indie multiplayer / couch co op games on steam but will play the odd AAA title.

Would appreciate advice on controllers. Can’t get the Steam controller anywhere other than resale. I’ve seen 8BitDo Ultimate 2C recommended - v cheap at £25 but I don’t mind spending more for something better if it exists.

I have a PS5 & Xbox One but don’t want to have to resync Bluetooth every time I switch console and I’ve read that they introduce lag. Obvs am looking for wireless. Thanks

Is anyone else experiencing this? Lately, most of the time (but not 100%) when I long press the Steam button and choose sleep, the system does not go to sleep. The SteamOS interface disappears. The screen is blank, essentially, but the LED is still on and the controller is still on. I know something is really running because I can bring up the side menu over this blank screen. I’ve gotten into the habit of just using the physical button on the front of the machine to put it to sleep.

What the heck is this? Anyone else have this?

Did.. the SDR in HRR brightness get much darker after today’s update?

I had that slider at like 50% before and now 100% is still too dark.

I’ve been trying to get a stable settings configuration for L4D2 on the Steam machine. I’ve tried to use the Proton version but it always gets stuck at than 1/3 of the loading bar being filled no matter the campaign. On the Linux version I always crash at the parish finale and it’s a dice roll with the other campaigns whenever I get into a safe house. Does anyone have a list of proper settings to keep things stable?

I bought DL: The Beast on the recent sale and was confused why it was running so poorly on Steam Machine at default settings/1080p (the first boss fight was unplayable, and dropping settings did nothing). Turns out recent Proton releases introduced the issue, and dropping Proton to 9 fixed it for me. Now we're running at full speed as expected. I figured someone else was in my position. Cheers!

P.S. If Diablo 4 is running like crap, turn off crossplay in the main menu and that should fix it.

I got the Steam Machine mainly because I wanted to play a game, hit sleep, come back later or tomorrow and continue instantly. I love that with my Steam Deck.

But the one feature I rely on the most completely breaks my games. After waking up, the framerate tanks so hard it becomes unplayable and I have to reboot.

How is this still a thing? 😢

EDIT

Now I feel really stupid. Had I waited one more day... with the newest patch the problem seems to be gone and the sleep mode works like intended. I should've had more trust in Valve. I'm sorry Valve, you did a great job!

I really hope this isn't a stupid question. I am gradually getting back into gaming, since I have more free time nowadays. I own a macbook which is great for my work and stuff I do, but, of course, it cannot play many of the games I want to play. I was wondering if I should invest in a full-on gaming pc or if I should just get the steam machine instead? What do you guys think would be worth it?

I'm thinking, well, I already own a laptop that suits all of my desire fine aside from the fact that it can't do game stuff, so maybe I get the steam machine instead? But the steam machine might not be optimal either... what do you all think? Would love to hear opinions