I’ve hooked it up to my TV to play some games with a PS4 controller. But I’ve encountered some really annoying issues. Audio not outputting through my TV speakers unless I go into desktop mode, then reset the console. When I go into desktop mode, the controller no longer registers so I can’t play. So I have to go back to gaming mode, where I can’t get sound from TV speakers. I’ve tried adjusting settings on both my steam deck and TV to no avail. That is, display options on desktop mode, and steam input settings.
The performance is also horrendous, with a very unstable ~20fps. This is even at 720p resolution and lower. When I reset the console docked, I have to unplug it then plug it back in or the screen just stays black.
It’s all incredibly frustrating. Is it just human error, or is SteamOS still really buggy when it comes to docking? I feel like it should just be plug and play, but I’m tired of having to set so many things up just to play on my TV. And then it being subpar visually compared with just using the deck’s own display.
I had the no audio issue once. It “fixed” itself after I shut down my deck, connected it via a different dock I have lying around from my switch, rebooted and switched over to the original dock again.
Don’t ask me why, I guess somewhere something “remembered” a wrong audio setting or something and was forced to reset with the other dock.
Or it might be I had a cable not properly set and got it right when plugging back in.
I also frequently have an issue where I get no signal at all to the TV when waking up the deck, and that’s usually only fixed by rebooting the deck. Which I have to do blind or unplug it, because the deck knows it’s in TV mode, the TV just apparently doesn’t.
Also, yeah, I pretty much only play 2D / pixel art games docked. It’s not powerful enough to output a good looking picture to a big TV screen.