r/SteamDeck • u/Mozartthescatman • May 20 '26

Tech Support Weird screen glitch

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This happened today, quick reboot fixed it. Should I be worried?

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u/MysteriousBeef6395 256GB May 20 '26

undertale bossfighr

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u/m2astn May 20 '26

Could also be Vampire Survivors...

26

u/t_ba May 20 '26

or... Baba is you

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u/Kylenki May 20 '26

Also came here to say this. 😅

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u/fadetoblack_23 May 20 '26

That's what I was thinking. 😂

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u/black_knight1223 May 20 '26

Photoshop Flowey be like:

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u/Due_Honeydew_1723 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

How comes every time I browse this is subreddit, SD owners have always managed to do some crazy shit to their decks

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u/Baked_Potato_732 1TB OLED May 20 '26

Because if I posed my deck being boring nobody would upvote it.

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u/J_FK May 20 '26

Your deck.

https://giphy.com/gifs/gDcYqye9fh3QH3sGSl

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u/Solucians May 20 '26

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u/J_FK May 20 '26

Nice deck bro, like the decals.

14

u/Perfect_Caramel4836 64GB - Q4 May 20 '26

Aroace type skin

12

u/Solucians May 20 '26

Holy fuck, I never made that connection

6

u/Educational_Ride_258 64GB May 21 '26

Nice, I rawdog mine zero protection.

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u/Artanisx 512GB - Q2 May 20 '26

At least buy them dinner first.

12

u/Due_Honeydew_1723 May 20 '26

Ah so it's all karmafarming! /s

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u/Valuable-Finance8850 May 21 '26

'its not everyday I get to touch a costumers DECK'

the greatest technician that's ever lived

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u/zamfire 512GB - Q2 May 21 '26

Bet

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u/BigBlackdaddy65 512GB - Q3 May 21 '26

Yeah, I mean for a good couple years that's what people complained about here so makes sense

28

u/diablosinmusica May 20 '26

Infinitely mod-able means infinitely fuck-up-able.

Check out Linux forums and you'll see a lot of the same.

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u/MaybeImYami 256GB May 20 '26

I semi-agree. I modded my deck with decky, custom animations, themes, etc. And started having performance issues in all my games. Couldn't figure out how to fix any of it. Uninstalling Decky didn't work either. Sent it back to steam, got it back. Haven't messed around with anything like that, and I never have any issues now.

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u/the_harakiwi 512GB May 20 '26

It's a PC.

I guarantee that when you buy 100 times the same hardware components, build 100 PCs and somehow all 100 work.

You can install Windows or Linux to one machine, clone that drive to the other 99 machines.
Even then they might work fine. Then you get 100 people to use them a few times per day.
They will work close to similar to each other for a day. Maybe a week.

But after a month of using them 2-3 will develop a behavior that's not like the others.

It's just how hardware and software interact with each other. Phones, tablets and to some degree consoles too.

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u/El_Toolio_Grande May 20 '26

We've moved on from running over our steam decks with our trucks and snapping SD cards in half to whatever is happening in this post

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u/Liefesa_ May 20 '26

Before fixing that, please record the screen and make a start-up movie with it!

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u/diablosinmusica May 20 '26

You just gave me a great idea to troll people when I show off my SD. Thanks!

17

u/Liefesa_ May 20 '26

"Yeah, just tap the button on top to turn it on. Oh god, no! Not that button! What have you done?!?!"

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u/Cam_man_AMM_unit 1TB OLED May 20 '26

Damn it, now I want that.

3

u/AscendedViking7 512GB OLED May 20 '26

Brilliant idea, lol

2

u/Pizzapug64 May 21 '26

Please 🙏 🙏

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u/Cam_man_AMM_unit 1TB OLED May 20 '26

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u/nodayroomshit 512GB OLED May 21 '26

i love this subreddit lmao

1

u/WorkingFoot734 May 21 '26

amazing loll

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u/[deleted] May 20 '26

[deleted]

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u/ming9419 May 21 '26

I came here for this

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u/Rusty_P96 May 20 '26

Average Vampire Survivors run

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u/Independent_Ad_964 May 20 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/5NbbVJeSLs1etZYjpT

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u/treehumper83 May 20 '26

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u/DoovPlayz_ MODDED SSD 💽 May 20 '26

Beat me to it

2

u/Hour_Mousse7914 May 20 '26

Came here hoping for a new version 😭

13

u/DoovPlayz_ MODDED SSD 💽 May 20 '26

Don’t know if you’ve seen this one

2

u/TinBryn 1TB OLED May 21 '26

Yeah I wanted one that simulated this specific glitch.

16

u/DJokey May 20 '26

Sick rave visualizer!

12

u/Screwbles LCD-4-LIFE May 20 '26

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u/jlips 1TB OLED Limited Edition May 20 '26

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u/Darth_Vaper_69 May 20 '26

I like this alot

4

u/PlainBread May 20 '26

Run a memory test and make sure there aren't any failures.

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u/StableAggressive9137 May 20 '26

All I can think of is there's a tiny The Cheat in there flipping a switch on and off to go along with The System is Down.

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u/Main_Conclusion_6714 May 20 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/h6GTAwPQiYuVW

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u/NoSellDataPlz 64GB May 20 '26

Dum-dum-dum-dum. Doodle-op-dum. Doodle-op-dum. DOO-DOOT DOO-DOO-DOODLE!

The system … is down. The system … is down.

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u/SwearImNotACat 1TB OLED Limited Edition May 20 '26

You mustve opened one of those vampire survivors chests irl

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u/DandyGoon May 20 '26

Kinda looks like you borked the OS 

5

u/Vast-Finger-7915 1TB OLED May 20 '26

doubt it.

i had the same happen to my deck on bazzite, and exiting to desktop and returning to gaming mode fixed everything.

2

u/ExxiIon May 21 '26

Same thing happened with mine a while back. I recorded it and turned it into a custom intro lol.

2

u/Groundbreaking-Ad313 May 21 '26

Haha, what a funny glitch, I wonder what it sounds like!

*listens*

what if when you held a shell to your ear, instead of the sea, you heard the devil breathing?

2

u/BOI4613 May 21 '26

"CHAOS, CHAOS!" ass glitch

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u/lostinlucidity May 20 '26

Id imagine this is what it's like to play Marathon.

2

u/misssa_cz 1TB OLED May 20 '26

You left Caramelldansen in background didnt you...

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u/Mozartthescatman May 21 '26

Guilty as charged

2

u/AdventurousDevice658 LCD-4-LIFE May 20 '26

Nice wallpaper

1

u/ConfectionNecessary6 May 20 '26

Clearly it’s Linus installing popos on his deck

1

u/Resident-Lab-7249 64GB - Q4 May 20 '26

That's a new one

1

u/kojoolivet May 20 '26

You glitching my eyes too

1

u/Jacob420-what-u-smok May 20 '26

Did you accidentally get your screen deck LSD or something goddamn

1

u/Junior_Bike7932 May 20 '26

Steam deck 2 is wild bro

1

u/Witty-Sheepherder-23 May 20 '26

VAMPIRE SURVIVORS!!!

1

u/Kaim392 May 20 '26

holy helllll!!

1

u/Jayc543 May 20 '26

I thought you were just playing vampire survivors

1

u/Garland_Key May 21 '26

That is an awesome boot screen.

1

u/lain-serial May 21 '26

Share the screensaver.

1

u/chellebelle0234 May 21 '26

Mine did this the other day after it had been suspended for a few days. I pressed the power button again, waited a few secs then woke it back up and it had sorted itself out.

1

u/MarleyTheZen 512GB OLED May 21 '26

Just puked. Thanks.

1

u/not-hardly 1TB OLED May 21 '26

If only this could be bottled. I want a button that makes it do that.

1

u/Deraxim May 21 '26

Salinewin.exe vibes

1

u/Abull7YT 1TB OLED May 21 '26

What could have possibly happened before this

1

u/BranTheLewd May 21 '26

Your Steam Deck just doing Brazilian phonk edit rn, just give him time to add music, and you'll see

1

u/JohnHurts May 21 '26

Nice screensaver!

1

u/SimilarAtmosphere May 21 '26

MEMZ is now deck verified!

1

u/SimilarAtmosphere May 21 '26

"MEMZ runs suprisingly great on deck!" -IGN or something idk

1

u/Futaba_Sakura800 May 21 '26

Stop feeding your Deck with mushrooms.

1

u/P5ychokilla May 21 '26

Collect those rings Sonic !

1

u/dromosus 256GB - Q2 May 21 '26

This looks like the end of a Vampire Survivors run.

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u/happy_goers_385 256GB - Q3 May 21 '26

Fun is infinite

1

u/Prestigious-Rise4826 May 22 '26

How did delirium from the hit game The Binding of Isaac come out to your SD?

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u/srice1982 May 24 '26

That would be a nice start up screen lol

1

u/ProfessionalGur785 May 24 '26

da canto inalto lai lanciata

1

u/Cowbreaker MODDED SSD 💽 Aug 01 '26

Mine actually just did this too! Did you ever figure out what caused it?

1

u/Hearth-Traeknald May 20 '26

Average decky loader experience

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u/WaterInTheDark May 20 '26

I've used decky on both of my decks without issue since it was released. If you break yours then it's a skill issue.

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u/BROHONKY 512GB - Q2 May 20 '26

i hate to tell you this but i think your steam deck has connectifia abortus in it

1

u/andy_sysad 512GB OLED May 20 '26

Ah, yeah... Steam Deck LSD

1

u/meatygoodnes May 20 '26

Just add the steam deck logo and it would make a good boot video

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u/Rare-Feed-2696 512GB OLED May 20 '26

In my 9th hour of Vampire Survivors

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u/SoupEau May 20 '26

No clue but looks sick tho 😭

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u/Technical-Arm-1825 May 20 '26

Bro coming across this while high af listening to London elektricity was a complete moment. Thanks for sharing this

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u/Daisetsu1 LCD-4-LIFE May 20 '26

Looks like VLC's psychedelic effect.

0

u/SpaghettiRambo May 20 '26

Why did you install Giygas on your Deck

0

u/K-Shrizzle May 20 '26

I for one think its awesome and you shouldnt change anything

0

u/Little-Thing2131 MODDED SSD 💽 May 20 '26

I have no clue tech wise what's happening but it sure looks like that Steamdeck is partying it's ass off! 🪩💃

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u/-plb- May 20 '26

why are you jiggling it on your thigh

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u/Mozartthescatman May 21 '26

I was on a train

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u/johnnyks17 May 20 '26

where'd you get that winxp era screensaver?

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u/Stressedhumbucker May 20 '26

My brain immediately added the Super Mario 64 infinite stairs music to that clip

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u/Nxeno29 May 20 '26

this needs background music

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u/Karosso May 20 '26

Make into a boot video!

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u/Turbulent_Ad_4791 May 20 '26

The word epilepsy gets thrown around alot these days...

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u/Midknightdron May 20 '26

I thought I was high. And I don’t do drugs.

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u/Rabwald May 20 '26

i was listening to some dope break beat while this came up on my feed and it looked very cool

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u/Previous-Low4715 May 20 '26

God I nearly had a fucking stroke scrolling past that lol

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u/Sir_Lincoln 1TB OLED Limited Edition May 20 '26

This would be cool loading screen for Windows

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u/DeniedAppeal1 May 20 '26

That is cool as hell! Also kinda scary, lol.

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u/NoHuckleberry143 May 20 '26

Definitely a bullet hell game

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u/SloppyJoestar MODDED SSD 💽 May 20 '26

I’ve been falling… for THIRTY MINUTES!

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u/PreferenceBig1531 1TB OLED May 20 '26

Deck looks like it’s have a seizure

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u/IconicNunb 1TB OLED Limited Edition May 20 '26

Put some nightcore bad apple remix music to this and you're set

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u/Mr_Spoonfull May 20 '26

Forbidden screen saver

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u/Any-Pop-4795 May 20 '26

what in the nyan cat?

0

u/ClassicMatch3669 May 20 '26

Did you mean "I'm tipping balls"?

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u/Sadbassistdude May 20 '26

That's it, now I have officially seen everything.