Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > Steam Update Channel.

Note: This update was re-released to fix the "Automatically Set Resolution" toggle from incorrectly showing when not on the Preview Channel.

It's been great to see all the community activity around custom boot videos, so we made a couple updates to make this a bit easier to do. The new folder location below will be a safer place to save your video files, and they won't be wiped with every Steam update.

Custom boot videos

• Steam Deck will now look for a custom boot video and/or a suspend animation in steamui/overrides/movies/. Please note that you'll need to create this folder first.
  
• Play custom boot animations in full screen

General

• Fixed issue with startup haptics

Resolution: applies to Preview Channel only

• Added a toggle allowing Steam Deck to automatically control the display resolution for external displays. When toggled on, Steam Deck will automatically adjust the resolution for best performance on higher resolution displays.

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > Steam Update Channel.

General:

• Fix a case where the refresh rate slider would disappear

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Preview channel, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > Steam Update Channel.

• Fixed controller firmware update applying on every boot

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > Steam Update Channel.

General:

• Auto-focus chat textboxes when opening the chat tab

Steam Input:

• Fix an issue where booting into offline mode in desktop would result in unresponsive controller inputs until the "stay offline" dialog was clicked.
  
• Fix an issue with setting command settings inside a modeshift

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > Steam Update Channel.

This is the second update for today. The earlier update's patch notes are here.

Steam Input

• Now automatically switch controller configurations to be per-device when multiple of the same controller are connected at once
  
• Fixed a crash with editing the mode settings for an input (e.g. joystick)
  
• Fixed a crash when setting a trigger input to "Disabled" in an action set layer
  
• Fixed an issue where "Disabled" would be listed multiple times the dropdown options for modes
  
• Fixed a bug where switching the active controller in the configurator could lose unsaved changes

Steam Input: FlickStick

• Reduced update rate from 240hz to 120hz to reduce instances of maxed out mouse movement between game frames
  
• Added a "Slap Back" check so that the stick does not accidentally invoke an opposite-side turn when snapping home aggressively
  
• Any remaining Snap Angle is doled as the stick returns to zero. This further reduces "mouse movement spikes"
  
• Fix for Dampening Value not being used with the correct ranges
  
• Tweaked Inner Radius Default to be lower