Jefferson Turpin

A workaround has been discovered by u/Acceptable_Special_8 as detailed in this Reddit thread: the steps to get it working in gaming and desktop mode are below (and in the Reddit...

Update: does not affect headphones. This does cause distortion at the highest volume though. Quite a bit of it, so not recommended if you want to play at super high...

> Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1329#issuecomment-1873170659 Good to mention here for sure, I found this myself too. I think the speakers are just as good if not better (I don't think they...

Great findings. Is there any way we can get this onto more of Valve's eyes? I'd hate for this to go unnoticed

Good suggestion, thanks! I've updated the title to reflect that.

Absolutely no way it's intentional, there's no way they'd advertise the improvement if they had anyone check this to see it's so much worse. I have to assume something got...

> Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1329#issuecomment-1879780766 This is what the original workaround I posted at the top does. This sorta gives it back some of the quality, but also makes it louder,...

> Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1329#issuecomment-1885018123 I've updated the title to reflect this. I appreciate your hard work graphing this!

> Hello @Maz111111, this is a side effect of the wake-on-bluetooth functionality acting as intended on the OLED Steam Deck. > > Looks like there's a workaround described at https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/188jgd7/howto_selectively_disable_wakeonbluetooth_for/....

Sure, I'll do some runs today and test it out for you and bring a log if I can too.