Every PC I’ve ever used automatically detects and adjusts resolution to the display you connect to it. Even Nintendo Switch will detect when it’s docked and automatically adjust the display resolution. But on Steam Deck you literally have to adjust the display resolution for every game, every time you switch displays.
Since getting the SD I have shoved my PC into another room to displace the heat (until I get a mini-split) and I just stream from it to the Deck, whether docked at my desk or on the couch or on the big screen. But this really complicates that process unnecessarily.
This has also not been fixed in Nobara or Chimera.
What’s the limitation there?
Could be an Nvidia thing, but I’ve had games that opened on my secondary screen and absolutely refused to move to my other screen. It also decided that my secondary screen was where it should read the resolution capabilities from. I found that if I made the game freeze so an “application is not responding” message came up, I could move the frozen window sometimes, but even that is a matter of luck and requires messing with the game to freeze it.
Based on the fact games I play on my desktop sometimes switch to 1280x800 after I played them on my Deck, for one. Resolution is stored right next to windowed/full screen mode in the settings for most games.
I’ve transferred entire (save)games (long live DRM free GOG!) over the network to my Deck and there too I had to mess with the resolution settings in-game. I’m sure the Deck tells games that it should stick to 800p max, but if a game has a config file that says you want 1080p, it’ll try to apply that regardless of what the display claims to support.
That’s weird, it was set to native on all games I checked and I don’t remember changing any settings. Maybe it’s because installed most of my games not long after I got my Deck, before I got the update? Or maybe it’s got something to do with Steam settings I changed in desktop mode?
Either way, that really sucks. I would write a script or maybe a little GUI application to set the resolution for all games to native in your situation, but Valve really needs to step up their game and add a setting for the default here. Normal people shouldn’t need to script their consoles for changing the resolution.
That sucks too, I guess they took it out when they implemented per-game resolutions? I can still find much more recent posts referring to the setting online.
also gog isnt drm free any more sadly cyberpunk being a big example
I haven’t played CP2077 in a while but I never had to do anything but run the setup on my GOG purchase, no account login necessary as far as I remember. Did they change something?
Uhhhh I’m pretty sure it is. Otherwise they are destroying the only thing they have going for them and lying in their marketing.