Known Issues

As of 6/2/25

Making an OLED work in the LCD Steam Deck is not the simplest of things so there are currently a couple of minor bugs. These are not hardware issues and the future fixes will be BIOS/software updates, etc.

Flash on de-initialization

The Steam Deck does not do a proper “sleep-in” sequence that most displays expect. This is one of several odd things that they seem to get away with using the stock LCD. For DeckSight, this results in a white flash, usually in a bright stripe. This is a minor annoyance that occurs on display transitions like going from Game UI to desktop mode, sleep etc. It’s not something that occurs in the middle of use. This will likely be resolved in a BIOS patch update.

Wrong color on initializtion

This happens about one third of the time the screen initializes. Initialization happens whenever waking up from sleep or transitioning modes, like Game UI to Desktop. This is another small annoyance and it can be corrected by tapping the power button to shut the screen off and tapping it again to turn it back on. It doesn’t require a full shutdown, just a quick sleep to re-init the display. This can also be resolved in a future BIOS patch update to improve the timing.

Touch screen on Windows

The Steam Deck is a Linux device so that is where we spend most of our time tweaking things, however we do know some people run Windows on the Steam Deck. DeckSight has an I2C touch screen just like the stock LCD but it uses a different controller IC from the same manufacturer. The drivers for DeckSight’s touch screen are already part of the mainline Linux kernel, so there is nothing to do for SteamOS, Bazzite, etc. Windows on the other hand tends to use a driverless method to access touch screens so if this is not supported by the touch screen, a driver must be used. AFAIK, Valve likely includes this driver in their Windows driver package for the stock LCD. No “official” Windows driver currently exists for DeckSight’s touch screen. The only one we are aware of is an open source driver that we haven’t tested yet.