I notice the fan going pretty hard all the way through my gaming sessions. I’m curious if the Steam deck will warn me before I do damage to the machine?

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I think it will continue to throttle itself so the temps stay in spec. I would just make sure that you don’t have any obstructions on the intake and the output.

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As others have said, it’ll throttle when it gets too hot to cool down. There is also a condition past the GPU emergency threshold to instantly shut down the machine (true on Linux desktop as well), but hypothetically it should never hit it because of the throttling.

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No warning. It will throttle or just shut down. May happen in warmer climates.

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I’ve had mine suddenly shut off a few times with Cyberpunk around launch. With new firmware and a probably unnecessary repaste this no longer happens. Give your deck room to breathe and you’ll be fine.

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That might have been a driver issue with Cyberpunk. I hear it was pretty unstable at launch. As mentioned above, there actually IS a warning message that displays, when the deck gets to hot.

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I am surprised nobody came up with a mod for watercooling the deck just for the fun of it, 'cause I’d imagine that would cancel the portability.

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I honestly though Linus did a water cooled steam deck but when I went to look there wan’t one. Quite surprised actually considering all the other random cooling things I’ve botched.

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There should be a warning since SteamOS v3.3: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3401924854795478414

General -Added notification when Steam Deck temperature goes outside the safe operating range

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Yup, I got to see it once running Horizon Zero Dawn. It looks a bit like the “low battery” warning but in more scary colors if I remember correctly.

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TIL - thank you for sharing this!

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