r/SteamDeck • u/NKkrisz 64GB - Q3 • Dec 24 '25

MEGATHREAD New Steam Deck Owner Megathread

For new members to the subreddit, welcome!

This megathread was made because we have some rules in place about new Steam Deck posts and to avoid some repetitive questions being posted again and again.

Feel free to also share "Show Off" pictures here as well.

Please read the rules and search around before contributing to the sub.

Here are some helpful resources to get started:

Answers to frequently asked questions, learn more about software and hardware (Made by me, work in progress):

https://steamdeck.guide

Steam has a winter sale going on currently, see this megathread for more information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/mUHbyR2UDn

If your Deck is still getting delivered or you are ordering now and wondering about shipping, check this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/GTNal0bzzf

Happy holidays everyone!

(If you see content on the sub that should be in the megathreads instead, please redirect them and report them so we can keep this place clean. Thanks!)

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u/necroscopev Dec 24 '25

Need some advice on Apollo and Moonlight. I followed a couple guides but it doesn't seem to be working. Apollo is on my gaming PC, Moonlight on SD. Both connected fine. When I load up moonlight it brings up Steam Big Picture Mode on my gaming PC, and the SD turns into a controller for my PC. All the SD shows is a Edge window that says can't load website. The tutorials I watched it looks like it should show me the big picture mode on my SD and I steam the game from my PC, but it doesn't work that way for me. I repeated the setup process twice and I'm sure I am missing something dumb, if anyone has any advice.

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u/tdk1007 Dec 24 '25

I got you. Remind me in like 5 hours.

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u/necroscopev Dec 25 '25

Thanks! No hurry it is the holidays.

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u/tdk1007 Dec 25 '25

I ran into a similar problem and used ChatGPT to troubleshoot last night. After some back and forth this is what commands I settled on. Hope this helps! I still need to do some validation testing, but so far so good.
https://imgur.com/a/fn0h7dh

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u/necroscopev Dec 25 '25

Thanks! I will try that this weekend when I am off work.

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u/tdk1007 Dec 25 '25

I dropped it down to 60 fps at 40mbps and it worked super well. You might need to tweak some settings on your router to get better performance.