My Deck just shut down because the fan let it overheat

[Mono]

Okay, this happened to me just a few moments ago and it is very worrisome. I was playing Tales of Arise and most of the time when there is a cutscene, I hold the deck with one hand by the bottom of the device and support it with few fingers on the back. I hope you can understand what I mean, but it is also not very important. So, I was playing ToA for about an hour, a cutscene started so I changed how I hold the Deck and I noticed that the back of the device is super hot. I opened the overlay to see a CPU and GPU go over 90 degrees. I muted my game and the fans stayed silent, they didn't even turn on. I tried grabbing few screenshots and with each screenshot made ( got only a single screenshot, the rest of them somehow got corrupted) the temps went higher until the CPU hit 105 degrees at which point Deck made a weird beep and turned itself off.

This is the first time this happened. I let it cool off for few minutes and it turned on just fine. Played ToA again for few minutes and it looks okay again, fans are spinning and temps hover around 70 degrees.

Just to make it clear, I never block the vents ( both on the top and the back) when I play on Deck.

[bean]

the recent update gave all steam decks "quieter" fan profiles so that the loud-fan units were less loud.

This caused the steam deck to run hotter before the fans kick it into high gear. If you want the deck to work like it used to (with the louder fans but more cooling) you are going to have to go into your settings and dig up the option to revert to the previous profile.

I am not in front of my steam deck atm, but as soon as I can I will post exactly where in the settings it is. (or maybe someone else can before I get a chance)

HOWEVER... even this is bugged because people are reporting that the deck is reverting BACK to the new profile every time you restart the device.

The fan profiles/noise is actively being worked on by VALVE so I am sure that an update in the next week or so will address this better so for now, take it easy on your steam deck and make sure not to let it overheat like that too often.

[Mono]

I know that I can switch to old fan curve and I know that it is bugged. The problem is that even with new fan curves, the Deck should not overheat, ever.

[Redfield9]

So much for this new and "Improved" feature...I disabled it after week one.

[CitrusHal0]

im experiancing the same issue. just sitting in the apex legends lobby not even touching anything and im watching my cpu temps exceed 90 after wondering why my deck just randomly shut down on me and said out of battery when there was still 50% . definitely worrysome

[Neoony]

Just to mention, the beep you heard / shutdown was most likely thermal shutdown protection exactly for such scenario.
Good to know it works :D

[m3talslug]

+1 I went back to the old fan curve. On demanding games such as God Of War, the Steam Deck would reach high temperatures and either crash or shutdown itself. Stopped happening with a high frequency with the old fan curve.

[Rüdiger]

are you sure that you did not block the intake on the back ? because i never had any problems on my unit with overheating. its also possible that your unit has a bad factory thermal paste.

[Mono]

It only happened once, and no, I did not block the vents. Like I said in my original post, the fan did not start spinning despite reaching high temps.

[Cypherous]

Mono eredeti hozzászólása:

I know that I can switch to old fan curve and I know that it is bugged. The problem is that even with new fan curves, the Deck should not overheat, ever.

A PC with a fan running too slowly to cool it will do exactly the same thing, thats why you generally don't mess with fan curves but sadly people seem to insist on their computers being silent despite getting hot enough you quite literally boil water