Steam Deck

Steam Deck

Boxxy Jun 25, 2024 @ 4:52pm
Startup Movies not working
Like a day or two ago, my steam deck stopped playing the startup movies. It'll look it's trying to play something and then just skips it. Even when I go to preview them in the Customization tab in Settings nothing pops up besides a blank screen. Is anyone else having this issue?
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Dawns Jun 26, 2024 @ 2:14am 
Hum, no, not here. Standard steam downloaded movies, or your custom ones?
Boxxy Jun 26, 2024 @ 4:47pm 
Originally posted by Dawns:
Hum, no, not here. Standard steam downloaded movies, or your custom ones?

Custom. Naturally, ones from steam's point shop work flawlessly.

It feels like the last update took away custom ones using the uioverride/movies folder method because it was working before I updated last weekend. Wondering if anyone else is also having issues playing custom boot up movies.
JPallor 김지수 Sep 12, 2024 @ 10:05am 
Originally posted by Boxxy:
Like a day or two ago, my steam deck stopped playing the startup movies. It'll look it's trying to play something and then just skips it. Even when I go to preview them in the Customization tab in Settings nothing pops up besides a blank screen. Is anyone else having this issue?
Same problem here. Tried to restart, still the same
Alrick Sep 12, 2024 @ 2:08pm 
Originally posted by JPallor 김지수:
Originally posted by Boxxy:
Like a day or two ago, my steam deck stopped playing the startup movies. It'll look it's trying to play something and then just skips it. Even when I go to preview them in the Customization tab in Settings nothing pops up besides a blank screen. Is anyone else having this issue?
Same problem here. Tried to restart, still the same

My intros stopped working after the September 11th update, but only the point store ones. standard boot animation plays well.

Point store animations work on wake up from standby, but not when booting or switching from desktop to game mode.
Oneiros Sep 12, 2024 @ 5:23pm 
Same issue here. All startup movies work when waking up from sleep but only the standard startup movie works on start up.
Last edited by Oneiros; Sep 12, 2024 @ 5:25pm
Hermit Wizard Sep 12, 2024 @ 9:46pm 
In desktop go to
Home/.local/share/Steam/config/uioverrides/movies

From .local search movies and the startup movie folder will appear. Copy all the movies and put them in the movie folder in uioverides. Then delete everything in the startup movie folder. Now the movies can be shuffled and selected as normal.
RedBatman Sep 13, 2024 @ 5:40pm 
Originally posted by Oneiros:
Same issue here. All startup movies work when waking up from sleep but only the standard startup movie works on start up.


Me as well
dasanthamadushan Sep 16, 2024 @ 2:41pm 
Me too steam deck is full of bug sht
TutoredSpider12 Sep 16, 2024 @ 6:54pm 
New beta update should fix this.
EgoAcid Sep 17, 2024 @ 5:05am 
I use nothing but Steam Startup Movies, they stopped working after the last "stable" update.
Last edited by EgoAcid; Sep 17, 2024 @ 5:06am
Try the latest stable client update, my boot movie (OLED with Points Shop) finally started playing now.
SAXX Sep 21, 2024 @ 8:24am 
Originally posted by Hermit Wizard:
In desktop go to
Home/.local/share/Steam/config/uioverrides/movies

From .local search movies and the startup movie folder will appear. Copy all the movies and put them in the movie folder in uioverides. Then delete everything in the startup movie folder. Now the movies can be shuffled and selected as normal.
I tried this and it also didn’t work I even tried the community cache where it has a startup movie folder and it still didn’t work.
jumpermf Nov 5, 2024 @ 2:41pm 
All of my startup movies I had (except for the default one) are gone, even the exclusive one... they're not in the point shop either (there are only some new ones)... have they been removed?
Last edited by jumpermf; Nov 5, 2024 @ 2:58pm
Dayex Dec 14, 2024 @ 11:36am 
Just purchased a bunch. Don’t play. Never do, never have. This deck is so buggy.
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Date Posted: Jun 25, 2024 @ 4:52pm
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