Steam Dock is already obsolete

[Gushazan]

I bought a cheaper USB-C hub with more functionality...2 years ago! Steam Deck works with it and all the TVs I've tried it on so far. It's made by Aukey and is almost half the price of this. JSAUX has one that let's you add an M.2 SSD. Valve normally is ahead of the curve but not on this device.

Maybe they can redeem themselves with Steam Controller 2.0? I seriously don't like to play with anything else.

[Shadowmon]

Lol you should thanking valve for supporting these third party device. They can bust an Apple move and stop supporting other device where you have to upgrade(as for Valve, getting the Valve Dock Station). Think about it, since the dock is officially out, they are going to fully focus on their product more than the third party product now.

[Dicktoes Johnson]

Originally posted by Shadowmon:

Lol you should thanking valve for supporting these third party device. They can bust an Apple move and stop supporting other device where you have to upgrade(as for Valve, getting the Valve Dock Station). Think about it, since the dock is officially out, they are going to fully focus on their product more than the third party product now.

Any usb c hub has worked on my MacBook?

[Shadowmon]

Originally posted by Dicktoes Johnson:

Originally posted by Shadowmon:

Lol you should thanking valve for supporting these third party device. They can bust an Apple move and stop supporting other device where you have to upgrade(as for Valve, getting the Valve Dock Station). Think about it, since the dock is officially out, they are going to fully focus on their product more than the third party product now.

Any usb c hub has worked on my MacBook?

idk. does it?

[!Supreme Grand Wizard Yoodiv]

Yes it is. Doesn't even have USB C input. I wrote a thread here but nobody answered yet :P
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/3/3395175706753701467/

[Jcee]

>Maybe they can redeem themselves with Steam Controller 2.0? I seriously don't like to play with anything else.

Honestly I loved the steam controller, and was disappointed to see it discontinued.
I use my controller daily to game, and even surf the web (with a heavily modified desktop configuration) from the comfort of my bed. I have even purchased 2 backup controllers for when this one inevitably dies and replacements become scarce.


@dock is obsolete; not obsolete just overpriced. It's not significantly outclassed by anything on the market; its just significantly more than competing offers.

[Gushazan]

Originally posted by Shadowmon:

Lol you should thanking valve for supporting these third party device. They can bust an Apple move and stop supporting other device where you have to upgrade(as for Valve, getting the Valve Dock Station). Think about it, since the dock is officially out, they are going to fully focus on their product more than the third party product now.

That's funny. Businesses owe everything to their customers. Imagine having a business and no clientelle.

Valve didn't intentionally attempt to support my USB-C hub. Dumb devices, like a hub would work with any other compliant USB-C device, unless you're doing something unintended.

[Gushazan]

Originally posted by Jcee:

>Maybe they can redeem themselves with Steam Controller 2.0? I seriously don't like to play with anything else.

Honestly I loved the steam controller, and was disappointed to see it discontinued.
I use my controller daily to game, and even surf the web (with a heavily modified desktop configuration) from the comfort of my bed. I have even purchased 2 backup controllers for when this one inevitably dies and replacements become scarce.


@dock is obsolete; not obsolete just overpriced. It's not significantly outclassed by anything on the market; its just significantly more than competing offers.

The one from JSAUX is amazing. It allows you the ability to use an M.2 SSD. For me, that's a selling point I can't ignore.

I'm like you with the Steam Controller. I have multiple backups at hand. I've had a 3D printer print the piece on the bumper that always breaks. Once my backups all break, I'm going to try these out and see if I can get them to work. Supposedly they are better than the original.

[Toasta]

show me any cheaper dock that supports hdmi + displayport with dual output + dp mst daisy chaining.

im

[Gushazan]

Originally posted by Toasta:

show me any cheaper dock that supports hdmi + displayport with dual output + dp mst daisy chaining.

im

Not sure why you're looking to see that. Hope it all works out for you though.

[Murasakino Rin]

show us a cheaper dock that not only cradles the deck but has every current port open to it at the same spec as the official dock and comes with a spare charging brick.

[maxRunner]

Originally posted by Gushazan:

Valve normally is ahead of the curve but not on this device.

Steam Dock isn't obsolete it just offers a different feature set. As Toasta mentioned, steam deck supports dual monitor out with HDMI + DP. It also has faster USB ports.

I have another dock that lets me slot a microsd, and another that clips to the back of the steam deck but only has 2 x usb2.0. Great, docks are different, what an amazing discovery you have made.

[sunspark]

The Valve dock doesn't support displayport active adapters. I'm hoping they will enable support.

[Amalgamation]

Funny, I don't call it obsolete, I call it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ broken.

The 20 dollar Chinese one I bought worked fine for what it advertised, only got valves because the former bottlenecks to 30fps output......


Well valves doesn't even work. It just displays no image on my TV and does absolutely nothing. I've tried everything and after 24 hours I finally got it display on my TV without cutting out to black every 10 or so seconds. I played 15 minutes of vampire survivors, and when I put the deck to sleep, I just knew it was gonna break again.... YUUUP, stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing is back to full black screen with no HMDI port register on either end.

The dock is Franky pathetic. It's 3 times the cost of the competition and the competitions docks actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ work with the deck, on like the original-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-hardware made by valve themselves. Whata ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke....

[Jodla]

Originally posted by sunspark:

The Valve dock doesn't support displayport active adapters. I'm hoping they will enable support.

It worked with my dp to hdmi cable(ps176 chipset, one direction) chip maker says its active , cable vendor classify as passive buuut there is still one big problem gamemode does not support multi displays or clone function

[Shadowmon]

Originally posted by Amalgamation:

Funny, I don't call it obsolete, I call it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ broken.

The 20 dollar Chinese one I bought worked fine for what it advertised, only got valves because the former bottlenecks to 30fps output......


Well valves doesn't even work. It just displays no image on my TV and does absolutely nothing. I've tried everything and after 24 hours I finally got it display on my TV without cutting out to black every 10 or so seconds. I played 15 minutes of vampire survivors, and when I put the deck to sleep, I just knew it was gonna break again.... YUUUP, stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing is back to full black screen with no HMDI port register on either end.

The dock is Franky pathetic. It's 3 times the cost of the competition and the competitions docks actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ work with the deck, on like the original-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-hardware made by valve themselves. Whata ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke....

It will eventually be better than the others. Valve listen to the community and improve them with updates. Just like the steam deck.