Send it back? More Steam Deck vs Ally Updates

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Valve helps
After being lucky enough to accidentally receive two Steam Decks, one Reddit user opted for the honest route of letting Valve know about the mail mishap and shipped the second device back. Usually, that’d be the end of the story, but the manufacturer saw fit to reward their gesture in kind.

Apparently, Valve initially sent the Steam Deck to a place with the same address as Redditor NDAdrianM, but it turned out to be in a different province entirely. D’oh. Once they let Valve know, a second copy was duly dispatched and the matter was considered resolved.

The initial order returned a message saying shipping had failed and that the package would be returned to sender. When a Steam Deck arrived at NDAdrianM’s house a few days later, they didn’t think anything of it. They did what any self-respecting gamer would do in that situation: whacked in a 1TB SSD and started playing.

So, when another Steam Deck turned up on their doorstep, they realized the first order hadn’t been returned to sender at all: it’d come to them. To quote Neimoidian political luminary, Nute Gunray: “This is getting out of hand. Now, there are two of them!

Asus Updates Ally:
ASUS has released a host of fixes and improvements for the ASUS ROG Ally.

The latest set of updates includes fixes for a boot problem, the ability to access BIOS configuring from within Armoury Crate, alternative refresh rate options, alt and F4 compatibility to force-close games, and a temporary fix for the potential overheating problem.

Following reports of performance degradation, fried SD cards, and deadzone problems, ASUS recently said it was having trouble working out the cause of the issues. While ASUS investigates, part of the latest patch includes tweaks of the ROG Ally’s fan curves in an attempt to cool the system more than it usually needs. The logic here is that a cool system means less of a chance of damaging SD cards.

Currently, chat online isn’t sure of what’s causing SD cards to break either. The popular theories at the moment are it’s down to either heat-related problems or user error (doing something you shouldn’t).

I found my own SD card refused to mount after around 100 hours of playtime. Thankfully, there is a fix to get it working again if that’s the problem you’re having.

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