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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/RobustPolygon on 2024-09-22 17:53:13+00:00.

Proud owner of a Steam Deck OLED, but after owning it for a while, I have to say, the docked experience is a complete mess, and almost useless…

I own the official dock, but I’ve also tried 3rd party docks.

(1) HDR is a hot mess. Even when it’s displaying HDR, the colors are all out of wack on my LG C2.

(2) The System resolution settings never work as they are supposed to and it varies game to game. 4K display, set default setting max resolution to “Native” or “Default”, many games cap resolution at 1080p. I need to manually set to 4K and turn off auto detect resolution to get 4K to show up in games.

(3) Game streaming sucks. I have a 4080S/7800X3D Machine with a 3440x1440 ultrawide monitor. There’s no way to stream in 16:9, so the image doesn’t fit my TV display. There’s also no way to stream HDR. There’s also no way seemingly to output 5.1 audio from the stream. My TV is hooked up to a 5.1 system through ARC, but streamed games only play in Stereo. Even when streaming 1080p in windowed mode (the only way to get 16:9 to show up), the colors are over saturated and completely wrong.

As of now, the $100 dock is the biggest regret with the SD. I basically never use it, because it always requires 10 minutes of messing around to get games to output properly, and even then, it never looks great.

To me, this is a huge area of improvement needed for the Steam Deck. I had a Switch OLED and that “just worked”, and SD needs to have that same level of ease of use.