Today got my steamdeck in the mail and tested a couple of games but it keeps crashing in every game. Either black screen or just stuck at all. Games tested: portal 2. Bounty of one. Brawhalla and orcs must die 3.
Is this common or is mine just broken
Yesterday some run well. And they will run fine for at least a couple of minutes. I might have to upgrade to beta.
My experience with 3.5.1 and newer is that a few games crash/closes down after a few minutes of gameplay but that not all games does it. I have personally locked my deck to 3.4.11 until stuff works properly on the “Stable” release.
One thing you could try is running games in Desktop Mode and see if they work there. I also think you should consider speaking with Steam Support if the issues continues for you.