I bought a docking station and a monitor for my deck. In the settings for the deck I set the resolution to the external monitor resolution. I even tried the auto resolution too. No matter what every single game I have to go to the Steam cog for that game and go to Properties>General and then set the resolution there.
Anyone know if there is a way to fix this? If I don’t do that above steps the max resolution in game is the steamdeck native resolution.
Well, either way you’re going to be doing manual settings changing. Because most of the games that perform reasonably on the Steam Deck’s 800p, will not perform reasonably at 1080p. So you will have to spend time adjusting the game’s settings.
If you change the Resolution from “Default” to “Native”, it will use the Max resolution of whatever device the game is being launched on. So if you launch on the Steam Deck, it will use 800p, if you launch on a 1080p display it will use 1080p.
But they really don’t want this as a global thing, because imagine most people have 4k TVs these days. The backlash that would occur when someone changes that settings, and every game they open runs at 10 FPS because it’s rendering at 3840 x 2160. And non-technical users and streamers reporting how bad their games run would be sh!tshow completely ignoring their own fault.
You can just change your resolution in game if that is the case. However you have to manually set it twice in this situation. It needs fixed. There is literally no reason to have a resolution setting in the steamdeck external display setting if it’s not going to work in game.