*** Valve Steam Machine ***

[Vestas]

One particular annoyance seems to be compiling shaders on Steam OS.

If its "steam hardware" like the Steam Deck then pre-compiled shaders are downloaded (regularly) so there's no need to compile locally. I'd imagine the same thing will be true for the Steam Machine.

 

[Timber]

If its "steam hardware" like the Steam Deck then pre-compiled shaders are downloaded (regularly) so there's no need to compile locally. I'd imagine the same thing will be true for the Steam Machine.

True - there could be a difference between officially supported hardware and non-Valve AMD PCs as well. Not sure.

 

[Vestas]

True - there could be a difference between officially supported hardware and non-Valve AMD PCs as well. Not sure.

Well nobody is precompiling the shaders for non-Valve machines because they don't know what they are in terms of hardware. That in conjunction with regular proton updates (which usually seem to trigger new shader downloads on the deck) could make life a bit tedious for certain games.

 

[Timber]

Well nobody is precompiling the shaders for non-Valve machines because they don't know what they are in terms of hardware. That in conjunction with regular proton updates (which usually seem to trigger new shader downloads on the deck) could make life a bit tedious for certain games.

Yep I know, only the SD, SM and those few officially supported Legion Go's etc. get the precompiled shaders. I worded my response poorly like Christian Bale's Batman

 

[Grim5]

Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure

"Pretty cool for the 20 minutes that it worked".

www.digitalfoundry.net

 

[Bumhug]

From the reddit post

Anticlimactic and somewhat embarrassing update: as some people suggested, I left it unplugged for about half an hour last night and then tried plugging it back in... and it didn't work. So I left it unplugged for a couple of hours and then tried it again before bed... and it didn't work. Same error light despite multiple power-cycling attempts. So I left it unplugged overnight and plugged it back in today to try some of the BIOS stuff that other people suggested... and it booted up immediately without issue.

I feel stupid about even posting this now, especially since it blew up a bit, but I was tired and irritable after a long day of work, and an ominous GPU error code wasn't exactly the seamless plug-and-play experience I had hoped for. But I guess if anyone encounters the same error, don't panic like I did, just let it sit for a few hours and it will somehow sort itself out. Anyway, I'm sorry for the false alarm, thanks to everyone who suggested solutions, and now I'm going to spend this weekend playing Crusader Kings until my eyes hurt.