I’m hoping someone can help me. I have my steamdeck in the office dock connected to a monitor. When I turn it on a navigate on the external monitor. I clicked on the “…” Menu and noticed a VRR option. Like an idiot I clicked it. Monitor went black. My monitor does not support vrr.
I have tried display safe mode, rebooting and the monitor remains non functional. The monitor actually is giving me a warning that the current timing is unsupported.
I can get into desktop mode and the external monitor works there but I can not find that vrr option to turn it off.
Any help would be appreciated
So if any poor idiot of a soul ends up here one day from the great search ai in the sky, know this. I tried a ton of things to fix this. Nothing worked. The only thing that did it was a factory reset (the button is under the system menu).
Good luck to you future person
Unfortunately display safe mode is the main way I know to fix issues like this. Someone mentioned deleting
.local/share/kscreen
and rebooting as a way to reset screen settings, but I would assume that only fixes desktop mode.I’m not sure how settings for game mode are saved though. Gamescope is what provides the VRR functionality, so there would have to be a configuration file somewhere that it references for different games/displays. There’s a chance it’s using the same kscreen file for some of the settings, but I doubt it.
Thanks for the input. I would have hoped that safe mode would disable vrr.
I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to disable it, I’m surprised it didn’t.