Hey all. I was looking for a dock online and noticed a decent amount of third party ones on ebay and Amazon. Anyone tried any, or know a good brand?
I don’t see myself playing on my TV much, just when I have friends over, so I can’t justify the cost of the name brand.
Have a look for USB-C docks that don’t specifically mention “for the steam deck”. They’re all functionally the same but I found a steam deck owner tax when they reference Steam decks in product titles. For example, I picked up a Sabrent dock where reviews mentioned steam deck.
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Last I looked into them on windows (years ago now) they were very hacky there as well, and of course performed quite poorly. It has a few niche uses allowing you to use more monitors than you could use otherwise, especially on macs where last I checked MST wasn’t implemented but still it’s really a last resort option.
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I think they need a driver on windows too but they might be able to get it through windows update now or it might be included by default. In the past you had to install it manually and I’d seen it causing bsods
I don’t know if this is related, but none of the third party docks I could find offered full resolution, full refresh rate, multi-monitor output, as the official dock can offer.
Every dock I looked at with a decent number of reviews either had 1 star reviews mentioning monitor connection problems and/or docks dying shortly after purchase, too, but it’s hard to know if that’s relevant or just the baseline noise of electronics failure rates/user error.
I just ended up eating the cost (and long shipping times) to get the official one.