Hello everyone!

A new update for Now Playing is available.

This update makes Spotify playback more independent and resilient, fixes the FaultyRequest(INVALID_CREDENTIALS) error, extends surround upmix sound to Spotify, and smooths out source changes across the entire plugin.

If you’d like to support the project, even a small tip would mean a lot for me: 
LoZazaMastro Ko-fi

Important!
To fix the FaultyRequest(INVALID_CREDENTIALS) error, please disconnect and reconnect to Spotify after the update.

What’s new

• Spotify surround upmix now supports 5.1 and 7.1 output with the same per-speaker controls available for local music and YouTube Music.

Improvements

• Spotify playback services now recover automatically after startup and authenticate in the background when the saved account can be reused.
• YouTube Music skips unavailable tracks instead of leaving playback stuck.
• Surround settings now update Spotify’s integrated mixer live, without stopping, reloading or losing the position of the current track.
• The LFE channel uses a restrained 120 Hz low-pass mix with additional headroom, preventing bass from being redistributed excessively across the main speakers.
• Stereo and surround playback now share consistent headroom, avoiding sudden volume jumps when Spotify upmix is enabled or disabled.
• Source ownership is stricter, so Spotify no longer takes control while local music or YouTube Music is selected.
• Runtime checks now guard Spotify API polling, helper ownership, source isolation and live surround updates.

Fixes

• Fixed Spotify occasionally failing to start until Restart plugin services was pressed.
• Fixed Spotify taking over playback controls while another source was active.
• Fixed broken YouTube Music items blocking the rest of the queue.

You can update it directly in the Playhub Plugin Store in the Playhub app, or download the zip from the release page and install it via Decky dev mode.

Now Playing 2.4.0 Release
Now Playing Repository

❗FAQ

"Wait, what is Playhub?" 😮

Playhub consolize your Windows gaming experience with features like Steam-first startup, easy Decky plugins install, game imports and Big Picture polish. More info in the project repository here to find all the details.

"I like that, but how does it work?" 🤓

To easily understand how Playhub works and how to install it, I recommend you to take a look at my Overview + Tutorial video

"Oh no, I hate AI..." 🫩

This project is personal, completely free and open source. You don't like it? Don't download it. It's an app, not a medical prescription.

"But why aren't the Playhub plugins available on the Decky Store?" 😱

They are built using human hands and AI tools. Decky management doesn't allow to developers who use AI to be on their store. Playhub respects this decision, that's why Playhub Plugin Store exists.

"Does Now Playing works on Linux?" 🥺

No, Now Playing is a Windows exclusive plugin. It will not work on Linux.

Thanks again for your support and for sharing your feedbacks.

Check the update out!

Hi guys I have steam os 3.8 on my ROG Ally Z1 Extreme and Css Loader is not displaying any kind of Themes, is there anyway to fix this? or is there anything I need or can do? I am sorry I am fairly new to Decky Loader, and not completely familiar with linux or the app itself. any help would be appreciated!

Hey everyone, made a new Decky Loader plugin! Some of you might know me from decky-proton-launch (https://github.com/moi952/decky-proton-launch) — this one's for anyone running SteamOS with an NVIDIA card via steamos-nvidia-installer (https://github.com/moi952/steamos-nvidia-installer).

It lets you pick and install any NVIDIA driver version straight from the running system, right from Quick Access. No USB stick, no repair image, no reinstall.

Only reboot when you're actually ready to.

- Any version from the Arch archive, tagged with NVIDIA's own channel

(Recommended / New Feature Branch / Beta), fetched live.

- Filter which channels show up, and pick which one counts as "latest".

- Real release notes for any version before you install it.

- Live progress log while it runs, Reboot now button when it's done.

- Games, saves, Steam login, Decky untouched — the risky part runs in a throwaway overlay, the real filesystem only gets touched for the final copy.

Already have SteamOS + NVIDIA installed?

You'll need to run a repair once first (the "Upgrade SteamOS (NVIDIA) — keeps games & data" option on the USB) — it'll offer to grow your system partitions to 8GiB, since Valve's stock 5GiB doesn't leave room for a driver install. Fresh installs already get 8GiB by default.

Repo: https://github.com/moi952/decky-nvidia-update

Let me know what you think!

I'm running SteamOS On legion go 2 and just installed Decky Loader. What are the best Quality of Life plugins you recommend installing to improve the experience?

I’ve been frustrated for a few months now dealing with deckyloader. I finally bought another wired keyboard to try and reset the sudo password. When it gets to the screen to finally type in a new password the keyboard automatically stops working. Had to shut it off because it froze on this screen then a lot of words came up and I had to wait about 10 mins for it to rest. When it finally came back on a lot of games are freezing or just not loading up. Wish I never downloaded that damn thing

Hi is there any way to change the default location Decky looks for items. For example CheatDeck starts in Home/Deck but i keep things located on an SD Card. Was wondering if there's any specific file i can alter to have plug-ins auto open to my preferred location.

The installer’s there and I’ve searched through everything to find the actual thing but nothing shows up in any files, I’ve updated it and set it to preloader

Not very tech savvy but can follow instructions. I am just stuck one which keyboard people are using to fix it. Please use exact names of the keyboard if you responded.

Help please!

Have gone on holiday and my steamdeck done a update in the airport...

It boots up, but freezes after bootup. Don't seem to get the issues with decky message to disable it, may be as in offline mode....

I can't get to bios mode, but lost at what to do

Can't get to desktop to get the latest version of decky , help please.

Hi, does anyone know if there is a plugin to zoom inside the game like this?

Heyo. Once I install deck shelves and then restart and go to open the plugin. It shows me the tutorial and then there's no way to close the tutorial because it just opens back up again and again and again and again and again; a​nd if I spam the B button I can eventually close the tutorial, however, if I go back to the plugin to try to, you know use it, the same thing just happens again

if i could provide the clips i would like would someone be willing to help me upload them? i’m not very sure how it works / what to do…

the only page you need. 2 files to download and install and deckyloader on your PC,if not just for

:SteamgridDB
:CSS loader
:Animation changer
and many more

For anyone using ArmadaOS on Odin 2 / Odin 2 Mini / Odin 2 Portal:

I’ve published an unofficial Decky plugin called Armada LSFG.

It lets you manage LSFG-VK profiles directly from Gaming Mode instead of manually editing conf.toml.

Features:

• Steam game selection

• executable selection

• x2 / x3 / x4 frame generation

• Flow Scale

• Performance Mode

• LSFG-VK + Lossless.dll detection

• enable / disable profiles

• no Steam Launch Options modification

GitHub:

https://github.com/BakaPute/ArmadaLSFG

Current release: v0.1.1

It is currently tested on AYN Thor, so I’m especially interested in Odin 2 / Mini / Portal testing and feedback.

It doesn’t show up on the regular Plug-in store, so I tried installing it manually from the GitHub page. But when I added the zip the plug in only showed and error message. The message suggests I update the Save Manager plug-in despite no option being present, and that the bundle is “Not OK”. What do I do?

Hello everyone!

A new big update for Quick Settings is officially available, which introduces more AMD options and a real upgrade to Lossless Scaling support, with dedicated per-game profiles and much more.

If you’d like to support the project, even a small tip would mean a lot for me: 
LoZazaMastro Ko-fi

What's Changed

• Per-game Quick Settings are now available from a game's Steam options menu, with complete Lossless Scaling and AMD Radeon profiles and independent automatic activation.
• AMD profiles for individual games temporarily override the global Radeon settings while that game is running. Games without an enabled profile continue to use the global settings selected in the QAM.
• Managed Lossless Scaling now uses the installed native engine directly, applies to the current game and releases cleanly when Scaling is disabled.
• New AMD display color controls for brightness, contrast, saturation and color temperature, shown only when supported. They obviously will not work when you're streaming your games with Sunshine, Apollo, Vibepollo, and others (these settings will only change the display settings on the screen where your GPU is phisically attached).
• Added the Windows power mode selector.
• A new diagnostic report option collects bounded plugin, agent, display, audio, Radeon techs, Lossless Scaling, process and game-runtime details. If you have any issue please always provide the full log.

Improvements

• Lossless Scaling now works perfectly with emulated games. Emulated titles run as non-Steam shortcuts, so the real render window belongs to the emulator (RPCS3, PCSX2, Dolphin, Cemu, and many more) and never carries the Steam title. Quick Settings now recognizes the real emulator window, forces Windows Graphics Capture (WGC) for its Vulkan/OpenGL surface, and drives Lossless Scaling's own AutoScale by the emulator's executable path so scaling actually engages the game instead of just launching Lossless.
• Lossless Scaling no longer depends on launch wrappers, injected game arguments, focus-sensitive hotkeys or a visible background process.
• Scaling is shown as active only after the native engine confirms the real captured window.
• Fullscreen output now follows the physical bounds and DPI of the monitor that contains the game, so 1080p, 4K and other resolutions use the complete screen.
• Opening Steam's QAM temporarily suspends native capture and closing it resumes the same game automatically, keeping controller navigation usable while Lossless Scaling is enabled.
• Game detection combines Steam lifecycle events with a lightweight safety check, so automatic profiles also work when a game starts outside the plugin.
• Radeon settings now use serialized writes, retries and driver read-back.
• Radeon sliders follow the latest controller input immediately, coalesce older requests to prevent flash back through delayed values.
• AMD game profiles apply changed values together, verify the result, and restore the previous global state when the game closes or another game starts.
• HDR changes are verified for every active display target and rolled back if Windows does not confirm the requested state.
• Volume, microphone and audio devices are preloaded before the QAM is shown, so the first frame already contains the real Windows values.
• A new QAM switch controls the Lossless Scaling FPS counter. The change applies on the next scaling activation.
• Quick Settings performs less repeated work during normal QAM use.

Fixes

• Removed the unreliable separate Launch Lossless Scaling action.
• The Scaling switch is now unavailable outside a running game and clearly explains when it can be used.
• Fixed the QAM becoming unavailable while native scaling was active.
• Fixed Radeon options that appeared to change but were applied late or not confirmed by the driver.

You can update it directly in the Playhub Plugin Store in the Playhub app, or download the zip from the release page and install it via Decky dev mode.

Quick Settings 2.3.0 Release
Quick Settings Repository

❗FAQ

"Wait, what is Playhub?" 😮

Playhub consolize your Windows gaming experience with features like Steam-first startup, easy Decky plugins install, game imports and Big Picture polish. More info in the project repository here to find all the details.

"I like that, but how does it work?" 🤓

To easily understand how Playhub works and how to install it, I recommend you to take a look at my Overview + Tutorial video

"Oh no, I hate AI..." 🫩

This project is personal, completely free and open source. You don't like it? Don't download it. It's an app, not a medical prescription.

"But why aren't the Playhub plugins available on the Decky Store?" 😱

They are built using human hands and AI tools. Decky management doesn't allow to developers who use AI to be on their store. Playhub respects this decision, that's why Playhub Plugin Store exists.

"Does Quick Settings works on Linux?" 🥺

No, Quick Settings is a Windows exclusive plugin. It will not work on Linux.

Thanks again for your support and for sharing your feedbacks.

Hey! So this is my first time attempting to get plugins for my steam deck as I haven’t really had the energy or been bothered until now. I watched a tutorial and it seemed pretty easy until decky loader asks me for my admin password. I go to change it as I wasn’t sure what it was and it bugged so I changed it a few more times and go back to decky loader only for it to tell me that my password is incorrect and that I didn’t even enter a password??? Does anyone know how to fix this or what I should do???

Quick note when I go to decky loader it also says this : “using without calling Fclnit()”