DeckSight is a 1080P AMOLED display panel that drops into an LCD model Valve Steam Deck with no major modifications. DeckSight surpasses the stock LCD in almost every specification, making your games look sharper, more colorful, and with perfect black levels.

This is currently the only way to get an OLED display into the LCD model Steam Decks. DeckSight was designed for people eyeing the newer OLED model Steam Decks. The LCD models are still quite capable gaming machines, and have other modding potential not yet realized on the OLED models. DeckSight can also save a reasonable amount of money over trading your LCD Steam Deck for an OLED model if the newest display technology is what you’re after.

There has been much talk amongst tech enthusiasts about how OLED panels use more power than LCDs. While that may be the case for some OLEDs, which we can’t speak for, DeckSight has been proven to use less power than the stock LCD that is supplied with the Steam Deck. You can find out more about it here in this power overview video, which demonstrates some reasonably thorough power testing.

DeckSight Also uses one of the newest touch controllers from FocalTech, so the touch response should be better than the stock LCD.

Features & Specifications

• Display Technology: AMOLED
• Size: 7” diagonal (slightly shorter and wider than stock)
• Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (up from 1280 x 800)
• Color Depth: 10-bit, 1.07 billion colors (up from 8-bit, 16.7 million colors)
• Brightness: 800 nits
• Surface Options:
  • Matte: Anti-glare and anti-fingerprint etched glass (similar to highest end stock LCD)
  • Gloss: Anti-fingerprint coating (similar to 64 and 256 GB LCD models)
• Refresh Rate: 75 Hz max
• Contrast Ratio: > 1,000,000:1
• Compatibility: Steam Deck LCD models (64GB, 256GB, 512GB)
• HDR: Works in the same way it does on Steam Deck OLED models in Gamescope.

Support & Documentation

• DeckSight GitHub repository
• Steam Deck LCD Screen Replacement Guide
• DeckSight Installation Instructions

Warning

DeckSight requires a custom BIOS. While Valve hasn’t released a newer BIOS version for the LCD model in some time, it’s possible that they will, in which case DeckSight will no longer work until the BIOS has been reflashed. There are methods to lock the BIOS and stop it from being automatically updated, and even if the BIOS has been updated to a newer version automatically it can always still be flashed back to the DeckSight BIOS. For the foreseeable future, Shade Technik will attempt to build a DeckSight BIOS for any newer BIOS version Valve releases. As a backup plan, Shade Technik will make the DeckSight BIOS patcher tools publicly available so anyone with the knowledge can build one as well. The executable BIOS file won’t require anyone to build it, just flash it with the programs included in every Steam Deck with Steam OS.