8 Essential Tips for Maximizing Your Steam Deck Experience
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- The Steam Deck is the best handheld gaming experience, bar none. But there's still room for improvement. That's why I made this video. I'm hope to help you maximize your gaming experience on Deck.
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00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Discovery your back catalog
01:31 - Upgrade your storage
03:13 - Explore Controller Customization
04:44 - Install non-Steam apps
05:54 - Enable file copying
06:34 - Connect your headphones
07:11 - Enable 40Hz mode
08:46 - Upgrade your charging
09:44 - Connect to your TV
10:46 - Connect your controllers
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Please show me how to do remote play with the ps5.
I'm struggling with the basics because of the user interface.
I have a lot of games on my ps5 & syncing my SD would be great.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who buys a bunch of games on Steam and never plays them 😂
I'm a sucker for bundles that I only REALLY want 1 or 2 of the titles lol. Discovering nowadays that I have a lot of gems I've been sitting on 😬
I just got mine a week ago and i already have 23 games and I’m new to steam
@@ZandoZone nice! Joining in during one of the big seasonal sales is the best lol. My Deck is en route, I can't wait! But I've already got a massive library to enjoy it with haha
You can actually play game on you steam deck? I though you could only download a game. Check how well it runs and never open it again like I do!
How could you not have a ton of games with the sales always going on? My deck is the only way I have access to steam, no deck top. It’s insane coming from the switch store or PS5. The frequency of sales and how much cheaper they are is awesome.
"Why not like that smash button?" Because I can't see it anywhere 😢😊
Buddy ….. I’m old and very busy and haven’t paid attention to the deck info until this week when I got one. I’ve looked for a decent video like this for almost a week. Finally. Thank you.
Great timing with the Steam Deck sale!
I am very glad that Steam is making this at least somewhat end-user friendly, instead of doing what companies like Apple do where everything is closely controlled and you cant do anything to change any part of the hardware.
But then again Valve seems to understand that being hands-off and making the end-user experience as simple and open-ended as possible is always a winning move.
for instance, they will do repairs under warranty even if you switch the SSD
If you are downloading games on desktop mode you can have the screen turn off. I had to reset my steam deck a few weeks ago and had it download games all night this way.
Thanks for the solid, non clickbait video. Love to see it.
I ordered it like 3 days ago so I can’t wait for it to arrive
Mine is coming tomorrow, can't freaking wait!
A new updated guide from yourself explaining the best ways to set up the deck to a monitor, getting the best desktop experience. That would be nice from your channel.
For me, I felt myself mainly using my deck as a PC, i want to take more use of it and use it outside/traveling but whenever im out i dont feel the need to bring my pc with me.
This is nice. What u use it for specifically? How's it perform? Genuinely curious.
@@MoeFokah I mainly just use it for general use stuff like browsing and discord, occasional gaming when i wanna sit away from my setup. performs pretty good for a handheld, i tend to use it more than my ps5.
@@miles3794 sweet. Just recently started messing with desktop mode and still foraging through productivity , audio, video apps etc. Just Spotify and Firefox so far.
Never even mind installing windows, that's way down the list.
Im in a similar scenario. I don't really have a lot of options using it out of the house but I have a little downtime between my college classes and work that's about an hour so I just hang out in my car and play a little before I clock in.
I got the deck like a week ago and I’ve been using it more than my PS5 it’s an awesome device it literally does everything
Man, that was an informative video 🙌
I'm waiting for the sn740 2tb to be available in Europe, for that sweet sweet storage upgrade
I'd argue a good case (like the killswitch) broadens the usecases of the deck. Me and many of my friends occasionally use the deck for watching movies, streams or just for a call. The kickstand really helps with that.
and why would you need so much storage ? do you have to have like 100 games installed all the time?
@@Voltomess on the deck? I've got 3.5tb in storage without the SSD upgrade on it
I like to have games on hand, especially when I travel places where I don't have the internet to download whole games
So one thing I've found that's a bit of an issue with 3rd party controllers (Xbox in my case specifically) is that sometimes software changes require a firmware update on the Xbox controller. I ran into this recently when I noticed one of my Xbox controllers had significant input lag when connected to the Steam Deck) I do not own an actual Xbox, nor do I have a Windows PC myself. I was fortunately able to get a friend to upgrade the firmware on my controller via their Windows computer.
Do you know of a way to upgrade the firmware on an Xbox controller via the Steam Deck, or via a PC that isn't running Windows? Conversely, is this an issue you've come across with the PS Dual Sense controllers? Can you upgrade their firmware without a Windows PC or PS5 if it needs be?
Great video thanks!
Awesome video man. I think I might pick up the official dock.
If I'm going to be doing mostly emulation for my steam deck am I good to just get a 1tb micro sd? I have the 64gb emmc version.
Hey, I have Quiet Comfort Earbuds, same as you! Do you have any issues with latency? When mine connect, they have a pretty intense delay.
Can I have the name or the link for that cover with micro sd compartments in the stand?
Screen off download option, switch to desktop mode and open steam. Click the battery icon and pick how long idle you want before screen off and set sleep to never when plugged in.
Waiting for mine !!
I just ordered my steam deck so excited for it!!!
Well, finding the unplayed games is even easier with automated filters. Just press "X" in your library view, click the button for "extended collections"(not sure if that's the exact name in English as I use it in German) and select "unplayed" in the "game status" group!
Just came across this channel! Would be cool to maybe discuss steam link or moonlight?
I'd love to see a video showing actual live 4 players' gameplay on the steam deck 👍
i played bro force on 4 ps4 pads no prob
I got the steam deck for me fps and emulation needs.
So excited
I'm an avid Steam Link and Steam Controller user. My Steam Deck is in the mail. How well does Steam Controller inputs map to the Deck's? I hope we get a Steam Controller 2 very soon.
Heroic launcher keeps breaking for me, most of the time I can't login or install anything. Otherwise it takes forever to connect. It used to work now I have no idea whats going on.
I love setting my back buttons to the A.B.Y.X. makes playing shooters so much better or any survival game
I get 2 hours total of break time during work. I use my steamdeck at that time. playing all the single player games i never have time for after work.
I'm thankful for the 3.5mm jack even if seldom used
Just found this. Seems like a great use for an old Stadia controller.
I've been moving everything to my steam deck through samba shares. I have a dock with a gigalan rj45 port, so it is quite fast as well.
I appreciate the time and effort you placed in videos.
What is that clip case you have to store your MicroSD? I could REALLY use one of those!
Dbrand KillSwitch
My gf bought me one on the 17th, I'm still waiting for shipment. So, here I am.
Get a ssd pronto. Them things fill up Fast!
@@MoeFokah thanks for the tip! I figured I would order one once it's shipped.
There's a good chance it will ship today. I ordered my the 12, it shipped Wednesday, and I got it Thursday (I live in IL where it ships from in the US). My drive and other accessories I ordered from Amazon were ordered the 12 and came in Friday. My advice is to go ahead and get your stuff ordered! Lol
hi im planning to buy a steamdeck this april. may i know how long the battery last when playing gta 5?
90 minutes
Literally ordered a 64gb steam deck on the weekend! Got a lot of steam games I have never played and can't wait to get through my backlog
as a owner of a 64 gb model, i hope you ordered an sd card as well. you wont get half of the 64 gb of storage for games so you wont fit much on the internal storage
@Grease monkey mechanic not ordered one yet as most of my library is of indie games or older games sooner are very large. I will mostlikely get an SD card or internal storage upgrade in a month or two👍
People actually buy the 64GB model?
@Snufflegrunt if you are happy to upgrade the ssd yourself it is possibly the best value model
@@Snufflegrunt I think the 64 and 512 are the bigger sellers. The 64 is by far the best choice for savvy users since upgrading it seems to be extremely straightforward. Making it ideal to save 100-150 bucks on storage
I received my Steam Deck in May and I can say this is the best purchase I have ever made. Ever since I began gaming many years ago, I wanted to be able to take my games with me. Now I can. I have a Switch which is fine but my SD has the games I play every day. Now I can play every day.
I liked that smash button
The things I love most about the deck are #1 the community support which ties in to #2 and #2 that I can play anything on it. If I can’t play it though Linux/steam os then I can play it on windows. If I absolutely have to I can play on monitor and mouse and key but most games I can play on the dual shock 4 from ps4 and if I can’t I can map controls to the deck itself considering it has 4 extra paddles it can handle almost every game. The only exceptions being things like dayz. And if I don’t feel like mapping my own complete controller set up there’s community layouts I can use. Merging from a long time console user to a pc user(I’ve done web and graphic design a few years ago) to steamdeck after everything has changed so much it has been so smooth. Steamdeck is my #1 even over the ROG right know because of the community. I can’t wait for the second one. I like my original enough I bought my gf one
Also my brother has a custom built pc from friends throwing him parts and him buying them. They came out to about the same price but I didn’t have to build mine. They have almost the exact same performance and if I ever have a problem it’s like working on my car. There is either a CZcams video a Reddit thread or in the comments of one or the other there’s the answer to my problem because the community is awesome and somebody has dealt with it before
I think you may have covered it briefly before, but a dummy’s guide to Remote Play Together (ideally using 2 decks) would be awesome.
I wanna state that when I found out about the steam oled, and it’s limited edition, I found out the day it was about to run out. Now I know what you gonna say, it’s been like mentioned for like a month. I was training for a super smash brothers tournament, which I lost horribly that month. Point is, I wish I got the limited edition. I’m still happy with what I got but I’m still bummed.
mine when changing controller setting, it paused a few second before applying or exiting, how come yours is so much faster than mine? it's such a pain since i wasnt a controller person before and i'm still trying to find a controller setting perfect fit for me. also overall experience from the steam menu itself are rather slow, either from turning on or from sleep, it's suddenly paused for 30s or more
of course i had too many games inside (almost 20k), probably that??
20,000 games? Damn lol. That could be the cause, but I'm not sure since I don't own anything near that to test haha. Was it performing like this before you loaded it up? If it was, any number of software or hardware issues could be causing slowdowns.
@@me77111 idk, it was like that from the first time i load my account. i havent try to use an alternate account. maybe ill check later
Hey on dolphin, it used to give me community layouts and show layouts for things like super Mario galaxy, now nothing shows up. No community layouts or anything or anything in the search part. Any help?
Make sure the name of the program is displayed correctly in Steam, it only shows configs for titles based on spelling
@@me77111 I’ve never changed it though ermmm how do I know what to change it too
Should just be Dolphin. As long as you're launching it through your Steam library it should show them. If you have individual emulator games listed in the library I'm not sure if there would be any to use, but I could be wrong. If it still isn't working you could try removing it and re-adding it
Bought my 256 SSD Steam Deck for 10% off on the 16th! I'm here to gain some tips and tricks from you. I've also been looking at protection accessories and screen shielding.
Cryo Utilities is a MUST
I would only add be careful with your chargers. We recently got an OLED and plugged it into a lower watt chord and the system bugged out and the monitor wouldn't turn back on. Had to completely kill the battery to get it to work. We think it was specifically because it was lower watt than is intended.
Is it safe to put windows 11 on my steam deck
I’m about get on bus to school to play my steam deck I can listen to some tips on the way
Back in my day we just crawled around under the seats for fun
Literally do just that when i'm off from work haha.
Steam Deck is the perfect school / work -break Experience
@@OkraPlutonium wow
Nice
I was going to spend a bunch of money and buy a long usb-c cable and charger for the Deck, as I like to play plugged in to maximize performance, but lounge around different areas of the house playing. But then I discovered I can get a sleek, black 6 ft extension cord from Walmart for $2. That coupled with the original SteamDeck charger gives me over 12ft of length, for a total sum of $2 spent
I’ve had my deck for roughly 6 months. I know absolutely nothing when it comes to computers or computer gaming. I’ve been playing RDR2 on the deck and I think it’s great. I’m hoping to learn how to instal mods for my games, but I’m going to need a very detailed guide, I’ll basically need someone right next to me telling me exactly what to do. 🤷🏽♂️🤣
Funny , I've tried 3 micro sd cards. None will format , 2 have bricked. I'm upgrading my internal and I'm done.
for file transfer i found enabling SSHD on the steam deck and then using "WinSCP" to SSH into the system works way better then KDE connect. i like both but WinSCP was just way more intuitive and allowed me to move files back and forth on the pc to deck or deck to pc. worked wonders for my rom collection. one note tho, on deck go to deck top. go to your sd storage card on the file explorer and make a shortcut the sd card to the desktop. it makes it so much more easier to navigate to the sd storage this way
use filezilla?
@@milescarter7803 WinSCP is pretty straight forward. on deck in konsole. type "sudo sysemctl --now sshd" then on winSCP just type in steamdeck for host name, user is deck, and password is what ever you have your root password too. just make sure you disable the sshd when done or anyone on the current network you are connected to could potentially get access to the deck. to disable "sudo systemctl disable --now sshd" to disable it. it also helps if you are a dock with a lan input otherwise it has to be done over wifi which is general much slower. i dont have a doc but was seeing decent speeds over wifi.
Wait is this FTPing? You can do that? I'm trying to get in some music tracks to blast locally while gaming. Is that even possible?
@@MoeFokah yes this is FTPing into your system locally. look up linus tech tip's video named " Wireless Steam Deck file transfer is THIS easy! " its a short that describes exactly how i used it
@@MoeFokah also should be able to load up a shared folder on your pc with the music and i know for a fact some media player should be able to find it from your local network. i dont see a reason why it wouldn't. the deck is nothing more then a linux based OS. so anything you can do on linux which is everything you can do on pc. you can even get windows programs that are not games to work on steam deck. just download what you want exe file in desktop mode. then open steam in desktop mode like you would pc. and add the EXE to steam and go to the EXE's game property's then change to proton experimental and you should be able to install and run said program in the exact same way.
I would like to see a review of The Steam Gun.
And also the steam boat
In an older video think you mentioned a charger with an hdmi port. Sounds to me like this might be ideal for connecting to a TV/PC?
There are absolutely many of these products out there (lots targeted at the Switch as a dock replacement) and they should work great with the Deck if you don't need extra USB ports or anything.
Like that smash button
Which game it is at 7:42?
Bulletstorm, damn I miss that game.
What game is at 7:50pm ?
Bulletstorm
Me: Waiting for my steam deck to arrive. (about a day left).
Him: 60 Watt charger is overkill.
Me: also so waiting for my 100 Watt cord and 100 WATT CHARGER to come in.
As an adult who actually goes outside and has a family, hand-held gaming is looking real good right now. Im this close to wanting one or at least a steam deck 2. See how I go.
Don't wait. It will be four years before we get Steam Deck 2 at a minimum. Get one now.
I never got that logitech webcam in the background to work on my linux.
Imagine hooking up a usb webcam to your deck via hub/dock. Someone tried that yet lol?
@@MoeFokah I've heard people doing it. Should work no prob as long as it's got Linux support, which most do
6:16 like that smash button?
What i cant wait for is a 3rd party bezel-free OLED 1200p screen.
Sure many games struggle at the native 800p40, but many games i play can run at 1440p60+ on an external monitor.
If you've experienced an OLED, you may have noticed that most OLEDs handle resolution scaling quite well, i've got this pair of OLED AR goggles, they project a large 16:9 1080p screen when plugged into the steamdeck, and you'd be hard pressed to see scaling artifacts if you drop it down to 800p or 720p, yes its lower resolution, but unlike most LCDs there isnt a significant quality loss because you're not running at native
If you’re looking for an SD card with 35,000 retro games pre-installed, I have a nice 1TB plug and play build for Umbrella Arcades.
40hz isn't showing on my deck. I only have the 30 and 60.
You need to change the screens refresh rate to 40 and then you can limit the framerate
❣️👍🏻
With how big games are we're gonna need a steam deck with 8 micro sd slots for 8 1tb micro sd cards.
i liked the smash button so hard
You only need a USB-C to HDMI cable to connect it to a TV.
You said "Like that smash button"
I am well aware. I wrote it into the script
It's definetly not perfect, but it's something towards the right direction and I hope Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo are taking notes
You always say “like that smash button” instead of “smash that like button “
Wait... Really? 😉
i love this guy he has helped me so much but he for sure said " how about liking that smash button" and no o-ne said anything...
No thanks on Chrome, I prefer Firefox. Other than that, good video and good tips.
Number 1 tip: put windows 11 on it. Number 2 tip: put windows 11 on it. Number 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10: “”
I was using steamos the first month I had this amazing steam deck. Although it’s good for most games. But if you want demanding games like ms flight sim and dcs world to run much smoother with higher fps etc I recommend to install windows 11 either on microsd or dual boot on a 1 tb+ SSD. I have mine on a microsd card and it’s already very fast. Windows 11 is also much more touch friendly with gestures than steamos. You don’t have to mess with proton and waste time into research how to make a game run only to find out it doesn’t run as you want it.
Therefore my tip: get yourself a nice 1 tb ssd or 1 tb microsd and install windows 11 on it. You can still switch back to steamos very easily.
If you don't respect yourself, your freedom, or the gaming experience then by all means use Windows.
grounding, me rubbing my pc ever 5 seconds lol
How do you like the smash button????
“Like the Smash button” needs to be on a shirt
Nifty lil gadget, but quick gripes: -Wish it had a feature to "unhide" my hidden games. Hid some games and now I can't get em to show again in the library.
-The bios should've been automated to run a script and automatically install steam to a fresh sdd once that's detected instead of needing a mem stick/hub, etc.
-Launchers: between epic, gog, rockstar, etc it's a pain at times. Not Valve's fault, but yea.
-Also, I consecutively listen to game audio and phone music on the same headset, but with constant stutters n static. Anyone else getting this?
Thanks, garden man!
if you know what games are hidden, you can search for them and unhide them when you find them the same way you hid them
@@scratchyoshi that's the thing, I forgot. Had to go through steam purchase history to find them. A bit tedious, and easy patch imo.
Thanks.
New low price I ordered 1TB PM991a $77 after tax.
Where?
It is technically a gaming pc tho, it is the definition of a “pc” just in a small form factor.
like that smash button lol
Seriously
Why Not Like that Smash Button? :)
I will like that smash button yes
¿caRalog? i did not hear the T 🤔
Why dont you like that smash button😂
I would maximise my experience if Valve didn't split us into rich world, where they sell the Steam Deck, and poor world, Where they will never sell the Steam Deck.
Lol living in a 3rd world makes you lame. L
As an ex poor world citizen I feel you. The options are usually never get the Steam deck or pay outrageous prices to import it
Like that smash button 😂
I'm not sure why you hate Phase 10, but I looked up the rules and fell asleep trying to read them. It sounds boring and I'd rather play Uno.
Yeap, another video about Steam deck 😐
Seeing as I'm getting four to five times the views talking about Steam Deck, is a safe bet that I'll continue talking about it.
Yeap another video about steam deck 😄
The viewcounts do tell tales. And you're adding to it.
its a steam deck channel now and thats actually pretty nice
@@gardiner_bryant As you should! There's always more to talk about since it's constantly evolving and new games are coming to it.