NVIDIA finally supports the Steam Deck.
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- This week, Nvidia's Geforce NOW and "Junk-Store" introduce major advancements in playing non-Steam and incompatible games on the Deck. Plus, two small but meaningful features hit the Deck’s beta client including quick Southpaw settings and external drive formatting in Game Mode! We’ll talk about them. And a new Proton update makes some new games (and some old favorites) playable. Let’s get into the news!
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-- Chapters --
00:00 Introduction
00:25 NVIDIA GeForce NOW installer script
04:20 Easiest Epic Game Store Installer for Steam Deck
07:40 ProtonDB 9.0 Release Candidate
09:10 Steam Deck Beta Client Updates - Věda a technologie
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Just want anti cheat sorted, then I believe the steamdeck will be an even more god tier handheld.
Anti cheat IS sorted. The game devs in many cases just don't allow anti cheat in Proton or Linux. It's a simple checkmark in their console with easy anti cheat or similar software! They can interactively include or exclude Proton and Linux how ever they want....one minute it's on another one it's off... but they just want it off.
Also these anti cheat softwares aren't the solution to end cheating anyway.
Abolish kernel anticheat and that will come soon after
it's up to the game developer *cough* EA, origins *cough* ... EAC already put an update to support linux way back in sept.2021.. but the devs needs to update their legacy code. they said it's as easy as pushing a button, but the damn AAA company just wont use the newer library. Some did update their code like Apex Legends
That'll never happen. It's been how long since proton released and we have how many white listed games? It's not gonna happen chief that ship has sailed at this point.
It's up to the developers. Ask them
Never used nvidia shield. I’m quite happy with my deck the way it comes out of the box
GeForce now works great on the ultimate tier. I was playing No rest for the wicked on potato settings natively on the steam deck and it still wasn't enough. It felt like my deck was going to melt. On geforce now it runs great on the ultimate tier and it doesn't use a lot of the steam decks resources. It's perfect if you have fast Internet.
My experience was similar on other games I play, also streaming games means steam deck lasts for about 5-6 hours on a full charge.
Chapter title incorrectly says "ProtonDB 9.0" instead of "Proton 9.0"
I wonder if valve will adress the issue where you can’t uninstall versions of proton with “missing shared content” typically it means a game is using that proton meaning it won’t let or delete it but sometimes no game could be using proton and it just does that. Like I can’t remove proton 9 for whatever reason and my usual work around didn’t work. I wonder if there’s a way we could sort our games based on if they use a certain version of proton to make it easier to find them.
For Geforce Now, not sure if "support" is the good term, also not understanding why is it in "Beta" when it's just a shortcut for chrome launching GNow. A bit sad it's not the real app that could let us change to 120fps or low input mode etc.
more like pre alpha.
@@roundduckkira It's not a prealpha, it's just a Google Chrome installer lol
@@fervidoctor I'm being tongue in cheek, like pre alpha doesn't mean code needs to be made, it's prototyping, and that includes just making a funny installer that does most of the job.
For some reason game devs turned pre alpha into an alpha or beta...
hey, this new proton has greatly improved performance in helldivers 2, before it everything had to be on low, but now you can play with some settings on ultra such as "particles" and "plants and rocks".
I remember owning an nVidia Shield. It came with a 6 month subscription to the streaming service. I remember streaming one of the Tomb Raiders at 720p. It worked great even back then.
Are you using front mission music in this video? Thats awesome.
So do I need to delete my original set-up and then do this because yeah I'm using the old set-up without there link and yeah haven't noticed a different. I just use a community layout for controller and yeah feels the same..They need a native app
Been using the beta family sharing feature with my kids ever since it was released and it works great, the only minor complaint - if you call it that - would be I wish that it would have an icon or something on the game within the library view that indicated if it was yours or one from another family member (maybe the user's steam icon?). Once I enabled that feature my steam library jumped by 200 games, and when looking through it I found a few games that I thought I had bought but turns out they were a family member's game, it would just be cool to see a difference (and maybe there is a way now that I just haven't discovered yet). Overall loving the feature though.
But does the gefocre now script work with non-steam deck distros? or are we still with the geforce now election app
Playing Dragon's Dogma 2 on the Steam Deck at full settings without the fan even making a sound is a beautiful thing. Thanks for the heads up on Nvidia. I've been waiting for something like this.
The geforce now script is a good start
I just ran through the process manually a week or 2 ago, which was... fine, but this will make it much more accessible for the average person.
I hope we get a native launcher at some point though, geforce now isn't the most controller-friendly experience sometimes 😬
A great decky plugin is also the one that you can set a maximum charge percentage (you can disable that, too). For all those that often play "plugged in" and don't want to ruin your battery. You can also disable it to gain that last percentage that are missing and fully charge it to have more juice on the go. It will GREATLY increase the longevity of your battery, especially if you often play plugged in.
What's the name of the plugin?
PowerTools
@@Sebs1599 It's the powertools plugin.
@@Sebs1599 PowerTools
great tip, although i will say that replacing the battery isn't that difficult. took me about 20 minutes
I installed the epic games plug-in, does the epic games cloud also work this way?
Am I the only person in the world that has an issue with Proton 9? If I select Proton 9 for a game when I try to start it the startup screen says its downloading content but it never gets past 0%. If I change it to Proton 8 it the game starts fine. Does it on every game ive tried. I cant find any references to anyone else having an issue.
do i have to pay on geforce to open the app on my steamdeck? i cant log in
I've just been using Heroic for GOG. I imagine it would be just as good for Epic. It was an easy install with desktop mode.
I used Geforce Now to play Path Of Exile on my old laptop. It ran great! With the streaming setup I can actually play the game without having to resort to an abysmal resolution where I don't even see what's happening on the screen. I stopped using it since I got a steam deck (poe is playable on steam deck with a lot of control tweaks). It's cool they made an easy install script but I don't see much point in streaming on the Deck. It's been powerful enough for what I played on it. I guess it's useful if you really want to crank all graphical settings to the max.
Followed the old way of getting it to work on Chrome. Its my main way to play Ark Ascended, Fortnite, Planet Crafter, as long as i'm somewhere with good internet i stream a lot of the games i play on deck.
Good info. Thanks for the news.
I've been using it since the Steam Deck came out, first through a 3rd party app, then the official one... once I got it working, lol.
I highly recommend it. Rust, for example, is awesome on SteamDeck, and it loads the map in a lot quicker on GFN than even my gaming PC, so... yeah. Definitely worth it, even at the lower tier, IMO. And if they have a free trial, go for it. Nothing lost there if you don't like it, lol.
I recommend dropping the GPU wattage all the way down to 3w or 5w though when using GFN, as the rendering is all done on their end, not locally. Saves a good deal of battery that way. I get way longer playtimes on GFN that way than using Windows (or even SteamOS/Bazzite) and playing the games locally.
I'll be waiting for an official integration of moonlight for the deck at this point. The moonlight I have installed through emudeck has the super annoying black bars.... And the only way to avoid them is to stretch the game (sooo no) or to manually change the PC aspect ratio and I should do this every single time since I won't use my PC with 16:10.
I'm really waiting that this issue is addressed by either Nvidia or someone else because it's a pity to have such a pain using moonlight on the deck
So you can plau fornite on deck without modding or putting windows on it now?
8:20 Exactly!
Does anyone know why steam can’t accurately calculate off-line time played? Anytime I play my games off-line and then go on online. It totally messes with my current playtime count.
Not sure specifically, but from my experience, Steam doesn’t keep track of time played offline for me.
So some games should technically have like twice the amount.
0:01 of course, this is all very interesting, but 1 question. is it possible to install an old favorite game on GeForce NOW that is no longer for sale? я бы хотел поиграть в NFS most wanted
I got so used to installing everything from discover that having to download and run and install script for Geforce Now on the Steam Deck just feels archaic. It's very much a Windows process, and I don't miss it at all on Linux.
Many Linux distros have the "X things to do after installing", is there an equivalent for Steam Deck?
Like a guide to what extra software or plugins to install and so on....
Gardiner has lots of different videos about these kind of topics, but would be nice to have a centralized list of recommended stuff to do.
Get decky snd plugins, most other things like changing kernel to get better performance are slightly advanced
not seeing steam deck download and no link in description
www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/download/#referrer=gfn-app
I been using GeForce Now for a couple months on my steam deck, and my PC. My favorite part is never having to update, or install a game. No more waiting. (With my paid subscription of course) it frees up memory, and I think it has extended my battery life as it reduce processing power. Def worth 10$ a month
I haven't used GeForce now... YET, though I think I might try it for a month and see how well it works. I've signed up for the free and over like 120 somes games from my steam library are supported so I'm thinking it may be worth it as I travel for work overnight once every few weeks and go on vacation starting next Friday. Worth a try anyway.
it said i need to get membership with your provider. i dont know what to do. is this free or not. thanks
There is a free tier as far as I understand it
I cant find the free tier maybe its not free on ph i dont know
Now I'm not sure if I need heroic launcher, that's excellent
Decky epic loader won’t work for me; it wants to verify the log in, but mouse curser can’t go low enough to click the button…. Followed troubshooter; didn’t seem to help. 😢
Launch it in desktop mode
I tried to like the smash button but I am still looking for it lol 🤣. great video, you got a new subscriber, new to steam deck and this sort of video helps a lot thank you!!!
came for the news, stayed around for the amazing c&c ost
Can't seem to login to epic. I keep getting errors.
I've been a GeForce Now fan for over half a decade, and I can tell you that it's fantastic on the deck. My friends' minds were blown seeing Dragon's Dogma 2 and Dead Island 2 running at max FPS and ultra settings on the Deck.
nVidia added a nice touch making Geforce Now Steam Deck ready despite taking so long, Geforce Now gives me access to a further 162 PC games on my Steam Deck. I can play a pile of extra games on the Steam Deck Now without clogging up the SSD, nice. 👍
I played 60 hours of bg3 in ultra on my potato laptop with geforce now, it worked great
I really like the idea of a cloud gaming rig subscription service. I like the idea of building my own on-premises gaming server much more.
With all the nonsense going on with windows I've left it behind and installed Steam os on my gaming machine using holo iso, it's pretty fun to take part in this new expanding frontier :-)
NOW that's cool
Fingers crossed tightly for the future of gaming, The Steam Deck is winning and also smashing it so far with Gabe Newell and his Valve Team, very much game changing these days.
From the beginning, I thought it is weird to Nvidia support Steam Deck, since it is AMD's GPU in here, but then I understood it is something else!
Unlucky, that it is not a real app, but hey, at least they are thinking about Linux & Steam Deck community!
Thanks for the video!
Soo, does this mean I'll be able to play Dragon's Dogma 2 on steam? 🤔Cause, I just bought a rog ally + 2tb ssd and have just completed the install SO that I can plat DD2 on the go.
❤ thanks 👍🏻 bro
I just found out how good geforce now in my area recently. And I think steamdeck + Geforce Now will be a good idea for next generation steamdeck. Because after gfn power up my steamdeck it look unbreakable 😂🎉
Do I have to use Chrome? Could I just use a Chrome based browser?
5:30 considering the continuous distribution of free games in the epic game store over the years - I do not know people who have a library epic game, less than GOG
Interessting
🤣👏I loved "Don't buy EA games!" 8:19
I have an Nvidia graphics card on my Linux machine so I thought it was already supported. Maybe Steamdeck is a new branch. I don’t play games, but my 3 kids do. They have switches. I don’t understand the attraction. Only game I ever tried was Nanosaur and that was on an ancient Mac. If it exists on a Steam Deck I could possibly branch out. Tomb Raider might also fit the bill.
Yeah, I actually subscribed to Nvidia GeForce now priority. I did it to play with my friends on call of duty and Fortnite whenever they played that but recently started picking up Rainbow six siege again and this is the only way to play on steam deck.
Steam deck should sort out the ant cheat issue because R six is fully playable on the steam deck and I know this because I tried I just can’t go online or they will ban me.
Since I have a subscription, I log onto my Gorce now on my Mac mini and it runs slightly better with more features, such as adding affects and even adding a desktop short cut, which has proven to be pretty convenient. hopefully valve sort out the anti-cheat issue and/or GeForce now fully support steam deck instead of beta.
Junk store is sick. All i want now is more anticheat support. Like for cod, valorant etc. Im almost at the point i will switch my main pc to linux if they can get that supported.
Brilliant. Just installed Epic. Time for some Demons Tilt. Hopefully GTA V will work ok.
I'll tell you something, I wish Ubisoft would put that new Prince Of Persia Metroidvania on Steam plus an brand new Rayman game platformer, its should be time for a new Rayman game for May or next year in 2025 as Rayman's 30th.
@Stadia... Sad times @1:13
Kind of not relevant, but it would be cool to see Valve hire the decky loader team to create an official plugin system! Valve could simply issue a warning that things could possibly break when it's activated.
Tbh I've given this a lot of thought in the past and I think we are better off with Decky being independent and totally open source. The only way it might be improved is if Valve provided a mono environment for plug-in execution across all Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Once you can play any game on Linux, I think we'd see many more people install it....then Windows/Mac will become OSs for work.
Deep dives int updates and Proton would be defo fun!
why not just install heroic on the steam deck to play epic/gog games you currently own?
tiberian sun - GDI comrade
dropping a comment just bcuz he was honest about feeding the algorithm.
you can just pirate command and conquer or whatever I just looked up steam deck quacked games and there are a bunch of videos on how to do it. I recommend using the heroic launcher personally just cause I feel like lutris is clucky. plus heroic allows you to run any installers you have downloaded. this is made for gog games of course but it works with all the repacks I've tried. that being ghost of shitshima. and it works great say for an input glitch that the repack gave me to fix myself
gonna try GeForce
Will this allow games like destiny play on the deck without getting flagged by the anticheat?!
Feel like if Nvidia Sees enough people using this, perhaps we could get native support one days.
Me waiting patiently overe here for Valve to release an official SteamOS image with Nvidia gpu support.
Bought dudelings. It's not really my kind of game but I didnt NEED a $75 ltt screwdriver or backpack.. so.. you know.. ❤
Soon oled fan's going to say this not work with the lcd one because the 7nm
i have had gog blizzard ea and epic on my deck for 5 mnths..
I can play destiny now for 9.99 a month, dual booting is very inconsistent for D2.
I have zero interest in another streaming service.
I mean that's good for you, but for people that want it, it's not like typical cloud gaming where people have their ownership tied to a subscription or a cloud service, it's just nice for when you don't have powerful hardware in a pinch
Then cancel one of your other ones? Just cause there’s tons of streaming services out there doesn’t mean the best ones aren’t worth while.
Geforce Now not only became the only way I could play high end games on the go (just try dragons dogma 2 on the steam deck), but it is legit allowing me to skip graphics card generations. I’ve been sitting around eyeing up the 4090 since it came out, but $1,600 is a lot of years of top tear GeForce Now, at least 2 GPU generations.
good news
No point in using Gforce now for me. All my games play on the deck.
Not everyone at EA is a dingus, the devs are not all bad.
i stopped support EA when i bought a game on xbox 360 that looked really fun, bought it. launched it and got "sorry the servers have shut down" and it was a multiplayer game only, that wasn't removed from the store and wasn't playable. so i had to call microsoft , they said kick rocks. then i had to call EA they said to kick rocks and call microsoft, so i did the most sane thing ever... just told my bank retrack all my funds from microsft for the xbox 360 as i had canceled it 3 times but they kept charging me. soon as i got the money closed that bank account out and never bought another console since and never bought an EA game but the 🏴☠ is the life for me and EA. F EA
it feels silly that nvidia is supporting the steam deck only by making it easier to use cloud gaming and not use native hardware. then again I think they did something with their drivers on linux so theres not much to complain about now
Steam deck needs an native Frame generator😢
Our visual cortex automatically does the same thing without adding lag. Just need to stop focusing on the frame rate so much. This is how gamers survived playing the early consoles on a CRT TV.
I have the same opinion. Don't Buy EA game. But ME3 is on sale and I really miss playing the multiplayer mode!!! OH NO!!
As cool as it is. This is also very scary to me. It is the future of gaming getting shaped right now. The slow transition to PC and console gaming becoming streaming only. It's pretty similar to what happened with movies turning into streaming.
It’s great . But certain games you’ll find the force now is your best option . It’s free if you wait for a free rig
No will not be stream only. Just stream available
Frankly, this is an unsustainable business model at global scale. Think about it. You can only divide a GPU so far. A 4090 can be split into 4 1080p streams. So if you had 100 million users, you'd need 25 million GPUs if everyone used a the entry level paid tier. 25 million GPUs in datacenters is untenable. That would be 7 million servers to run all that if they each had 4 GPUs.
Having a GPU for every gamer in some data center -- or even a fraction of a GPU per gamer -- is just untenable. Realistically Stadia failed because it just wasn't sustainable. You can only virtualize a GPU so far before you compromise on graphics quality.
At least with GeForce NOW, you use your existing Steam account.
@@gardiner_bryant Yeah. I just tried it out. Not on my steam deck though. Wanted to give it a quick go on the desktop. It's not too bad i'd say. I've tried both playstations and xbox cloud gaming. And it's pretty much in between those two when it comes to something like latency. Though i'd highly recommend geforce now over the other two. As like you said. Your steam games are available through geforce now.
But yeah. Saw your video. Felt like testing LMAO. I did the ultimate cloud gaming test. Rocket League. And it was playable. But you have to expect the once in a while impossible to read the opponent lack spikes once in a while.
Of course it does. They want your money
Why would those of us left scratching our heads want to install this? Pros/cons? What does it do that we crave? Plants crave electrolytes which is why plants crave Gatorade.
Plants crave Brawndo, not Gatorade. Gatorade is for gators.
I just can't get behind game streaming, the input lag kills the experience, and the constantly fluctuating video quality due to the terrible state of the internet infrastructure I have access to just makes it not worth it. Local network Game streaming through steam or parsec works pretty decent and has minimal latency issues, so occasionally I will do that, but I honestly rather just play natively even if it means slightly less shiny graphics. or less framerate.
I just want to play rust
Yooo
No nvidia does not support deck...
Deck needs a native app from nvidia, otherwise you can not get everything working like 4k,120 fps, hdr and vrr for docked gaming or 90 fps hdr for handheld mode.
Nvidia did the laziest shit here with this "support"
Similar to gamepass, I have no interest in subcription based games.
Pfff Ive already used geforce now and with much better option without installing chrome
What's wrong with EA games?
EA is patently evil and they do not deserve your money.
Junk store 😂
Nope, not my cup of tea.
And it's not available in Colombia where the internetspeeds actually are much better than in the US 😂😂
This is an awesome video, just subbed.
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No they don't I guess you don't tested it. It only have maximum 1080p 60 fps. So 90fps is not supported. 4k not working not even 1440 p is working. Also hdr isn't supported. So the 2 trillion dollars company maked the same experience then a 1 developer Gfn electron. ANOTHER THING on the mobile and windows version of the Chrome is at least support hdr 120hz and 1440p.
Does the steam deck even have a 4k screen?
Isn't it a handheld that's made for 1080?
Why would they implement a 4k mode of the handheld doesn't do 4k?
Dude 1440p on that small of a screen makes no viable sense.
@@thatsmean2929 dude you have a 4k 60hz USB c connection. Why for the Samsung and IPhone (1440 p 120 Hz) they can do this and for the deck with output 4k 60hz they cannot. That's why. Also oled deck have 90 Hz screen and hdr. Why for the rog ally and for the legion go 4k 60hz is available and for the deck no??? They literally just maked a chrome link to gfn it's the April's fools application. 1 guy made the same experience 2 years ago it's called gfn electron and it's on the app store.
@Real_Name_Redacted Docking the steam deck exists. Just hook it up to a 4K TV or Monitor and use geforce now.
@@thatsmean2929I did use moonlight at 1200p though. With supersampling it's all so much sharp and nice looking.
Not a chance. Lol! I care nothing about gforce now