Steam Deck

You don't really need to do any configuring with it, pretty much everything is done through the game mode anyway.

Playing uncharted now at 30fps at mostly high settings. Dosent run nearly as well as re2 did though it’s still perfectly fine. Have to reduce settings pretty significantly to lock to 40 and even at 30 you get big drops in some cut scenes. It’s already reminding me why I never finished it on ps4. There’s so much fluff it just takes forever to get going. Good looking game and all but not the best entrance in the series.

UC4 takes a little while to get going but it is absolutely worth the effort. There is a point where you reach a certain destination and from that point onwards it is absolutely brilliant.

Playstation Plus streaming is now working on the deck without needing the windows install. It's a small bit more tricky than others but very manageable and once in a game it plays great.

Awesome guide, thanks for sharing

Ordered one of these over the weekend, 64GB plus a 512GB Samsung SD card. Mainly looking forward to getting it setup for emulating PS2/Dreamcast which seems straight forward enough. Apparently it's possible to load ROMs from a NAS although it looks a bit tricky to setup.

Mainly interested in non-Steam games. How do you know what to use when it comes to which Proton version, Lutris/Bottles etc? Seems to be on a game by game basis. Fortunately not looking to add a ton of non Steam games. I've done a fair bit of reading and I'm still scratching my head a bit, it will hopefully start to make sense once I get my hands on it.

How do you know if it's worth running non Steam games Vs just installing a Windows partition?

Great, thanks. I've done a fair bit of reading on Reddit, some interesting guides but didn't see a clear indication on everyone using one specific method. Once I get familiar with the system it should start to make sense. I've seen a few guides for particular games in interested in which should help me get to grips with how things work.

Just eagerly awaiting it to arrive now. Shipped Monday so not expecting it this week, would be great to mess with it over the weekend though :)

For anyone interested I've been dual booting my steamdeck for a while now. Windows works well on it for gaming too. Handy for those games that just won't play well on Linux.

The Switch version of BotW doesn't run that well on Switch, so it might take a while for the new one until it is in a decent state.

EmuDeck should handle the artwork for the Roms. but I found adding them just blew up my non-steam games library. So I just have EmuDeck and then boot into that and then the games.

I also make Steam Collections - I'll have one that has Chrome reworked to be directed to Netflix, Prime, Disney, Spotify etc etc.

I'll have one for the launchers - Epic, Origin, EA App, Heroic, GOG, Ubisoft etc etc.

And one for Games so I can drop the 5-10 games I regularly play.

You can use this website to grab the artwork. All the images are the correct size, just open it in chrome/firefox and download them on the Deck. https://www.steamgriddb.com/

You will need 5 for each game.

• Hero - This is the big banner background when you click into a game.
• Logo - This is the area where it shows the name of the game when you click into it. (just above the gree play button)
• Icon - is the tiny image used in the side panel.

You need two box arts for the library as it can show two different ways.

• Vertical - This is used to show games you played in the past, but not the most recent.
• Horizontal - This is used when it is showing the last game you played.

If I could thank a post twice I would 🤣.

That's a very handy plug in. Will save me hours !!

Pulling my hair out here. Tried to get Greenlight installed for Game Pass streaming and no luck. 50/50 chance the few non Steam games work, even EmuDeck isn't working great when doing a new rom list. Downloading some games to SD card would fail or freeze Firefox on completion.

When I search individual games people hint towards a different Proton, do I need to try every one until it works for each game? I tried Proton Experimental for GTA IV based on comments on Reddit and it still didn't work.

The image is Titanfall 2 that I bought on Steam as a test and I'm getting the same screen as all my other non Steam games. Even restarting the device is a bit dodgy with how long it takes and sometimes doesn't seem to come back on by itself. Any ideas?

Just looking to stream from the cloud, I don't have an Xbox. I want to be able to play a bit of Flight Sim or Forza on the couch. I heard performance was better on Greenlight but I'll look into the Edge method.

I don't have too much on it, I've spent 2-3 hours messing around with it each night and barely played anything. EmuDeck is the main reason I bought one and that works fine but I'd really like to play some PC games.

I think I'll reset it this evening as I don't have anything on it. I know there's a bit of tinkering involved but from reading other people's experiences it seems I'm having more trouble.

This works really well alright, one thing to watch out for is there is no space between the comma and 640 in this line as it looks on that guide: “…--window-size=1024, 640….” It should be “…--window-size=1024,640…”; with the space xcloud launches to a white screen.

(Interesting to see when I copied and pasted it here it didn’t have a comma…so it’s some sort of visual formatting issue on the site.)

I've put in an order for one of these deck mates.

It's a simple enough clip but comes with lots of attachments like a kick stand, monitor mount, wall mount, and two pucks (these can be stuck to anything, for example a battery pack) so you can clip them on and off.

Also has a smaller attachment that you can stick to the deck if you have a cover and the clip doesn't fit.

Ships from the US so is about €80 by the time taxes and post are in.

If you have access to a 3D printer they give away the blueprints for free so you can print your own.