How to Dual/Triple/Quad Boot Steam Deck - SteamOS, Windows, Batocera, Ubuntu:- \t
","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49816526","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"darkstryder360"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T10:21:59.000Z","text":"I play majority of my games on XSX and PS5 (and Sim racing on PC Desktop)
For anything niche, or I want to play in bed/laying down, I play on the SteamDeck.
Here are a list of games that play well on Deck, that I have enjoyed:
Teardown Portal 2 Huntdown Disco Elysium Inscryption Splitgate Mini Motorways Trombone Champ (gyro built in) CarX Drift Racing Trackmania Stadium Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Age of Empires 2 HD Edition (yes, it plays and controls well!)
...and of course, all of the roms/emulators. Primarily play PS2/PS1 games."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49886530","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Matholwch"},"datePublished":"2023-03-31T09:10:34.000Z","text":"For those who fancy playing EA games in their EA games library on Steam Deck, you can install EA App following the instructions here:
A early problem I ran into after getting the launcher to work, was that EA updated their Launcher, so I had to follow the steps described here: reddit.com/r/S…pp/ Launcher will insist on restarting, it will download, then crash out. Once its downloaded, change the launcher to point at the destager location."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49823404","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"slimy31"},"datePublished":"2023-03-23T08:28:10.000Z","text":"While this thread is full of great info and lots of good links, the one thing I would recommend to anyone starting out with the Steam Deck is just use it as it was intended, at least for a day or so. Install and play some Steam games, get a feel for how things work. I see people jump straight into emulation on day one and then come up with questions like 'how do I switch from gaming to desktop mode', or 'why do the controls change when I go back to gaming mode'. A very common one I see is 'how do I turn off the FPS counter'? Oh, and don't even consider dual booting Windows as a first task, unless you've done something like it before and reasonably understand what it's trying to do. You don't need to switch to Windows for 95% of stuff, it's only certain games that work better in Windows.
I would guess that a lot of people would never had looked at Linux before owning a Steam Deck, much less owned a portable PC (which this is). Take it easy, enjoy it, then look at expanding your range."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49817134","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"EQL"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T11:43:20.000Z","text":"A couple of highlights from the Steam Deck deal : 's comment: hotukdeals.com/com…856 My comment: hotukdeals.com/com…016"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49835996","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"widebob"},"datePublished":"2023-03-24T16:26:35.000Z","text":"I had lots of trouble getting Xbox cloud gaming via Edge to recognise the steam deck controller input. Kept retrying the steps from the Microsoft instructions and kept getting a warning about no controller found. Finally tried a complete reboot of the steam deck and it instantly started working."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49837576","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Cenobite"},"datePublished":"2023-03-24T19:52:52.000Z","text":"Installing Epic was a bit of a faff. Maybe should have taken advice & got used to it first. Felt it became quite unresponsive when pressing Steam+X. Might be easier with an external keyboard & mouse.
When adding games to Steam from Epic/Gog, does that add them to the normal library, allowing you to install via Steam? i.e. if I install a game from Epic on my PC, can I add that to Steam & install from there on the Deck?"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49853555","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"xxxman123"},"datePublished":"2023-03-27T11:00:02.000Z","text":"Found mine was getting quite warm just installing games, then ran into a video on YouTube suggested disabling the fan curve that set at the bottom in Settings/System."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49870441","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Craigr"},"datePublished":"2023-03-29T10:10:55.000Z","text":"Ordered a load on Cdkeys yesterday, will see how they play on the Deck. Days Gone No Man's Sky Micro Machines World Series Cities: Skylines Overcooked 2 Tekken 7 Wreckfest Planet Coaster Don't like that you have to leave the Deck on so they could download as took all night to download the above.."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49817766","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"ninjapirate182"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T13:11:51.000Z","text":"Just arrived!!"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49835069","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Shane_Prunty"},"datePublished":"2023-03-24T14:40:11.000Z","text":"BM - steam deck just making it's way from the Netherlands."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49816562","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"superted2008"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T10:26:02.000Z","text":"I have had my 512gb version about 5 months now. As soon as i received it installed windows 11, the reason i did this was so i can play whatever games i like and not just those on stream. You can either dual boot windows 11 with the steam OS or do a complete format of the drive and install windows.
Very happy with it so far, battery life isnt great, probably as good as i expected to be fair."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49844021","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gazzie"},"datePublished":"2023-03-25T19:59:10.000Z","text":"Got my steam deck on Friday and spent most of the time since playing steamworld dig 2 and really enjoying it. Although it developed an issue this evening and my teenage daughter has started using it. I can’t get it back. Has anyone experienced this issue and what’s the solution?"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49870858","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Craigr"},"datePublished":"2023-03-29T10:58:33.000Z","text":"Yes i think you dim it via power settings, but if you put it on standby the downloads stop. Thankfully not a screen that gets screen burn."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/50364816","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"1Eye"},"datePublished":"2023-06-12T20:26:28.000Z","text":"Had my 256gb steam deck just over month And thanks to this post. Saved me a lot of time looking for info. Got luna/gamepass to run great. Tried few emulators wich most things I've thrown at the steam deck run very well Managed to install most lunchers (ea,gog,epic.etc) wich with direction was quite easy to to install. 50 of my steam games of 200 are fully compatible but about 110 are playable.
I'm old school gamer so tend not to play competitive due to arthritis Decided to get back into gaming in lock down, purchased gaming laptop. Used maybe 20 odd times Steam deck goes most places so have had a lot more use for price.
So thanks to poster for tipping me over the edge to get steam deck, showing how most things where easy to setup "},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49814985","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"FireOnAWire"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T03:09:09.000Z","text":"Great idea! Still eagerly awaiting delivery "},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49823170","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"nasovoto"},"datePublished":"2023-03-23T07:47:31.000Z","text":"Hi all,
I assume quite few of us got the 64GB model and will be upgrading the ssd so I thought I’d share this (borrowed from Reddit) "},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49826668","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"stepea"},"datePublished":"2023-03-23T15:26:11.000Z","text":"Anyone recommend decent screen protector."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/50364316","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"biscuitracer"},"datePublished":"2023-06-12T19:23:01.000Z","text":"Missed the deal but have recently bought the 512gb one, I love it! Surprising how well games look on it and how smooth they run."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49815004","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"DaddyPig"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T03:59:55.000Z","text":"Great thread . Will pass it onto my little man "},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49816164","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"nasovoto"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T09:36:54.000Z","text":"Great idea"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49816496","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"petermartin99"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T10:19:09.000Z","text":"Thanks very much for this, I've just ordered one and this really helps.
Have to say, you have a very inappropriate username - you certainly ain't lazy, haha"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49821027","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"redmoss"},"datePublished":"2023-03-22T20:16:16.000Z","text":"You all be the crunch the 64gb version out of stock, expected reservation availability after the sale ends at full recommend RRP on the 23rd at 10am pacific time(horror) just gutted found out after topping up steam wallet"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49824557","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MISTERb"},"datePublished":"2023-03-23T11:00:29.000Z","text":"Great idea"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49826196","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"ninjapirate182"},"datePublished":"2023-03-23T14:29:19.000Z","text":"Only had a little bit of time with it so far but here are the things I've done since it arrived yesterday;
Played Halo 3 on the toilet Enjoyed the Desk Job tech demo Loaded Netflix/Youtube onto the game mode Connected my PS5 controller for easier play Somehow found a load of GameCube/N64/GBA games on my deck and started a Nuzlocke run on Heart Gold "},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49826888","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"4d4m"},"datePublished":"2023-03-23T15:56:52.000Z","text":"Is there any reason to buy a game on Steam to play on the Deck, if it's already on PC Gamepass? I guess convenience is one, anything else like compatibility, performance? I'm comfortable with fiddling and have set up linux/windows dual boot machines in the past."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49835515","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Shane_Prunty"},"datePublished":"2023-03-24T15:26:44.000Z","text":"Any recommendations for a good protective plate like a dbrand? I had an eye on a dbrand second hand on an Irish site but it has sold. I've bought one of the easyskinz wraps but is a protective case a must - I'm anal about protecting my gadgets.
Edit: it's an alternative to the Dbrand Killswitch I'm looking for to be more specific."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49835781","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"4d4m"},"datePublished":"2023-03-24T16:00:19.000Z","text":"Mine's in that weird limbo between Steam saying it's been picked up by carrier and GLS saying \"The parcel data was entered into the GLS IT system; the parcel was not yet handed over to GLS.\""},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49836432","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"sadbuttrue"},"datePublished":"2023-03-24T17:26:01.000Z","text":"had a mild panic earlier when Cyberpunk crashed it, rebooted it and all is well I'm frankly amazed at how well AAA games run on this thing"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49841509","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"metalpaul1000"},"datePublished":"2023-03-25T12:56:34.000Z","text":"Had my deck for 3 days and still only doing basics like playing games on (and downloading them)
Noticed though that if I’m playing a game and press the steam button to exit it or do something else the screen will go black but then come back to normal. I did the Turning off and holding the volume up button to turn on via bios screen. Hasn’t fixed it. Did it with DMC last night and vampire survivors this morning. Is this normal or do I have a faulty unit?
Have literally just downloaded games and played them. Haven't tinkered or even gone into desktop mode."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49850269","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Spark"},"datePublished":"2023-03-26T20:12:22.000Z","text":"Is anyone else noticing how quickly the internal storage fills up even when you don't install any games to it? It's definitely the shader cache patches but I'm not sure if there's a simple way to redirect them to the MicroSD card."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49853349","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"waz12345"},"datePublished":"2023-03-27T10:28:32.000Z","text":"Got mine last week. Have installed 512gb NVME SSD and got Emudeck up and running (with plenty of tinkering). SSD install went pretty smoothly. Really enjoying it! Battery life not great, but its an awesome device. Emulating Zelda BOTW on CEMU and getting 40fps (wiiu version) looks great!"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49859671","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"UnknownCube123"},"datePublished":"2023-03-28T00:49:15.000Z","text":"Anyone having any issues with getting it to dock with your TV?
I've got a aftermarket deck from Amazon, well reviewed. My TV is a 55 inch 4k Samsung (2021).
When I first plugged it in, I got a picture and now I've tried the second time and no signal. If I go into desktop mode and plug the dock in I can see the screen and even get the desktop onto my TV. As soon as I go to gaming mode it goes back to no signal.
This is so frustrating, I've got my controller hooked up, the dock was just the last piece of the puzzle."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/49889498","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Player-1"},"datePublished":"2023-03-31T14:50:15.000Z","text":"Anyone get the 512gb microSD card from Amazon for£32 for there Steam Deck today?"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/50285494","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"LazyDonkey"},"datePublished":"2023-05-31T21:28:13.000Z","text":"How is everyone getting on with their Decks? This thread has gone very quiet "},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/50370806","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"biscuitracer"},"datePublished":"2023-06-13T18:26:21.000Z","text":"Does anyone have must have game for it? I've bought a couple but want one big game to work through."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/50478486","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"J1240"},"datePublished":"2023-06-29T20:11:14.000Z","text":"Just managed to bag a deck, finally! Have a few questions.
Any must have accessories?
Best SD card? (Going to leave it as is until it’s out of warranty then upgrade the ssd).
Dock recommendations?
Do the 8bitdo controllers work okay with it?"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/50481980","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"gdb19"},"datePublished":"2023-06-30T11:00:55.000Z","text":"Is it possible to buy games for other regions from sellers like cd keys and redeem them on the steam deck?"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51044581","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"ngs"},"datePublished":"2023-09-23T10:03:37.000Z","text":"My steam Deck box was double sellotaped; Very well done it is not that noticeable. Do customs open packages then re-tape or have I a customer return refurbished ? Has anyone else noticed this on their box.
Need a SD cover that fits with SD Dock; anyone sourced such items."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51704918","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Robloxian"},"datePublished":"2023-12-09T16:39:33.000Z","text":"I only use my laptop for Windows programs to hack my Nintendo mini consoles. Can you still do this if you install windows on an SD card for steam? Does it basically turn your deck into a windows pc?
Also, is £349 good for the 256GB version?"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51714188","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Robloxian"},"datePublished":"2023-12-10T22:15:44.000Z","text":"If I buy Steam credit for £350, can I then top up my steam account and then use my steam credit to buy it? I'll save £20 doing it this way."}],"commentCount":87,"interactionStatistic":42,"articleSection":"Misc"}