Steam Deck

Any program can be added to steam by putting the Steam Deck into Desktop Mode (hold power button and select Desktop Mode), finding the app in the start menu Right clicking and selecting "add to steam" from the menu. Remember the "game" added to steam will have its own separate controller profile, choose keyboard and mouse template for desktop programs and adjust as needed.

Kdenlive is a video editor that can be downloaded by opening the Discover package manager in desktop mode and selecting to install the program.

Why do this? Well, with Decky Loader plugin Decky Recorder you can record clips of gameplay in Gaming Mode with the Steam Deck. The default file location is /home/deck/Videos/. There isn't necessarily an easy way to view videos in Gaming Mode on the Steam Deck however, which means the next step of reviewing the footage you took while playing the game requires you to exit into Desktop Mode and open a video player like VNC.

Fine, but.. I actually think I like this workflow better, add Kdenlive to steam so you can launch it in Gaming Mode and then create a layout inside Kdenlive (I called it "browse" in demo video) that just has the "media browser", "clip monitor" and "transport" selected. This is your video player to review the clips you record, now you can switch to the "editing" layout (layouts are in top right of screen in Kdenlive) and directly transition to video editing without ever leaving Gaming Mode.

This video is a (clumsy) demonstration of using Kdenlive in Gaming Mode to make a video.

almost 50% better frame rates, which made playing at 90 FPS throughout the game possible on low settings and playing at Ultra quality settings at 30 FPS a possibility as well.

The game also uses less power now while running at a higher frame rate.

Controller experience is also reportedly a lot better:

The gamepad [changes] are fantastic and allow you to use the inventory menu and others much more easily, making playing on the Steam Deck 10x better.

I keep hearing that the OLED version is much better not only screenwise, but also the overall experience. Is it wort paying double the price (second handed)?

Back in the day, as a kid, there was a free shareware game that I played an obnoxious amount of times: Graal. Not the shitty "Graal classic" we have today, (it's a shell of its former self), but the original Graal 1.4.0; I searched EVERYWHERE and I couldn't even get a blip more than old forums about the game reminiscing about the "good old days". It's widely believed that Stefan wiped the OG versions of Graal from the map, but he didn't. But not only have I found it, I've found nearly all the player made creations for it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180312164234/http://nekoroy.com/graal/index.html

The site is long since abandoned it seems, but it has EVERYTHING for the classic graal, from clients to server backups to player made levels, etc, and what's more I actually got the 1.4.0 client running nearly perfect on my steam deck. This, for me at least, is my holy grail. I have a lot of nostalgia for this old game from before it got destroyed for the shitty "new" version we have today, and with it a lot of memories flooding back to me. Probably doesn't seem like much because hardly anyone knows or cares about the original Graal, but for me, it's huge, and I just wanted to share I guess.

I just got Deck a few days ago. At first I was trying to sync files (Minecraft worlds, Gamesaves etc) using Syncthing but my WiFi was too spotty for it to work consistently and kept disconnecting. It also makes downloading games take forever, I can download a 30gb game in around 2+ hours on my wired desktop but it took almost half a day to download the same game on my Deck.

I eventually found DeckMTP which lets you just copy files over USB C like you would do on your phone. But even after switching my Bios USB setting to DRD it still wouldn't connect to my Linux desktop.

Apparently some SteamDeck bios update broke the DeckMTP plugin? But I'm finding a lot of conflicting information on the cause and solutions online, People saying it still works fine or that I have to update the bios manually or downgrade it to a previous version. Please tell me someone here knows what's going on? Thanks in advance!

Hi guys! So, yeah...Which games are good for a nice gaming session while on a flight? Last time I played one of the newer Tomb Raider games, and while performance was good, it decked (heh) the battery in less than 1h... So, while I like these too, if the flight doesn't have a socket under the seat I might want to play games that don't kill the battery immediately. What's your best/most addictive Deck games? Also, after the whole big N mess...how's the Switch emulation these days?

I’ve been watching this game as I enjoy this genre, and it has spaceships! Anyway, there is a demo up now, and as suspected it is great on Deck!

I use the Keyboard and Mouse Steam input template, but touchscreen kinda works better. Give it a whirl and see what you think! Title is a link right to the store page.

Honestly I think it's probably too soon for the kind of significant performance increase Valve is wanting for the Steam Deck 2. Not to mention that the OLED deck just came out. That said, even if these chips don't make it to a Deck 2 I'm sure we'll see them in competing devices.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19261005

Considering the type of game, I'd be very surprised if it didn't run well on the Steam Deck. That said, it's always great to hear that game developers are making an active effort to support the Deck.

This fixes several bugs, but the most interesting addition is adding controller support to some different game launchers.

They're now making use of an open source tool called Xalia, which is a program that provides a gamepad UI for traditional desktop applications. So far this has been integrated for the launchers in Red Faction, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (the original), Clustertruck and Mugsters.

Here's a link to the Xalia project

After Brotato addiction I found this gem of a game, right before the sequel announcement it seems. It's such a perfect game for the Deck at least for me - you have time to think, the controls just work and you can just put the game down and continue your run later.

Do yourself a favor and try it out even though your first runs will probably be a disaster. The core game mechanic is so tight and well done it's a pleasure to play loop after loop. 50 hours later I still want to do 'one more run'.

This is some gameplay from Operation Harsh Doorstop which is a free multiplayer tactical shooter with large open maps and vehicles, and more importantly from the beginning integrating a modding SDK was central to the objectives of the devs which is a really REALLY nice breath of fresh air (looking at you battlefield series... and call of duty series).

Operation Harsh Doorstop was pretty barebones until fairly recently, but the game now has most of the elements it needs to provide a fun large scale multiplayer shooter game complete with vehicles and I think in it's current state it is quite fun to play! It didn't used to run well on the Steam Deck at all, but with recent updates performance has improved to the point that I can play multiplayer fine (I actually had the graphics set lower than I really needed to in the video). It bodes well for how well future multiplayer games based on the Unreal engine will run on the Steam Deck.

Since OHD is free, it is a no brainer to check out, just pick servers where you can get guns with scopes on them as iron sights are only fun when you have a huge monitor and a high resolution. Development is ongoing so keep your eye on it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/

For those who don't know, ProtonUp-Qt is a program for easily installing different versions of proton. The most notable of these is ProtonGE, which includes additional licensed media codecs (that will fix video playback in some games) and other fixes.

Changelog:

• Steam: Display which games are using a certain Anti-Cheat Runtime.
• Improvements were made to the Shortcut Editor.
• Updated the AppImage build to a more recent version. This may cause a problem if your OS version is from before the year 2022. Report that on GitHub and update your OS to a more recent version or use ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 in that case.
• Fixed a crash that occurs when a Steam installations is missing files, PR #356.
• Fixed a crash when a game with the AWACY Denied status is detected, PR #354.
• Fixed the dialog for custom launcher installations if no official launcher is installed, PR #371.

I keep reading how hard it is to get this game running. I'm still quite new to Linux. Whats the easiest way to get this game working?

I just saw the ASUS handheld in the wild. It was running some FPS game pretty well.

Can anyone help me compare the two - Steam Deck OLED vs comparable ASUS version? Which do you prefer? Pros/cons?

I’m almost decided to buy the Deck OLED, but seeing that in the wild made me pause. It looks nice.

I recently purchased DMoMaM and the in game keybinds are all messed up. The biggest and most notable is z being bound to move forward instead of W. The default keybinds for the steam deck has w for move forward, as well as all of the highly upvoted community layouts, so something is definitely going wrong.

Switching Z out for W is easy enough, but all the other bindings are wrong too and this game has a lot of controls. The mystery of why this is happening is also bothering me. Ive of course tried resetting the controls to default but it sets walk forward right back to Z. I've done some googling and it might be defaulting to the keybinds for an AZERTY keyboard but I have no idea why this would be happening or how to change it. My virtual keyboard is the standard QWERTY layout.

If anyone has any ideas for things I could try please let me know!

First I've heard of this, glad Valve does such a good job with warranty coverage.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/17241840

Steam Deck plugin for controlling additional power settings. New in this version:

• Online repository of setting profiles
• Settings variants for every game #82
• New save file and override file format
• Steam Deck OLED compatibility tweaks
• UI fixes (hopefully somewhat future proof)
• Bugfixes
• Removed some legacy code

It should be available on the main Decky store soon™ (it's already on the testing store). I lurk here too much to ask for a favour, but if you submit a testing report you can speed up getting this version onto the main store.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13796193

I probably should have posted this earlier back when Lethal Company was more popular, but better late than never.

For installing mods, you first need to go to desktop mode and download r2modmanPlus. You specifically want the r2modman-x.x.xx.AppImage file from the release page. You can run this app image in desktop mode to access the mod loader, and install mods for the different supported unity games. After downloading the mods you want through the built in downloader, you can click "Start Modded" in the upper left corner to start the game. It will open steam and run the game with the mods. You will usually see a command prompt window open before the game does, this both lets you know the mods are enabled and will let you see if there are any errors with the mods running.

After you've confirmed the game will run with mods in desktop mode, the next step is to get mods working in game mode. In R2modman, open the settings menu at the bottom, and look for an option that says "launch options". This will say something like --doorstop-enable true --doorstop-target "Z:/home/deck/.config/r2modmanPlus-local/LethalCompany/profiles/Default/BepInEx/core/BepInEx.Preloader.dll" -r2profile "Default". You want to copy this command, and then go to steam game properties for the game you're running and paste these launch options into the launch arguments box. If you have trouble copying the command, you may need to connect a keyboard or bind "ctrl + sub command c" to one of the deck's back buttons. Now the game should run with mods in game mode.

Troubleshooting:

If you have any trouble and the game is installed to a microsd card, you may need to move it to your internal SSD.

Sometimes the resolution of games will get messed up being launched with mods this way. Here are some suggestions if you get weird resolution scaling:

• In steam game properties, set the resolution from automatic to 1280x800.

Alternative resolution fix:

1. Launch game in desktop from mod manager

2. Open settings

3. set display mode to "Window"

4. From desktop, click top bar of window Lethal Company is running in, then right-click

5. From drop down select "Maximize". Resolution should now be scaled to native.

6. In game settings, select "Windowed Fullscreen", everything should work now without window borders.

This guide was largely written from memory, so I may have left out some helpful details. If you notice anything missing or have any issues let me know and I'll try to update it.

Hello all - new Steamdeck owner here. I also own a PS5 and had been wanting to stream to my deck.

I learned about Chiaki4deck and did the install this weekend and was up and running playing games within a few minutes. However, I am still having a few issues getting the Touchpad on my PS5 controller to work right.

The controller works fine with that one exception.

I have a few games that really utilize the pad - is there something that can be done on the Deck side help with compatibility?

Edit: just resolved the issue thanks to @PlasticExistence@lemmy.world: the firmware on the controller I was trying to use had not been updated. Once I did the issue resolved itself.

Thanks all for the suggestions and help