Just a reminder - it can take a few times of loading a game to have it run smoothly. Performance does improve for many of the games, once shaders, etc. are fully loaded. In other words, just because a game is choppy the first time you load it, it doesn't mean that the game will not run well. Give it a few tries before giving up on a game.

Great video. My only suggestion for everyone just getting a steam deck is to use AMD FSR. To get it to work, you have to LOWER the native resolution. It’s 1280x800 I’m pretty sure at standard, so lower that by like two notches to like 1120 x something or lower, hit the 3 dots button, go to performance and scroll to the bottom until You see the option for fsr. It’ll be this bar that has a couple of options, one of them saying “integer” You will know it’s activated when the actual resolution of your screen changes, since FSR is an upscaler. With FSR, I’m able to play way more AAA games like the Witcher 3 at a almost rock solid 60fps. Really awesome shit that people should utilize. Remember, LOWER YOUR RESOLUTION, pop on FSR and enjoy smooooooth gameplay my friends!

I’m a total newbie to the Steamdeck and this is a good place to start. Thank you

Excellent tips in a concise and easy to understand format. Appreciate the recap in the description, too! Hoping to get a Steam Deck this year.

Thanks for the tips. Just got my Steam Deck a couple of days ago, and I’m still learning about tweaking the settings so my games perform well..

Thank you. I like how quick and to-the-point this video is. Keep doing what you’re doing

No bs, no fluff, straight to the point with clear instructions thank you 🙏🏼

Great video, great tips and wonderful delivery. Keep up the great work. God Bless.

Great video! Super helpful and straight to the point. Thank you!

Very good tips! Just got my Steam Deck and this will help me out greatly

Short intro, straight to the point. I like it! :)

Gracias for the tips !! Very helpful!

Thanks for the tips, I just ordered one looking forward to messing around

Reduce the dead zones on the analog sticks under settings/controller settings! By default they are about twice as large as they need to be.

immediate subscribe for including zero bs in you vid. love it thank you.

Awesome video mate thank you helped me loads!

Thank you so much! What a helpful video! I'm really enjoying the Steam Deck myself and the first thing I did was get myself a screen protector and a steam case.

Did I just watch a guy explain how to pair my BT headphones? What a great tip and trick man, thanks :) Title of vid checks out.

The outro made me crack up, you deserve a sub🤣 Overall great video man. Patiently waiting for my steam deck to arrive⏳

Great video I’ve always just had a PlayStation and Xbox so these tips will come in handy

The steam brightness trick is clutch !

Thanks for the info!

Great Advise, I got the email requesting payment, now it’s just a waiting game until they email shipping/ tracking information . But I put your video on Favorites for when I get mine. Great Job!

SUBSCRIBED. Shocked you are under 1000! Great content.

Very informative. Thanks for this!

Mine arrives in two days. Thanks for the tips.

Im newbie to steam deck I’m getting one Friday thx man for the guide big help 👌🏾

thanks. remember this when i get my steam deck.😉💯

subbed, followed ur tips, great help

I am getting mine tomorrow so this is great

Maybe it's just 'cos I'm old or something, but I actually kinda like the two-hour limit of the battery under heavy use on something like _Cyberpunk 2077_. Eye strain starts to set in at about that point, so the battery being about to die is a good reminder to like, go pee and maybe look at things that aren't on a 7" screen for a little while 😀 Also, I'm often playing before bed, so having the battery die is a good reminder that sleep is good 😀

Thanks for mentioning the 65w charger, I might actually get an Anker 20000 mAh Portable Charger because there are people 3D printing battery mounts for the Steam deck. That's something to consider.

Nice tips! Got my deck coming this week

Highly recommend to not use the steam game mode to format your sd card. Instead, format your sd card in desktop mode using the KD partion to do so or format the sd card elsewhere. I was a doubter until i started experiencing low transfer speed on my sd card formatted through steam game mode settings as many have pointed this issue out.

I appreciate this. Done. All of it. What's next!?

Great tips! I've been wondering is it safe for the battery to get charged all the time while playing or would it result in rapid degredation and even worse battery life performance?

if youve been using steamdeck for quite a while youll notice the weight difference compare to switch.. its best to invest a case with a built in kickstand or just a lightweight kickstand you can carry on the go.. the vents on the back will make it warm quickly if you left in on uneven surface like bed or couch which block the airflow. Also if you get a portable charger like baesus 65w. youll notice it also drains the powerbank quickly dont expect youll get a half day or more without the need of charging. it may only provide you an extra 2-3 hrs for a powerbank.

A “Kill-A-Watt” will show you how much it’s drawing to play a game if your battery is 100%. You have to be careful when selecting chargers. A majority of them are basically a transformer to rectifier to smoothing cap. No voltage monitoring circuit. I only use Apple chargers because I know all of them have comparitors.

The size of the charging brick doesn't matter. You an get 45watt small chargers, and you can get large 10watt ones.

Mine arrives today

My steam is coming tomorrow I can’t wait!!!

FYI The charger that comes with the Steam Deck does 45 Watts. 20 Volts times 2.25 Amps equals 45 Watts. Ohm's Law.

Awesome info video NQN, Just wanted to ask! For a while now, I type in a title of a game that am looking to buy on Steam But! It always comes up with the download content or updates, Have you ever come across this by a friend or have I turned on Or off something in my steam account? because am trying to buy a couple title and it wont come up in the menu.

6:13 The steam deck comes with a 45W charger. Also, the physical size of the charging brick is not the most important.

Ps5 controllers connect and work flawlessly, one of my favorite ways to play mine

the steam guard app on Android we actually going to scan a barcode to login there is some misinformation you had the steam that comes with a 40-watt charger and accepts a maximum of 45-watt also I found it's handy to have something like an Anker power bank I use the Anker 737 Power which can show you how much wattage is being drawn out of the type c & type a

Nice video

I'm waiting on getting my Steam Deck, but everything I've read online tells me the charger that comes with the unit is 45 watts. It will fast charge.

You can add your Origin and Epic libraries into steam deck via the desk top mode, tutorials on YT

“Boom”

Not sure why this video has so many dislikes....... I found it very helpful.

Authenticater works really well with android as well :)

I lowered refresh rate and frame rate, as well as couple other tweaks, and I get 4-5 hours of play per charge in Fallout 4.

Switch charger works

So newer games take soooo long to load if they are on my SD card. I got a SanDisk ultra. Is that too slow of an SD card? I ordered an extreme off of amazing to try and see if games load quicker on that.

Why do i need another charger while playing? Can i use the steam deck charger?

I was about to yell at you in the comments but then you said it and suddenly I didn't want to, you are not my boss.

Just found out about this, have been using the switch for its on-the-go convenience. I must be living under a rock. Great video, thanks! 👍

currently watching this on my steamdeck.

I've done nothing but nonstop gaming on my deck. I've beaten GTA IV complete edition, MGS V and on the last boss in DS3.

Came for the Video... stayed because of the comments lol

What if you've got the 64gb and bought nvme storage. step one woud be...start it up or surgery?

Tales games I have won't work unless it's at 60 if it's any less it stutters unplayable, so be careful use issues pop it up to 60 if game stars stutter

Lol I have that shirt!

If you have a xbox and get a steamdeck can you link the accounts or do you have to buy the games twice

Hadn't tried emulation since the gamecube days (and than I only dabbled with cart based games like Pokemon and Shadowrun... yeah I know I'm weird lol) so I was used to my SNES games taking 500 MEGABYTES but even a Dreamcast collections (so basically all known games in it's short lifetime) takes 500 GIGABYTES, I shudder to think what DVD based or current Bluray based games can take! I'm just saying if you plan to emulate don't SCOF at 1tb cards thinking you'd be wasting most of that space. Buy MULTIPLE if you like to have all of your options at your finger tips.

mine is on the way who else is q4 ! let me get a hell yeah steam deck

try 44 frames instead of 40, for me it is a night and day difference.

Once a game download is started is it possible to continue the download with the deck in sleep mode. And is it ok to have the deck at full battery and have it plugged into the power while downloading a game.

I’m hopefully about to get my email, this is a great video.

It works with android to

Anyone know a good screen protector for the 512 model to keep the screen anti glare?

How does it physically reduce frame rate? Is there a little guy in there holding back the extra frames. Like, whoa slow down there frames.

Hopefully I’ll be happy with my deck my estimated delivery is tomorrow

7. NEVER use charger other then default, some unfortune conbination can completely destroy you battery or charger itself. Voltage is not only charger parameter!!

I absolutely dont disegree with you when it comes to frame rate.. BUT.. playing RDR2 on 60 fps.. man that is smooooooooth!

45w charger

I know this doesn’t pertain to this video though my question is can I start up my steam deck with 2.4ghz wifi ?

what's the name for the ios steam authenticator? Can't seem to find one for steam. only steam chat, steam link, steam mobile??

I cant get past the sd card format error even changed the cards to exfat file still do t work

Installing proton GE is a must

If you havn't made a steam account yet how did you buy it is my question

I just got my email to order mine yesterday, first thing I am doing is replacing the 64gb ssd with a 512gb that I ordered. I don't plan on using it outside of my house toooo much so I don't think I will be limiting it to 40fps, at least not right away I definitely want to experience it's full might first.

Also, I've been routinely charging off the 45W charger that came with my Framework laptop, and it works fine. Haven't done any comparisons to see if it's actually charging any faster, or if it just ramps down to 20W for the Deck.

0:34 Steam Authenticator works flawlessly on Android.

Steam authenticator works on android too

Here's the thing, I've gotten the question "why not just buy a switch? it's cheaper" yeah well with the steam deck my biggest reason for wanting one is that I don't have to buy all the games I already own. I literally just log in to my steam account and there are all of my games. It is beyond switch in my opinion. Nintendo has such a fucking grip on their titles not letting them on other consoles or even on PC so I feel no need to downgrade to a worse system to play legend of link: the boy who can't talk but only scream. And that's not to say I don't like The legend of Zelda. One of my first memories of gaming is with N64 and Ocarina of time. But you can't even play that game legally anymore if you don't dig out the old n64 and hope that the cartridge, controller and console still work. With Steam Deck I don't need to open another store, make another account, charge that account with more moneydollarcoins and THEN get to buy a game I already own. I already own the games. I just log in and install. THAT'S why I want a Steam Deck.

Lowest setting I can get on my refresh rate is 45.

Play doom on it While listening to crab rave

You forgot the most important thing.... Play a game!

7 things and seven days ago. Perfect.

40 refresh rate and framerate limit.... great for most games but emulated games require it to be at 60 or the audio will be off

when my steam deck comes I’m gonna use my JBL boombox 2 speaker for my steam deck or either that my Sony wh-xm4 or xm5 Bluetooth headphone

Don't judge a charger by it's size. Seems like you are living under a rock and never heard of GaN (Gallium Nitride).

Frame rate and screen size are completely unrelated in my opinion. A smaller screen doesn’t make a lower refresh suddenly acceptable. The lower refresh is still very obvious.

The framerate won't matter... On a screen this small? How does the screen size correlate to smoothness of motion at all? I get not needing full resolution at that screen size because the PPI are still high, but the size of the screen has no bearing on how well the framerate can be perceived.

the first thing you wanna do is duo boot windows on it, that way you can play all your games without the Linux compatibility issues. that way you have the best of both operating systems ^^

How about win 4 6800U better performance?

absolutely disagree everything below 60 fps is noticeable anything over is where it's harder to catch

I thought the steam deck uses a 45w charger?