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So im loving this thing so far apart from the battery doesnt seem to last very long and takes quite a while to charge again. Ive taken a few steps as in reducing brightness and dropping it down to 50hz from 90 hz. Turned on FSR in scaling options, few other things to try. Might be the games ive been trying. And to my dismay 2 of my games Broken sword and devil may cry do not use cloud saves so i thought no bother i'll just copy the save game folders over to wherever they are on deck. Not that simple it seems. Is there a easier way? i put it in destop mode but cant locate anywhere they would be, not that it would matter as i cant get it to speak to my pc. Im going to try a wireless mode as seen here...


Or would just buying a type A to C adapter be better?
 
Jimbo said:
So im loving this thing so far apart from the battery doesnt seem to last very long and takes quite a while to charge again. Ive taken a few steps as in reducing brightness and dropping it down to 50hz from 90 hz. Turned on FSR in scaling options, few other things to try. Might be the games ive been trying. And to my dismay 2 of my games Broken sword and devil may cry do not use cloud saves so i thought no bother i'll just copy the save game folders over to wherever they are on deck. Not that simple it seems. Is there a easier way? i put it in destop mode but cant locate anywhere they would be, not that it would matter as i cant get it to speak to my pc. Im going to try a wireless mode as seen here...


Or would just buying a type A to C adapter be better?
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I've been using this warpinator method from day one and it works very well. Once setup its very much a case of drag and drop.
 
One of the first things I bought was a second power plug and a much longer USB power cable, so if I'm in the house I can have it powered by mains all the time wherever I am in the house. I think you can also limit the power certain games use, the TDP limit I think it is. Lowering this I think will extend battery at the expense of grunt. There are also youtube guides on where to find a games individual folder when browsing in the desktop modes file browser. Basically, the way Proton works, each game you install effectively gets its own separate encapsulated "Windows" install, where the games folders are, as well as the "windows" "documents" folder which is probably where your saves would need to go.
 
Jimbo said:
So im loving this thing so far apart from the battery doesnt seem to last very long and takes quite a while to charge again. Ive taken a few steps as in reducing brightness and dropping it down to 50hz from 90 hz. Turned on FSR in scaling options, few other things to try. Might be the games ive been trying. And to my dismay 2 of my games Broken sword and devil may cry do not use cloud saves so i thought no bother i'll just copy the save game folders over to wherever they are on deck. Not that simple it seems. Is there a easier way? i put it in destop mode but cant locate anywhere they would be, not that it would matter as i cant get it to speak to my pc. Im going to try a wireless mode as seen here...


Or would just buying a type A to C adapter be better?
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A to C won't really work as the different filesystems can't read each other. SFTP is probably the most straight forward although can be slow.

Enable SSH on the deck in desktop mode. Plenty of guides online. (this is for the S part of SFTP)
Use FileZilla or equivalent on windows/Mac to SFTP into the deck

windows %Appdata% equivalent is /home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/*a number goes here which corresponds to each game*/ - wine tricks will help you translate the game name to the number, or in desktop mode steam, right click the game and browse local files.

game installs - /home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/*GAME NAME*/

SD card, generally speaking, is /run/media/mmcblk0p1/
 
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Thanks for the help. Is it ok to use a normal usb type C cable from the usb plug on my wall socket or do I have to use the charger that came with it? As Bubo says he's using different cable. I managed to find and copy my saved games for broken sword so happy with that.
 
For charging yes it’s fine to use any usb cable really. I was talking about file transfers.

Any usb wall socket plug thing will be fine but you will want 45w at least to be able to use the deck plugged in without draining the battery.
@Jimbo
 
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Sorry it's me again lol. But I have a question, I have Forza 4 but only on Windows Xbox launcher thing I can't seem to find out how to launch this on the steamdeck. I've successfully done this with Epic/Gog/Prime/Rockstar but not Xbox. Is it stream only?
 
Unfortunately yes. You can add ms edge to steam as a non steam game for launching it. Or install ‘windows to go’ on a sd card for dual boot. Or set up dual boot on the internal drive if you can spare the space although that isn’t officially supported yet.
 
Sadly the dell dock refused to work and the deck basically had a fit when I plugged it into it!

Ordered up a JSAUX 5in1 unit that seems to get decent write ups and was on offer for £24 instead of £40.

Overall immensely happy with my purchase and the deck continues to impress me on everything I play tbh. With the onboard 512 + the 512 SD card I have managed to get 50+ games from my library on there and still have around 250gb odd free space :). Also the SD Card speed in the system is pretty unbelievable! Games are still so fast running off it

Frustrating that test drive solar crown won't run at present purely because of the anti cheat they chose not supporting Linux, but it's one game and PCARS 2 and 3 run faultlessly :D
 
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phatboy said:
Sadly the dell dock refused to work and the deck basically had a fit when I plugged it into it!

Ordered up a JSAUX 5in1 unit that seems to get decent write ups and was on offer for £24 instead of £40.

Overall immensely happy with my purchase and the deck continues to impress me on everything I play tbh. With the onboard 512 + the 512 SD card I have managed to get 50+ games from my library on there and still have around 250gb odd free space :). Also the SD Card speed in the system is pretty unbelievable! Games are still so fast running off it

Frustrating that test drive solar crown won't run at present purely because of the anti cheat they chose not supporting Linux, but it's one game and PCARS 2 and 3 run faultlessly :D
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What SD card did you get? I'm going to buy SanDisk 1TB extreme or Silicon power 1TB superior. Both a bit pricey so waiting for sale on 8/9TH. .
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Did you manage to get Xbox Game Pass games on this?
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No had a bit of a head scratcher with it so far, in theory should at least allow streaming but it wouldn't load from the steamOS GUI once installed. Going to go back to it tomorrow. My dock has arrived and want to get a mouse / keyboard plugged in for the passwords etc as it's a pain in the rear trying to use on screen keyboard and in case of the EA app is impossible as it wants to keep focus on itself all the time and blocks the O/S keyboard

Battle .net and Ubisoft work and absolute treat though and Diablo 2 resurrected runs beautifully and with full game pad controls :)

Had my first annoying situation with a game though. Fancied going back to virtua tennis 4....has the old games for windows as part of the installation, this seems to have annoyed something and now it won't uninstall (times out) and the game wont load :(
 
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Had a play with the moray installer package today
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Moraroy? If so then I’ve just had a quick look at it and it uses Non Steam Launchers. I’m not 100% clued up on the situation nor have I looked into what Moraroy does but NSL can apparently cause problems due to how it sets up each launcher with Proton so be aware.

EDIT: Update now I’ve read the latest info. Moraroy seems to be the maintainer for NSL or at least maintains a fork of it. I’ve been unable to find the original info I read stating that NSL was a bit iffy and did read some recent details saying that it could be a bit non standard. Having said that there also seems to be a lot of happy users so carry on! If you’ve not yet installed Decky Loader then I’d advise you to do so as NSL plus many other useful apps can be installed that way without having to resort to the Desktop
 
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