5 MUST DOS For New Steam Deck Owners 

First thing you do is smell the fans

First thing you do when get you steam deck is put a screen protector on stright

These videos are so well made, why hasn't this guy blown up yet? Keep it up man!

Another tip is when you format your new SD card, don't use the built in format option in game mode. Look up a tutorial and manually format your SD card in desktop mode using the included KDE Partition Manager in the start menu. This will increase the SD downloading speed significantly for most users.

Top 3 things to do - 1: Install Decky loader for power tools, vibrant deck, and SteamGridDB. 2: Install Emudeck 3: customize the Steam Deck buttons and joysticks to your playstyle.

So well made video that got me looking for the subscribe button in seconds! Looking forward for more! And I don’t even own an Steam Deck… YET!! 😁

I’m absolutely loving my base model deck. Crushing AC Odyssey lately it’s perfect.

Very good video and incredible sound, the music between sections were such a mood booster listening with my headphones.

Man, you blew it out of the water with this video - incredible job!

Thank you Professor! I skipped the OLED, Steam Deck is 🐐 now 💫 Having an animal crossing switch & base model steam deck is way better than an OLED 150 days No Alcohol 🥇🏆

Beginner tip for the skin! Be careful with the SD card slot while putting it on or removing the skin. When I first got my skin debrand I accidentally popped out my SD card without realizing and snapped it in half. I'd recommend putting on the skin really carefully or turning off the steam deck and taking the SD card out when you put the skin on.

Hey man bought a deck a week ago been watching vids before I got it, most seem to be written by ai or are just product placements ads for deck accessories, gotta say I’m glad you’re different your video was a breath of fresh air for these type of videos and you weren’t trying to sell me something as most vids like this are, thanks good for the good vid I’ll be doing these when I get the deck keep up the good work

Thanks for the video. So close to 1K, Cheers.

If you brick an SD card, you can use a NIntendo Switch to unbrick it, if you have one. Put the SD card in your Switch and format it like you were formatting it to use with the Switch, then put it into a desktop Windows PC and format it with ExFAT. Then you can put it back in the Steam Deck and try the formatting again and it should work.

Subscribed. Doin' good, man!

Great video. Very Helpful!

Amazing work on the vid. Keep up the great videos! Have you tried to modify the splash screen?

New sub. Great quality video, your script was concise but helpful.

This my first time on your channel... Very good indeed! Thank you for the effort :) Warm greetings from across the pond, liked and subbed :)

very well made video, thank you!

When he got to the battery part, I did not expect him to mention turning the frame rate down to 40 frames. I thought he was going to say that you should buy an external battery.. I got one for around $50 off Amazon and it has been such a good investment . I just leave it in my bag for work, And If my steam Jack gets low battery or even my cell phone or something I plug it in and it seems to charge honestly faster than the wall chargers that they come with. I highly suggest taking a look at an external battery, but I also do not suggest you attatching it permanently to the back of your steam deck like I have seen multiple RU-vid videos of people doing.. People always mentioned that the steam deck is heavy, especially at 1st use when you have never held on before. So don't go adding another pound or more from a battery on the back of it haha

Great guide! I've never heard Emudeck pronounced like the bird before lol. Subbing as long as there's more Steam Deck content like this!

Good info here and a white t-shirt would have made that red tracksuit pop. Lookin' fresh!

I'm using an old A1 rated SanDisk Ultra Plus sd card and god I can definitely confirm, for now these will work but you'll definitely want a faster, A2 sd card in the long run. Games that I store on it don't run slower (or at least not all that much) fps wise because of the way games store their data when ran, but launch times can be terrible with some games that are stored on this thing. Loading levels in Superhotfor example can take a whole 20 seconds and it looks like the game crashes (when it really doesn't) because the animation halts during this load time. Stardew valley and some other small games though do just fine on it luckily.

A cheap and could be essential small add on for a new Steam Deck owner would also be... A USB to USB type C adaptor. If you have anything you want to plug into your SD that is not USB type C, you will be able to with one of these. You can get them for cheap. I think I paid 2 for $8

I ordered my steam deck yesterday and can't wait to get my hands on it. Emulators is top of my list of things to do. I am having trouble finding instructions on installing VPX on the deck. I have seen videos with it running not nothing detailed on installing to steamOS. Most I believe are running it on a windows install. Any ideas?

Really good content very professional I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers.i have just subbed👍

Good video. I ordered the 64gb one yesterday, and a Samsung 256gb ssd that was on sale for 20 bucks. While I love my Switch, it's not always that type of game I want to play. As awesome as having a gaming laptop is, I hardly ever take it anywhere because it's just too big and clunky to haul around in most situations.

Amazing video! I’d like to see a tutorial on acquiring rom games and more indept guide to getting them onto emudeck

You can make that the steam deck controlas as as a keyboard and mouse pressing the 3 bars button 3 seconds makes a sound or configure on the steam store also you can do same with any control supported

Some cases and skins don't fit well in the Original Dock and the connection cable doesn't fit well either, especially with leather skins. Something to keep in mind if you want to use an OG Dock.

I would add download proton up-qt, and power tools. You can make pretty much any and all games run after some tweaks.

Loving the music on this video bro. 🤟🏼

Oh man thanks for the ubisoft connect guide...I bought max payne 3 for $3 and want to play it on my Deck when it arrives in a few days!

Nice video! You earned my sub! Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

You've not seen a difference in speeds between the two cards because the slower card is close or at the speed that the deck can handle

wish you would leave where I could find these items in description. Where do I find the cover you were waiting to arrive?

I would like to see you post a video on step by step o. How to step by step on emulation. You speak softly and calm ( easy to understand)

if you get the chepaest deck, the first upgrade you should do is getting a SSD card. I bought a fast 1tb for a bit of money but worth it!

I own both the Dbrand killswitch case and the Jsaux mod case and for the price the Jsaux mod case is just better IMO just because of all the accessories you can strap to the case alone plus giving you a front protector like the killswitch. Right now I use the strap included with the Jsaux case to add a 20k mah 60wtt power supply with it and it's so awesome but I also own the m.2 accessory and I have a 1tb nvme 2280 full nvme drive ( with windows)strap to the back. The killswitch it's a little better quality ( not by much ) but doesn't have the customizability of the Jsaux mod case.

Hey! What's the theme you're using there around the 9 minute mark? (black & yellow menu!)

How well does it run mods on Steam? I'm still playing XCom 2, but heavily modded. Do the mods automatically follow or are shenanigans required? Great vid btw!

Thanks man

You are so filled with good vibes ❤

Great video. Do you know if you have to run Steam Rom Manager every time you add additional roms?

Cool suit!

Solid video, thank you! Greetings from japan!

Do you know the best configuration to run Halo (Original) in Steam Deck?...some times the perfomance is very bad when you have action during the game, changing the frames numbers are not helping.

great video

When it comes to the MicroSD, If you want outright capacity you grab SanDisk, if you want speed go for Samsung.

Hey my friend can you link me to one of those guides to possibly save a bricked sd card? Happened to me too /: i was serching forever for a solution to no avail a couple months back but would appreciate any pointers!

Adding chapters for each tip would be nice, as i knew the first two ones and had to manually search for where the third tip started. Otherwise, thanks.

anyone know if velcro touch pad protectors and screen protectors damage the deck? have seen few people on reddit complain

Great video man. i can see you blowing up, but i would like to mention that the music is a tad bit off putting and maybe a little on the loud side… maybe something more easy to listen to? not trying to tell you what to do but i think it’d help for watchability. great video regardless.

How can I check if it will run my older steam library games as… Shadowrun, Xcom, Battletech series ??

You are going to want a keyboard and mouse to do any Emudeck work. technically you can use the on screen keyboard and the game controllers, but it is EXTREMELY frustrating.

Something to note, I found audio gets stuttery on emulated games if you set framelimit to 40 fps.

Subbed because of squirtle. My man.

Have formatted and used about 20 sd cards and never had an issue in over 1.5 years of use.

Samsung Evo Plus 512gb is Working flawlessly too for me 👍🏻

Don't forget, you don't need a samsung pro SD card either, the slot isn't even capable of it's max speeds. If memory serves best you may see is just over 100MB/s, so a samsung Evo should be fine(or most other known brands that break 100MB/s), and around $45 on amazon. The "select" version is nothing special, just a weird amazon only offering. Also if not mistaken some SD card's listed speed may be based on the top capacity model and might be slower, even significantly so, on the 128 or 256GB models.

"I am judging you (a little bit)" 🤣

You forgot the number 1 thing everyone should do in the first month is to give it rgb lighting for all the extra fps

What is the virtual keyboard name he’s using at 6:37 ?

one of the best things i did with my steam deck was install windows... install what you want whene i want it without hassel second was get a ethernet to usb c adapter for streaming games. workes like a charm

I don't know if it changed in the last 2 months but when you launch far cry Steam automatically downloads and installs Ubisoft launcher. It worked seamlessly and automatically for me. I just had to type my Ubisoft password which I had to Google. The only not flawless part is that the launcher doesn't support your controls automatically so you do have to touch screen mouse your way through it. so maybe steam or Ubisoft at least made that better since you made the video.

An additional power bank is also a great buy.

Where did you find a 1TB SD card at that price?

any material that is less thermally conductive of the material of the steam deck will reduce passive heat loss. what effects thermal properties are surface area air flow surrounding temperature. build custom gaming computers for people.

I emulated some p2 gams but I can’t get them to my steam IOS interface. I could only launch the games on the pcsx2 app in desktop mode.

whats the song in the beginning?

Comment for the algorithm. Great video!

what's the music name at number 2?

Just got a used steam deck for only $250 its the 256gb model but such a good price I will put a 1tb in it I love it!! I dont have my gaming pc right now.

Can I download the Xbox app on the steam deck using this method?

Dudes intro music is kinda fire

Not me watching this on my Steam Deck

Installing Decky Loader should be the first thing to do after updating the OS.

Do you need to have a PC to use this aside not got one only ps5

You get a sub

how many days before you got your steam deck

Number 6 - Do your best to make sure the delivery guy doesn't steal it...

How do you brick an sd card? You just stick it in and hit format.

How about the Sandisk Extreme Pro?

Bought a cheap one fitted tb sd drive an a tb sd card things massive now 2tb

Why my Xbox controller never connects with warthunder but does either other games?

Awesome guide, here is what I did. 1) Buy and apply a screenprotector. 2) Buy a huge sd card (any sdhxc). 3) Remove steamos (lol), Install windows 11. 4) Install drivers and steamdeck controller software. 5) Hooray, you now have a game laptop in your hands \o/. 6) Play any game/launcher you want without having to fiddle. After all Windows > Linux for games. Every game will work, every launcher will work.

I love how all numbers are the fifth number after zero 🤣

I miss read do's as DOS, as in MS-DOS or some Latin type word like the Spanish number 2.

Why are all the numbers "the fifth number after zero" ??

Man just think of how amazing the steam deck 2 or 3 is going to be!

You can get Samsung evo for sd I got the 512gb version

how did you manage to brick an sd card of all things

Dude no way you have 448 subs, I thought this was like a 150K at least youtuber You're pretty good

A “professor” that wears a red Adidas jumpsuit??? More like “brofessor” 😂😂😂

I WISH I would have listened to people who said to buy the cheapest Steam Deck and upgrade that one. I bought the 256GB version and upgraded it to 2TB. Could have saved myself $130 (roughly the cost of the 2TB SSD).

The battery life has really disappointed me. I have to constantly worry about having to plug it up

Me planning on using the Ubisoft launcher to play Assassins Creed Mirage...

to hit 40fpd you need to change it to 40 hz otherwise its not an option

First thing: get a steam Deck.