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submitted 1 year ago by Evolone@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

As title says, once Valve announced the OLED deck, I saw the refurbished originals go on a deep discount and figured it was time to buy in. So I ordered a refurb 512GB and I’m so excited for it to arrive! Been in a gaming rut for a long time now and, having never been a PC gamer, I’m look forward to checking out a bunch of games I’ve never played before.

What tips do you have for a first time Deck owner?

Any essential games I should be sure to get?

And finally, is it possible to get games I own on the Epic Games Store (I collected all their free games over the years) or Xbox Game Pass PC games on my Steam Deck?

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[-] chloyster@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago

If you are comfortable tinkering a bit, I'd recommend checking out the Decky loader This tool adds the ability to get a lot of different plugins for your steam deck, from changing the home theme, to editing fan controls. There are a lot of tools here.

If you want to emulate, emudeck is another great tool. It'll set up a bunch of stuff for you and download emulators and set them up with good configurations for steam deck. I also believe if you do this, it will set up decky loader for you (don't quote me on that, it's been a while since I set it up)

For epic game store games, id recommend checking out Heroic launcher. It's an open source launcher that connects to gog and epic games accounts and lets you download and play games you own on those stores. Another option is The non steam launcher tool on GitHub. This allows downloading a bunch of various launchers, including epic.

As for Xbox game pass, the situation is less ideal. If you have gamepass ultimate, you can utilize Xbox cloud gaming to play your gamepass games. This article is by Microsoft to set up cloud gaming on your deck. If you want to play then natively, you'll need to dual boot your steam deck to have a windows partition. I have personally never done this, but I have friends who have, and it works well for them.

[-] singularity@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

For Xbox cloud gaming I'd recommend the greenlight application: https://github.com/unknownskl/greenlight

It works for both local streaming from an Xbox as well as cloud gaming.

[-] chloyster@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Oh this looks really slick. I haven't done much Xbox stuff in my steam deck so this wasn't on my radar. Thanks!

[-] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 1 year ago

I love this comment. I don't have a deck, but I saved it. Thank you so much <3

[-] chloyster@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Aww. Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

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