Tips and Tricks | First 7 things to do when your Steam Deck arrives. #beginners #steamdeck

Steam deck just got delivered?? Here are the first 7 things to do when you get it out of the box. :-)

1) Sign in to Steam.
2) Get the authenticator in the steam app for your phone.
3) Pair your wireless headphones.
4) Quick settings
5) Set the console to 40HZ mode.
6) Short cuts (holding down either steam button for all shortcuts to show up)
7) Charging while playing. This 65 watt charger is my favorite travel charger. Here is also a 30 watt MacBook M1 Air charger or iPad pro charger. This is good enough but significantly slower at charging while playing.

To pickup a charger:

As always leave your questions in the comments and thank you for watching!!

[kamacdonaldphoto]

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.

[treeokk]

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 gameplay my friends!

[gamineglass]

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

[DG-jfop]

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

[Space_Monkey_Nation]

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.

[cho]

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.

[unclemikeyplays]

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 😀

[TrinhNguyen-]

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

[kenshinhimura]

Broham, great tips! For my 50th birthday my wife and daughter got me this amazing device. For 2 weeks now I've been obsessed on getting my games in order...(Still haven't played a single game...😒. But now that everything is in order (plus 3TB of storage. Yes, overkill!) let the games begin!!! Any other tips you might think of? Will greatly be appreciated!!! 👍

[SanchezOKelly]

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

[ruisgroove]

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

[Erikirs]

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.

[azulo]

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

[max]

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..

[mbovingfredy]

6:13

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

[ThePerfectionist]

Just got the limited edition 1TB Valve Steam Deck, never owned one before so this is a great video to start! Thanks mate!

[gamewrit]

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.

[AZREDFERN]

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.

[xerothehero]

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

[tomko]

The outro made me crack up, you deserve a sub🤣

Overall great video man. Patiently waiting for my steam deck to arrive⏳