The FIRST things to do with your brand new STEAM DECK

Getting a Steam Deck soon? There is SO MUCH you can do right out of the box, and so many options that can make your experience JUST that much BETTER. Here's a couple of tips and tricks and features you should know about...

0:00 Intro
3:07 say thank yoooou
3:26 Navigate the compatibility
5:19 Wish list everything (Get those SALES)
5:40 Cloud saves ON
6:36 Updates are VERY important
7:35 SD card and INTERNAL STORAGE UPGRADE
8:59 Don't put it to SLEEP
10:07 Set back buttons
11:05 Turn on Performance Information (FPS)
12:08 EMULATION
13:32 Linux Desktop Mode is your friend
14:37 Xbox Gamepass
15:16 MOST controllers work. Plug that guy into a TV
16:44 Remote into your current PC
17:09 LIKE THE VIDEO

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[JustWhyFFS]

A year later, and this is the ONLY video I found with info that's ACTUALLY USEFUL. Not just 'buy this, buy that, ' or 'you can change the settings in the settings menu.' Thanks man.

[brucewatkinson]

This may sound silly, but adding a Steam Gift Card ($20 is the sweet spot) as a stocking stuffer for that special someone with their shiny Steam Deck should be considered.

[Secret_Takodachi]

My favorite part?
Just pulled it out, downloaded my games and it generally just worked. All the tweaking and customization is AMAZING but it's the fact that the Steam Deck is so functional "out of the box" that is what's most impressive to me. I appreciate Steam's open hardware philosophy, but only because they back that up with a quality default product included with that hardware ❤ Valve's nailed it with this one. 👍

[RandomComment-trix]

I've had the Steam Deck for 5 months now, and I wish someone would make an all-in-one advance tutorial for Steam Deck users. Things like installing Proton GE, Lutris, adding custom cover arts and boot animations, and other even technical and coding tricks that I don't know of. It would definately help people from bricking their Deck like in the past.

Edit: Thank you for all of your suggestion and help, but what I meant wasn't that I don't know how to do it, but rather new users who just got the Steam Deck will have to go through all the channels and websites you have mentioned, rather than an all-in-one detailed guide which would save both time and effort for them.

[littlegloom]

for the third year in a row now, i would like to thank you for uploading on Christmas Eve. i'm yet again, about to eat dinner by myself, but this will help keep me entertained for 18 minutes.
merry christmas to everyone who may read this ^–^

[quinnsd]

A hiccup I ran into was INSANELY slow download speeds (3gb game taking 8hrs to install) after some researching, I learned that the steam deck's SD card format software can sometimes cause issues with the drive. If you reformat it via the linux desktop instead it seems to work better. Helped the download speeds a lot!

[JBentham]

Vibrant deck : Saturation to 130. It's the most important thing to set up and a game changer for the deck. I've try a lot of saturation settings and 130 is perfect

[troypickett]

Wulff den is one of the only creators who I actually watch the sponsors. I love the skits!

[astrin]

Thank you for congratulating me for spending $700

[cainreval]

I love the beatemups reference. Wulff's impression was just amazing. I love their friendship

[anxieteaplushbee]

One of the things that I've actually found that's SUPER helpful is the community controller layouts. You can make really detailed controller layouts fairly easily, and with the community layouts there's generally someone who's already made a pretty decent layout and done all the hard work and testing for you. Hell, when I went to try a fairly new early access game like Project Playtime, there was already several great controller layouts that have thousands of hours of playtime! The most helpful one for me has gotta be the community layouts for Minecraft, where having a good layout is night and day for playing it without ripping your hair out in frustration.

[JD-fink]

Okay okay okay. Bob, I have started watching your content a lot over the past few weeks. Binged almost every Nontendo episode and I've been loving all of your Wulff Den videos as well. Your ad spots are genuinely hilarious. It's basically unprecedented that I enjoy the sponsor spots as much as the rest of the video, but you nail it every time. Love what you're doing.

[BrochachoTheBro]

15:55 You're able to change controller priority in the input settings while in-game. No need to quit the game and relaunch with a different controller.

[Reyce]

Decky plugins is also pretty essential in my opinion. Gives you tonnes of customisation options within a simple UI but also gives you access to the power tools which can help you emulate certain systems better. For example, setting the number of cores being used by the deck to 4 seems to boost fps on almost all switch emulation I've tried.

[albyx]

Wulff, there is also a third group of viewers who already own some of the hardware you review and we’re just enjoying your videos 🤣

[evdestroy]

ProtonDB is still used all the time, very useful. Also, I use Warpinator to transfer files from my pc to my Deck, it's free and super easy to use.

[B-T-L]

Bob, I was wearing headphones and during your ad, the knocking freaked me the F out as it came from outside my window. So A+ sound editing and thanks for the video!

[deckverse]

Really cool stuff, thanks for sharing this with us! Two major things to highlight though:
First: I would highly recommend learning about the "Golden 40" that leverages the 40Hz capabilities of the Deck's display. Inevitably, you'll often end up worrying if a recent release can run at 60FPS on there. The Golden 40 would massively help here: Due to the fact you can lower the panel's refresh rate to 40Hz through the Quick Action Menu, you are able to go for 40FPS instead of 30. Why you may ask? Despite a 10FPS additional payload to the Deck's graphics APU, 40 FPS is right in the middle between 30 and 60 FPS in terms of frame pacing - meaning a nearly-60 FPS experience. Try it out! If you want to see this in action, feel free to give an older video of mine a shot, where I tried to explain this comprehensively.
Second: Sleep has been massively improved with SteamOS 3.4, so it's in fact more of a "per-game decision", but I'd definitely try it regularly out, because with games that CAN be put to sleep, it's such a blessing - especially as gamer dad. I guess many of you can relate.
Cheers!

[uprnva]

Your ad skits are great! I also love how you always poke fun at beatemups lmao. Idk why I always watch these beginner steamdeck guides since I have one, but I always enjoy hearing other peoples opinions on the steamdeck! Such a great device.

[eclipsenightmare]

Just got one today for Christmas from my mom and girlfriend and I was so excited, I’m an Xbox gamer and I have like 30 days on Elden Ring at this point. So first thing I did was bought it again on the winter sale and now I’m halfway done with it all over again. 😂