millionThings you wished you knew before setting up your Deck?
lackthoughtif you happen to have a desktop PC and you play while at home, sometimes remote play on the deck is better than installing a game on the deck
I can remote play Elden Ring from my desktop at 60fps with longer battery life vs 40fps if installed on the deck with worse battery life
also make sure you try out reduced TDP and GPU rates on games with simpler graphics, you can get an extra 1-2 hours of battery life and not impact performance in certain cases
Any good guides to setting up streaming from Desktop to Deck?
It’s pretty easy assuming both of your devices are on the same network:
- install a game on your desktop PC via steam
- from your steam deck browse to the game in your library
- instead of Play/Install you click a little arrow next to the button and then select the name of your desktop PC
- the Play/Install button changes to say Stream, click that and it launches the game on your desktop and streams the video to your steam deck
if you have a good home network it is pretty much indistinguishable from playing it directly on the deck
I can play Elden Ring with no video artifacts or noticeable input lag
here is a guide which has some screenshots
