Just received my new steamdeck last Friday and along with a 1tb nvme replacement (same model and larger capacity as built in drive) and a 1tb sandisk extreme sdcard. Wanted to use my deck primarily game pass and emulators, as well as bench some cracked games for fun. I immediately upgraded the internal drive. I then installed windows 11 to go on the sd card along with the new drivers. Next morning I installed game pass and loaded up TMNT Shredders Revenge. Intro vid wouldn't stop stuttering and when I finally got to the title screen the controls didn't work on the deck. Same with Forza Horizon 5.
Did a little reading and downloaded Glossi. Couldn't get that version to work properly so I downloaded Glosc, the previous version. I used that program to add the TMNT and Forza shortcuts to the steam library after I added notepad. After opening the game shortcut in steam TMNT still had a studdering intro and visibly lower framerate, but it was playable and I completed 2 levels and saved to the cloud. Forza constantly crashed before or at the title screen.
I installed a cracked version of DOA 6, added the game shortcut to steam, and loaded it up. On the lowest setting at 1280 x 720 the fights stuttered along. Same with Ultra Street Fighter 4, but that one ran at 30-55 fps instead of the normal 200+ fps. Youtube vids are saying that Glosc has issues with borderless or windowed, but not fullscreen gaming. I switched between the three in DOA 6 and still stayed at about 12 to 17fps.
Something was clearly wrong, so I installed from scratch with Windows 10 on the sd card this time. Now at this time I'm seeing Youtube videos praising the Steam Deck for running gamepass and non steam games at a stable 30 or 60 fps, all triple A recent titles. I'm also noticing that installing games takes hours. I install Halo Infinite on game pass as my 1st Windows 10 test. 3 hour install. I added it to the steam library and get to the title screen. When I click Continue Campaign, the game takes over an hour to load 54 % before it crashes with an error.
I think maybe the problem is that I am running windows from a sd card and it is simply too slow to run a large game despite being sandisk's fastest sd card. So I install Windows 11 to the internal western digital 1tb hard drive along with the drivers, gamepass, steam, and glosc. I know Forza Horizon 5 has had a history of crashing at startup since release, so I install Dirt 5, Streets of Rage 4, and Forza 5 all from gamepass. I ran glosc as administrator this time because I wanted to see if I could add the Xbox gamepass app to the steam library directly instead of each game. It worked. I set Dirt 5 to lowest settings, and the game ran at sub 10 fps with horrible texture loading. Streets of Rage 4 couldn't make it 3 seconds into the intro without studdering and freezing, but I made it to the title screen and even completed a level. I uninstalled Glosc and added Forza Horizon 5's gamehelper.exe from the gamepass folder. Forza started. Intro vid ran great, but between load screens took forever. I ran the benchmark mode, but it took 25 minutes to load the benchmark. The benchmark averaged 12fps and had issues loading in the ground for the cars to drive on. Video of this benchmark is attached to this post.
And that's where I'm at with the Steam Deck with 7 days of ownership and troubleshooting. No enjoyment yet, and a little frustration. Why is there not a step by step video of windows installation, installing gamepass, loading glosc settings, installing a recent game, and showing them clicking a executable for the game to start. A video titled "How to get a factory Steam deck running windows, gamepass, and your non-steam games from start to finish."
Does anyone have any suggestions besides wait for better drivers or repurchase my gamepass games on steam? Apparently some people have got it working the way I would like to utilize mine, but I am missing a step.
Submitted by Current-Community222 | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016
