Deckyloader Installation Guide 2024 for Steam Deck

right welcome back to the channel everyone today we're going to be installing decky loader on the steam deck OLED so I'm want to talk you through how to install it and we'll have a look together at some of the plugins that are available right the first thing you're going to want to do is hit your steam button go down to power and switch to desktop mode let it do it thing right once you're in desktop mode you want to open up a internet browser and type in your internet browser decky loader the first one from GitHub that comes up double click that and then you want to go down to download and on download double click it you'll see here it's only 466 bytes takes almost a second and it's done so we close this window open up your files and in your download folder is Dey installer double click it execute continue and it says you've not set an admin password but deu can still install it by temporarily setting your password password to Dey exclamation mark and continuing then removing it when the installer finishes are you okay with that I'm fine with that release or pre-release uh if you're on beta then you want pre- release and if you're on a stable Steam OS like I am you want normal release okay let's do it thing installer finished can now be cled closed come out of that return to gaming mode once the system's restarted and it goes back to home hit the three dot button on here and now at the very bottom you'll notice a little plug icon just there and then you go to the shop front which is like a a little market sign and press a alphabetical a is z and there are all the different ones look at all them go blindy right there's 67 it says so let's have a look you got animation changer uh a boot suspend animation management plug-in audio loader replaces steam UI sound effects with custom sound and adds music to menus install that so let's install that one that one's done Press B it come out Auto flat packs a plug in to manage Notifier and automatically update flat packs on your steam console Auto suspend automatically suspend on low power bash shortcuts manage for shortcuts in the quick access menu use uses bash under the hood battery tracker Bluetooth quickly connect your already paired Bluetooth devices now that sounds much easier than having to go through settings and doing it all the time so we'll add that one bookmarks remember hard to reach pages in steam's UI brightness bar Bluetooth Weight Control cheat deck launch games with cheat or trainer and manage your launch options controller tools uh The Missing game controller menu displays the current battery percent and charging status supports dual sense dual shocks 4 Nintendo switch Pro Controller deck FAQs an FAQ browser for the steam deck both Steam and non Steam games deck MTP a plug-in that allows your steam deck to transfer files to your PC via MTP and USB deck roulette a plugin that allows you to navigate to a random game in your library or steam collection that's sounds fun uh deck settings plug into brows recommended steam deck game settings from share deck and steam deck HQ stall that one decky Cloud save manage Cloud saves for games that do not support that do not support it in file server plugin that lets you turn on a web server to browse and download files from your steam deck Dey notifications receive notifications from smartphone using KDE connect protocol Dey recorder record your games with Dey recorder so it's like a screen record function I've seen people use that I'm going to use that one awesome decky terminal a missing terminal plug-in that turns your steam deck into a portal Linux battle station Discord status displays current steam deck game in Discord mu achievements plugin for viewing retro achievement progress part of the muck project muud Dei official mu deck decki plug-in fantastic fan controls free games are plug in to notify your free games available in the epic game store loader notifications for free G games on Steam Gog and epic games friend fix fixes the Miss friend's UI bug game theme music play theme songs on your game Pages game view music adds background music to the game page hltb which is abbreviation for how long to PL uh how long to beat uh a plugin to show you the game lengths according to how long it will take to beat the game KD connect a plugin for running KD connect in game mode magic black overlays the screen with black color emulating the screen being turned off on the steam deck OLED magic black overlays the screen with black color emulating the screen and being turned off on the steam deck OLED mango peel a decki plugin for Custom Performance monitoring style memory deck a simplistic scan mem wrapper for Dei enabling scanning for and editing values in memory metad deck plugin for viewing metad dator for non Steam games from igdb part of the muud deck project micro s deck a plugin to manage micro SD cards an SD card to put in a half a terabyte one haven't even opened it yet Moon deck moond deck is an automation tool that will simplify launching your Steam games via the Moonlight client for streaming music control control running media players using the dbus interface npis media player has to be started through game mode Network info view detailed information about your steam Dex network interfaces notebook quickly scribble down important codes or notes during your play sessions that could be handy PS game PS resume games to redirect resources and even play stop apps that don't natively have an immediate option to do so play time tracks time you are playing and provides reports and provide time information for non Steam games Power Tools power tweaks for power users Pro on DB badges display tapable proon DB badges on your game Pages I'm going to have that one quick launch quickly launch non steam apps from the quick access menu without adding them as shortcuts or add them to the steam Library radio search and play music from the Internet radio stations while gaming I'll give that one a go rer deck a plugin for loading reshade shaders on Steam deck save manager save manager to store your save files and load them whenever you want screenshot uploader screenshot Auto uploader because valve don't do it upload screenshots to Cloud when screenshot is taken shoty a plugin for copying over screenshots to the pictures folder steam back automatically save game snapshot stroke Restore for steam steam grid DB personalize your steam library with ar from a vast our vast collection of User submitted images you can also apply images from your local files adjust logo size positioning turning on all capsules in square yeah I think want that one storage cleaner quickly visualize select and clear Shader cache and compatibility data sync thing plugin for managing sync thing to synchronize files with other devices not officially affiliated with syncthing project the syncthing gtk flat pack must be installed system toolbox helpful tools to control various settings on the steam deck tab Master gives you full control of your steam Library support for customizing adding and hiding Library tabs tow scale control a decky plugin to activate and deactivate to scale while staying in gaming mode not tow scale needs to be installed this works only like a switch for the same not quite sure what that means tier three quick access a team team speak 3 client plug-in that integrates team speak 3 into steam deck quick access menu tunnel deck enables VPN support with gaming mode activates open VPN support for network manager vibrant deck adjust color settings on your deck I've seen some people use that and that can uh it changes the UI um you can really make it pop I think there's nothing wrong with it there it is volume boost decky plugin to boost volume volume mixer control the volume of applications and connected Bluetooth sources web browser a web browser with multiple features including tabs limited Gamepad support favorites and a multi-functional search stroke Ur lbar wine seller a decky plugin to manage steam playay compatibility tools XR gaming virtual display VR light side view modes for supported XR glasses and that's it to access it you just got to go over there and go to your plug and there's all the ones that I've downloaded they're all in there and um I'm not going to go through them all now obviously there might be a little bit of trial and error with some of them um but I hope this video has been useful thank you very much for watching please like share and subscribe and I'll catch you on the next video take care everyone

Channel: Electro Tech Hands On

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Keywords: #steam, #deck, #deckyloader, #handheld, #custom, #customize, #gamer, #gaming

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Length: 11min 57sec (717 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 16 2024