Easy Launcher Installs For Steam Deck - Epic Games, Battle.net, Ubisoft Connect & more

a Deckers there's finally a much easier way to install third-party launchers on Steam deck so you can see I've got only the EA launcher installed here so let's dive into how to get a ton more installed like the Ubisoft launcher or Rockstar or battle.net very very easily switch over to desktop mode and open up your favorite browser go to non-steam launchers on Steam deck I'll put a link in the description below and go to the releases section on the right click through to there and then hit source code and download this to you somewhere easy to get to open up the section from the Dolphin Browser where you installed this right click it or long press it and say extract archive here then go to the folder my version was 2.6 when I ran this then just run the non-steam launchers dot desktop file except the prompt and now you'll have a list of all of the launches that you can install with one click now I wasn't interested in quite a lot of these I only wanted the epic games Ubisoft connect or previously known as Uplay and the Battle.net launcher so just click those three and hit OK if you ever want to clear these off you can just run it again and hit that start fresh button and it will delete all of the install files for you as well now the Battle.net and the Rockstar launchers open up during the install so don't be scared of that although I did have an issue with the Rockstar launcher that it didn't close after the installs it just cancel out that once it's finished and let this process run through until you get to the Jedi AI question once you get to this section this is going to restart Steam for you so contemplate your Jedi question hit OK and wait for steam to restart now due to the branch that I'm in and because I've fiddled around with steam link previously my steam does relaunch back into Big Picture Mode but yours should open up normally I do find it a bit easier to work in Steam in Big Picture Mode now that they've made a few of the changes so if you do want to run the Big Picture Mode it does make life a little easier so when it seems restarted those launches that you selected will now be in your steam Library just go into the properties of each one of these and change the compatibility mode to proton experimental by hitting properties going down to compatibility and forced to use a specific compatibility tool and set it to proton experimental once you've done that I do also find it easier to stay in desktop mode to link accounts so if you have your browser signed in for example then you can use the Google authentication mechanisms and it just makes this process a lot quicker otherwise you can just log in as normal now I did find that even though with Battle.net I could link through my Chrome browser when I started it back up later possibly because I didn't hit the keep me logged in it did ask me to log back in again so I had to manually log in and then it does remember the login so just bear that in mind with the Battle.net launcher but all of the others when Chrome authenticated did stay logged in you can see I did the same here with the epic games launcher and the epic games launcher does require an update and also to install the Epic online services on the first run say be sure to finish those processes as well now this step is optional but will really make your library look fantastic I would also recommend you download the decky loader by going to the decky loader Link in the link below hit the big download button you download the ducky installer and run the decky installer.destop file that you just downloaded again accept the warning this does need a sudo password and if you don't know what your sudo password is then I'll put a link to our guide into how to set one or reset it if you've forgotten it or decki loader I run the pre-release version because I'm running the beta OS but you should be fine if you stick with the stable Channel once that's finished you can switch back to Game Mode by hitting the power and log out on desktop mode once back in desktop mode if you have declare are installed if you press the three dot menu on the right hand side of your theme deck then you'll have the option at the bottom here of like a plug icon select that and then in the new menu that pops up go to the market icon in the top and you'll see all of the plugins that you can install there's tons here we have a whole separate guide on the best ones of these and I'll link it well in the description but you want to go down to steamgriddb and just click install now on your library menu options you will have a change artwork option and you can just go and pick the capsule by cap and hero for each of your launchers so that it looks like it's professionally installed now you're in game mode I always just double check that the compatibility is still set to proton experimental and sometimes it does and Tech tween desktop and game mode the only extra thing to do is to bring up the steam menu and go to controller settings and change the controller settings with the button at the bottom and go into the templates and select game with mouse trackpad this will give you full controller layout in the games once you've run them but gives you the mouse control for navigating in the launchers however you will still need to press the steam button and the trackpad click to emulate the mouse click once that's done you are good to go install your games as normal and if you need to go to a SD card for the installs it should be mapped to one of the e-drives if you don't see your SD card under one of the extra drives then just run the Auto Mount storage script that we've Linked In the description below again from desktop mode with the sudo command and you will always have all of your storage mapped in any of the third-party launchers that's it you're now good to go thanks for watching and see in the next one

Channel: Steam Deck Gaming

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Keywords: steam deck gaming, steam deck gameplay, how to install battle.net on steam deck, how to install epic games on steam deck, uplay on steam deck, how to install ubisoft connect on steam deck, amazon games on steam deck, how to install rockstar launcher on steam deck, how to install exe files on steam deck, how to install launchers on steam deck, battle.net steam deck, epic games steam deck, steam deck epic games, epic games on steam deck, ubisoft connect steam deck

Id: svOj4MTEAVc

Length: 5min 56sec (356 seconds)

Published: Sat May 13 2023