Steam Deck - How To Setup Dual Boot & Controller Setup ( Complete Guide )

what's up guys welcome back to the channel we're  going to take a look at setting up your steam   deck for dual boot with Windows and Steam OS but  before we do that I do want to give a shout out   to a couple people that make this possible  with j-l-o-b-u-e 10 over on GitHub with his   refined software for the dual boot which works  really well now and we'll be going through that   process and also deck wizard who also has a  great Channel information about changing your   boot picture and that type of thing and he's also  increased the amount of time to choose your OS so   I want to give those guys some credit I had my  partition done I had Windows running and I was   using the volume down button and boot method  to change each time and I finally came across   the refined uh information there and made dual  boot possible for me it was a lot easier to get   into with that being said though there are some  caveats here and there you can expect these are   all unofficial methods whether using a Micro  SD card or the internal SSD to install Windows   partitioning and that type of thing anything can  technically happen and while I am doing Windows   11 in this video I highly recommend windows  10. I do tend to have a lot of trouble with   11 Windows 10 it's definitely recommended for the  steam deck I'm doing Windows 11 here because I   needed to install it anyway to do some testing  and some stuff that I was doing but I did wind   up taking it off and putting Windows 10 on which  brings me to another point that I was not able   to undo all the refined stuff that we do in this  video and I got stuck having to totally re-image   my steam deck and then partition again and install  Windows again basically started all over from   Factory so I did everything I could find online  to figure out how to undo the refine uninstall   it remove it and nothing I did work so any of you  guys out there in the deck community that might   know more than me about undoing all that in case  you do need to reinstall Windows because it breaks   it otherwise all right guys let's get into how we  set up the dual boot process for your steam deck   all right guys so let's start off here on our  Windows PC where we need to do some work first   and I have everything ready in a steam deck  folder I made just makes it easier for me where   I've already downloaded and put all the drivers  and the software for the controller now you want   to go grab what version of Windows you're going  to use again I highly recommend using Windows 10   it's much more stable on the steam deck it's only  for my own purposes that I am going to grab and   install Windows 11 but you can download your media  creation tool right here and be ready to run it   and we'll get to that in a little bit or you can  download for Windows 11 which I'm going to do for   myself here but I did change my dual boot over to  Windows 10 after creating this video after I was   done with Windows 11 and it does perform better  for me and also of course we're going to need   all our steam deck drivers here on the page which  you saw I already downloaded and put in a folder   for myself but again these links will be in the  description for you so you can grab all of this   and get it ready for yourself as well now Rufus is  the other program we need we're going to use this   to put our steam deck image onto our USB as well  because we'll have a USB for our steam deck image   and we'll have another second USB for our windows  image so 2s two USB drives you'll want preferably   for this and then we have our controller software  so we can use our steam deck controller in Windows   so that's these top three programs you see right  here that you're going to need to download and   have ready to install on your steam deck  once it's set up with Windows ready to go   now the other thing we're going to need of course  is that steam deck image so we can put that on our   USB we're going to use Rufus to do that and that  allows us to go in and boot from that image and   do the partitioning we need what to do that you  can't otherwise do in desktop mode so you will   need this process to be able to do that I'm going  to go ahead and download it and have it ready for   Rufus here all right guys that's all the stuff  we're gonna need to prep on our Windows PC so   I'm going to start by opening up Rufus now I'm  going to add the file that we downloaded for our   steam deck image so I do have my USB stick stuck  in there ready to go I'm going to go to downloads   where I just download that steam deck image We'll  add that into Rufus here and there's no other   options that you'll need to change so typically  all going to be grayed out when it comes to the   steam deck image it's all preset you can click  Start and it takes a little while but it will go   through its process here and create a steam deck  recovery image for you to boot from on your USB   now as soon as that's done it'll open that up  for you usually and you can see here we got   our Steam OS so we're going to close this we can  be done with Rufus and close that out I'm going   to go ahead and go eject this USB and then I'm  going to insert my other one for my windows so   I'll take that out and we'll get switched over now  we're going to open up our Windows media creation   tool we downloaded it will be Windows 10 for you  most likely you'll see 11 here on my screen you're   just going to click to continue here get a few  things ready you'll see a couple of options on   Windows 10 you might have a few other options or  versions but it's it's basically the same as you   go through the process we'll hit next we'll pick  USB flash drive next I'll pick my flash drive here   next again and then it'll start to get that ready  and while it's doing that I'm going to go ahead   and copy and paste over my steam deck folder to  another USB that I have so it's easier to move   these files over to my steam deck once it's up and  running Windows without another download now with   this finished we'll be able to click finish down  here since it's all done it'll go ahead and do its   cleanup and we can eject this USB now we have both  our Steam OS boot drive and our Windows creation   two different USBS ready to go I'm going to go  ahead and put the Steam OS USB in the back of   my Dock and we'll be ready to boot to that first  so we're going to go ahead and do that by holding   the down volume button and then hitting power and  we're going to continue holding that down volume   button until our boot menu comes up and then we'll  be able to go down and select the USB that has our   Steam OS image on it that we created with Rufus  so you can see that right there I'll click a this   takes a little bit of time so I'll fast forward  but once it's done it'll take us into what looks   like desktop mode but it's got a little bit of  different features of course being a recovery   tool for your steam deck and this is what we  need to use to go into our applications here   and open up our KDE partition manager and this is  where we're going to partition an area for Windows   to be installed on now if you look down here at  the bottom you'll see that we have uh our home and   that is our main storage that we have available to  us you can see it's the largest amount here at the   bottom we're going to resize this to something  that I want to pick more for what I want to   have for Windows so I'm probably going to steal  about 100 to 135 gigabytes for now for my windows   install I don't need a lot I'm going to put a lot  of the games on an SD card for it but it'll give   me enough breathing room to kind of run the OS and  do the playing around that I want to do with it   but you can just move this slider around you can  see the Steam OS is on the left how much room it's   already taken up how much more room do you want to  give it and then the area on the right being the   amount of space that you're going to make for the  new Partition so I'll go ahead and pick mine here   now when you click OK and these are set up and  you'll see the change down here it says 110 now on   an unknown that we've resized this isn't actually  applied yet till you hit the apply button up top   on the left there so it's just showing you kind  of what what changes you've made without applying   them so even if I want to go in and resize again  from that 110 and pick a different amount I could   go in and do that before clicking apply so I'll  click OK and you'll see the number change down   here so we're not really doing the process yet but  we're setting it up so I'll go down you'll see 135   now which I'm going to stick with for now so we're  going to right click on this because we're ready   to actually partition it or format it rather  we've already partitioned it we'll go to new   we're going to click on the file system  and go to the Windows File system NTFS   and then we don't need to change  anything else here we can just click ok and now we've given this thing two jobs to do  with our partition and with our formatting so   we're going to go ahead and go up top and  click apply for that and then we'll be able   to get into the apply process it'll finish  that up relatively quickly so we'll click   apply it's going to do the shrinking of  the partition it's going to create a new   Partition and then it's going to format it  as well so I'll speed us up because this does   take a little bit of time but once it gets  through this process you'll see all the bars   are filled up it says that it's finished and  good to go so we'll just be able to click ok   it'll refresh and now we have our partition  NTFS with our 135 gigs on the bottom it's a   clean partition ready for our Windows install and  we've left some space on our Steam OS so now we   can go ahead and go in here and we're going to go  ahead and shut down our steam deck and then we're   going to boot from our Windows media USB alright  guys so I've pulled out the other USB for steam   I've put in the Windows media creation USB we made  same process hold volume down hit power hold that   volume down until our boot menu comes up and then  we'll scroll down and pick our Windows boot Drive   so we'll go down here to my scan disk USB where  our Windows creation is at we'll click on that   and it'll boot up again I'm going to kind of fast  forward but it just gets us into the setup process   here now it will start in portrait mode we can  change that later on pretty easily and since I'm   docked it's kind of hard to show you this but I'll  go ahead and click next here click install now   and it'll start another setup process I'll speed  us through that it comes back to another setup   of course where your key is at you can do I don't  have a key for now or if you have one you want to   put in you can Windows 11 you'll have internet  right away Windows 10 you won't unless you're   docked so just keep that in mind I already have  keys on my account so I'll just sign in later I'm   going to pick Windows 11 home here you'd probably  pick Windows 10 home unless you had a professional   key or something else you wanted to use then  we're going to scroll down here agree next and   then we're going to go to custom install and then  this is probably one of the more important parts   to make sure you're installing this on the proper  partition so I'll try to get this up here where   you guys can see it better just for a second and  uh you want to make sure that you pay attention   to the amount of space you grabbed because they're  just going to be partitioned by number and not by   name and I know I had 135 gigabytes and I don't  want to touch my main Drive which says 330. so   I'm not touching Drive 8. the partition 9 to 135  gigs that's the one I just made so that's the one   I'm going to highlight and put Windows on so just  be sure that you're picking a partition you just   made and it'll start copying its Windows files and  when it's done doing that it'll get into a restart all right there we go we got all that in there  it's gonna get ready to restart I'm old school   just like back in the day when I used to build  computers once this thing restarts I can go ahead   and pull the USB out that we use for our Windows  media creation because everything's now on the   SSD and I'll pop in my other USB that has all my  drivers and controllers and stuff I showed you   that I copied over earlier and that'll be ready  to move right onto my steam deck when we're set up   all right so we're going to come back in there's  some more setup to do whether you're in Windows   10 or 11 this will vary but you'll either be able  to sign in or create your account or whatever you   need to do create a pin choose all your options  that you would normally choose when you're setting   up a new device on Windows I'm going to go  ahead and set this up as a new device again   your options may vary a little bit depending on  what version of Windows you're using I'll create   my pin I'm going to go ahead and finish that up  here rather quickly and get us to the desktop mode all right so we're in desktop mode first thing we  want to do is bring up the display options scroll   down and change portrait to landscape so that  we can see what we're doing keep changes and   there we go we actually have Windows on here now  on its own partition we haven't touched steamos   and we're ready to start setting it up with all  the drivers and stuff so let's move on to that   all right so let's get into this I kind  of messed up too and I already installed   the land driver down here the uh the Wi-Fi  driver down here so I extracted it already   and installed it really simple process same  as everything else you're going to see here   moving on to the next driver I'm going to  right click extract all extract this one this is going to be our Bluetooth driver   I'll go in here and select on install driver  click more info click run anyway this will be   a pretty quick one right here it doesn't take  very long this will finish its process and then   close and that'll be our Bluetooth driver in  and we've got our Wi-Fi driver in which again   was the same process basically as this one move  on to the next which we'll do our SD card reader   driver it's no particular order necessarily you  could even do your Apu driver first I've done   that before and just worked my way down the  list just so happens that I just kind of did   it in this order but anyway the bay Hub here  for SD will right click extract all extract open this up we'll just click on the setup   click yes you can disable that feature as well  if you need to so you don't have to click yes   all the time in your UAC user control settings  and you can search for that so go to next here   I'll finish its process I'm not going to restart  right now I want to install the rest of my drivers   first so we can close this out now I'll go ahead  and do the audio drivers so the first driver here   we're going to go ahead and do a similar right  click and extract all but these two are a little   different on how you install them so I do like  to show the process we'll open this folder now   the one that says setup information is the one  that you need to highlight and then right click   and then you'll see install so it's a little bit  different than how some of your other files work   it'll be pretty quick and now we're  going to do the same thing to the   next audio driver so we'll go down  one we're going to extract this one and again this has the setup information so  we'll click on here we'll highlight right   click install now the two audio drivers are  installed and we're down to our Apu driver   all right click OK and close out of this and moving on to our Apu  driver again we just extract this will take a little bit longer because  it's a bigger file but it won't be too bad   especially since we're on our internal  SSD here open up the file go to setup   and now we can go ahead and go through the  process here to set up and install your   Apu driver pretty self-explanatory like  setting up any other AMD GPU driver here all right now it looks like it's ready to go  um additional options nothing you need to worry   about right now on here full install we'll  click that I'll go ahead and fast forward us   right to the end here it installed just fine  didn't have any problems I'll click finish   now I do have my uh brightness capabilities now  since my Apu driver is installed and I also have   uh you can't hear it here but I have audio control  now and everything's coming through nice and clear   for me and they did fix the audio drivers I have  the newest October audio driver for this so it's   not crashing in Windows 11 anymore and causing  that problem I'm still not keeping 11 still   going we still went back to 10 but at least  they did have that new driver that helped out   all right so all of those drivers are installed  I'm going to do a restart after the restart I'm   going to come in here to our swicd folder  and install our controller drivers starting   with the vigem bus here so we're going to  open this up first and you really should   do it in this order from what I understand uh  we'll go down here and click next we'll agree   click next install and these are this is a pretty  quick process to get all three of these installed   and then we'll have everything we need for using  a controller and anything that's not a steam game   Steam handles the controller fine we'll go to  VC here now and install this if you're running   a steam game you don't need to run swicd but it's  running epic or origin or Ubisoft or any of those   this is where swicd will come in or your game  pass with your Xbox app click more info click   run anyway for swicd click yes click OK next I  agree everything's checked off yep click next   all right now with all three of those installed  we have all of our controller software installed   ready for setup later as well all of our drivers  are installed so those are done and now we're   pretty much ready to go ahead and set up our dual  boot so let's go ahead and get into that next   so I've shut down the steam deck and I'm going to  do that similar process here hold the volume down   button press power continue holding volume down  to your boot menu and we want to boot into Steam   OS we have to do this because otherwise it'll  default boot into windows and we need to get back   to steamos's desktop mode here to finish our dual  boot setup so I'll go to my Steam OS I'm going to   boot into that once you're into Steam OS you will  then need to go ahead and hit your steam button   go to Power and go to switch to desktop because  we want to go to desktop mode here and Steam OS   to set up the actual dual boot loader setup for  the steam deck so now we are at desktop mode I'm   actually going to switch us over to screen capture  so you can see better what I'm typing and doing   here all right guys so now I'm screen capping  that desktop mode will be a lot easier for you   to see exactly what we're doing here so the first  thing we want to do is go into our settings tab   right here our system settings we open that up and  then we're going to go over to users right here   what we're going to need to do is just set  up a password because during the setup for   refine it's going to ask us for this password  and it's easier if we already have it set up   so once we're here at your account we're just  going to click change password pick something   very easy that you know you won't have a problem  with I'm just going to put Steam for both of mine   all lowercase here so I'll double check that and  we have Steam and then I'll click set password and   then we don't need to change our wallet password  or anything like that so we're good with that   and now we have steam set up for that password  so that'll make that easier when we get in the   setup we'll close that out we're going to come  over here to application launcher I'll go to all   applications and we're going to launch our console  and this is where we'll do all of the installing   from for our dual boot so I'll expand this I'll  go pretty slowly here so it's easy for you to   see what I'm typing out it's got to be exactly  right for lowercase uppercase spacing and all of   that so get space clone space HTTP colon forward  slash forward slash GitHub .com forward slash Deck with a capital D wizard with a capital w and forward slash Steam deck all one word lowercase underscore   door boot forward slash enter and you should see  this pop-up right here ready for our next command   so we're going to type in CD space  steam deck underscore dual boot hit enter and on our next line  we're going to do a CH mod space Plus lowercase x space steam with  a capital S DEC capital D no space   underscore refine with capital e f i in the  middle underscore install dot sh IP hit enter now we're going to type in a period forward  slash steam deck capital S capital D   underscore refined with a capital e f i  again in the middle underscore install dot sh   enter now here's that password that we were  talking about so you're going to type your   password here but it won't show up you won't see  anything happen just type it and hit enter and   then it should proceed on with the install this  might take a couple of minutes but I'll go through   this process once it does you'll get down to the  bottom here and it'll show you that it's finished   installing that's pretty much it for that setup  once that's done we can go in here and click close   we're going to go to application launcher and  we're going to restart Our Deck and we'll go see   if it worked for our dual boot all right guys here  we are I'm gonna go ahead and watch it restart   here after clicking restart from desktop mode and  here you see it we do have dual boot popping right   up here for Steam and windows you have 15 seconds  to choose and you got to use the trackpad here to   select and then you can hit a or right trigger  to select it once you've highlighted it with the   touchpad there so we'll go ahead and launch right  into Steam OS I'm going to do this part real time   just so you can kind of see the process it does  seem to take a little longer it's first time here   got a little bit quicker as I went and used this  more going back and forth like I said I did decide   to change back over to Windows 10 and when I took  out windows 11 and re-partitioned or reformatted   that partition again that you saw me make in the  beginning of the video refine doesn't leave the   Steam OS and I couldn't get it out no matter what  I did meaning when I reinstalled windows on that   partition it would not restart and boot into setup  refine was causing a problem there and no matter   what I did what steps I tried to go through I  couldn't get rid of it so I reimaged the steam   deck and started completely over and ended Windows  10 any of you guys know more about getting refined   out of there or undoing this process I definitely  like to know because I spent a lot of time trying   to figure it out but here you go we've restarted  it went right into the boot manager again here and   this time I'll pick Windows I'll hit a this is a  really cool feature even with a few of the little   issues here and there um honestly it's really neat  to be able to do this dual boot process and then   you can still use an SD card for for storage so  you see Windows booted in pretty quickly there   without any problem and uh yeah that's a setup for  your dual boot and we're back on Windows here so   what I want to do before we wrap up this video  is give you a quick little guide on how to set   up your controller alright so let's get into  the controller setup here and steam and how   things are working right now steam is open and  it's controlling how my touch pads are working   they work for click and all that type of thing  we're not having to use the triggers and it works   really well and I have steam opening with Windows  because I like the way it works but also because   that's kind of how we need to do things for this  controller support if you're playing a steam game   you don't need swicd open Steam will handle  the controls for you and you'll be just fine   but playing a game from any of your other  launchers you'll need it open after steam is   running so I'm going to go ahead and open that  driver now and we'll get into kind of what's   happening with it the setup and why do I have  steam open even if I'm not playing a steam game   so now that that's open let me go ahead and bring  up the the software here so we're going to exit   steam it's going to stop controlling everything  here for my touch pads and everything and now   Windows is going to be back in control which means  we're back to having to use the triggers instead   of the touch pads to click here which is fine but  what happens is when we get into the SW ICD here   and you'll see the lizard mode up top there and  the two check boxes for the mouse movement and   the button inputs and those are what we have to  disable to get this to work inside of a game and   not get confused by Mouse input over on Windows  side but what will happen is once I click these   windows will no longer have access to these touch  pads and we won't be able to move around anymore   and we'll only be able to have touch controls  which is why I always have steam open because   that doesn't happen with steam it'll still work  so we'll click disable lizard mode you'll see here   instantly my touchpad has stopped working Windows  can't control that anymore I'm going to go ahead   and disable the buttons here and But ultimately  this is what we want because when we're in game   this is what we'll have the controller working  properly if I don't have lizard mode disabled it   will swap back and forth rapidly between like  keyboard and mouse and controller or not map   Things correctly and give you issues so you really  want to have steam open and if you're playing a   non-steam game you open swicd and make sure your  lizard modes are disabled and you should be good   for any of your games with any of the launchers  that's basically how the setup works with that   I'm going to reopen steam here and just show you I  got to use the touch screen here or disable lizard   mode but I won't leave those checked off because  that's how I'm going to have things set up and   once steam opens up here you'll see I instantly  have track pads and everything working again and   I can click with the track pads and all of that  even with lizard mode disabled in swi CD here so   you'll see instantly now we're back in action with  the track pads and everything and with lizard mode   disabled SW ICD will be translated properly in  the games and we won't have any weird issues and   everything should work fine now I haven't remapped  any buttons or done anything in here to change   anything it was as easy as install Steam install  swicd run Steam and and then run this program   disable lizard mode and then it just works in all  my games but you can go through and map things if   you want to you can have the steam button be the  Windows key or anything like that that you want   currently the steam button will default to the  Xbox button basically bringing up those menus but   I haven't had any problems with this it's been  an easy way to set things up and get working   in all my games that are non-steam games so if  you guys have any issues with this let me know   but it's pretty straightforward and pretty simple  once you get into it all right there you have it   guys your complete guide for setting up dual boot  with Windows 10 or 11 really on your steam deck   again for now at the time I'm making this video  I do recommend sticking with 10 but go for 11 if   you want to give it a shot but just keep in mind  that if you have to reinstall Windows or make any   major changes it gets a little more complicated  when it comes to the refine and all that as I was   talking about but anyways I'm really enjoying  dual boot one now that I've got it down I've   got everything really working well it's a nice  convenient process on the steam deck I still can't   wait for the official dual boot from valve to see  how that works I think it'll be a little bit more   friendly but anyways until then these workarounds  will get us there for our dual boot all right guys   thanks a lot for coming to watch the video as  always if you haven't already subscribe thumbs   up ring the bell leave me your comment down  below and I'll see you guys in the next one

Channel: GameTechPlanet

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Keywords: steam deck, valve steam deck, steam deck review, steam deck gameplay, linux gaming, steam os, steam deck proton ge, steam deck games, game pass on steam deck, steam deck windows, dual boot, steam deck dual boot setup, how to dual boot steam deck, steam deck windows controller setup

Id: KaviK55od6Y

Length: 25min 37sec (1537 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 14 2022