The easiest way to install Battle.net and Diablo IV on your Steam Deck! - Tutorial

hello everyone I wanted to make a video showing how to set up Diablo 4 because I've had a few people ask me about this and it's actually a pretty easy process I'm not using any sort of external launcher like lootress or or whatever I'm just using Battlenet as a non-steam game and I think that's the easiest and most straightforward way of doing it so that's how I'm going to show you how to do it here so I'm on us.shop.battle.net and I'm just going to click download Battlenet and it's going to automatically start installing or downloading um it'll take just a few seconds so what we're going to do you'll see that it is shown right here we're going to go into steam go into our library and we're going to go to add a game and then add a non-steam game we're gonna go to browse you're going to go to downloads and click on this here click open and then add it's going to add the non-steam game right here next what we need to do is find a folder that you'll remember I just use documents because it's the easiest you're going to create a folder called Battlenet and then one called Diablo 4. then we're going to go to this here we're going to click the gear go to properties we're going to go to compatibility check the box and make sure it says proton experimental then we're going to press play okay keep in mind it's not going to have the mouse functioning it right at this point so you're just going to use your finger so just click continue excuse me it's going to download and update some stuff okay um we're gonna uncheck this box here I don't think this is necessary at all and then we're going to change the installation directory so you might you might be able to see this let me actually turn the brightness down so it's a little easier to see um but you see where it says my computer you're gonna go there it's a little hard using your finger I will say and you know let me turn the brightness down a bit more because it's it's hard to see this so go to the Z Drive you're going to expand that out and then you'll see right here where it says home go ahead and click that if my camera will correct itself there okay home and um deck up there and then this is basically our our menu that we're familiar with uh um kind of basic defaults installation paths so we're going to go to documents and then our battlenets folder which we created okay and then click select folder and then you're going to click continue and it is going to install Battlenet this might take a few minutes to to go through so I will go ahead and Skip through this part here and I'll show you what happens next all right guys so once you're battling that installation is done it's going to bring you to the login page I want you to ignore that for now and go to your Steam and go to add game and then add a non-steam game you're going to go to browse once more go to your desk or your documents or wherever your bottleneck folder is go to your folder and then you're going to add in Battlenet launcher.exe I already have it here you're going to go to the gear properties go to compatibility again check the box and select proton 8. then to get logged in you're actually going to go into into game mode because there's like a glitch with using the keyboard and desktop mode when trying to log in on Battlenet for some reason so go into game mode I'm not going to show this because it's just quick but go into game mode log in or launch Battlenet from your non-steam games and log in you won't have any issues doing it there and then once everything loads up once you're in this page on the on game mode then go back into desktop mode because there's there's an issue installing the game um in game mode installing Diablo I mean so you're gonna go back to desktop mode and launch Battlenet again and it should have all of your credentials set and everything so you're just gonna go back in here and you're going to go to your games click this and you're going to click install it's going to ask you to change your or select your your installation here so once again we're going to go to my computer listed right here go to the Z Drive oh it's a challenge doing this but Z Drive and then home and then deck and then documents and then Diablo 4. we'll select that um I have it installed already so I'm not going to reinstall it but um uncheck enable auto update you don't need that and then you don't need desktop shortcut either um go here just select this oh geez forgive me guys um this is a pain in the butt deck documents we'll just do there for now um I just want to show you what this looks like so here's an option to choose for uh high resolution assets if you want them it's not really necessary if you're playing on the steam deck because you're playing 720p anyway so it's not going to make a huge difference but if you want it if you plan on playing on a bigger screen or something then it might be beneficial um but you're just going to install this I'm not going to do it because like I said I have it installed already but once you do that it will bring it'll bring you back here it'll show it's installing right there so um yeah that's basically the process you go through and then um let me hop back over to game mode and then I can just show you kind of how I customized my um my icon for this because I don't have a specific icon that directs to Diablo 4. I basically just customized the Battlenet icon to look like Diablo 4 because in all reality Diablo 4 is the only game I have on Battlenet so I don't really need it to show anything else um and it just looks better in my opinion so we'll wait for it to go over to game mode again here's my launcher oh I have this plugin installed the steam grid DB on decki I would highly recommend that and just go here change artwork so we're going to change the capsule oh excuse me first what we want to do is go to properties change this so that steam grid knows what to look for so we're going to change this to Diablo for browse that make sure you're set 8.0 there I think I already said that but now if we go to change artwork go ahead and select which one I'm going to choose this one here it's applied go to the wide capsule we'll do this one go here basically just choose all of these just to make sure it looks like a legitimate game as if you bought it off steam icon as well we'll do this one restart later so now we have a nice looking icon is pretty cool and it's mixed in with my non-steam games here so very cool if I just go in Press Play I cover my login information that pops up whenever it chooses to there we go okay and then we'll go here um we'll just click locate the game because I technically already have it installed we'll go to my computer again home deck countries battlenauts oh Diablo that's what we want um hang on looks like in game mode I can actually use the mouse with with this which is easy it makes a lot easier um Diablo I'm assuming it assuming there's a folder within that wants me to look in yeah right here hmm I might just have to reinstall I'm not sure what's going on there but you get the idea you can launch it from here and it gives you a very nice looking icon and everything so it's I would recommend setting it up this way it's just a lot easier in my opinion you can try and mess around with with utris or lutras whatever it's called or or other launchers um but I just feel like this is a lot easier you don't have to deal with all that you can still have your game listed here which I like at the end of the day so if you guys have any questions about this process let me know it's pretty easy but if you have questions please tell me in the comments I'm happy to help out any way I can if you have any other questions about unrelated topics let me know happy to make tutorials on other things as well but I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for watching we'll see ya

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Length: 11min 5sec (665 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 16 2023