How to Play Epic Games Store Games on Steam Deck
How to Play Epic Games Store Games on Steam Deck
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How to Play Epic Games Store Games on Steam Deck

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Speaker 1: One of the first questions I get about the valve steam deck is how do you get non steam games on there? Some of them work better than others. Some of them are pretty direct. Some of them have workarounds. I'm gonna walk you through how I got the epic games, games, door running on the steam deck. Speaker 1: The key to getting the epic game storefront running on here is to install it as a non steam game. And I'm gonna show you what I mean, I'm gonna start by going [00:00:30] to not the regular steam deck interface, but going to the desktop mode, that's gonna feel fairly familiar to anyone who uses a computer. It looks a little bit like a windows desktop. It looks so a little bit like a macOS desktop. It's actually basically a Linux, a KDE Linux desktop, uh, with some steam stuff built in. You can see I've got the desktop version of steam right here, and I can open it up like this. And I can go to my library. I'm actually gonna switch to the mini view. [00:01:00] Let's see small mode and that's actually pretty handy for seeing stuff at a glance here in the downloads folder, which works the same way as pretty much any other downloads folder. Speaker 1: I have the installer app for the epic games through epic installer dot MSI. Now I'm not just gonna click this and run this. Uh, that's gonna be hard to do because, uh, it's a windows app and, and here I am on Linux system. What I'm gonna do is this, this is the, this is the secret. You go to steam. You go to the games menu and right at the bottom, add a [00:01:30] non steam game to my library. Now what you're gonna add is not a game. You're actually gonna add the installer. And you do that by browsing and navigating to your downloads folder, wherever that is and finding it, let's see user, I'm gonna find it. Uh, let's see. I'm here in the downloads folder. I don't see anything cuz it's just looking for Linux applications now instead I do all files and there it is. So if I hit open and then I go and selected [00:02:00] program to steam, it's gonna pop up there and I actually have it. I'll just do a little search right here. Speaker 1: There we go. I've actually done this twice cuz I've been demoing this for people. So there it is, but you can't just launch it from there. Of course there are more steps. Um, you were gonna run a right click on that. It's a lot easier if you're using a keyboard and mouse, which is easy to do one, the steam deck is great. Uh, go down to properties and then you're gonna have to browse to where [00:02:30] the install file is on your system. And I've got the path right here and I'll link to another YouTube video that shows you exactly where that path is and how to find it. If it doesn't pop in automatically, which it might. So you browse to that. You find the, um, here we go, the epic games, launcher DOTC file. You're gonna hit open. Uh, and that will fill in this target path and also this starting path for you. Speaker 1: So if you're following me so far, you're pretty good to go. Then [00:03:00] you want to go down to this compatibility button right here and you're gonna force steam play compatibility. That's basically using proton. Um, I'm just using the latest experimental version. I think it should work with, uh, the latest stable version as well. And then you should be good to go. So I'm gonna close that am gonna close this. And now from right here, if I click on this, this should launch the epic games store from right within this, the desktop mode of the [00:03:30] steam deck. So I'm gonna click on it. It's gonna take a little while because frankly, the one thing I found is, uh, the steam deck plays a lot of games. Uh, but everything is kind of slow in terms of loading stuff up. But here we go. It's actually going fairly quickly. Speaker 1: I, here we go, look at this. This is the epic game storefront right here. Here's the store. And let's see. Yeah, here's my library. And you can see some of the games that I have installed, ready to try. And most of these were again, not every game is gonna work. Uh, of these games [00:04:00] worked, uh, outta world's work among us work. Then with park worked Tacoma worked into the preach. I couldn't get to work, but it might work later because that's how steam deck is a game that doesn't work now might work later very easily. So from here I can launch the game and play it and it works fine. So that's one thing, but we wanna take it to the next level. Don't we? So I'm gonna shut this day out here and I am going to go over here to the power menu and I'm gonna go to shut down, but I'm not gonna shut down. Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit this logout button. What is that [00:04:30] gonna do? That's gonna take me to the steam deck, regular interface. What you see when you start up the system for the first time designed for handheld use, uh, lots of big icons, easy to navigate, and we're gonna see if we can find our epic games there instead of having to go to the desktop mode. All right. So here I am, again, I'm gonna use the keyboard of mouse to steer over here and I'm going to go to my library. And over here you can see the games that are great on steam. A all my games installed games over here. This is tab, this is non [00:05:00] steam and I have a bunch of stuff here I've been experimenting with, but I also have the epic installer right here. Again, it's not the installer. It's, it's gonna launch the actual storefront. Speaker 1: So I'm gonna click on this and we're gonna play it. It's gonna take a little while, but we should get the same epic game store view that we got in the desktop mode right here in the steam OS handheld mode. I was able to find a lot of the steps for doing this, uh, because there are a whole community of people out there. People who are Linux gaming, people who have frankly [00:05:30] probably been waiting for years to show off everything they've learned about getting windows games and apps running on Linux. Okay. So it took a little while to load up. But here from the steam deck view, I was able to launch the at big game store again. So I've still got the store view. I can go to my library view and I'm gonna play outta worlds, which was probably the most ambitious, uh, game I tried to install via, uh, epic. Speaker 1: Now of course your favorite epic game store game, Fortnite is not gonna run because there's a, uh, anti cheat [00:06:00] compatibility issue. That is not gonna be solved anytime soon. Yeah. So here's a game loading up and just like I did in the desktop mode, I'm gonna go into it. I'm going to, uh, hit, continue. I've already done my setup here where I've changed the res the resolution 1280 by 800. It, uh, I think I have it on, uh, here, medium graphic settings. And I was getting frame rates in the, uh, I was getting frame rates in the forties and fifties with that. I'm gonna continue my previous game [00:06:30] And I'll show you something interesting you can do here in the steam handheld mode that you can't do in the desktop mode. There we go. So here I am and watch, I'm gonna stick my hand in here And I can go and turn on the performance overlay. Speaker 2: I, Speaker 1: There we go. I can see the performance [00:07:00] overlay on the screen. I could see the frame rate. Uh, I got a solid 60 frames per second running at 1280 by 800 at medium graphic settings. And I'm just doing a little controlling with the keyboard and mouse right now, but I can actually pop in here part my arms And I can use the on, uh, the on steam deck controls. Speaker 1: And I feel like it plays just as well as any game you would play natively on the, uh, steam deck. So there you go. I got the epic game store [00:07:30] installed on the steam deck was able to run a fairly high end game. Uh, you do have to make sure that you have room on your local storage here for these games. And when you look in the storage settings on this team deck, it's not gonna show up as its own game. It's just gonna show up under like other, uh, so if you wanna get that space back, you've gotta go back into the epic game story and delete those games. Now this is just one of the game storefronts people want to put on the steam deck. There are ways to get games from the good old games game shop on here. There are a bunch of ways to do that. Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's got the, uh, game pass storefront [00:08:00] working on there yet. I'm sure at some point we'll see that. And I think we're a couple steps away from getting cloud gaming from the Xbox game cloud working on here because of some control issues. But again, uh, people are making a tremendous amount of progress in even the first week of the steam deck availability in finding new and interesting ways to use this device. So if you wanna see the step by step on exactly how you of this, you can check out the links in the description below and also read my incredibly in depth, steam deck, full review, where I can tell you who this device is for and who it is. Definitely not for.

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