Valve’s Steam Deck is a smash hit, because of a mixture of nice {hardware} and environment friendly software program. If you don’t have one but and also you’d like to take a look at the latter, Valve is now letting customers check out the Steam Deck consumer interface utilizing the desktop model of Steam. It’s a brand new choice for beta customers — all it’s worthwhile to do is alter a number of settings for the TV-style Big Picture interface. (Does that make it the Small Picture Interface? Who is aware of.)

Here’s what it’s worthwhile to do.

Step 1: Switch to the beta version of Steam, when you haven’t already.

Step 2: Edit the shortcut for the Steam executable. On Windows, you possibly can search “Steam” within the Start menu, right-click the Steam shortcut, and click on “Open file location” to seek out it shortly. The default location is in your User folder, then /AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Steam.

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Step 3: Right-click the shortcut, then click on “Properties.” Add -gamepadui to the top of the Target” subject, then click on “OK.”

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Step 4: Launch Steam with the modified shortcut. If it’s already working, restart this system.

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You can navigate the interface with a mouse and keyboard simply positive, nevertheless it works so much higher in case you have a controller helpful. Most of the options of Steam are accessible on this interface, although it would take you a bit of longer to get to the superior settings. To revert to the usual interface, merely delete the “-gamepadui” textual content from the Steam shortcut.