DCS on Steam Deck! Part 1: Control Setup Overview

[@nickgrey4136]

Dear Sir, many thanks for this excellent video on the Steam Deck and DCS. Very informative and well produced. Thank you for your passion and support, Nick

[@NJ-Tech]

Wow, Nick thanks so much for commenting! Made my day 😎

[@nickgrey4136]

@@NJ-Tech that’s very kind of you 🙏🏻. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Yours Nick

[@hakulus3037]

I travel a ton as well and spent a couple of weeks with my new Steam Deck. I never even CONSIDERED loading DCS onto it. I'm so stoked as I leave for 6 weeks on a trip. Thanks a ton for figuring all this out.

[@NJ-Tech]

You're very welcome! I have a part 2 up with more of a deep dive including the installation and various settings. It really is such an incredible little device, I barely game on my main rig now (other than for DCS VR)

[@keiththome4862]

Absolutely this! Travel quite a bit for work as well and never thought of having DCS on the deck due to controls. This is awesome!!

[@TheGforceuk]

How did you get it to run ? I’ve got it installed and it just sits there on the start up screen and no menu at all

[@911canihelpu]

what i was here for was that, hows the multithreading patch treating the deck?

[@gzaos]

You are a mad men XD i mean my dcs folder 300gb+ no way i had the nerve to install that on my steam deck. Thanks for the video!

[@NJ-Tech]

haha, yes well i have 500GB DCS install folder on my desktop PC, but for the deck i just want what i 'need' so i installed a few planes and just a few maps. With the 1TB internal M.2 drive its no problem on there at all. Without the storage upgrade it would be impossible to install anything else for sure :)

[@danielgraves5277]

Great to see this on the Steam Deck, a lot less messing around an lugging a gaming laptop when on the move but need to do sometime DSC, def would like to see more, graphic / control setup, also how does it handle the mission editor

[@NJ-Tech]

thanks! The missions i set up were done in the mission editor on the deck, it wasnt a problem at all. A little more loading stutter when you zoom in sometimes but it does that even on a higher end PC sometimes too. The trick was setting the right joystick vertical to mouse wheel scroll forward and backward, then ticking the 'turbo' option at a 50 rate, so when you hold the stick forward it zooms into the map at a nice rate and same for zoom out. Then right track pad as mouse for all the usual stuff. So far so good really. Ill get thinking about this second video deep dive!

[@jetkid]

That thing runs better than my potato. Nice!

[@NJ-Tech]

mental where tech is going when a handheld can do this.. where will be be in just a few more years?

[@NJ-Tech]

Part 2 is now live here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZelgKZ5Yp2rn8U

[@Nomad-wg6dj]

@njtech Hello. Can you please tell me if a 64GB steam deck with a 1TB external card will work just as fine. Thank you

[@NJ-Tech]

@Nomad-wg6dj I don't see why not, but you'll have to point the install to the sd which shouldn't be too tricky.

[@Nomad-wg6dj]

@@NJ-Tech oh, that's great news! And your response came in so fast! Thank you. Also, will changing the location require more tweaking or will I be able to use the same settings as you have made in the DCS on Steam Deck videos of yours

[@NJ-Tech]

@Nomad-wg6dj the same tweaks as my video should all work fine. I think it'd just loading times will take a little longer off the sd card. It's all a bit of a faff to set up but worth it once it's working.

[@jf330]

Would love to see a screenshot of your controller setup, I am looking to set this up in the game hut have no idea where to start..

[@NJ-Tech]

Will cover it all in the next video soon

[@Lud__2]

I don’t know if you will read this but how are your graphics so high without the steam deck crashing?

[@JohnSmith-nw5cz]

Could you share your control set up as a community template? I’ve just got it working on my deck but your set up would save me ages setting it up

[@NJ-Tech]

Already up, nj tech dcs

[@JohnSmith-nw5cz]

@@NJ-Techthat’s great thanks!

[@wmerrifield]

@@NJ-Tech I can't find that

[@michaelwinkler6720]

I also can't seem to find it in community layouts 🤔

[@Dreadnade]

how did you get dcs to running on the steam deck? they wont start on SteamOS... 😵

[@NJ-Tech]

I'm working on a part 2 video that will cover the install too. You need protontricks installed to compile the shaders. I should have it up soon if you can wait a little bit.

[@bighan8638]

@@NJ-Tech that would be appreciated, is this the steam version of DCS or standalone? All my core modules are on standalone

[@bighan8638]

Lol you answered my question, yes a detailed install video would do wonders!

[@NJ-Tech]

@@bighan8638 standalone open beta 😉

[@bighan8638]

@@NJ-Tech awesome 😎 can't wait to install DCS on my deck, waiting for your video

[@ericlawrence9729]

Really nice video, great work. God Bless.

[@NJ-Tech]

Thank you very much 😊

[@Jim-kr7mg]

Great video! I got it running in my deck but am having a lot of freezes / crashes. I suspect it has something to do with the GPU being overloaded (all my freezes show 99% GPU usage). Would love to see a video on your installation process and graphics settings!

[@NJ-Tech]

Thanks man! I'm working on it. I'll have this up soon to help out.

[@WesleyD08]

Look at lowering different settings

[@naterod]

I don’t have a PC so my only way to play this is a steam deck. Always wanted to play this game.

[@markcorrigan3930]

Control setup for the steam controller?

[@NJ-Tech]

@@markcorrigan3930 watch the other parts of this video, it’s a series.

[@markcorrigan3930]

@@NJ-Tech For the steam joystick? where?

[@argonoak]

Does this work well with the steam version of dcs?

[@911canihelpu]

i have just the standard xbox controller profile but with triggers as buttons, and use my desktop config (which is also controller). the dpad is a modifier for me, say dpad left controls throttle functions (its on the left) and up controls stick functions and so on, you can try something similar

[@droner5423]

This is great!!!!!!!

[@NJ-Tech]

thanks very much :)

[@kickback9221]

Can I put a Hotas set along with this

[@NikoBellicisback]

I wish you showed the menu and how you mapped your controls. Would be much easier to replicate

[@NJ-Tech]

Have you watched part 2 and 3 where I show you in detail how I map it all?

[@NikoBellicisback]

@@NJ-Tech ooh thank you!!

[@NikoBellicisback]

Can I download your settings? And does this setting apply to all planes?

[@NJ-Tech]

@@NikoBellicisback u did upload them but they don't show up for some reason. Might be because I'm running the standalone beta of dcs. If you follow my steps you will get the idea. Even will normal hotas setup dcs jus5 has so much to map plane to plane. So really you need to set up for each. Somethings you can keep the same across all though. You have to find what works for you but start with whatever you fly the most.

[@levismith6015]

Are you able to do multiplayer?

[@NJ-Tech]

Honestly I haven't tried because I think it would be hard to be competitive on the deck. But I'll look into it.

[@levismith6015]

Ok@@NJ-Tech

[@OlegBovykin]

How DCS fits on the ssd?

[@NJ-Tech]

How big DCS is depends on how many modules you chose to install. I would suggest at least 130GB of space, it's not small. I have a 1TB SSD installed so I don't have to worry about space.