EmuDeck WE 2.1.13 - Gaming Mode
Isn't it nice when you boot the Steam Deck and you get directly into SteamOS Gaming Mode?
It's a shame that on Windows you have to wait for the Desktop to load and then you need to wait for Steam to launch... yuck.
Well, why should we be content with less on Windows?
New Gaming Mode
Now you can select how you want your device to boot, directly into Steam UI ( aka Big Picture Mode ) and go straight to gaming!
Want to go to your Desktop to run anything else? Just exit Steam and your Desktop will show up, click on the Back to Gaming Mode icon on your Desktop to get back to Gaming Mode, just like in the Steam Deck!
Next time you reboot you'll be back to Gaming Mode.
We think this feature is super handy for handhelds and living room computers.
PS: Right now the loading times between modes are a bit long, we are working on optimising it.
New Patreon Login
Some of you have had issues with your antivirus blocking the login or pledges not getting recognized, there's a new login method that should fix all that both for Windows and SteamOS.
We've also added a new button to change your Patreon account in case you logged in into the wrong one.
If you are having issues when trying to login in please send us a Message on Patreon with a screenshot of the error you are having using imgurl: https://imgur.com/upload
Per Device Optimizations
Since all the controllers are now being detected automatically we've changed that functionality to apply customizations for specific devices like the Aya Neo 2, GPD Win 4, Rog Ally, etc...
Just open your EmuDeck app to get all the updates both on SteamOS and Windows. You can enable Gaming Mode on Quick Settings, you will need to manually restart your computer after.
That's all for now, the surprise I teased last week is gonna have to wait for a bit, doing these features took a looooot of time and we wanted to have this ready for the Rog Ally launch.
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If you enter into Gaming Mode and for some reason you are stuck do the following:
Plug a keyboard into your device and press CTRL ALT DELETE
Open then Task manager, File, Run new task and write explorer , hit Enter.
Navigate to your User folder\AppData\Roaming\EmuDeck\backend\tools\gamemode\ and run disabelgamemode.bat
If that doesn't work, go back to task manager and run this time: regedit
Navigate the tree until you get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, click on that folder and look on the right for Shell, double click it and change the value to explorer.exe and restart your device.
Comments (32)
Can't play the video ?
Is there a way I can still use the game mode on windows, even tho it got removed? Tried simliar things with retrobat but the Desktop didn't boot up like you guys got it to run. I got annoyed as I had to change some settings back then. Im not afraid to tinker around tho.
NVM found it.
where can i download windows edition?
Check the pinned post
Now my rog armorcrate won’t launch once I deleted that registry
seems unrelated, that registry is only for Windows boot up. You can reinstall it downloading it from here: https://www.asus.com/supportonly/armoury%20crate/helpdesk_download/
I have emudeck downloaded on my ally, but it won’t let me open steam ROM manager. How can I fix this
When I try opening steam rom manager it gives me a JavaScript error, can someone please help me
Yeah desktop mode is NOT working every time I try to exist big picture I just am met with a black screen saying installing steam ui and a black eplorerless screen.
I did some changes to that function today, can you try again? Also do you have Steam installed on C/Program files x86 or somewhere else?
Hola! Tenéis pensado, o sería viable una opción del SRM para agregar los juegos y emuladores al armory crate? Pregunta loca 🤣
Hola, pues es algo que me interesa investigar en cuanto tengamos una en nuestras manos, lo mismo que iniciar el PC directamente en Armory Crate como hemos hecho con Steam en esta release
Perfetto grazie 🙏
hola, tengo dos preguntas para ti: 1- existe la posibilidad de tener emudeck en italiano? 2-con la nueva versión, los juegos de cambio comienzan en inglés, en cambio, con la versión anterior, comenzaban en italiano automáticamente, ¿cómo puedo restablecer los juegos en italiano? Grazie
1 we are adding multi language soon. 2 what system are you talking about? We haven’t changed anything related to language
I have multiple devices it's logging me out of one device to use another wasn't doing that before
That shouldn’t happen. Can you please send me a video?
Same here boots into command prompt on Steam deck with no way to access desktop or any other functions to change it back
plug a keyboard to your device and press CTRL ALT SUPR Open then Task manager, File, Run new task and write explorer. Hit Enter. Navigate to your User folder\AppData\Roaming\EmuDeck\backend\tools\gamemode\ and run disabelgamemode.bat If that doesn't work, go back to task manager and run this time regedit. Navigate the tree until you get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, there look for shell and change it to explorer.exe and restart your device
now I cant login to my device to change it back
plug a keyboard to your device and press CTRL ALT DEL Open then Task manager, File, Run new task and write explorer. Hit Enter. Navigate to your User folder\AppData\Roaming\EmuDeck\backend\tools\gamemode\ and run disabelgamemode.bat If that doesn't work, go back to task manager and run this time regedit. Navigate the tree until you get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, there look for shell and change it to explorer.exe and restart your device
tried the steamui interface login and my gpd win4 is stuck on command prompt
I get an "Error... This token has been used too many times"
HI Derek, I'm seeing you've logged 10 times. What happened?
wont let me cclick allow in patreon link windows
please send me a screenshot of your error: https://imgur.com/upload
Can't login to Patreon now through the windows app
what error are you getting? I can see you tried to, you got a token too
Rog Ally 🥰
Sounds awesome! So we won’t see the desktop at all when we boot up the device? Just curious how you got that to work? I thought Windows was pretty strict.
yes, exactly. Windows has a somewhat "kiosk" mode, that's how we manage to do it. I have it on my living room PC, the experience is so much better now...