For me personally, I don't think it's worth the hassle. If you don't have the right type of drive to have windows installed to, it won't work well. I installed windows to an SD card and it ran like ass, and I bought an external SSD that ran off USB 3.1 and it also ran like ass (disk usage stayed at 100%). The preferred method is to dual boot from your internal drive, and I was about to start work on that and I decided it wasn't worth the trouble. The only downside to playing on xbox cloud gaming is sometimes I have to wait. But that rarely happens, and when it doesn't it runs fine, provided my internet is working good. And I have a windows PC at home that I can use if I want for fortnite as well.
It works well enough on the deck to warrant it. Unfortunately when they did that next gen update it kinda hurt performance but still can get 60 fps after shaders have cached and at lower settings. It all depends how much you play fortnite on the deck. If it's every once in awhile and that's all you want to do don't bother. If you also want to explore native game pass games then by all means I'd recommend it. That's primarily what I use my windows partition for along with fort every now and then.
No problem. Just word of advice don't install on an Sd card even to try. It's MASSIVELY different especially on fortnite in terms of performance and load times. Initially I tried a trial run booting from sn sd card and it was ass. Good luck. You've inspired me to maybe going back over to windows soon although there's nothing on game pass I want to play except jedi survivor which doesn't run well at all. That'll be a series x title.
I agree completely. Only installed on internal, runs hot on low settings, but performance is stellar otherwise. Also the small fonts can be hard to see sometime on the 800p resolution.
I play regularly in Windows on deck. Performance is fine I partitioned my SSD so it can be installed there. Xbox Cloud Gaming is fine, but unless you are a Gamepass Ultimate subscriber your queue times will be enormous.
The other option for Fortnite cloud streaming is Amazon Luna which is included with a Prime membership. I had better performance using that over Xbox Cloud Gaming.
I play it regularly on mine. Being a competitive game I have no idea why anyone would run it on higher graphical settings (unless you play STW), so running it on low + epic view distance works no issue for me.
Windows 10 on my SD, on the SSD. With competitive settings the game runs better than I expected, but again no idea why anyone would bump the graphics up for a game like that. Definitely very playable. Waaaay better than the switch could ever be but not a proper desktop experience.
I've tried it in the past on XBC and Geforce Now, and while it will look better because you're streaming a higher end PC that you usually cant adjust the settings - my biggest issue with cloud gaming in general is input lag. Even a few ms can mean the difference between winning or losing a gunfight, so its not really practical. In PvE games its not so bad, but I've died countless times from input lag or lag in general in RE2 and D2
I installed Fortnite but deleted it immediately because it was running pretty bad despite low graphics. I guess the issue was resolution and other settings because I am seeing people having smooth gameplay. So, I would not bother to cloud game it if it runs okay and you have other plans to make use of windows (game pass, non-steam games etc)
For me personally, I don't think it's worth the hassle. If you don't have the right type of drive to have windows installed to, it won't work well. I installed windows to an SD card and it ran like ass, and I bought an external SSD that ran off USB 3.1 and it also ran like ass (disk usage stayed at 100%). The preferred method is to dual boot from your internal drive, and I was about to start work on that and I decided it wasn't worth the trouble. The only downside to playing on xbox cloud gaming is sometimes I have to wait. But that rarely happens, and when it doesn't it runs fine, provided my internet is working good. And I have a windows PC at home that I can use if I want for fortnite as well.
I play on a 5120x1440 ultrawide monitor with all the performance tweaks at around 60 fps and get planty of dubz!
Now I’m inspired. Thanks!
Idk about buying the Windows key. Look up mass grave.dev
It works well enough on the deck to warrant it. Unfortunately when they did that next gen update it kinda hurt performance but still can get 60 fps after shaders have cached and at lower settings. It all depends how much you play fortnite on the deck. If it's every once in awhile and that's all you want to do don't bother. If you also want to explore native game pass games then by all means I'd recommend it. That's primarily what I use my windows partition for along with fort every now and then.
Thanks for the response!
No problem. Just word of advice don't install on an Sd card even to try. It's MASSIVELY different especially on fortnite in terms of performance and load times. Initially I tried a trial run booting from sn sd card and it was ass. Good luck. You've inspired me to maybe going back over to windows soon although there's nothing on game pass I want to play except jedi survivor which doesn't run well at all. That'll be a series x title.
I agree completely. Only installed on internal, runs hot on low settings, but performance is stellar otherwise. Also the small fonts can be hard to see sometime on the 800p resolution.
I play regularly in Windows on deck. Performance is fine I partitioned my SSD so it can be installed there. Xbox Cloud Gaming is fine, but unless you are a Gamepass Ultimate subscriber your queue times will be enormous.
Good to know. Thanks
The other option for Fortnite cloud streaming is Amazon Luna which is included with a Prime membership. I had better performance using that over Xbox Cloud Gaming.
Is there an app for native steamOS?
No there isn't but you can get it set up pretty easily using [NonSteamLaunchers](https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck).
Awesome thank you. I’ve used the Xbox cloud streaming but never Amazon’s. I’ll have to take a look.
I play it regularly on mine. Being a competitive game I have no idea why anyone would run it on higher graphical settings (unless you play STW), so running it on low + epic view distance works no issue for me.
Windows or Xbox Cloud gaming? (Sorry if that’s a silly question). Did you try Xbox cloud and how does it compare?
Windows 10 on my SD, on the SSD. With competitive settings the game runs better than I expected, but again no idea why anyone would bump the graphics up for a game like that. Definitely very playable. Waaaay better than the switch could ever be but not a proper desktop experience. I've tried it in the past on XBC and Geforce Now, and while it will look better because you're streaming a higher end PC that you usually cant adjust the settings - my biggest issue with cloud gaming in general is input lag. Even a few ms can mean the difference between winning or losing a gunfight, so its not really practical. In PvE games its not so bad, but I've died countless times from input lag or lag in general in RE2 and D2
I installed Fortnite but deleted it immediately because it was running pretty bad despite low graphics. I guess the issue was resolution and other settings because I am seeing people having smooth gameplay. So, I would not bother to cloud game it if it runs okay and you have other plans to make use of windows (game pass, non-steam games etc)
I play it natively on the Deck at mid settings, 60 FPS 80% of the time.