I am considering the new OLED deck, but one thing that will be a huge hassle is if I have to reiinstall the Steam library. Currently, I have my steam library only installed on SD cards (the internal drive is used for the OS, utilities and shaders, etc…). So when I want to play a game I drop in the appropraite SD card like a Nintendo Switch and the Deck detects the games automatically because the install path is saved to some configuration file.

However, I am wondering if I were to upgrade to the Switch OLED, is there anyway to transfer over the installation files so that I can continue to just drop in SD cards with the games? I know that it is possible to link games to a different install folder in the new OLED, but even that will take a very long time as I have to go through each game on each SD card and I believe Steam will also go and verify each and every game. I am hoping there is a way to fool the new OLED just continuing to run as if all the games are installed on the SD cards (beacuse they are)?

  • arnoldpettybunk@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thank you, this is helpful. My current deck is the 64gb with a 512gb sd card for most of my games, so it might just be easier to start from scratch. May also try coping the entire home folder over to see if that works. But the more I think about it, the more I conclude that setting things up again (configuring Chiaki4deck, etc.) will go much more quickly now that I know what im doing