So during one of the Xbox Game Pass promotions I signed up for a few months and ended up buying Forza Horizon 4 on sale. I am trying to find a way to play it on Steam Deck, but so far all I have found is guides on how to use the streaming on the Game Pass to play on Steam Deck, which only works with an active Game Pass sub (in my understanding). Has anyone found a way to get games that you have bought through the Windows Xbox store on Steam Deck? I would love to play FH4 on my Deck!
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Only real way is to install windows. Even then though it’s not great. You have to use some third party apps to get windows store to recognize the steam deck controls as a controller. It’s a pain in the ass to get working at all and in my experience it’s super flakey and prone to crashes. (if you’ve ever tried to get the steam controller working with game pass games you probably already have a good idea of the problems you might run into).
A slightly more reliable method though is creating a kb+m desktop config for each game you plan on playing through gamepass and manually switching to it before launching your game directly through the windows store. Unfortunately this isn’t going to work super great with games that require analog inputs like racing games but it works great for things like fps games or traditional kb+m games.
Steam input is so flexible though that you might be able to figure out a way to get this working right with forza. I’m just not sure how you could. Maybe set throttle in game to some sort of mouse movement and in turn set right trigger to that same mouse movement in your desktop config. That’s pure speculation on my part though. I’ve never personally tried doing that myself. No idea if its actually even possible.
In my experience Steam Deck on windows works fine. Just use Steam Deck Tools, it will handle the controller inputs for you. I also personally use Playnite to open the gamepass games instead of using Steam since it’s just easier that way.
I somehow missed steam deck tools as a thing. Last time I tried figuring things out rewasd is what I kept finding.
Anyway just grabbed steam deck tools last night because of your comment and it’s great so far. Currently playing Lies of P and it’s perfect. Good looking out, man.
For future reference, it is possible to transfer your Xbox/game pass save to your steam copy. I have not done it personally, but I friends who have done it successfully https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2847163077
Best way is streaming right now. Just pay $10 or whatever and you can play hundreds of games without installing them
The best way would be installing windows, as then you can play them offline and it isn’t dependent on how good your current connection is
No because windows runs like ass and most games will run like crap. Better to let the game pass server render the game and push it to your device.
Windows runs fine on Deck. Performance is similar to SteamOS. SteamOS advantage is the shader pre-cache, which you can get on windows with DXVK. And again, connection isn’t always stable for xcloud, especially if you’re out, which I assume someone who has a portable device is doing.
Use Greenlight to access Xbox Remote Play on the Steam Deck, no subscription required.
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-xbox-remote-play-steam-deck/
Thanks, but I don’t own an Xbox console.
