For me, text in games were blurry when set to fullscreen and I've been using full-screen borderless to resolve that.

But one game had an issue with that option (part of the window was off-screen) and I found that disabling full-screen optimization allowed for using the fullscreen option without text getting blurry (by right-clicking the exe, going to the Compatibility tab, and checking "Disable fullscreen optimizations").

But enabling that for every game would be tedious and I found regedit changes to enable it globally (from https://www.reddit.com/r/insurgency/comments/ck1429/psa_windows_10_1903_will_now_ignore_the_disable/):

``
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\GameConfigStore]

"GameDVR_FSEBehaviorMode"=dword:00000002

"GameDVR_HonorUserFSEBehaviorMode"=dword:00000001

"GameDVR_FSEBehavior"=dword:00000002

"GameDVR_DXGIHonorFSEWindowsCompatible"=dword:00000001
``

Just wanted to share that discovery in hopes that it helps others using Steam Deck and Windows 11.

Feel free to close this issue and please take this as just a suggestion.

Hey. Thank you for the work in that Guide. You mentioned that if there is a good way to debloat win11 with revert changues posibility you take a look on. Ok i think this is a good way:
https://youtu.be/8ReoMuCUdKE
I'm not sure at all, but you can check and Share your opinion about if it is a good way to achieve.

I install windows 11 step by step like written in the tutorial.

When I start steam in gamepadui i got a double click when i use the digipad or the other keys like A,B,Y,X

Someone else ?

Good day and thanks for your contribution!

Here is the suggestion to expand the section 1.5 Unlocking Refresh Rate & RTSS with batches made for easy switching between 40 Hz and 60 Hz modes. The template below is, hopefully, ready to use by your quality standards. If not -- ping me and I will drop a PR, for example. Or, here is literally the source code of this comment's main part:
source code of the comment.txt

Holy cow how hungry am I after polishing all of this 😂.

Easy Switching Between 40 Hz And 60 Hz Refresh Rates After Unlocking

1. Download NirCmd, extract somewhere you will permanently keep (Ex: C:\<Username>\Documents\Tools\nircmd-64):

• NirCmd by Nir Sofer
• The entire list of commands, supported by NirComd, if you feel adventurous today

2. Download the next archive, extract files somewhere you will permanently keep (Ex: C:\<Username>\Documents\Tools\nircmd-64\40.bat C:\<Username>\Documents\Tools\nircmd-64\60.bat):

• 40+60 by Adravil.zip
  You are free to rename these two files from the archive after extraction and create shortcuts for them as for any other files.

3. Do not run the 40.bat file yet (via double click). Open it with any notepad you have for editing instead. You will see the next text:
   cmd /c "C:\<Username>\Documents\Tools\nircmd-64\nircmd.exe" setdisplay 1280 800 32 40
4. In that file, replace the
   "C:\<Username>\Documents\Tools\nircmd-64"
   part with the path you saved NirCmd at.

• For example, if you saved NirCmd at C:\DefinitelyNotTheSwitchEmulatorHappyOwner\Documents\Tools\nircmd-64
  the contents of your 40.bat file should be replaced with
  cmd /c "C:\DefinitelyNotTheSwitchEmulatorHappyOwner\Documents\Tools\nircmd-64\nircmd.exe" setdisplay 1280 800 32 40

5. Save the changes.
6. Repeat Steps 3, 4 and 5 for the 60.bat file.
7. Now, if you have done everything right, double-clicking the 40.bat file will do all the magic for you, and switch the refresh rate of your Steam Deck's display adapter to 40 Hz. And double-clicking the 60.bat file will return it back to 60 Hz.

• Feel free to add more files like this to switch to other display adapter profiles if you wish. bat extension is the same txt, that's why any notepad understands it. Extensions can be shown to the user by enabling the respective option under Win10's File Explorer > View tab > File name extensions. Profiles can be found under Win10's: Settings > System > Display > Advanced display settings > Display adapter properties for Display <some number> > List All Modes

8. Take care of your Steam Deck as much as of yourself, and you both will live a long happy life.

Hello,
I struggled to find a comfy way for handling the increment of volume changed by of Vol- and Vol+. Therefore I introduced 3RVX in my Windows installation.

3RVX enables to set a custom increment/decrement of sound volume (such as +/-10% of the total volume) to a shortcut. And the shortcut can be the actual Vol- and Vol+ button. Hence providing an override to the standard behaviour of the two buttons.

It also shows a transparent widget at the center of the page as soon as you press a configured shortcut.

Please let me know if it is worth of mention for improving the overall Win installation on the Steam Deck.

All the best,
Dave

The Tetherscript download link in section 1.4 is now returning ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT and for the root domain

Hello,

thank you for this awesome Guide.
I followed now everything to point 1.4 SWICD Configuration but i get the following error and it seems like the trackpads are not working:

Any ideas?
I have updated to Win11 22H2 yesterday. Maybe this could cause the problem? But so far I have not noticed any other errors

For me, when navigating the pinned apps in the start menu with the d-pad, each press moves the selection box 2 icons in a direction instead of 1.

Also, when in the Display page of Settings, when I move the scroll bar halfway down, the scroll bar moves all the way down, and when I try to scroll up, the scroll bar is continually forced back down.

This only happens for me when SWICD is open so my guess is that it's happening because SWICD exposes an xbox controller input to the system and UWP apps (e.g. start menu, settings) translate xbox controller inputs to keyboard mappings.

I searched online and found that people who used windows with a controller had issues like this too and this regedit change fixed it for me (fix: https://gist.github.com/Susko3/a59aace42579222e351e57abfad0cef5, context: microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#1495)

Just wanted to share that discovery in hopes that it helps others using Steam Deck and Windows 11.

Feel free to close this issue and please take this as just a suggestion.

I have seen that in the "Getting Started" section of the wiki, there is a video on how to dual boot, but no steps to just install Windows 11 on the (as recommended) internal storage.
I have done a fork and have written the steps in a basic way, I don't know if you accept Pull Request or how can I push from a wiki that is not in the main repository.

Take a look at it if that's ok with you.
Link to the updated page: https://github.com/rcerrejon/Steamdeck-Ultimate-Windows11-Guide/wiki/1.0-Getting-Started#how-to-install-windows-11-in-your-internal-storage

The .ovl does not display the same as your screenshot in the guide. It only shows fps

Just another suggestion that was helpful for me.

By default R2 is left click and L2 is right click but I prefer the opposite. I was able to change this with the following:

Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Mouse > Additional mouse settings > Switch primary and secondary buttons (default is disabled and I set it to enabled).

I also confirmed that it worked with Steam Deck Tools's SteamController shortcuts and does not swap L2 and R2 when in game.

Accessing https://baldsealion.github.io/Steam-Deck-Ultimate-Windows-Guide/ leads to a 404 error?

As said Steam Deck Tools manual (https://steam-deck-tools.ayufan.dev/steam-controller#6-fullscreen-scaling-hotkey-steam--up-pad-press), it have shortcut as Steam+Dpad UP to Alt+Ctrl+U, can be used as hotkey for Magpie or Lossless scaling.

With this apps you can apply FSR for any windows mode game like SteamOS. I am sure it is worth to mention it.

Hi, in your guide I used CRU and imported the bin with custom resolution and refresh rate, refresh rate works fine (30hz gives slight flickering due to the screen type of deck), but the problem is with resolution, when I change to custom resolution to 720p in advanced display settings > all modes, I get black screen and this doesn't fix the problem with most games detecting screen native/max resolution EDID, and giving problems in exclusive fullscreen mode, because of aspect ratio/resolution not supported, things like black screen, or squashed image with very low resolution happens in many console ports, or japanese games/rpgs. In those games I need to use window or borderless, but performance takes a hit sometimes.

To fix this I need to change EDID to 16:9 720p, I noticed in your files you have "ciphray_deck_edid_remove.bat" and "Checkmate_AIO_WIP4_EDID.zip"

In your ultimate guide you don't mention how to replace EDID, could you please explain or add to the guide how to use those files and replace EDID to 720p, so that many games will stop having problems with the 16:10? I can alway revert the EDID to original for games that fully support 16:10, right?

Btw I'm still using windows 10, when I found your guide already had installed many games, but should work basically the same.

Thanks alot for your guide and your support.