 Yeah Animating on the steam deck. I know why why would you well? I don't know. It's a PC So why not you put that on there? Maybe you want to take a break from gaming? It's like I'm gonna animate bouncing ball or something. Why not? But it's actually pretty cool That was surprised at how well some of the scenes were actually running on that smaller machine So today I want to show you what I did is Windows 10 running an SD card I want to go through the steps and how to install it and what to do and then I can fire up Maya fire a blender and do a bunch of stuff and have some other ideas that will be in future clips So stay tuned. So let's go through it Okay, so we are back in the review closet here and that is the setup here. So you got your steam deck I have this plugged in because of the battery. I'll show you that later So if you just boot up your steam deck in a normal way, it will go into steam OS You have your game library It's gonna be the regular primary function of this computer gaming console type of thing now When it comes to installing Windows on the steam deck, I followed Tom's hardware guide I'm not gonna go through all this because I found it there. So I'm gonna link a description to that. Please follow this I actually did this one. So booty for a micro SD card, but you're gonna follow the directions on this site You have to do something with this one and this one and it's super easy Especially at the SD card and you can see the directions are extremely simple The only problem that you have once you're done with this is that the Wi-Fi is actually not working So how do you go around the fact that Wi-Fi is not working? So there's a site I'll put again a link in the description where you download this graphics card driver There's a Wi-Fi driver. There's a Bluetooth drive. There's a bunch of stuff there download that install it And then it totally works then you can go online You can check your Wi-Fi connections and everything is there the way you want to go and boot up from the SD card Is you hold your left volume button down and then start the machine and now we have this So now you can choose between what's in there and the SD card here that I added So with this one of these you go down a you confirm Going to fast forward a little bit. It takes a little bit But I don't want you to wait because apparently it has to update the system So I am definitely going to fast forward through that while we're doing this I'll fast forward through the rest but I still have to show you something I have a smaller hub in here that has a USB-C connection Bring it into frame and see the you have HDMI out. You got your USB So I have my tablet connected to that and USB-C here for the power Because I don't want to leave this without power You have other ones like from anchor whatever you choose any right you got USB-C here USB-A You have HDMI and USB-C here. So that will totally work There's another one that I had that has additional SD cards in here You can have an old on here technically from my iPad You could technically plug this in here But it's going to cover the power button which is not the best idea And then I had this one that had USB-C to ethernet that You have some of these where all of this is on the side and ethernet comes out here There are so many options in terms of hubs And the reason why I got this one is because I wanted to connect to the web So what happens is that when you install Windows 10 is that none of the the important drivers are working So when you go through the install process of Windows 10 It will ask you to check online and you can't like there was Wi-Fi was not working And I thought maybe you can bypass it with ethernet Well, you couldn't so you just you can't set up anything because you have no Wi-Fi You can't go online. So let me password into this And there you go. Here's the environment. So I can fire up Maya. I have a bunch of stuff here It's early days. I think it around with little things not dramatically I just want to see does Maya work and does Blender work like what else does work I had to rejig some things because of course after the Windows update Some of the things didn't work because I have that extra display out And then Maya was stuck on the other display So I had to go back and do some things but we are back here Let's just open a generic bouncing ball scene that I have somewhere. There you go And as you can see, you know, it's all very snappy fast all my hockey is here work Don't need this here. And there you go. You got your bouncing ball You can check it out. Of course, you know, this should be light. I mean, this is my The the test of is this going to work? So let's do orthographic side on here And you go back And there you go. You got your bouncing ball Nice and fluid. I mean, if there's one thing you can do for sure, it's going to be bouncing balls And you can have, you know, everything is working here in terms of my hotkeys Things on and off here. There you go on off There's some error. Not sure yet what that is. Well, I think that's pretty cool. It's very exciting Now let's close this Don't want to save and this is a brand new installation obviously on a brand new system And guess what? It crashes Every time I close 2020 it crashes. I'm very confused. Whatever. Let's close this here So let's launch blender. I'm not going to pretend to know how to use it But I wanted to see well if you open up an existing scene and you have this here It totally works It's also really cute And you can also have a scene. There's a more complicated one and you have this here Now if you play this with all the lighting and everything, it's not exactly the fastest But it's cool to see that if you are a blender user You're going to have a lot more to tinker with and to try out and to make it faster But I wanted to boot it up and see how it works and it does it works But yeah, I mean other than that everything functions as you would expect You got everything here your drives work you can go online if you want There you go. We'll plug and watch this full screen Then you get a double dose of JD lecture and tag preview Let's start at Maya and actually switch the setup and I can show you more So if you have the proper USB-C hub in a way where you have multiple connections there You can connect that via HDMI to another monitor Now when I do play the scene just on this theme deck It's a lot faster than if you have a second monitor running That starts to tax the graphics card that's built in there, but it's still okay. It's not too bad It runs fairly smoothly. I thought it's going to be a lot worse Now depending on the monitor, you have to adjust the resolution Maybe you have a widescreen one like this one where again You have to kind of tinker what works best for you But technically you can have any type of output there and it's going to be a 1080p If you want to but you can scale up depending on what monitor you have So it does support higher resolution, which is pretty cool So it's going to be really interesting how it evolves as new drivers will be accessible Other drivers are missing right now. That's a bit of a problem You have to listen to Bluetooth headphones And even if you have it connected to another monitor It's still like the touchscreen still works When you have this out, you can still have a mouse on it You can have keyboards a bunch of stuff One thing I want to test as well is how well it actually renders And how long it takes But I think that's going to be a clip for another time I'm just going to testing out the kind of the rendering power of it And why not? The fan is pretty loud though But all in all, I was really surprised It has performed a lot better than I thought Now one thing I still want to do is map these extra buttons here Right, you got these guys You got shoulder buttons, all of that And you got all of this going on And right now I didn't do anything Something that is actually working is this button here This is a right click And I checked online so far I haven't seen people that have been successful with it But also haven't gone too far into researching that But I would love to just take away the tablet and keyboard Obviously not all the time But it would be kind of neat to see if you can configure All these buttons and you have a trackpad as well And have that function in terms of clicks, right clicks You know, keyboard, stroke, stuff like that So you could technically just animate using these buttons Again, why would you? Why not? I don't want to see how this works So maybe you can do a little bounce and ball test Just using these buttons, I'm interested if that works Now if you have a Steam Deck and you have figured out How to map Windows functions out like that To these extra buttons, let me know Very curious And there's a bunch of stuff I still want to test Especially one specific thing I'm not going to mention yet Because I'm not quite sure if it's going to work But if it does, I think it will be really cool Because it's like a portable Wi-Fi It's just smaller than a laptop And I think for some usage that I have It will be really cool So stay tuned for that And maybe subscribe if you don't want to miss that Upcoming clip And that's kind of that for me Maybe it was a silly clip, but why not? I thought it was kind of cool Taking a little break from gaming And testing out Windows stuff on the Steam Deck As always, thanks for watching till the very end I appreciate your patience And that's it for me I'll see you in my next upload