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for something we use every day it is shocking how little we know about steam

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did you know that you can install games that have been de-listed from the store

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share games with your family and friends and even play your PC games remotely as

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if you had your own personal cloud gaming service well believe it or not

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that is just the tip of the iceberg welcome to 10 steam features you didn't

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know about first up is remote downloads

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we've all been in this situation you're at Trent Judy's sixth wedding miles away

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from your gaming PC and you realize oh crap I forgot to download that new game

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even if I start it the second I get home I'll be in bed before it finishes whoa

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that is a really skimpy wedding dress you probably

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you probably already knew that you can buy games through the Steam app on your

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phone but did you know that you can also use the app to tell your PC at home to

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start downloading right away just open your library in the Steam app select the

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game in question and as long as your PC is awake and signed into the same Steam

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account you should see remote download at the bottom of the accordion menu

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speaking of downloads did you know that you can download and play some games

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that have been removed from Steam for one reason or another here's a cool

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example before there was Half-Life 2 there was Half-Life 2D otherwise known

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as codename Gordon which was a little side-scrolling puzzle slash action game

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developed in Flash by a third party then published on Steam by Valve but if you

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type it into the store you get nothing

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that's because the developer hard-coded a web URL into the game that expired

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when the original owner failed to renew it after which it turned into a sketchy

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advertising website so valve removes the game from Steam well kind of with this

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team client signed in open up either the Windows run dialog or a browser window

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and just type in Steam colon slash install slash 92 hit enter and steam

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should open up and start installing the game there's actually a handful of other

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games in similar situations some of which are still playable we're going to

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things to install did you know that steam can save you time and bandwidth if

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you're installing a game that's already on and another device on your network

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just go to the steam menu click on settings and then downloads at the

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bottom of the window you'll see some new options that allow transfers between

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your own devices devices owned by friends or devices owned by anyone on

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the same network this is not only faster if you have slow internet but if you

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have a bandwidth cap on your connection it won't count against it truthfully

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it's not that different from the old trick of manually copying the game

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folder to another PC but it's way more user friendly while we still have the

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download settings open by the way let's click on Steam Library folders if you've

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used a steam deck then the storage manager window that pops up might look

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familiar to you this shows you where on your computer steam has games installed

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lets you uninstall things in bulk and lets you move your games between your

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various drives but you might be surprised to learn that this also works

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on external drives like this one ran out of space on your system Drive no problem

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create a library on a USB drive or even an SD card and plug it in unlike in the

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past where you had to scan the files steam should recognize all of the games

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automatically allowing you to instantly play them right off the drive and while

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you might think performance would be an issue valve has assured steam deck users

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that they can expect similar performance off of the internal drive or the micro

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SD card slot and this is the same idea with that said if you want your portable

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library to run at top speed we would recommend a portable NVMe enclosure

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hooked up to the fastest USB port you can muster we're gonna have a couple

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good options links down below installing games at all is so 2015. how about just

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streaming your games to devices where they're not installed or even to devices

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where they can't be installed like your phone or your TV remote play Anywhere

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was first introduced as in-home streaming back in 2014 and was heavily

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promoted when valve launched the steam link and the steam controller which was

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a killer Thin Client and game controller combo that allowed you to cast games

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from the PC in your mom's basement to the TV in your mom's living room but

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while the hardware products were ultimately discontinued steam link lives

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on just in software form remote play Anywhere works pretty much the same as

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it did before allowing you to enjoy the performance of your powerful gaming PC

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while streaming the gameplay and the controls to any device with the steam

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link app which is available for Android and iOS many Smart TVs and even for the

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raspberry pi oh it's not in the script but obviously for Steam OS as well

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Remote Play anywhere and steam link work best with both devices on the same wired

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network but five gigahertz Wi-Fi is also fine in many cases and with a good

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enough connection on both sides you can even use it over the Internet though you

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might want to stick with less latency sensitive titles if you're gaming on the

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beach in your stylish LTT swim trunks available in black or water block blue

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on ltdstore.com now this next one got a decent amount of attention when it first

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came out so it's probably less of a thing you didn't know and more of a

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thing you didn't remember but steam family sharing lets you share your game

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library with up to five other accounts on up to 10 total devices just go to

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steam settings family and look for Family Library sharing to set it up

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Family Sharing is particularly great for sharing single player games because why

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should you and your so both pay 70 for a game that you can't even play together

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now obviously there are some limits patients not every game is shareable

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only one person can play a game at a time and you'll need to log into your

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Steam account on any device that you intend to share with at some point so

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you can't just spontaneously share libraries with that random cool dude you

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met in that epic Counter-Strike match on that note by the way if your match was

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particularly epic I'm sure you don't want compression artifacts messing up

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your screenshots thankfully steam lets you brag artifact free by going to steam

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settings in-game just check the save and

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uncompressed copy option and make sure that you specify a screenshot folder

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that's all there is to it uncompressed versions of any screenshot you take will

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show up in the folder you've specified and while we're in here let's do a bonus

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tip right next to that screenshot setting you can enable a simple FPS

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counter that works in any game just pick which corner you want it to appear in

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foreign you're playing a good server can be hard

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to find and when you find one you like you probably want to remember it most

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online games have their own way to favorite a server within the game but

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did you know that steam has its own server browser built in go to view

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servers and you'll get a filterable list of active servers for all the games in

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your library along with tabs to view your server history favorite servers and

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more all without actually launching a game though you will have to do that

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eventually and when you do here's a fun new way you've almost certainly heard of

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Big Picture Mode the steam UI scheme that's made for large screen devices but

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have you heard of small mode it's hiding in plain sight in the view menu right

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above Big Picture Mode small mode turns the normal steam interface into a

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compact simple Library viewer it's perfect for sticking on your second

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screen along with your friends list and your chats and if you click on anything

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that needs a bigger window it'll bring you right back to the standard interface

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which it calls large mode in the view menu which is not to be confused with

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Big Picture Mode on that note valve has

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spent over 10 years working to make keyboard and mouse games playable from

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the coach with a controller and all of their progress has become a key feature

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of the steam deck where steam input lets you completely customize the input for

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any game regardless of what the game itself actually allows you to do and

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guess what steam input can be enabled on the desktop steam clients as well just

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right click on a game in your library and open up properties where you can

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enable Steam input once that's done you can right click on the game again then

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click manage controller config to customize the steam input settings for

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the game this also works with non-steam games that you've added to steam though

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it's still a little buggy particularly if you try to use Community defined

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configs for your non-steam game we're going to have a link down below with

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some more info what's Wild is that steam is so full of hidden gems like this that

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we could easily do a follow-up video with 10 new tips so help us out by

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posting your favorite steam feature in the comments down below I know I'm going

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to get a lot of use out of remote download now that I know the one feature

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you could kind of think of it as the great granddaddy of the steam deck