for something we use every day it is shocking how little we know about steam
did you know that you can install games that have been de-listed from the store
share games with your family and friends and even play your PC games remotely as
if you had your own personal cloud gaming service well believe it or not
that is just the tip of the iceberg welcome to 10 steam features you didn't
know about first up is remote downloads
we've all been in this situation you're at Trent Judy's sixth wedding miles away
from your gaming PC and you realize oh crap I forgot to download that new game
even if I start it the second I get home I'll be in bed before it finishes whoa
that is a really skimpy wedding dress you probably
you probably already knew that you can buy games through the Steam app on your
phone but did you know that you can also use the app to tell your PC at home to
start downloading right away just open your library in the Steam app select the
game in question and as long as your PC is awake and signed into the same Steam
account you should see remote download at the bottom of the accordion menu
speaking of downloads did you know that you can download and play some games
that have been removed from Steam for one reason or another here's a cool
example before there was Half-Life 2 there was Half-Life 2D otherwise known
as codename Gordon which was a little side-scrolling puzzle slash action game
developed in Flash by a third party then published on Steam by Valve but if you
type it into the store you get nothing
that's because the developer hard-coded a web URL into the game that expired
when the original owner failed to renew it after which it turned into a sketchy
advertising website so valve removes the game from Steam well kind of with this
team client signed in open up either the Windows run dialog or a browser window
and just type in Steam colon slash install slash 92 hit enter and steam
should open up and start installing the game there's actually a handful of other
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
you're installing a game that's already on and another device on your network
just go to the steam menu click on settings and then downloads at the
bottom of the window you'll see some new options that allow transfers between
your own devices devices owned by friends or devices owned by anyone on
the same network this is not only faster if you have slow internet but if you
have a bandwidth cap on your connection it won't count against it truthfully
it's not that different from the old trick of manually copying the game
folder to another PC but it's way more user friendly while we still have the
download settings open by the way let's click on Steam Library folders if you've
used a steam deck then the storage manager window that pops up might look
familiar to you this shows you where on your computer steam has games installed
lets you uninstall things in bulk and lets you move your games between your
various drives but you might be surprised to learn that this also works
on external drives like this one ran out of space on your system Drive no problem
create a library on a USB drive or even an SD card and plug it in unlike in the
past where you had to scan the files steam should recognize all of the games
automatically allowing you to instantly play them right off the drive and while
you might think performance would be an issue valve has assured steam deck users
that they can expect similar performance off of the internal drive or the micro
SD card slot and this is the same idea with that said if you want your portable
library to run at top speed we would recommend a portable NVMe enclosure
hooked up to the fastest USB port you can muster we're gonna have a couple
good options links down below installing games at all is so 2015. how about just
streaming your games to devices where they're not installed or even to devices
where they can't be installed like your phone or your TV remote play Anywhere
was first introduced as in-home streaming back in 2014 and was heavily
promoted when valve launched the steam link and the steam controller which was
a killer Thin Client and game controller combo that allowed you to cast games
from the PC in your mom's basement to the TV in your mom's living room but
while the hardware products were ultimately discontinued steam link lives
on just in software form remote play Anywhere works pretty much the same as
it did before allowing you to enjoy the performance of your powerful gaming PC
while streaming the gameplay and the controls to any device with the steam
link app which is available for Android and iOS many Smart TVs and even for the
raspberry pi oh it's not in the script but obviously for Steam OS as well
Remote Play anywhere and steam link work best with both devices on the same wired
network but five gigahertz Wi-Fi is also fine in many cases and with a good
enough connection on both sides you can even use it over the Internet though you
might want to stick with less latency sensitive titles if you're gaming on the
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on ltdstore.com now this next one got a decent amount of attention when it first
came out so it's probably less of a thing you didn't know and more of a
thing you didn't remember but steam family sharing lets you share your game
library with up to five other accounts on up to 10 total devices just go to
steam settings family and look for Family Library sharing to set it up
Family Sharing is particularly great for sharing single player games because why
should you and your so both pay 70 for a game that you can't even play together
now obviously there are some limits patients not every game is shareable
only one person can play a game at a time and you'll need to log into your
Steam account on any device that you intend to share with at some point so
you can't just spontaneously share libraries with that random cool dude you
met in that epic Counter-Strike match on that note by the way if your match was
particularly epic I'm sure you don't want compression artifacts messing up
your screenshots thankfully steam lets you brag artifact free by going to steam
settings in-game just check the save and
uncompressed copy option and make sure that you specify a screenshot folder
that's all there is to it uncompressed versions of any screenshot you take will
show up in the folder you've specified and while we're in here let's do a bonus
tip right next to that screenshot setting you can enable a simple FPS
counter that works in any game just pick which corner you want it to appear in
foreign you're playing a good server can be hard
to find and when you find one you like you probably want to remember it most
online games have their own way to favorite a server within the game but
did you know that steam has its own server browser built in go to view
servers and you'll get a filterable list of active servers for all the games in
your library along with tabs to view your server history favorite servers and
more all without actually launching a game though you will have to do that
eventually and when you do here's a fun new way you've almost certainly heard of
Big Picture Mode the steam UI scheme that's made for large screen devices but
have you heard of small mode it's hiding in plain sight in the view menu right
above Big Picture Mode small mode turns the normal steam interface into a
compact simple Library viewer it's perfect for sticking on your second
screen along with your friends list and your chats and if you click on anything
that needs a bigger window it'll bring you right back to the standard interface
which it calls large mode in the view menu which is not to be confused with
Big Picture Mode on that note valve has
spent over 10 years working to make keyboard and mouse games playable from
the coach with a controller and all of their progress has become a key feature
of the steam deck where steam input lets you completely customize the input for
any game regardless of what the game itself actually allows you to do and
guess what steam input can be enabled on the desktop steam clients as well just
right click on a game in your library and open up properties where you can
enable Steam input once that's done you can right click on the game again then
click manage controller config to customize the steam input settings for
the game this also works with non-steam games that you've added to steam though
it's still a little buggy particularly if you try to use Community defined
configs for your non-steam game we're going to have a link down below with
some more info what's Wild is that steam is so full of hidden gems like this that
we could easily do a follow-up video with 10 new tips so help us out by
posting your favorite steam feature in the comments down below I know I'm going
to get a lot of use out of remote download now that I know the one feature
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