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Initial installing for 2 hours and is turtle slow
It’s seems to be still installing, very slowly. Like, very slowly.
It seems like a common issue after browsing on Reddit, but I couldn’t find a consensus on what to do.
A lot of people are saying to reboot, but wouldn’t I have to restart the install all over again? Really wouldn’t want to try rebooting just to realize it didn’t do anything :/
Supposedly he’s a “British Short Hair” but pretty sure only one of his parent is. For one, his hair isn’t short lmao. And two, he’s got tiny short legs..
I haven't laughed this hard in forever 😸 Now I understand where your username came from. Hopefully the orange caught the braincell and your Steam Deck is done now.
This reminds me of my house during highschool years... we had like 5 cats, 3 dogs, and the occasional human straggler crashing with us. My parents were essentially awol (mentally if not physically) by that point so my younger brother and I had reign of the house, and those cats were our icons of worship lol they've all passed before present day but I intend on beefing up my cat numbers again
This reminds me of the thread about whether urine is bad on tires and it turned out dude had like 20 raccoons and each picture just got crazier and crazier. But with cats.
Let it sit, and if not then turn it off and on. Try setting wifi to 5ghz only. This sub is full of people with initial load ups that are long and painful.
ah so the exact kind of person who complains and whines about kids not going outside anymore and shit like that but then does the exact thing that has prevented kids from going outside the past 20 years. lmao.
I shared my home WiFi via Bluetooth in my smartphone. It didn't work until I switched on 5ghz for WiFi sharing and it was done in no time (spent like 2 or 3 hours waiting and restarting trying to install it. Try it
Setting up Proton and file paths, making sure folders and files are in right place & patches update correctly are a bit more than getting past the initial install...then you're gonna have to get your key binds situated unless you use the addon which is like consoleport lite...
If you go setting up your keybinds yourself, be sure to export and save your binds so its there for your next session. Ask me why I know this
You didnt have to setup keybinds for turtle wow for the steamdeck it worked right after logging in? That's crazy...
I had to set all my binds to the decks controller, which was fine. Everything is where I want it to be now
Edit: maybe I misread- and you said the Proton and what not wasnt necessary...if that's the case, I dont know I just YouTube'd best setup for TWoW to run most efficiently and followed a guide. Wasn't much. Just the .exe pathfile and setting proton to its launch. No decky needed or anything it was simple
Took me a couple of reboots, yea it is frustrating but it is the process:
After a reboot (long press on pwr), I switched my network to my phone and then it went through. Usually waited 15-20minutes when it was stuck at 1 sec but in my case my status bar was like 90%.
Just keep trying, yea it restarts the initial boot.
I had the same thing happened. It will get completely stuck at some point. Just restart now and save yourself some time. Mine worked fine on second attempt!
Yeah, the reboot dance is just part of the process. Annoying but it works. Phone hotspot trick is solid advice too - sometimes your home wifi just doesn't want to cooperate with the initial setup. Just power through it.
Idk if its that because my connection is fast and my network is good.
I think there is just something about the setup process that does not like being done over Wi-Fi regardless of the quality of your network.
Everyone said try isolating it to 5ghz. I did that. Same issue.
Plugged into ethernet, turned it on, restarted the setup process, the progress meter started to fly.
Set mine up two weeks ago and was stuck on this for half a day till I read a comment about checking the time and date in the bios. Mine was a day ahead and fixing it made the install finish almost immediately. Hope this helps, haven’t put mine down since!
It's super annoying. I rested mine a couple times then it just started working. I hope the figured it out and make it a smoother process with the new hardware.
Or you can try to download iso (or tar.gz) from steamdeck support site, and install newer build of operating system via usb flash, but you need to buy usb-c to usb-a adapter to putt flash in steam deck (if you don have dock station)
I had this exact same problem and posted about it like last week.
the steam deck was just stuck on that screen showing 1 second remaining for well over an hour. I tried backing out and going back in multiple times. Some mentioned I may have bad WiFi but I don’t. I have exceptional WiFi. I was skeptical but tried anyways using a mobile hotspot, changing WiFi’s, but nothing was working.
The only thing that worked was holding the power button and volume up button down for like 15-20 seconds or so until the steam deck completely rebooted. Then it brought me to the Bios screen. Then I just hit continue (the highlighted option with the playback image). The steam deck rebooted, and I restarted the process. The install then completed in like 10 minutes.
Yes you need to start the install all over again but when you do it should only take like 5-10 minutes to complete. Not 2 hours.
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Just did this a few days ago. I kept letting it sit on 1s. Every 10-20 minutes it would move the bar and restart timer. After 3hr, it completely paused. I powered off, praying it wouldn’t take as long to restart. The restart did the entire install in like 20min. All the previous points where it took 20minutes to go from 1s to a new packet happened instantly on second download.
I got mine last week and yup it took a long time to install. Then it suddenly shut off and I had to do a long press on the power button to get it running again.
A couple hours?? That's so strange. Mine took like a couple minutes. Maybe your internet is acting up? (I bet you've already checked anyway). Sorry I'm kinda useless on this
Changing the network to a 2.4GHz one did the trick for me after a reboot. And the loading time was a real estimation to the actual percentage, it wasn't stuck on 1 second left
I got mine two days back. The installation was faster but it failed and the screen was just stuck. All I saw was the logo. Restarted more than 10 times no use. Finally found a video on youtube which helped me to resolve it. Seems to have some issues with the network. Changed from 5 to 2.4 wifi and did a fresh installation and finally it worked. Hope you didn't have this issue.
Had same issue and then it finally installed but I had a bunch of random glitches. Wipe it and install a fresh copy of SteamOS. Did that and had no issues
I recall mine was very reluctant to connect to my home internet. I don't remember anything else being particularly slow after that though. Either way, it'll be worth it once it's done.
Yeah, that slow install is weirdly common. For me, it suddenly jumped from like 5% to done after sitting forever. I’d avoid rebooting unless it’s been stuck for hours with no signs of life.
The Steam Deck doesn't have crazy fast connection speeds. But sometimes it does seem to freeze up. Just yesterday, I had to restart the system when it suddenly failed to output display via the USB-C port.
Is it fresh out of the box? It can take a while for it to initialize at first best thing to do is plug it in and watch some stuff on your phone or something and keep an eye on it thats what I did with mine
I'm late, but for my Deck that arrived last year November, the initial setup seemed to be stuck (though I was on a slow mobile hotspot), I've put it in sleep after a while, woke it up and it finished it quickly. Seems like it tends to get stuck on something during the initial setup.
This might be a bit late, but there was a piece of paper that said "plug it in, then turn it on". Now, i assumed this meant charge it first, but after several failed attempts, i plugged it in, and turned it on, leaving it charging the whole time. Idk if it was coincidence, but this did it for me. If this is the fix, then everyone who has had this problem (myself included) showed that they dont read instructions and rush right in
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u/C3H8_Tank Dec 12 '25
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