Hit 'next' (ignore the button at the bottom that says 'let me pick form a list of available drivers on my computer. (I keep the 'include subfolders' option checkbox checked).ġ2. Go back to the window device manager opened ('it's called update drivers-unknown device' )and paste the path to the folder containing your driver into the field next to the 'Browse' Button. There is also an option on the right-click menu that says 'copy as path' which worked for me.ġ1. To get the folders path, right click it and look under properties or change your folder settings (3 bars in upper right corner of file explorer and select the 'display full path in bar' option an copy from there). Navigate to the unzipped folder that contains your driver and copy its path to your clipboard. In a separate window, find where you downloaded the drivers and extract them so they aren't zips anymore.ġ0. select 'Browse my computer for drivers'ĩ. select each one in order and right-click them and select 'update driver'Ĩ. expand that to find a bunch of 'unknown devices'ħ. scroll down until you find the one called 'other devices'Ħ. A window should open with a long list of devices are nested under 'deck'ĥ. at the top of the start menu, there is a field that says 'type here to search'ģ. click 'Start' (windows icon on left side of task bar at the bottom of the desktop)Ģ. Here are detailed steps on how to do deal with the Windows Device manager and get folder paths if you don't know how to do that (probably too much detail for many people):ġ. There may be some setting that I can change in Windows to fix this, but I don't know what it is. inf file and it the menu will show an 'install' option.

The instructions say that you can right-click the. Why the official instructions didn't work for me The deck internal speakers, headphone jack, and bluetooth headphone are all working. When you're successful, you'll find 5 new audio devices under the audio group. I started at the bottom of the list and worked up and it found them faster.įor bluetooth, go to the bluetooth group and expand it and then do the same thing for the device that has 'Realtek' in the name (actually it now says 'generic' and when you install the driver it changes to 'Realtek'. Do the same thing for the 2nd audio driver. And try to update the driver for each of them. Then navigate to or paste the full path of the 1st audio driver (probably in your downloads folder) and hit enter. Go through each of the 'unknown devices' in there and right click and select install driver. Go into windows device manager and then find the 'other devices' group. You can also copy the unzipped path to clipboard and paste it into the device manager's path. The device manager can't navigate to the driver folder if it's zipped. But I got them working (instructions below). But audio and Bluetooth did not install as instructed. I followed the instructions to install some of the drivers and it worked fine. I installed Windows 11 on my Steam Deck today and downloaded the drivers from the official link that Steam provided:

Install windows on steam deck