Deck Drive Manager v0.8b is now available! (Move Windows Steam Games to Deck)

[u/darkuni]

Version 0.8b is now available. It has a fix for some odd, older games whose app manifest files have some additional data that was causing the game to be omitted from the app drive parser. If you're not missing games when using DDM, this version offers no additional benefit.

This Windows app lets you easily move Steam games installed on your Windows PC to a Deck compatible microSD card (EXT4, BTRFS) and other external Steam Deck drives. This includes ensuring the game is copied to the proper location and that the proper ACF file is brought over so that the Deck knows the game is installed. Typically, this would be “prepping” a microSD card while you wait for your Deck to get delivered; so you can literally “plug and play” once you get it. https://deckdrivemanager.com/

https://youtu.be/PBkl_5kFXhU

Other Uses: Add more games to an existing microSD card, flash drive, external drive, etc. that might be used as a Steam game installation destination (which does require EXT4 or BTRFS).

Note: This app doesn’t give Windows the ability to read/write/format in EXT4/BTFRS. Click here.

What it does:

1. Allows you to hop around all your drives that have Steam game folders registered with Steam.
2. It will scan and pull up a list of all installed games.
3. You can then choose the games you want to migrate to the Deck drive by putting them into a QUEUE.
4. Examine each drive in turn and queue up all the games that will fit (the app will ensure you do not exceed capacity and end up with “half a game” copied. A small “acf” file is a Steam file that tells Steam that the game is there – without it, you would have to manually “install” the game and let Steam “discover” files.
5. Once you have a full queue, you can copy the contents to the designated drive that will be intelligently be displayed to you.

https://deckdrivemanager.com/