They've been working on cutscenes for a while. They've implemented enough so that games no longer crash when they're trying to play something that they can't (that's what the test-screen in-game videos are about) and they're working on getting the video to appear instead. I heard a rumour that they were doing that by re-encoding every video on their end into a more sensible format, and then swapping it in as needed; I haven't investigated whether that's actually true, though.

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Quoting: subBut not communicating that openly will cause major damage to the project.

If they're sensible (which they normally are), and they're intending to be transparent (which they've given every indication they are), they'll have both SteamOS 3 and the anti-cheat (and any other) improvements squared away and released for public testing well in advance of the hardware release.

Release early, release often.

Gabe Newell should probably try to avoid implying that the hardware is only for boys, though.

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the game frequently turning vertical synchronization on and off between frames

That's insane.

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Quoting: subWhen it comes to compatibility, that Kotaku article has this interesting bit:

The parenthetical part was Kotaku editorialising.

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The allegations are that he was the kind of person to threaten people if he didn't get what he wanted, with what he wanted being, historically, allegedly, sex with co-workers and potential co-workers.

Some time after the fact, he's decided that he wants the personal details of the people that already think that he's harassed them so that he can harass them some more. And if he doesn't get what he wants, he's (publicly) threatening to get everyone put in prison for two years.

It doesn't seem that he's painting himself in the most positive light here.

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Quoting: Liam DaweOpen to suggestions.

When it's actually out, and especially if the segment takes off, having "handheld" as an option along with "desktop," "laptop," and "sofa/console PC" would make sense, along with renaming that last option; a PC plugged into the TV isn't the same as a PC that's in your hands.

Actually, wasn't there someone here that said they were already using one of the existing handheld PCs for gaming? Not as their main, as I recall, so it wouldn't have shown in the stats before now.

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Quoting: HoriAlso really nice to see an FPS Limiter built-in.

They'll probably put something in the game's Properties UI for it, but otherwise it's just gamescope -r 30 -- %command%

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In a year's time I can see there being more than the one person using SteamOS as their main Linux gaming distro.

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Quoting: Nanobang(Once I do that I'm gonna write a how-to-use Github for people like me.) ;)

Don't forget to put your Github guide on Github so that people can help you improve it.

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Quoting: denyasisIt's a Shame Valve isn't more specific on the VPU and GPU, unless I missed something on the website. Then we'd have a way to compare possible performance.

The particular combination doesn't exist yet; it's new. The CPU is Zen 2 with four cores, which is... fine. There's a whole bunch of similar CPUs in gaming machines all over the world. The GPU is RDNA 2, AMD's latest architecture, which is very performant, but it's only 8 compute units; that's similar to the numbers used in previous generation APUs, but way fewer cores than you'd get in a dedicated GPU. That combination, only much bigger and with way more power and cooling available, is used in the PS5 and the current Xbox. The RAM is brand-new LP-DDR5 with 88 GB/s bandwidth, which is pretty impressive and should help performance a lot. The whole thing has a power limit of 15 W.

The combination of older stuff and unreleased stuff, and the particular configuration, and the power limit, means that you can't rig up something that's the same. There are videos where people have made things as close as they can, but it's very much pinch-of-salt territory.

The tech specs are here [External Link], and before it officially became the Soc in the Steam Deck it was codenamed Van Gogh.

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