Quoting: LordDaveTheKindI rarely used it. Can it work as well as Sunshine does (i.e. with hardware encoding too)?

For a period it was really great.

For some time after the Deck was released, streaming was broken. As you played, audio would get distorted and then die completely.

Then the fix for that got released, and streaming was really good. Play with the performance of your desktop with the convenience of the Deck.

Then the OLED got released, and the update after that (which brought colour management in) made streaming super dark, so it was broken again.

And then this update has made it so streaming doesn't even really start.

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Quoting: WorMzyStill would prefer a move to Qt5/6. It'd be more inline with the Plasma desktop use for the Steam Deck. Hopefully they're not planning a move from Plasma to Gnome any time soon. :unsure:

Valve recommend that other developers use Qt in the "bullshit launchers are bullshit" section of their Deck documentation [External Link].

Our recommendation is to use standalone technologies like Qt for launchers instead of OS-dependent frameworks like .NET / WPF. For best results, skip separate launchers altogether and integrate their functionality into the game client UI instead, where controller support is likely better.

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Haven't checked (and I might not for a while because my desktop GPU is now weaker than the Deck's APU) but the thing I'm most interested in is whether streaming to the Deck is still far too dark unless you disable hardware decoding. That came in with the last big Deck update. Don't know if it's a Steam client bug or a SteamOS bug, though.

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Quoting: sonic2kkMy understanding was that a user should dump these from their Switch console, and that this is, at the very least, not illegal.

If someone has put a "technical measure" (no matter how flimsy) in place to prevent copying, the DMCA makes it a crime for Americans to circumvent that technical measure even if the making and using the copy would be otherwise legal - unless it's for one of the very short list of activities that are given a three-year exemption.

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Quoting: CatKillerPlatform icons are broken again, like they were in the last sale. All the titles in the list just have Windows icons even if the game's available for other platforms.

I have the opposite, if it has a Linux version it only shows the SteamOS icon lol.

Websites; gotta love 'em.

Actually, yeah, seeing the same thing in the app. Mobile website just shows windows, mobile app shows only one of Windows or Linux; neither manage to fit the price in.

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Platform icons are broken again, like they were in the last sale. All the titles in the list just have Windows icons even if the game's available for other platforms.

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Quoting: PyreticBut they weren't??? They got confused about what you meant and responded appropriately. Someone else has now clarified and the developer is considering changing the description. Nobody got antagonised here.

Of course they're antagonistic. After four separate people pointed out the issue with their choice of words, them acknowledging that the choice of words is problematic, and deciding to change it, they're still insisting that their choice was the correct one, and they've managed to throw in a rant about Linux being a niche platform, and a dig about someone's username. All of that was completely unnecessary: all they needed - and what someone experienced with community management would do - is just give a "thanks for testing our game, you guys are great!" and maybe some blurb about how great the game is and how they made it.

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Quoting: ShabbyXCome on CatKiller, be nice

I'm plenty nice.

Perhaps this developer should consider getting a community manager if they can't otherwise help themselves from leaping in to antagonise people that they'd quite like a favour from and/or to get money from.

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Quoting: mitridasYes, I am aware that the same word has different meanings in different contexts.

And yet you bravely leaped from "you should maybe pick a different word" to "AlL GaMe eNgInEs sHoUlD Be oPeN Source!!11One."

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Quoting: mitridasI don't get your point.

No, you really don't.

Do you mean that every game developer who releases on Linux should make their games open source?

Of course not. What a ridiculous thing to ask.

What you should do is avoid the use of the word "proprietary," since that has a specific (different to the one you're thinking of) meaning in an open source context. Just like other words in common usage have a different specific meaning in a scientific context, or a legal context. Unless you are specifically intending to convey "ha, ha, you can only play our game how we want, not how you want," of course, which is what that word says in the open source context.

Quoting: mitridasWe might reword it to "Custom engine", and move it to a different section of the description to make it clearer.

That would be a much better choice.

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