Quoting: subThis recent news by a very influential German games news mag again
falsely writes that Valve promised that ALL games will be supported on the Deck.

https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/5-gruende-pro-steam-deck,3377491.html [External Link]

This is not helpful.
Plus the tendentious point (among 5, why you should probably get the deck),
that you can wipe Linux and put Windows on the device.

I remember Gamestar saying that Valve had explicitly said to them that they're going to have every game working.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: Purple Library GuyProton actually worked better on Windows than the native Windows version on Windows, due to Vulkan not triggering certain NVidia driver malfunctions.

I still don't understand any of this :huh:... Is this a meme I am not aware of? An internal joke?

There's no Proton for Windows? There's no Wine for Windows? You can't run Steam Play on Windows at all?

I think it was meant to mean X is working better with Proton on Linux than natively on Windows.

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Quoting: mylkait is more surprising, that just hitman is on the list. 2+3 are basically the same game and but i wouldnt even play hitman 1. i would play it within hitman 2 with the new mechanics

Hitman is natively on Linux:
https://www.feralinteractive.com/de/games/hitman/ [External Link]

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That's an interesting SteamDB page BTW...

Over 20.000 Linux games on Steam now. I remember well when I wrote an article about number 1000.

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Quoting: anewsonI'm replaying Primordia in honour of they work they've been doing, such a fantastic game and I'm really not much of a point and click gamer; Primordia might be the only one I've finished

Ah, I did not yet play Primordia, but I played Strangeland from the same people. Might be worth your time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369520/Strangeland/ [External Link]

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Quoting: anewsonI'm replaying Primordia in honour of they work they've been doing, such a fantastic game and I'm really not much of a point and click gamer; Primordia might be the only one I've finished

The developers of Primordia (Wormwood) made Linux versions, and as that worked out, they were allowed to port the games of WadjetEye, their publisher, as well.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoMy big concern about this are the WMV and MP4 videos used in a lot of videos.

For example, I just confirmed that the transcoding issue of Marcus intro video from the Borderlands 3 wasn't fixed yet:
The original mp4 file has eight audio tracks, meanwhile the transcoded version only has english audio and that is unacceptable.

It seems Valve don't give a shit about this specific issue..

Has it been reported on GitHub?

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoNobody will buy this for just 100 or 200 supported games.

Yeah, the Nintendo Switch only had 10 games [External Link] available for it at launch, and we all remember how no one bought that thing!

…oh wait.

Well, the difference would be "You can play all of these ten thousands of games - oops, you can't" vs. "You can play ten games - yes, you can".

And Zelda.

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I wonder (and hope) if those who cared for Linux the last years have sort of a harvest now with Steam Deck.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySay, talking of VR . . . does anyone happen to know how much of a difference it would be likely to make if you were using VR and had in effect just one eye?

THE main thing about VR is not 3D, but that you can turn your head and see what's behind. You're in it, not in front of it. So I think it will work well with one eye.

BTW, I've read that it makes also a gameplay difference for this game (and probably others alike): You don't just see enemies as a dot on some virtual device most of the time, but can turn around to actually see where they are!

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