That's... a lot of changes. Given the history of Stable updates breaking random things on the Deck, I'm almost scared to install it. Maybe I'll just keep an eye on the SteamDeck subreddit for a day or two before pulling the trigger.

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Quoting: Moss49Hi, there, I've selected the hotfix on my deck, but Dead space refuses to launch what should I do to resolve this?

First thing I'd do is search your Deck's library to find Proton Hotfix, hit A to pull it up, and check if it gives you the option to update it. If it does, update and try to launch the game again. If not, read on.

Second thing I'd do is validate the game files through the config wheel menu and again try to launch it. Third, delete the shader cache and Proton compat data using zShaderCacheKiller. Not sure of the policy on external links here so just Google it. There are instructions on how to use it on the scripts github readme. After this step it will probably say you have to update the game. Do so and try to play again.

Last resort: uninstall the game entirely. Then before you install it again make sure you're forcing compatibility to the Proton Hotfix first.

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Quoting: sarmadSpeaking of Atari, is the VCS still in the market and is this also releasing on the VCS?

Wow, not only is it still around but the classic Black Walnut color with 1 modern gamepad and 1 classic stick controller is actually on sale for a pretty reasonable $299:

https://atari.com/products/atari-vcs-onyx-all-in [External Link]

I know they just shoved a low end PC into a nostalgic case but apparently you can plug in an external hard drive and install Windows/Linux on it. There's a separate "PC mode" bundle which actually has a custom Debian distro pre-installed on a USB thumbstick that it can boot into. Honestly I am still sitting here shocked that this thing even exists and I can actually buy it right now and find it on my doorstep in a week. I am very oddly tempted, if only to own a weird piece of gaming history that probably won't be around for very long. Hmmm!

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Quoting: hardpenguinMeanwhile I opted out from beta branch because not happy with the new BPM and recent breakages.

Also, this:

$ steam -oldbigpicture

Same reason I'm no longer using the beta or preview branches of the steam deck client. They constantly break everything. Hell, it's not much better on the stable branch either since Valve apparently doesn't believe in release candidates. So you might have a beta update for the deck client that works fine, but there's no guarantee that when they push the changes to stable it'll be the same. They always add extra stuff into the stable updates that haven't been publicly tested. Valve's update process is shockingly bad.

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Some of these updates, OS at least, they push to Stable are clearly different than the ones they push to the Beta channel. I was on the Beta 3.4 OS update and then updated to 3.4 Stable and it broke some things for me and fixed another issue I had with the keyboard crashing the Deck in Desktop.

I don't know why they would do that? If the build that's pushed to Stable isn't the last one that was being tested in Beta, keep pushing builds to Beta until you have a release candidate. And then push the final RC to Stable. They're introducing issues into Stable that shouldn't be there. No build that hasn't been thoroughly tested in the Beta should go out to the main public in Stable. This whole debacle with the frantic Christmas updates and bootlooping problem never would have happened if they had done this.

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