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Latest Comments by Pyretic
SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'
15 Mar 2025 at 11:56 am UTC Likes: 11

Wow, Plasma 6, controller wake-up, AND supporting other handhelds? No wonder this release took a while, Valve are cooking.

Split Fiction from Hazelight Studios and EA gets Steam Deck Verified and no EA app needed
1 Mar 2025 at 10:50 pm UTC

I'm just glad that it's Steam Deck Verified. However, I'm going to wait on this, because as much as I love Hazelight games, Verified games tend to be hit-or-miss performance-wise, especially when the game in question is published by a large company.

The California Fire Relief Bundle is live on itch.io
28 Feb 2025 at 7:59 pm UTC Likes: 2

Is it not concerning to anyone else how many of these we've had in recent years?

Valve's in-development Deadlock gets a huge map overhaul
28 Feb 2025 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

is anyone playing on Deck? How's it run?
Not well. Linux performance in general is quite poor, compared to Windows. Although, it has been a while, so maybe I'll check it out again.

Team Fortress 2 Classic is coming to Steam thanks to Valve adding TF2 to the Source SDK
26 Feb 2025 at 9:39 am UTC

Glad to see more and more TF2 mods crawl out of the woodworks.

Mesa 25.0 open source graphics drivers released with Vulkan 1.4 and initial AMD RDNA4 support
21 Feb 2025 at 2:15 pm UTC Likes: 2

I want to see how much NVK has improved since the last minor release.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Steam Deck Verified
21 Feb 2025 at 2:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

This game is a hot mess, whether or not you're on Steam Deck. And that's without the bugs and crashing.

Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX2 enables Wayland by default
21 Feb 2025 at 2:05 pm UTC

Glad to hear that, considering that they disabled it last year (I think?) due to issues with Wayland. Seems like Wayland's matured enough or the GUI library they're using has finally fixed up their problems.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 expands online play for fighting games with RPCN v1.4
19 Feb 2025 at 2:51 pm UTC Likes: 2

Glad to see that they're still working on networking! Can't wait to have every game working OOTB.