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Steam Deck gets a big upgrade with SteamOS 3.7 and you can now install it on other AMD handhelds
25 May 2025 at 10:00 pm UTC

What I would like to know it's if Valve are working on something to make SteamOS egpu compatible?

Every source I found are telling the same thing: you need Windows to get egpu support. Is there a major technical roadblock that prevents SteamOS from supporting that feature?

Because, the Legion Go S, with SteamOS, is supposed to support that...

The 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller is a top premium-feeling controller
22 May 2025 at 12:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

I got two Ultimate 2C wireless, some months ago. They are pretty solid. LTT did a review of these, at that time. It seems the input lag (latency) from the 2.4ghz is the lowest you can get, compared to all other controllers. It beats wired controllers. Even in Bluetooth mode, they are among the best.

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1583017-why-is-everyone-buying-this-controller/ [External Link]

AMD announce the Radeon RX 9060 XT and a big FSR 4 'Redstone' upgrade
21 May 2025 at 12:09 pm UTC

Games are requiring more and more VRAM, not less.
Because of 4k textures? Raytracing?
Looking forward to the first benchmarks. I can't believe it won't be a huge upgrade over my RX6600.

Edit: Ok sorry... Didn't got my 2nd coffee! 50$, between both model. Not 150$, like I wrongly calculated. Muuuch better. Yeah. The 8gb model just got less interresting.

AMD announce the Radeon RX 9060 XT and a big FSR 4 'Redstone' upgrade
21 May 2025 at 11:35 am UTC Likes: 1

Just a question... 8gb vram... If I play exclusively in 1080p, is it going to be enough?

Seriously, I have absolutely no interrest in 4k gaming.

Edit: 150$USD difference between the 16gb and 8gb versions... I seriously consider the 8gb model. Oups! 50$!

It should still be much more powerfull than my RX6600 which is still really capable and yep, the 8gb version should have been called the RX 9060.

Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions
16 May 2025 at 12:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

@Mountain_Man

This is a common complaint, but as far as I know, it has never been conclusively proven. It's mostly just anecdotal with people seeing bad performance and blaming Denuvo because "This other game without Denuvo works just fine!" which is hardly definitive.

While this is still anecdotal, I heard people complain specifically about performance gains from using versions without denuvo on specific games (be that pirated copies which were able to remove denuvo, or official patches that removed drm altogether). Though, it may also depend on specific game and how it handles data loading from disk?


I know the BS Denuvo is spreading, but the latest example that comes to my mind is Jedi Survivor. It was just a terrible stutter fest, totally unplayable, even on high end hardware, before they removed Denuvo.

It's the third game I personnally witness where there is a major performance/experience boost, when Denuvo is removed. They always hide this behind "other updates", but I've not seen such day an night difference, in other update contexts.

1+1=2

Edit: Wrote Jedi Fallen Order... Wrong game.

Nubs! Arena is a chaotic multiplayer brawler by ex-Awesomenauts devs, free for the first 24 hours
15 May 2025 at 2:29 pm UTC

Proton 10 beta? Problems with previous versions?

Just launched it with the default proton (9.0.4?). Didn't witness anything wrong, but I didn't do an extensive test. Anything we should be aware of?

Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions
15 May 2025 at 2:12 pm UTC Likes: 17

Going directly on my "Wait until Denuvo is removed list".

Anyway, it almost always add bugs and/or performance issues.

EA and Codemasters no longer making WRC (World Rally Championship) or any other rally games
30 Apr 2025 at 11:04 pm UTC Likes: 2

I pity the devs that get hired by these AAA studios, fully aware that they will get sacrificed on the "Quick Buck Altar".

Steam update for Desktop brings DLC fixes while Steam Deck gets startup and BIOS update fixes
30 Apr 2025 at 1:02 pm UTC

That's what I discovered playing with it. Thing is, in this particular game, it's unusable... It turns on FSR only in Windowed mode and the resolution is nowhere near where it should.

Thanks for the quick answer!

Steam update for Desktop brings DLC fixes while Steam Deck gets startup and BIOS update fixes
30 Apr 2025 at 12:44 pm UTC

I was about to start Shadow of Mordor, on my Steam Deck and went to activate SteamOS FSR, in the side panel menu... Gone. No more FSR option. NIS gone too. Is it a bug or was it intentionnaly removed?