Quoting: noxHm, I find that kind of scary. Microsoft pushing their "no vulkan allowed" storefront, and no opengl on mac.

"no vulkan allowed" storefront.

You mean Vulkan API apps are not allowed on the Microsoft store?
Really? Can you please point me to a source?

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Meanwhile all Lead-Rendering-Engine bigwigs on Twitter like:

"C'mon it's so straightforward to add an abstraction layer for rendering backends - it's the way to go, anyways."

:D

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I guess the latency strongly depends on the hardware configuration and encoding capabilities that are available and used.

For my Haswell notebook the lag is noticeable under Windows 10 and quite horrible on Linux.

This isn't a big issue for strategy games but FPS, racing games and platformers don't work well for me.

What's your experience?

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How does encoding the picture with very low latency work?
Does it require some hardware encoding support to work well?

Edit: Never mind it's listed in the Steam configuration.
Didn't use streaming so far.

For whatever reason the Android app cannot find my Linux Steam client...

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Does it feature some kind of story/career mode?

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: WorMzyI hope the updated user interface uses qt5, and not gtk3. That is, assuming they use a different toolkit to gtk2.

They use VGUI [External Link].

Are you sure?

That rather looks like the in-game UI framework delivered with the Source SDK and nothing like the Steam client.

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Quoting: EikeI've got no idea what you expect from a 64 bit Steam client. It's not like it would make anything faster or better. "Proper"? "Modern"? So what? There's still many games running on 32 bits, you'll need a 32 bit layer for a long time to go.

This is why selling stuff with buzzwords works so great, I guess. :)

32-bit processes can spawn 64-bit processes, or in other words - the 32-bit Steam client can launch 64-bit titles - so there is no limitation in that.

Not having native Wayland support is not something I consider an issue.
There are still lots of users on X and those applications run great via XWayland.

If the client feels sluggish or whatever than it's just because it has some design issues.
And certainly *not* because it's 32-bit or native X application.

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Quoting: GuestI really hope they will finally release a 64 bit Steam client including Wayland support.

What do we gain from that?

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Is there a similar project for Direct3D 12 --> Vulkan?

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Quoting: malahHuge ... I always forgot this useless dongle when I travel ...

Yep.

For me it would've helped quite a bit if they had included a slot for the dongle at the controller,
where you can put it when unplugged.

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