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Valve announce language-specific user review scores for Steam games
18 Aug 2025 at 8:02 pm UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: VigilNo option to "include all languages, exclude off-topic"?
I guess that's still the default (first picture upper left)?
Default is "Exclude reviews that are off-topic and from other languages".

Valve announce language-specific user review scores for Steam games
18 Aug 2025 at 6:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

In the settings, I see:

* Exclude reviews that are off-topic and from other languages
* Include reviews from all Steam purchases
No option to "include all languages, exclude off-topic"?

Webcam-based 6DoF head & eye tracking app LookPilot released on Steam
12 Aug 2025 at 6:57 pm UTC

Requires SystemD, so this is a non-starter. A shame. I almost got my TrackIR working. OpenTrack detects it and the test shape does move with my head, but not in any coherent manner at all :(

Why some games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck have broken videos and what you can do
12 Aug 2025 at 5:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

In those cases, go for something like Proton-GE, that includes most of the missing codecs.
But that's the thing—in those cases you don't know that you're missing out.

Why some games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck have broken videos and what you can do
11 Aug 2025 at 6:00 pm UTC Likes: 2

To actually get those videos downloaded with the game, you need to ensure you have the Shader Pre-Caching system enabled, as it contains game shaders to improve performance and the re-encoded videos too.
Does that mean that if shader pre-caching is disabled, such videos won't be re-encoded on the fly, so enabling it is the only way to see them?

I am worried about games that have such videos but which are used for something like a cut scene, where nothing plays, not even the test pattern. When that happens, you've no idea that there even was a cut scene supposed to play, so you're missing out.

Steam update for Desktop brings DLC fixes while Steam Deck gets startup and BIOS update fixes
29 Apr 2025 at 1:11 pm UTC

What's the current most annoying issue you want to see solved on Steam?
Game recording, or rather playback/editing, only working on the home partition.

Steam Controller 2 is apparently a thing and being 'tooled for a mass production' plus a new VR controller
20 Nov 2024 at 12:48 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: williamjcmHonestly, if Valve does make a Steam Controller 2 or similar, I hope they'll bring back the dual-stage triggers from the original. I really loved those, as I used the click at the end to enable gyro aiming.

Meanwhile, the Steam Deck's triggers don't have that, and it saddens me.
Oh, that's sad to know. It is handy to use for boost in some racing games.

GOG Autumn Sale now live with the re-release of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
25 Sep 2024 at 5:46 pm UTC

Quoting: hardpenguinHot take: GOG wouldn't be worth it for us Linux gamers if it wasn't for Heroic and the projects it relies on (like gogdl and comet).
Don't forget Lutris!

Check out the SDHQ Podcast Episode 9 - featuring GamingOnLinux
17 Sep 2024 at 9:49 am UTC

I thought this was going to be another Youtube video that the uploaders call a podcast, but this one actually has a podcast!