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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux
14 Aug 2023 at 1:05 pm UTC Likes: 3

Updated with note about the VKD3D-Proton MR.

Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck
11 Aug 2023 at 11:15 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about the original version? Is it still available?

By the way, I still dream of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars being re-released on Steam.
When launching you get the option to launch the new or the classic version.

Valheim has a rather large bug-fix release in testing
9 Aug 2023 at 5:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SoulprayerThe mouse capture issue on multi-monitor setup on Linux is still not fixed :(
Yeah that one is a bit frustrating. Since you have an AMD GPU, you could try Gamescope?

83 of the top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck
9 Aug 2023 at 10:19 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: scaine
Quoting: GuestWait, where is destiny 2. Shouldn't it be in the top 100?
Yeah, it's 25th overall for me right now, 23rd by daily players. I wonder if the list changes by time of day so much that even the top-25 can drop out briefly. Maybe when the US is asleep?
At the time I took the snapshot, Destiny 2 had a player drop-off. It was not in the top 100 at that time. You can see it on SteamDB. Doing the top 100 based on current players is certainly not foolproof. I will look at doing another way as well soon :)

NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux
9 Aug 2023 at 10:08 am UTC Likes: 1

NVIDIA initially put the wrong changelog up. This has been corrected now.

Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve
8 Aug 2023 at 10:14 pm UTC Likes: 12

Quoting: GroganHmmm... that doesn't bode well that there are quantities of "refurbished" Steam Decks already.

1) People not happy and returning them
2) Returns of defective units, repaired.
This is perfectly normal for quite literally any hardware. There’s really nothing to look deeper into.

Baldur's Gate 3 is now Steam Deck Verified
7 Aug 2023 at 4:38 pm UTC Likes: 1

There are a fair amount of little bugs, and in my fair amount of hours I did have one crash to the desktop but I am loving it overall.

Baldur's Gate 3 out now and works on Steam Deck and desktop Linux
4 Aug 2023 at 11:03 am UTC Likes: 2

Steam Deck video added to the article: https://youtu.be/KJqkto37uCM [External Link]

Baldur's Gate 3 out now and works on Steam Deck and desktop Linux
4 Aug 2023 at 10:39 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: poiuzSorry, but that's not "working same-day". There are just too much issues to workaround. Makes you wonder what went wrong since it was a long time in early access. But maybe it gets better with the actual release in september.

On macOS the situation is not much better: Seems the game page claims compatibility although it's simply not released, yet. Shouldn't there be some kind of validation for Steam releases?

Concerning the stutter: VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library doesn't actually fix these issues? I thought the intention was to emulate Windows' shader behaviour.
Well, you can set Proton Experimental and it loads, works and you can play. So, factually, it *is* working on release day. Yes there's issues, but there's lots of issues on Windows too, the Steam forum is full of bug reports.

As for the stutter, that could work but I haven't fully tested that and it's not properly available on Steam Deck until SteamOS 3.5 which no one should be actually using normally anyway.