Quoting: GuestWould Valve even do deals with publishers to only launch on Steam and lock those games to Steam indefinitely? To somehow lock games to the Deck?

No they don’t do that.

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Quoting: buonoIt's always a relief when it powers up for the first time.

UEFI can be slow enough to initialize to make you think you have made an expensive mistake:huh:

Looks great! will be better when the rx7900 arrives :grin: :envious emoji:

Sadly, no 7900 for me. OverclockersUK oversold on it and didn't actually have my order in stock - they did this to quite a few people. I will never shop with them again.

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Quoting: gbudny

Quoting: TheSHEEEPIt's not that I couldn't imagine some dev that is in love with the Deck for some reason creating a game specifically made for the Deck's somewhat unique input system.
Or that Valve would fund such a thing.
Might be fun, but if that ever happens, it'll be a gigantic rarity and the dev will get a lot of flak if they don't also enable it on normal PC platforms.

I want to see bundles with games for:

- Windows/Linux/Mac
- Windows/Mac
- Windows/Linux
- Linux/Mac
etc.

Valve should stop require rights to publishing a Windows version if a company want to sell only a Linux version.

There’s been a game on Steam before that only had a Linux build. It’s not a hard requirement set by Valve. The point is: why? Exclusives are bad.

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Quoting: Beamboom

their article touches on an important bit: games taking better advantage of the Steam Deck uniqueness directly

I'm not an evangelist for exclusives but This is a MASSIVE argument for, though. Not only in regards to screen Resolution and gamepad support, but even more importantly the chipsets and processing power.

When software is tailor made for one specific hardware, it enables the developers to write a lot more effective code. This is why the consoles can perform as good as they do. Just look at the PlayStation and the incredibly smooth and visually stunning experiences they can deliver there year after year on hardware that's nothing compared to a modern pc. The difference is staggering and a very strong demonstration of how exclusive code CAN perform.
And who doesn't want the most out of the hardware they have purchased?

Again, it's easy to argue against exclusivity, but there's also weighty arguments FOR.

There's been plenty of arguments time and time again on how portable code not meant for a single platform, has actually been a big net benefit to a game. I've covered plenty of them here. Add to that the long history of PC games having settings to tweak for lower or higher powered machines - I don't think the argument has much merit of locking to a single platform for any kind of performance benefit that you suggest. Optimization doesn't mean it needs to be exclusive. Optimization at the lower end can benefit the higher end too, and generally it does.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: AsciiWolfHalo: The Master Chief Collection EAC support when?

Isn't there a Proton made by Valve that was specifically for EAC games? Just called "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime".

It's not "a Proton", it's a runtime to hook in with older EAC. Games need to be updated to have EAC enabled for Linux but for some games there's other problems it seems.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Liam DaweHope everyone had a nice Christmas. GOL is still mostly on holidays right now so things will still be quiet until the new year :)

So he says, then posts like half a dozen articles. You just can't stay away, eh?

👀👀

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Hope everyone had a nice Christmas. GOL is still mostly on holidays right now so things will still be quiet until the new year :)

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Quoting: CAVRThat logo in the back... Nope!

If it was a small and sweet logo sure but a big JSAUX in black on it. I agree, it looks ugly like that.

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Another quick update went out, article updated.

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It’s now at 3.4.2, notes at the bottom.

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