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A round-up of recent Steam Deck news for you
28 Jun 2023 at 3:18 pm UTC
A fun aside (Steam Deck at around 3:25):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVekZRIWyg [External Link]
Steam Deck compatibility with Starfield to be discussed "later down the road"
27 Jun 2023 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: leo523Probably it's because FSR 2 can run on Xbox and get higher FPS.
The game has been confirmed will launch with a 30fps cap on console.
Diablo 4 on Steam Deck is quite magnificent (and desktop Linux too!)
5 Jun 2023 at 5:39 pm UTC Likes: 5
A thing I have noticed about Battle.net is that when you are prompted to log in on Steam Deck, it actually opens the on-screen keyboard automatically when you focus the boxes. And the user/pass boxes actually nudge up to be above the keyboard. This is significant, because as far as I know, this is something that an application has to initiate manually by using Steamworks, not some happy crossover of standards or something.

Sorry for the bad phone picture, but this is what I mean. Someone at Blizz had to make this happen on purpose.

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Get Battle.net, EA, Epic Games and more on Steam Deck the easy way
31 May 2023 at 10:18 am UTC Likes: 4
This works quite well, but it uses GE-proton-custom I believe to do the installs. It's easy enough to change afterwards though, just by changing the individual compatibility settings from within Steam.

One thing it does well that I wish more tutorials would show when installing non-Steam stuff, is it uses the STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH variable. Very useful for keeping things easy to manage.

I have seen so many tutorials from popular YouTubers that go one step worse even. They show people to add the installer to Steam, then running it, which creates a prefix, and then adding the exe for the launcher to Steam separately, which results in ANOTHER prefix being created. Instead of just, ya know, editing the exe location in the existing entry.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart hits Steam on July 26th as Sony continue their PC expansion
31 May 2023 at 7:24 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: StalePopcornMay Iron Galaxy have nothing to do with it. Amen
It's Nixxes
Using a Steam Deck to control a Ukrainian automatic turret, now I've seen it all
25 Apr 2023 at 5:49 pm UTC Likes: 24
Quoting: miroWhat the actual fuq?
Is this for real? You do know that this is designed to kill people, not in a cs-fashion but for real. And all with the currently f'ed up narrative and politics, you are cracking jokes with it.

I can not believe this, what a shame.
Are you suggesting we treat the Russian invading army of genocidal psychopaths with respect?
The Pale Beyond sold 10% of copies on Steam Deck
31 Mar 2023 at 12:38 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Beta VersionSteam Deck only or Linux overall?
They very clearly said specifically the Steam Deck.
They did, but do we have information yet that Steam is displaying that information to developers?
As mentioned in the video they can see the hardware used.
GE-Proton 7-53 is out now fixing up Star Citizen, Diablo IV and more
24 Mar 2023 at 1:56 pm UTC Likes: 4
Proton Experimental also now has the Diablo IV fixes, as tweeted by Pierre-Loup Griffais. Very intereting public confirmation of Valve supporting non-Steam titles.
Marvel's Midnight Suns gets an update to help Steam Deck
31 Jan 2023 at 8:46 am UTC Likes: 1
Awww, my YouTube video on how to work around and fix the cloud save bug was getting such good mileage. :P Oh well, at least I have taught a few newbies how to make symlinks, so not all lost.
The new Dead Space is sadly a great big mess on Steam Deck
28 Jan 2023 at 5:22 pm UTC Likes: 2
https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1619377996615528448 [External Link]

A Proton Hotfix update has just been pushed with a fix for the Dead Space map issue. It also addresses a minor performance issue where the game's usage of Variable-Rate Shading was being ignored.