Picked it too. Another highlight - Jotun.

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So in essence controller support is tied to Steam so far. At least good one.

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A question to experts. How do non Steam games work with controllers on the Deck? Is controller support untied from Steam? Same question for all controls, like pads, touchscreen and so on.

And do game developers need to provide controller support that takes in account Deck hardware, or it's detected as generic controller of some sort or some other way?

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Quoting: MayeulCThat was unexpected. PowerVR until now has been the single worst GPU vendor I can think of. Worse OSS support than nvidia...

Not that surprising. Mesa reached the point where vendors making new drivers can actually save money by not reinventing the wheel. NIR is really the key component for it from what I understand. They mostly focus on NIR to GPU specific machine code compiler, and Mesa does the heavy lifting of SPIR-V to NIR compiler part.

Why it's easier to work with NIR was explained here well:
https://www.jlekstrand.net/jason/blog/2022/01/in-defense-of-nir/ [External Link]

See also this interesting thread with comments from Mesa developers:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2022-January/225652.html [External Link]

I.e. it's not like Imagination suddenly decided they like FOSS, it's just pragmatically actually beneficial for them now that even their bean counters could be persuaded. That said, I didn't know that point of Mesa value has been reached already. This shows that it has.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Bad reply on GOG's side, I think they had better not reply at all than throwing the silly 'Install Windows' response.

Instead of the Steam Deck, I think GOG should support Linux on the desktop to begin with.

Yeah, supporting Deck officially isn't a trivial project like some might think. I.e. like making sure games work with the controller, making controller work without Steam and so on. I have no idea if there is a way to do it now even and how.

But proposing to install Windows isn't a solution to any of that, so such kind of answer is ridiculous.

I agree, GOG should focus on improving desktop Linux support, before trying to support Deck if they decide to.

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I think Feral are out of porting business, so lack of support is not surprising. What are they doing these days?

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Quoting: CatKillerNo, they won't.

If they have only dumb PR people - they won't.

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Sounds like a dumb response of some clueless PR person. They'll revise their answer soon, becasue it was a pretty bad PR :)

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lol that trailer is bizarre enough to be funny :grin:

The first one didn't support Linux

I see Linux is listed as supported for the first game on itch.io: https://sos.itch.io/mcpixel [External Link]

And it's on sale there now.

UPDATE: From the listing, it looks like it's using Adobe Air, which might a problem and reason Steam doesn't list it.

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Quoting: pete910Particular reason why ?

Can't say specifially about Feral, but some older Linux games are OpenGL only, and perform worse than their Windows versions going through DX → Vulkan path.

Not sure if this testing takes performance into account.

This should be better for modern native Linux games that are supposed to all use Vulkan these days.

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