I'd like to see it in a positive way: the devs cared about making it work on Steam Deck! That's progress, shows that awareness of devs and publishers is there!

Yet we have the issue that games are mainly made for and supported on Windows, so Proton will always have to catch up when new features are implemented. Which is the waiting game, sometimes we're lucky and it's implemented rather quickly after release, sometimes it takes ages... and maybe it'll never be implemented.

I hope at some point we'll see devs reaching out to Valve or the Wine project to get their game supported before official release. Seeing them optimizing for Steam Deck and testing it is amazing already though.

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I can confirm that Pistol Whip and Boombox work again. SteamVR 2.5 (stable), nVidia driver 550.78.
Gosh, I missed playing Pistol Whip!

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What Ehvis says.

What I've played with either an OG HTC Vive or a Valve Index recently (with nVidia GPU):

• Beat Saber (legacy branch, should be fixed now)
• Synth Riders with this neat song downloader [External Link]
• Pistol Whip (had to downgrade [External Link], but might be fixed now)
• Elite Dangerous Horizons (Odyssey works too with parts being theatre mode)
• No Man's Sky
• Hubris
• Wanderer (needs a save game transfer to Windows shorty for continuation at some points once)
• Cybrid
• Until You Fall
• After The Fall
• Dead Effect 2 VR
• Doom VFR
• Borderlands 2 VR
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
• Groove Gunner
• Megaton Rainfall
• OhShape
• Prey: Typhoon Hunter
• Propagation VR
• Ragnarock
• Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
• The Solus Project
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew
• Star Wars: Squadrons
• The Station VR
• Vacation Simulator
• The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
• Westworl Awakening
• Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot

Yep... a lot of stuff works! VR on Linux is fun!

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It's so good to see some updates on this!

• Added support for OpenXR 1.1.36.
• Fixed Beat Saber not being playable on Nvidia GPUs without using the legacy branch.

A fellow Linux VR gamer told me this might fix most nVidia related VR issues, e.g. for him Open Brush [External Link] and Banter [External Link] works now (both free). I'll have to test it with Pistol Whip and Boom Box. Hubris recently added support for SteamVR/OpenVR (so it worked for me before this update), but maybe works better with OpenXR. Time for some testing!

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Hehe, of course a valid combination, my initial thought was about another kind of Steam Machine first too though.
But who knows, maybe I'll be the meta word, including all platforms Steam runs on. We know Windows PC and Linux PC, haven't heard of Mac PC yet, but Steam PC... unifies them all!

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Another win for democracy!

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Quoting: EhvisI think I can count the number of devs that actually fixed something to get it running better (or at all) on proton on one hand.

Rockfish Games being one of them for Everspace 2

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Oh, I was wondering all the time why they don't enable it in the backend, like it's possible for the other games. but EA AntiCheat is not EAC (doh!).

Oh dear, back then EAC was often a show stopper, now I wish they'd use EAC instead...

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Soo... ChimeraOS or Bazzite?
Both? Oh dear ^^

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Enjoy Scorn! Though I had to wait for years, I'm glad I backed this great experience. It's really something unique.

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