Quoting: SalvatosI'm kind of in the same boat. I'm on Mint, but it's only offering me 340.107 and 390.48 so I'd rather stick to that. Didn't someone say that the newer drivers were only necessary for Vulkan games anyway, or something along those lines?

Once you're using Steamplay Proton or Wine/DXVK though, then even non Vulkan games are having their DirectX calls converted to Vulkan. As far as the display driver is concerned, games having API translation done are all Vulkan games. Running the later drivers ensures you have a more robust and bugfixed interface accepting the Vulkan calls.

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Quoting: g000hOkay, well GOOD NEWS. Off the bat, no tweaking, it worked okay on my Debian Buster, Ryzen 5, GTX 1080ti, Nvidia driver 390.87 system.

Have you tried updating your driver to check performance?

The quickstart guide that Valve linked to in their initial announcement for Steamplay, stated "Linux users with NVIDIA graphics cards should install the latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers; 396.54 or newer is REQUIRED"

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Quoting: elmapulso...
they ignored our list
https://spcr.netlify.com/needs-testing [External Link]
and they are going with steamdb list instead?

Seems like the majority of people submitting to that list didn't bother to read the prerequisites that Valve stipulated in the initial Steamplay announcement (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_3.7/PREREQS.md [External Link]). Lots of submissions from people running Nvidia with (steamplay) unsupported old drivers, or running AMD that are not using mandated PPA for required bleeding edge MESA and LLVM.

Valve should add a system check to not allow the steamplay option to be turned on, unless system requirements are met. Since Valve are the ones on the hook for supporting the games they add, you would think they would want to force people to abide by the system requirements. Otherwise they just get buried with invalid bug reports.

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This other article by the same site, took the opportunity to try to play spoiler to Valve's Steam Link app launch. The group says they've been after Valve for 2 years. Maybe this latest article was 'enough is enough' for Valve

https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/steam-announces-release-new-app-makes-easier-access-exploitative-content/ [External Link]

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Quoting: skyrrdSecond would be basic app support for the steam link (e. G. native netflix app)

I guess the latter will not happen so soon and who knows in what direction steam will evolve.

Steamlink has native app support, but not very much. I don't think there's a native Netflix app, but there is Kodi for Steamlink, which I have installed on mine. If Kodi has a Netflix plugin, then there you go.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/1/ [External Link]

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