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[Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck or Machine? - July 2026 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Lists of useful tools, software, mods, websites and other resources (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Thaurin@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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These are lists of some tools and software that are useful for Steam Deck and can enhance your experience with it, as well as all the websites and other such Steam Deck resources I know.

I made these lists for the wiki on Reddit's SteamDeck sub and I thought it was a pretty useful to keep around. I wanted to dump them here for everybody to preserve them and to maybe find a new home for this Steam Deck resource.

Let me know what you think.

List of tools and homebrew

Below is a list of tools and homebrew that can enhance your experience with the Steam Deck. Since the Steam Deck offers most things that a normal Linux desktop environment can, tools are included that can be found in the Discover store (including from non-default repositories) and have proven to be an especially good fit.

Emulation and non-steam games

BCML Installer for Steam Deck

BCML (a modding tool voor Breath of the Wild for WiiU) can be difficult to get running on Steam Deck, because it uses an immutable filesystem and the version of Python installed by default is higher than what BCML supports. This script helps people install it.
BoilR

Add non-steam games to your steam library.
Emudeck

This script automates downloading, installing and setting up a large list of different emulators.
EmulationStation DE

A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, which is installed by Emudeck and Retrodeck, but can also be used by itself.
Mod Organizer 2 Linux Installer

This project aims to make modding and playing Bethesda games on Linux as easy as possible. It does that by providing installers which automatically setup a working experience for the user.
Retrodeck

A flatpak application containing a large list of different emulators.
SGDBoop

A tool that automatically applies assets from SteamGridDB directly to your Steam library, removing the need to download and set them manually.
Steam ROM Manager

Steam ROM Manager is a super flexible tool for adding non-Steam games to steam in bulk and managing their artwork assets. It can be installed with Emudeck, but can also be used by itself.

File management

Deck Drive Manager

Copy Steam Games From Your PC to Your Steam Deck SD Card.
Disk Usage Analyzer

A tool for managing your used and free space.
Firelight

Filelight is an application to visualize the disk usage on your computer by showing folders using an easy-to-understand view of concentric rings. Filelight makes it simple to free up space!
gdu

If you prefer the command-line, gdu is a fast disk usage analyzer with console interface, written in Go.
Shortix

A script that creates human readable symlinks for Proton game prefixes. Reddit release post
Steam Deck Shader Cache Killer

Script to Purge The Steam Decks Shader Cache/ Compat Data. Reddit release post

File transfer and synchronization

Deck Screenshot Sync

A work-in-progress auto-uploader for screenshots made from the Deck onto your PC or phone. Reddit post by u/ Xinerki.
MEGASync

Easy automated syncing between your computers and your MEGA Cloud Drive.
OpenCloudSaves

Open Cloud Saves is an open source application for managing your saves games across Windows, MacOs, and Linux (including SteamOS).
Syncthing

Syncthing is a file synchronization tool like Dropbox, except that it can work with your own machines and without a server. This can be very useful for keeping non-Steam and emulator save games in sync or backed up.
Warpinator

Send and Receive Files across the Network

Launchers

Alfea

Alfae is an experimental project to launch GOG/Local/ItchIo/Epic/Bottles Games in an organised fashion. Also can add games to deck UI.
Bottles

Runs Windows software on Linux with Bottles.
Heroic Game Launcher

Heroic is an Open Source Games Launcher. Right now it supports launching games from the Epic Games Store using Legendary and GOG Games using our custom implementation with gogdl.
Lutris

Lutris is a video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.
NonSteamLaunchers

Installs the latest GE-Proton and several non-Steam launchers under one Proton prefix folder and adds them to your Steam library. Reddit release post for v2.7
Steam Tinker Launch

Steam Tinker Launch is a versatile Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client which allows for easy graphical configuration of game tools, such as GameScope, MangoHud, modding tools and a bunch more. It supports both games using Proton and native Linux games, and works on both X11 and Wayland.

Plugins and mods

Crankshaft

[This application does not seem to be maintained any longer.] Crankshaft is a Steam client plugin manager and framework that lets you install and create plugins to add more functionality to your Steam client.
Decky Plugin Loader

A plugin loader for the Steam Deck.
Steam Deck Repo Manager

A GUI tool to install boot videos on your Steam Deck built on top of the Steam Deck Repo website. Reddit release post

Remote access and game streaming

AnyDesk

AnyDesk allows you to connect to your Steam Deck desktop remotely, like TeamViewer.
Barrier

Share mouse and keyboard over the local network.
Chiaki4deck

Chiaki4deck is a fork of Chiaki, adding features for the Steam Deck. It is a free and Open Source Client for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Remote Play. It can be used to play in real time on a PlayStation as long as there is a network connection.
Deskreen

Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer. Streams your Steam Deck screen to a browser on another machine.
KDE Connect

Enables communication between all your devices.
Moonlight

Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device, whether you're in another room or miles away from your gaming rig.
NoMachine

Like AnyDesk, allows remote desktop connections to your Steam Deck. Disabling read-only on the filesystem is required to install, but otherwise works very well.
Remote Mouse

Use your phone as a keyboard and mouse, and copy/paste between devices (apps for iOS and for Android available.) Gained improved support for Linux and Steam Deck in December 2022.
Rustdesk

An open source TeamViewer alternative, remote desktop software. Works out of the box, no configuration required. Use the AppImage from the nightly build.
Steam Link

Connect your Steam Deck or other Steam devices with each other for remote streaming.
Sunshine

Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, offering low latency, cloud gaming server capabilities.
Unified Remote

Remote control app for your Steam Deck. Turn your smartphone into a universal remote control, control mouse, keyboard and more.

Other tools

Boot Video Randomizer

Replace the Deck startup video file with a file of the user's choice. Randomizer provides two features: individual random set and on-boot randomization. Reddit release post
CoreKeyboard

CoreKeyboard is an X11-based virtual keyboard. It has the advantage over Valve's built-in keyboard to offer access to special keys such as Ctrl, Alt and function keys.
Great on Deck browser extension for Chrome or Firefox

See what games are verified for the Steam Deck and which medal they have on ProtonDB in the Steam store.
Ludusavi

Backup tool for PC game saves. Here is the Reddit release post.
ProtonUp-Qt

Install and manage Wine- and Proton-based compatibility tools for Steam and Lutris with this graphical user interface.
Qbert

Qbert generates a root overlay where you can install whatever software you need without messing your filesystem. NOTICE: something is broken atm, Qbert is not creating a correct overlay so basically the software is not working as intended.
SC Controller

User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller, DS4 and similar controllers. Steam Deck support added in version 0.4.8.8.
Steam Deck SD Card Scanner

An application to help you keep track of the different games you have on your SD Cards. If you ever found yourself wondering if you already have a game installed on a different SD Card then this is for you. Reddit post by u/ddotthomas.
Steam Deck Utilities by CryoByte33

Scripts and utilities to enhance the Steam Deck experience, particularly performance.
Steam Shortcut Editor

Allows you to modify the shortcuts file quickly and set game name to be the appid, so you have access to community controls. Link to Reddit post
Vibrant Deck CLI

A simple command line utility to tweak the screen saturation of the Steam Deck.

List of Steam Deck-related websites

Here is a collection of websites that offer information, guides and news about the Steam Deck.

Official Valve sites

Official website

The official website for the Steam Deck by Valve.
Deck Verified Games From Your Library

List of games from your library that Valve has tested so far.
Valve's Steam Deck bug report forum, feature request forum and general discussion forum

The official Steam Deck forums on the Steam site.
Steam Devices page

On this Steam page, you can find a list of Valve hardware and their serial numbers. You can click on the Steam Deck in the list to view a list of its hardware components.

Linux and Steam Deck gaming sites

ProtonDB

Crowdsourced Linux and Steam Deck game compatibility reports.
GamingOnLinux

GamingOnLinux deals with games on Linux (which the Steam Deck runs) in general, but has consistently reported on Steam Deck-related news.
Linux Gaming Central

Linux Gaming Central is dedicated to giving you news on the Linux gaming front. The link above points to the "Steam Deck" tag on the site.
Boiling Steam

Boiling Steam is dedicated to covering the world of PC Linux Gaming since 2014. The site often reports on the Steam Deck, as the search results the link points to show.
Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?

A comprehensive and crowd-sourced list of games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton.

Steam Deck community sites

Steam Deck Community

An independent Steam Deck Forum.
Steam Deck Life

A Steam Deck blog for the latest news, tips and tricks and more.
Steam Deck HQ

A web site with game reviews with optimal configuration, tips and guides, and news.
ShareDeck

An unofficial site to find and share Steam Deck performance configurations.
overkill.wtf

overkill.wtf primarily focuses on the Steam Deck, with a hint of Switch, PC gaming and whatever else we find interesting at that moment--but mostly Steam Deck.
Great on Deck

Unofficial Steam Deck compatibility website. Verification, performance reviews and tweaks for Steam Deck. Emulation guides, Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect games and more.
CheckMyDeck

Check Steam Deck compatibility of your Steam library.
sdeck.wiki

A list of Steam Deck resources.
Steam Deck Guide

A guide covering Steam Deck, including the applications and tools that will make you better and more efficient with your Steam Deck device.
Steam Deck Repo

A website where you can upload and share community-made Steam Deck boot videos (plus in the future, other things like themes and an app to automatically apply them to the Steam Deck)!
Steam Deck Linux Wiki

This wiki aims to be a useful resource for those that want to explore the desktop side of the Steam Deck.
Steam Deck Guide

This guide contains all kinds of useful tips that were found online. Hopefully it will help you use your Steam Deck to the fullest.

List of Steam Deck-related subreddits and Lemmy communities

These other places covering the Steam Deck also exist on sites like Reddit and Lemmy:

r/SteamDeck
r/DeckSupport
r/steamdeck_linux
r/SteamDeckBootVids
r/SteamDeckEmulation
r/SteamDeckGames
r/SteamDeckModded
r/SteamDeckMods
r/SteamDeckTech
r/SteamDeckTinker
r/SteamDeckTricks
r/SteamDeckWins
r/SteamDeckYuzu
r/SteamOS
r/WindowsOnDeck
r/BestOfSteamDeck
r/linux_gaming

List of Steam Deck-related podcasts

If you enjoy listening to Steam Deck news in your car or elsewhere, these podcasts might be for you:

On Deck - by Nerdnest YouTube
The Steam Deck Podcast - by FlipScreen Games
Decked Up - by Mekel Kasanova YouTube
Fan the Deck - by Richard Alvarez YouTube

List of Steam Deck-related Discord servers

Get together and discuss the Steam Deck on these Discord servers:

Steam Deck Discord

The main Steam Deck Discord, not affiliated with Valve, Valve employees are known to lurk on the Discord.
Steam Deck Homebrew

Steam Deck Homebrew Discord server, with, among others, a channel for Decky support.

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Update: Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all. Valve won’t be sunsetting the battery yet. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Hey, guys. @ryper@lemmy.ca brought to my attention that Valve already addressed the situation about the batteries for the steam deck LCD.

For those who are out of the loop, I posted this news article earlier today: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/it-looks-like-ifixit-wont-be-getting-any-more-steam-deck-lcd-spare-parts/

Here's the most relevant bit from this article:

The Reddit story wasn’t necessarily false. Earlier today, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens confirmed to The Verge that it had indeed heard that Valve would no longer make replacement batteries or screens for the original Steam Deck LCD.

But by afternoon, Valve and iFixit had already managed to change that. “They have hooked us up with a supplier, we’re working on it,” Wiens now tells me. And if Valve does decide to sunset the part in the future, iFixit says it’ll be ready to take up the torch by using an aftermarket supplier instead. “I want people to know we are going to find a way to get batteries for these things,” says Wiens.

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It looks like iFixit won't be getting any more Steam Deck LCD spare parts (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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The Steam Machine calls itself steamdeck in my network (swg-empire.de)

submitted 15 hours ago by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Just got my 512 GB Machine today. Its hostname is steamdeck and the default Linux user is deck. I would have expected them to at least change the hostname in SteamOS. No wonder all the Deck ready games use a Steam Deck profile if not even Valve bothered to rename the thing.

Wonder if it also sets the steamdeck environment variable.

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Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be (gardinerbryant.com)

submitted 1 day ago by PerfectDark@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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What solution, if any, do you use for gaming in bed? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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My wife and I have our regular TV/movie watching time from around 9-11 every night.

Recently I’ve been working through some games on my Steam Deck (Pokemon GRAND Colosseum, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Control.) and have just really found that using a regular pillow to support my arms is just hot and often blocks the vents. Same issue if I use blankets, plus I feel like these don’t offer enough support.

All this to says — do you use a lap desk? If so, are you married to a particular type or brand?

I’m probably looking for more of a lap desk than a TV tray type thing.

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Remote Play with specific emulator (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago by user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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(Note: I am aware of moonlight/sunshine, but SteamOS integration is important to me so I'd like to try to fix this before switching to something else)

I am experimenting with a Bazzite box and Steam Deck. Steam Remote Play has worked decently enough and I've got it working with Steam games and games running through Heroic. I've also got a game running successfully using Wii U emulator Cemu. However, no such luck with Eden (or Citron) emulator. The game starts fine on the host and can be seen if a display is connected. But the client just shows a black screen with a spinner in the lower right indefinitely.

The emulators are running as AppImage, but so is Cemu, and that works fine. I haven't changed any emulator settings related to GPU (i.e. it's using Vulkan). Anyone have experience with this or other ideas for testing?

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Can I Hotswap A Steam Deck SSD Into the Steam Machine? (piefed.ca)

submitted 3 days ago by buffaloseven@piefed.ca to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Just a quick question that someone here may know: I have a Steam Machine coming and I'm looking to swap the SSD in my Steam Deck (2 TB) with the SSD in the Steam Machine (512 GB). As far as I know, the SM comes with a 2230 SSD so it'll fit in the Steam Deck, but I'm curious if the install is different enough that I should backup and re-image the 2 TB drive before I put it in the Steam Machine or if I can just swap the two drives.

I'm assuming I have to re-image each drive with a SteamOS USB installer, but if I could just hotswap them it'd make life easier. Just not sure how much device-specific code is part of the install.

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DLSS Updater 4.3.0 for Linux has "grown into a full Proton Upscalers panel" (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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The Linux DLSS panel has grown into a full Proton Upscalers panel — one place to set up DLSS, FSR 4 and XeSS launch options for your Proton/Wine games, whichever GPU you're on:

DLSS Ray Reconstruction & Frame Generation overrides (NVIDIA) — the panel now covers RR presets and an FG override alongside the existing SR presets, matching the Windows per-game DLSS dialog. New "Latest" and "Preset J" SR choices too. Works on any Proton, including Valve's
One-toggle DLL upgrades — flip a switch instead of memorising PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE / PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE / PROTON_XESS_UPGRADE. These use the built-in downloaders in GE-Proton, Proton-CachyOS and Proton-EM to keep upscaler DLLs current without touching game files, with optional on-screen indicators to confirm they're active
FSR 4 on RDNA3 or RDNA4 — the panel detects your GPU and picks the right FSR 4 path, recommending RDNA3 mode automatically on RX 7000 cards
Per-game validation — select a game and the panel shows which Proton build it actually runs under (read from Steam's own settings) and greys out toggles that build doesn't support, so you can't generate options that silently do nothing on Valve's Proton
Copy-paste anywhere — output is a standard ENV=... %command% line for Steam's launch options, and the same variables work in Heroic and Lutris environment settings

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The Steam Frame's "Great on Frame" Page Is Now Live (steamdeckhq.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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My steam machine arrived! (thelemmy.club)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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I got a place on the 512GB with Controller list, and got an email a few days after they started. I ordered it on Friday the 3rd and got it today on Thursday the 9th. The tracking codes were all over the place and gave different estimates depending which branch of each company I used. Steam claimed it was shipped when the courier said they hadn't got it so I was worried for a few days. But this morning Royal Mail (UK customer) sent me an email saying it would arrive today, while GLS said it would arrive tomorrow.

Safe to say I'm happy to have it now and be playing games!

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Deck: Does anyone have an idea or way of estimating how many Steam Deck are in use? (Speculation) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by thingsiplay@lemmy.ml to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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The title says it all, but I don't want to have an empty body. There are no official statement for recent Steam Decks sold, that are Steam account activated and in active use. I'm not really interested into how many are sold (although I suspect that most in the wild are also in use for gaming).

In example I've read in the past that the military of a certain country (don't want name it, so we avoid triggering political topics) purchased and used Steam Decks for a mobile platform as a general purpose computer, rather than Steam. Use cases like these should be in the minority, but interesting nonetheless.

Maybe the Steam Hardware survey or Linux only stats is a good way of estimating?

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JSAUX Unveils Three Steam Machine Faceplates (E-ink and Dot Matrix) Coming Later This Year (steamdeckhq.com)

submitted 6 days ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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There's a full size E-ink screen, smaller color E-ink screen, and a full size dot matrix screen (that unfortunately requires external power)

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Proton 11.0-1 Released To Advance Valve's Steam Play For The Best Linux Experience Yet (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Proton 11.0-1 enables support for another batch of Windows games that up to now had only worked when using the recent Steam Experimental builds. The games newly working with Proton 11.0-1 include Universe Generator: The Golden Sword, DCS World Steam Edition, Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, Dino Crisis 2, From Dust, Blaite, Don't Die Dateless, Dummy!, METAL GEAR SURVIVE, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Metal Fatigue, and SHOGUN: Total War.

Games now working with Proton for the first time in this release include Unknown Faces, Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, and Deadly Premonition.

Proton 11.0-1 also brings a number of different game fixes, improved rendering of the Rockstar Launcher popups, fixes many EA games being unplayable after a recent EA Desktop update, fixing the Steam Overlay that was not working for many EA games, improved support for the Kodi media player, and a wide variety of other fixes.

Proton 11.0-1 also updates to Xalia 0.4.9, FEX 2605 for ARM64EC builds, VKD3D 1.19 Git, DXVK 2.7 Git, DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1, Wine Mono 11.0, and VKD3D-Proton 20260410.

(...)

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Proton 11.0-1 (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago by woelkchen@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Steam is now allowing users to reserve a 2nd Steam Controller (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by Vengefu1Tuna@lemmy.zip to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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I received my Steam Controller a couple weeks ago. I just happened to check the Steam Controller page today and it let me place a second reservation. It looks like the hold on one reservation per account has been lifted.

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FEX 2607 Released (fex-emu.com)

submitted 1 week ago by woelkchen@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Also: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX/releases/tag/FEX-2607

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SteamOS 3.8.14 (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 week ago by steam_lover@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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SteamOS 3.8.22 Beta (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 week ago by steam_lover@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Has anyone here got their Steam Machine yet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Snickeboa@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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I have been checking the Steam Machine subreddit the last couple of days and seen that a handful on people over there has been getting theirs now.

So, Lemmings: have you gotten yours yet? And what’s your first impressions?

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Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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SteamOS 3.8.13 (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 week ago by steam_lover@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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SteamOS 3.8.21 Beta (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 week ago by steam_lover@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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New SteamOS Beta update has better ray-tracing performance and better VRAM management (steamdeckhq.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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I've been waiting for this update for months, this beta update includes an important update to Mesa that includes significant improvements to ray tracing performance. My understanding is that Unreal Engine 5 games especially should see improvements from this update.

It also includes VRAM management improvements, which will help on demanding games.

Overall this update will hopefully really help the deck with the games it struggles most with. I'm very interested in seeing what kind of benchmark improvements it brings.

Here's an older article on the ray tracing improvements that includes some fps benchmarks showing the improvements. Oblivion Remastered saw 24% increase in fps, with some other games getting as much as a 74% increase in fps. I don't expect to see gains that large in most games on the Deck, but it will certainly help.