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Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It is important to us, and we’ve tried to be really clear, we are not doing the yearly cadence. We’re not going to do a bump every year. There’s no reason to do that. And, honestly, from our perspective, that’s kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that’s only incrementally better. So we really do want to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before we ship the real second generation of Steam Deck. But it is something that we’re excited about and we’re working on.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Presumably this will mean a high-performance ARM CPU (comparable to the Apple M series), along with the dynamic recompilation technology Steam have been experimenting with. (It’s unlikely that Intel or AMD will deliver the generational leap they’re talking about.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Dynamic recompilation technology?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's "FEX", Valve have apparently been testing it with Proton.

The Asahi Linux team have their own packaging/tooling around it, but theirs is slower at runtime because they have to run the games inside a VM as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Their stack is so brutal. It's incredible how they overcame it all.

ARM instruction set, wrong page size, GPU without documentation for which they reverse engineered a Vulkan and OpenGL driver.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

They've done some amazing work.

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