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Debunk from dev Pierre-Loup Griffais ‪@plagman.bsky.social‬

"we've done pre-release Mesa Vulkan work on every AMD architecture since Vega thanks to them kindly providing hardware, so there's nothing meaningful to read into there."

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Something something steam link…

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I'm not the target for such device, I play on my PC and on the Deck when on the couch. But I wish the rumor is true, it will boost PC gaming as a whole

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

What would make me happy is a way smoother experience with game streaming. With moonlight/sunshine I've found it works incredibly well - when it does. I always ran into issues with resolution setting, windows lock screen, power on power off etc. I mean, I'm sure I could figure it out over time but I'm way to lazy, I don't have time to tinker with that. I just want it to work.

If I could sit on my couch and have a cool and quiet steam deck streaming off my PC in the other room, that would be sweet.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I'm not sure what would be the point. Isn't it "just" a PC with Steam OS running on it? Would it be to help people just default to SteamOS?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

aren't the other consoles just pcs with custom os?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Kinda, but not quite. The main difference, imo, is that consoles have several anti-tampering measures in place, often as exclusive hardware, to ensure owners don't jailbreak. The PC is, by design, open and "unsafe", without measures to stop owners from doing whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

When the first Steam Machines were announced years ago, I assumed they'd all be running the same hardware like consoles do, and I thought that was actually quite a good idea because it could give game devs a sort of "baseline" set of hardware to aim for, as opposed to the sort of "vaguely make it run on Windows" system we seem to have currently. So if the new ones are all more-or-less the same kit like the Steam Decks are, and they take off well enough, it could be handy in that way I guess.

Plus it'll presumably run SteamOS so more Linux exposure which I always appreciate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Optimization profiles for games to target the specific hardware. It would be for people that want a steam deck like device that isn’t portable. Which would probably sell more units than a steam deck now. If priced right I would put it in my living room. It just needs to have the QOL that comes with console for couch gaming.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From reddit:

is this trust worthy?

Extasis mentions this guy handledeck as the source

https://xcancel.com/HandleDeck/status/1886501899832021224#m

which links to this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgKzbHIWDK4

which just mentions this article https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.0-RADV-RDNA4-State

saying: "by reading this article carefully we can come up to the conclusion that..."

Seems all bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Or maybe they could do Half-Life 3 please.

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