Previously the hall effect joysticks were only available for the LCD deck

Steam Deck plugin for controlling additional power settings. New in this version:

• Online repository of setting profiles
• Settings variants for every game #82
• New save file and override file format
• Steam Deck OLED compatibility tweaks
• UI fixes (hopefully somewhat future proof)
• Bugfixes
• Removed some legacy code

It should be available on the main Decky store soon™ (it's already on the testing store). I lurk here too much to ask for a favour, but if you submit a testing report you can speed up getting this version onto the main store.

Decky fan control plugin for Steam Deck. The new version fixes SteamOS 3.5 support and has some technical changes for the nerds. It should be available on the Decky store soon™

This is the best coverage of the new Deck that I've seen yet.

Upgraded:

• 7.4" OLED HDR screen with a 90hz refresh rate and 600 nits brightness(with 1000 nits peak brightness), (old screen 7" LCD with 60hz refresh and 400 nits brightness). Touchscreen accuracy and responsiveness is reportedly improved.

• Longer battery life. Improvements to software and hardware are supposed to increase the battery life by 30-50%. New battery is 50wh vs original 40. Original decks will see some of this improvement thanks to software/bios updates, but not as much as the new Decks. The new Deck charges faster as well, charge from 20 to 80% battery in 45 min.

• 6E wifi module for improved wifi speed.

• Dedicated bluetooth module, allowing better audio quality over bluetooth and the option to wake the steam deck from a bluetooth controller. Will also support more controllers at once for multiplayer.

• Faster RAM, 6400 MT/s vs 5500 MT/s on original.

• More repairable. The screws are now torx, and all thread into metal screw holes. Should prevent stripped screws that were the most common issues with SSD replacements.

• New carrying case, for the 1TB model, there's an insert case inside the full size case. The insert can be pulled out and used as a slim carrying case when you don't need full protection.

• Weighs 5% less.

Prices:

$649 - 1TB OLED

$529 - 512GB OLED

$399 - 256GB LCD

For a limited time, Valve will sell a special edition 1TB OLED with a translucent shell for $679, only in the US and Canada. Expected to sell out quickly.

Note: I'm updating this as I get more information, so the written out info will change as I learn more.

> Probably the easiest way to run it is with Vinegar, a Wine wrapper for Roblox. You can just install it from Flathub (or Discover on Steam Deck in Desktop Mode), make a configuration file in terminal to set it to Vulkan and then you're good to go after that:

mkdir -p ~/.var/app/io.github.vinegarhq.Vinegar/config/vinegar/ && { echo "[player]"; echo "dxvk = false"; echo "renderer = \"Vulkan\""; } >> ~/.var/app/io.github.vinegarhq.Vinegar/config/vinegar/config.toml

I know there's a launcher called Grapejuice that's very popular for running the game as well, but I don't know if there are any additional steps needed to get it to work.

EA anticheat is a kernel level anticheat, which are generally bad for consumers due to them giving malware new targets to get full control of an infected system. Genshin Impact's kernel anticheat is famously targeted by ransomware as an easier way to gain control of user's PCs for example. They also don't work on Linux, which is an obvious problem for Steam Deck users.

For those who don't know, Luxtorpeda is a compatibility tool that can take the place of proton for supported games. Proton works by letting windows games run on Linux, but Luxtorpeda instead works by downloading replacement linux engines for the games and running them through that instead.

For example, the game Morrowind has an excellent engine replacement called openMW that works natively on Linux. You can download Morrowind on steam, set the compatibility tool to be Luxtorpeda, and when you first launch the game it will download and install openMW. After that it will run the game through openMW with all the benefits that brings.

It's especially nice on platforms like steam deck because it can make it easy to get these alternative engines setup without having to do it manually.

Luxtorpeda can be downloaded directly, but the easiest way to install it is through tools like ProtonUp-Qt that let you manage and install different proton versions.

Here's a list of supported games

edit: I accidentally linked the list of supported games for the in-development version, which is much shorter than the full list for the stable version. It's fixed now, sorry for any confusion.

> The documentation for Gamescope has now been updated to note it supports a "subset of Reshade effects/shaders" and so this provides an easy way to layer "shader effects (ie. CRT shader, film grain, debugging HDR with histograms, etc) on top of whatever is being displayed in Gamescope without having to hook into the underlying process".

To be clear, this functionality isn't available in SteamOS yet but hopefully it will be coming soon.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4903492

> A new Steam Deck Client update was pushed out today that brings in some new fixes, Indonesian language support, and more Desktop mode fixes.

The Linux kernel has been updated for some new hardware that still includes the AMD Van Gogh APU, which is currently only used in the Steam Deck. Popular speculation is that Valve will release an updated Steam Deck, one that still uses the same APU (so same performance), but had other changes to the hardware. Possibly different screen, larger battery, etc.

Possible code name for the hardware is Galileo.

If you want more/better info, I'd recommend reading the linked article.

The true number of playable games is of course much higher, but this is still an impressive milestone.

For comparison: the Nintendo Switch has roughly 4500 games available for it, the PS5 has about 500 games (+ 3500 PS4 games), and the Xbox Series X/S have 400 (+ 3000 Xbox One games).

RetroDECK - 0.7.1b - Released!

News

We also have our official Lemmy community over at: [email protected]

Information:

• Steam Deck users update RetroDECK from Discover in Desktop Mode.
• Don't forget to reapply the latest controller layout: Go into the Templates tab and reapply the new profile ending with 0.7.1b (there is no need to reinstall the entire layout from the Configurator).

Bugfixes & other changes:

• Fixed an issue to make sure the RD controller layout file at update with each RD update.
• Fixed an issue with PPSSPP that made L and R incorrectly bound.
• Fixed an issue in the Configurator that prevented the Yuzu preset for swapping A/B X/Y from working.
• Fixed an notification issues on the latest SteamOS Beta releases.
• Fixed an rsync permissions issue in the RetroDECK Framework.
• Updated Yuzu presets to handle new config syntax in the RetroDECK Framework.
• Changed auto-update to notification only, until permissions error can be worked out.
• Added some new pixelart icons by ItzSelenux (pixelitos-icon-theme)

Updates

• All Emulators and ES-DE have been updated

Steam Deck - Global Controller Layout:

We have done some changes based on community feedback

Layout Changes:

• Select is now a hotkey trigger while pressing it down, L4 and R4 are still triggers as well.
• The RetroArch combo of Select + Start = Quit now works on many SA-Emulators.
• Open Menu is removed from Select.
• R5 = A button (this allows for great Wii controls on the right touchpad and pressing down the R5 for A).
• L5 = B button.

Global hotkey changes:

• Open Menu is on Y.
• Increase Emulation Speed is on Dpad-UP.
• Decrease Emulation Speed is on Dpad-Down.
• Fullscreen OFF command is removed (as emulators have migrated to toggle).

Known issues

• The built in auto-updater is not working (we are working on it).
• Some emulators don't have hotkey support or have bugs affecting their hotkeys.

Also check out our community over at :

Discord: https://discord.gg/Mv3GZnwrE8

If you don't know what RetroDECK is or want more information check out the wiki over at our Github:

https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK/wiki

Roblox updated their client some months back, and the anticheat didn't work with Linux at all. However, it looks like they're working on fixing this and the game is now playable on their very early access "zcanary" builds.

I suspect this Lemmy Steam Deck community has an older average age, and as a result may not have that many Roblox players. But the popularity of the game is undeniable and having it work on Steam Deck again will be great for a lot of people.

Adding to a growing list of new features to be released in the 3.5 update, a new temperature color option has been added. It lets you set the blue to yellow light range of the screen.

Other additions coming in the 3.5 update include a saturation slider, HDR support for external displays, additional display upscaling options (including Nvidia Image Scaling), improved SMT handling (no more needing to turn SMT off for emulators), updated kernel, and more stuff that I'm probably forgetting.