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Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma
www.theverge.com Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outageMicrosoft drops subtle hints about the future direction of Windows security.
Kernel anti-cheat systems are currently the bane of Linux/Steam Deck gaming, haven't actually proven to be effective at stopping cheaters (see Valorant for an example), and lead to various security concerns from giving 3rd parties full access to your machine to being used to install ransomware and malware.
Windows tried to restrict kernel access years ago, but backed down under pressure from various companies. However Crowdstrike's outages have shown the sever consequences of leaving kernel access open, and we might finally see kernel access to be cut off.
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No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update
www.gamingonlinux.com No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest updateNo Rest for the Wicked from Moon Studios GmbH and Private Division has been through another major upgrade, and thanks to it the game is now Steam Deck Verified.
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Dragon Age The Veilguard will be Steam Deck verified and EA app will not be required
store.steampowered.com Dragon Age™: The Veilguard - ⚔️We're verified on Steam Deck.⚔️ - Steam NewsWe're making great progress towards our fall launch date and can confirm early that #DragonAge: The Veilguard is going all-in on @Steam features! ⚔️We're verified on Steam Deck. ⚔️We'll be Steam native - meaning the EA App will not be required to play the game. Details on launch coming later this su...
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FlatOut 1, 2 and Ultimate Carnage all get Steam Workshop support, Steam Deck verification in new updates
www.zoom-platform.com FlatOut 1, 2 and Ultimate Carnage all get Workshop support, Deck verification in new updatesThe FlatOut trilogy is now Steam Deck verified, with Workshop support, new languages, improved graphics, and revived FlatOut 2 multiplayer.
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iFixit now offers a Steam Deck toolkit
www.ifixit.com Steam Deck Toolkit: LCD, OLED | Open, Upgrade, ModThe essential, premium opening tools and screwdriver bits you need for Steam Deck LCD and OLED repairs and upgrades.
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Just an fyi for those of you that have the 500gb model and enjoy no mans sky
Edit: Clearly the model doesnt matter. My mistake. Anyway...
So far its been running at about 38 fps for me with all settings on high. If 60 fps isnt that big of a deal to you like it isnt for me, I highly recommend it, its very pretty. I'm going to test how it runs with the new water and probably play it on ultra, just to see, depending on how things go on high.
There was some slight slow down during my playtime last night, but it was negligable. Otherwise, it still ran surprisingly well. I specified 500gb because i was under the impression each tier had different performance outputs and didnt want to speak for the other models, so my bad.
- www.gamingonlinux.com Steam stable update released, and a Beta with lots of fixes for Desktop and Steam Deck
Valve released multiple updates just recently including a Stable Steam Client update for all and another Beta release with fixes for Desktop and Steam Deck.
- www.gamingonlinux.com Nexus Mods new cross-platform app adds experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support
On top of fixing up various issues with Stardew Valley modding, the new Alpha of the cross-platform and open source Nexus Mods app introduces experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support.
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I get beta client updates but I'm on the stable update channel
I googled this issue but only got a couple of Reddit posts from a year ago with no real answer. Does anybody here know what's going on with beta client updates on the stable update channel?
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Help us make the RetroDECK logo on the canvas
Dear Steam Deck community help us put the RetroDECK logo on the canvas.
Template in link and lower the opacity to see where you need to fill.
Thanks
//RetroDECK Team
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What remote do you use?
I'm thinking I want to dock the deck to my TV and game some FPS that way. What remote would be good?
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How do you download your game on SD OLED?
I need to keep the display on the whole time and considering how slow my internet connection is, it is a lot. I am surprised that there is no option to download the games while in standby or sleep mode.
I know that the Deck lowers the brightness but it seems to be awfully ineffective and of course I am also worried about display burn in.
- www.gamingonlinux.com Steam Beta adds many more Game Recording improvements
For both Steam desktop and Steam Deck, Valve released a fresh Steam Beta update that includes more improvements for the awesome new Game Recording feature.
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Steam Deck gets stuck on "connecting" to WiFi among other weirdness, persists after factory reset. Basically a paperweight at this point, please help.
I honestly cannot figure this one out and searching online and the steam troubleshooter have been no help.
about a week ago my Deck stopped connecting to my WiFi as I was playing a game on it, one minute it's fine, then the wifi connection is gone. I go to reconnect, it gets stuck on "connecting to [SSID]" and it will stay there for several minutes and say "failed to connect" and prompt me to re-enter my password. Double check password, it's all good. Restart router, problem persists. Restart Deck, problem persists. Check my other devices, everything is connecting fine. Check if Steam is working on my laptop, it's fine. I give up on tinkering with it because I've got a big trip coming up and I'd rather play Fallout 4 and Risk of Rain 2 offline than play nothing at all.
cut to my trip, deck connects to airport wifi, in-flight wifi, hotel wifi, all with no problem, no sign anything is wrong. Deck works perfect.
get home, deck still won't connect to my WiFi, "fine I'll just play RoR2 in bed offline" game says its launching but then never does, just gets stuck there. Try other games, and same thing happens with every single one.
"maybe a factory reset will do the trick? I'm desperate enough at this point" I go to settings and factory reset. It says "preparing 0%" for a second and then just gives up on resetting. "oh, so this thing is FUCKED fucked" I turn it off and hold the quick menu button to get into the boot menu and factory reset from there. It works, deck is reset, I try to connect to wifi... same fucking problem.
I have no ideas, im willing to try anything at this point. my Deck is basically a paperweight. i had a vanilla setup going too, no developer mode, no deckyloader, nothing at all. I'd poke around with my router but that shit is LOCKED DOWN by my ISP so I can't change shit, and that doesn't really explain all the weird shit it's been doing offline, like with not launching games or factory resetting it. Please help, this is my main gaming device.
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dBrand Releases New Steam Deck Skin Based Off of $1 Million Counter-Strike Skin
steamdeckhq.com dBrand Releases New Steam Deck Skin Based Off of $1 Million Counter-Strike Skin - Steam Deck HQdBrand has released their newest Steam Deck skin, based off of the $1 million Counter-Strike skin, that was sold.
Kinda gimmicky, but interesting enough that I read the article so I figured I would share.
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Steam deck triple monitor setup with the official dock
Hi, just wondering if the title is possible. I'm currently daily driving my steam deck as my work pc in my office. mostly i used it to stream programs off my much beefier main pc at home.
Recently I've been thinking of adding a drawing tablet to the setup (wacom movink) but it uses usb c to c and the dock only has one for power. so if i used an adapter (usb c to usb a), would it work?
cheers.
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All KINGDOM HEARTS games now Steam Deck Verified (plus more games)
www.gamingonlinux.com All KINGDOM HEARTS games now Steam Deck Verified (plus more games)Good news KINGDOM HEARTS fans. All of the titles currently available on Steam have now been tested by Valve and given the fancy green Steam Deck Verified tick.
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PSA: If you use Bazzite on your deck, you need to do a manual fix to get updates
www.gamingonlinux.com PSA: If you use Bazzite you need to do a manual fix to get updatesBazzite, the popular version of Linux powered by Fedora and Universal Blue that's great for handhelds including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and others needs a little manual user effort after a bit of human error.
Bazzite is an alternative OS to SteamOS for the deck and other handheld PCs. Unfortunately due to a mistake, anyone who installed Bazzite before July 3rd 2024 won't get automatic updates.
If this affects you, I'd suggest checking out the article to get instructions on fixing it.
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Valve may be working on official Waydroid (Android app) support for Steam
Here's the Twitter thread discussing this
Basically, some different apps were linked to the official steamVR app. These apps are hidden, but the data miner was able to grab some assets from them that included some custom art for Waydroid, which is a Linux program that lets you run Android apps on Linux.
Additionally, I've seen comments saying that some valve devs have been making pull requests for the Waydroid github, but I don't actually have a proper source for that.
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AMD Frame Generation On The Steam Deck Is Here With FSR 3.1
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- www.gamingonlinux.com Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app
I wrote about the brand new Nexus mods app before, as it's quite a promising and exciting development for the future of modding (especially for Linux and Steam Deck). And now, they want your feedback.
> Yesterday, July 1st, they announced the Alpha release of this next-generation mod manager and their new Product Manager got in touch to mention they "would be really keen to get feedback from Linux users". So this is your chance to ensure Linux (and Steam Deck) finally become a first-class citizen for game modding.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17546163
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Headphone / Microphone Combo
What headphone with microphone hardware do you have? I am looking to buy some soon and was wondering what the community uses.
Do you prefer wired? I feel that it is kind of rare to find wired stuff these days, but Bluetooth has really matured in battery and reliability.
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Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux
www.gamingonlinux.com Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably notWhile other vendors continually push out new handheld pc models, sticking similar internals into different shell designs and gradually bumping up RAM or the Processor, the Steam Deck just keeps selling like hot tasty cakes.
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Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine?
Hello all, I was hoping to pick up a machine for 1080p gaming on a TV primarily for playing couch party games on emulators (switch, ps3, wii, etc) and was wondering if the deck would be a good fit? I've heard before that there were some problems with docks but not sure if that's been resolved. Any insight is appreciated
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Bazzite 3.5 gets expanded handheld support (including Steam Deck OLED)
www.gamingonlinux.com Bazzite 3.5 gets updated NVIDIA drivers, expanded handheld support (including Steam Deck OLED)Bazzite is one of the best options to get Linux on various gaming handhelds, and the 3.5.0 release is out now that has improvements pretty much everywhere with expanded hardware support.
Bazzite is a cool alternative to SteamOS, but it's only had partial support for the OLED Deck. Thankfully that seems to be fixed in the new release.
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True actual sailing games are underrated and a criminally underexplored genre of video game simulation... which is why Pancake Sailor is the next free game you should try!
store.steampowered.com Pancake Sailor on SteamRelaxing sailing experience. Discover Akalana Islands.
"pancake" refers to a colloaquial term for tiny nimble classic recreational racing sailboats like sunfishes and lasers, essentially the hull is shaped like a pancake (well a bowl more like but whatever) and all of the lateral resistance to getting blown sideways (that would be provided naturally by a long slim hull that sat deep in the water) is focused on the narrow point of the single daggerboard and to a lesser extent rudder. This is what makes sailboats like this an absolute joy to sail even in fairly light wind in real life, they take almost no wind to go and can take advantage of passing bursts of energy from even the most capricious wind gusts, so it makes sailing them a very direct and deeply calming conversation with the immediate elements of the wind and water around you.
Sailing in light wind is fun in a chill way but for long sailboats that have a consequently big turning radius, often it is difficult to keep any speed when turning the front of the boat directly past the onblowing wind because you can't pick up any speed in that moment, you have to rely on inertia. A pancake sailboat like this is made to spin like a top with a flick of the rudder so that even in light wind the hull can carry momentum through multiple quick tacks (changing direction by rotating the bow past the direction of the onblowing wind) or jives (changing direction by rotating the bow the other way, so that it never directly passes by the direction of the onblowing wind, can be very difficult to control in a small sailboat like this).
With this kind of sailboat you basically have two controls, you aim the rudder with an articulated handle in one hand and you control the angle of the sail/boom through a rope held in your other hand that runs through a pulley. In real life you also are able to control the center of mass of your personal meatcube for minute corrections as well, but with essentially just those two control inputs an incredible variety and complexity of movement is possible.
Even if you have never thought about learning sailing, it is worth learning for its own sake because of how primal and direct learning how to sail a pancake boat like this is that only has one rope to hold and one rudder and that is the whole dashboard of controls. If you have ever met sailors, they probably are really intense and get all hyped about racing around in conditions that look absolutely awful to a non-sailor lol, but it is just as valid to sail around in light wind normal on a blustery afternoon summer day as wiser and lazier alternative to paddling a kayak :). Honestly it takes an astonishingly little amount of energy to move a tiny sailboat like this at a pace faster than you can paddle a kayak.
Pancake Sailor and the developers non-free games are marketed definitely pretty heavily towards VR, but Pancake Sailor actually works bloody fantastic as a Steam Deck game. It is an immediate cozy and chill experience, the moment you open the game and start playing. I can easily see myself talking with someone on the phone while I focus on the conversation and mindlessly sail around in pancake sailor.
Check it out! It is free!
Also the main game is on sale for $5 in the steam summer sale, the game doesn't seem to go cheaper, it isn't necessarily a super rare sale either though so shrugs honestly I recommend just downloading Pancake Sailor and having some fun!
This game will genuinely teach you how to sail, and the really wonderful thing is that if you learn how to sail a really really simple sailboat like this you will understand the basics of how to sail any sailboat, no matter how complex. Yes there are a billion more things to learn with larger sailboats with multiple crew and sails and ways to manipulate those sails... but at the end of the day you are trying to accomplish the same set of maneuevers that will become deeply intuitive to you if you practice sailiing a simple sailboat like this. Honestly, master a boat like this and if someone threw you onto a typical 40 foot monohull sailboat and you had to sail it back to a harbor to save your life, you would be fine. You would do a really shitty job, but again the fundamentalis are the same. This is a human skill I think everyone should explore through video games!
Warning though, once you learn how to sail every time you play a video game where sailboats are just normal boats but with an animated sail that magically changes the wind direction around.. or even if there are true sailing mechanics but they are shallow af, you will become very sad.... :( but then valheim will give you a hug and remind you that there are people out there that really do care.
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Turn Your Steam Deck Buttons Into Game Boy Ones With New Upcoming Button Set
steamdeckhq.com Turn Your Steam Deck Buttons Into Game Boy Ones With New Upcoming Button Set - Steam Deck HQA new custom Steam Deck button set from Deck Buttons takes the color scheme of the original Game Boy, with some cool unique features.
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How do you use the built in microphones?
So I tested my mic inside Discord and it does show that the mic is being picked up. Has anyone had the issue where that does not translate over to online games?
https://lemmy.world/post/16966492
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Audio on steamdeck with HDMI connected
Hi, First, is it possible to set the steamdeck to "default" to always keep picking the steamdeck speaker as default audio out also when an HDMI is connected through the USB-C? I have an old monitor (VGA to HDMI to USB-C haha) and would be easiest to still just output audio in the steamdeck speaker by default. It is easy to switch audio outputs in desktopmode, not in gaming mode unfortunately can't switch to steamdeck speaker there, doesn't work.
Second, how do y'all combine music and games? I prefer to play games while listening to youtube full albums (freetube or similar) in background. Doesn't really seem to integrate well in gaming mode either? Tried adding Monophony and Freetube as non-steam games, but not very succesful. What's your suggestion for optimizing the setup?
Sorry for the noob-questions. Pic unrelated, sort of.
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FSR 3.1 and Frame Generation Now Available in Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima, and More PlayStation titles
steamdeckhq.com FSR 3.1 and Frame Generation Now Available in Spider-Man and More Nixxes Software Titles - Steam Deck HQNixxes has added FSR 3.1 Frame Generation to 5 of its released games, and it works pretty well on the Steam Deck.
They've added FSR 3.1, XeSS 1.3, and FSR 3 Frame Generation to:
- Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
- God of War Ragnarok (Releasing Soon)
- Horizon Forbidden West (20% Off)
- Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered (40% Off)
- Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales (40% Off)
- Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart (40% Off)
Frame generation is usually only beneficial if you already have a reasonably high fps, but the author of this article mentioned that it actually worked really well for him in Spiderman on Deck and let him hit 60fps.
- www.gamingonlinux.com Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games
While every month Valve has been posting a fresh set of the most played Steam Deck games for the previous month, they've now added a dedicated Steam Chart for it.
- www.gamingonlinux.com Steam Deck plugin system Decky Loader 3.0 gets a first pre-release
Decky Loader is a very popular tool to add plugins to the Steam Deck Gaming Mode, and Decky Loader 3.0 should be a big improvement.
Decky broke with the Steam game recording update, but the 3.0 update fixes that and features a lot of behind the scene updates that should make Decky more reliable and plugins run better.
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Recent Sales Including Steam Sale and Fanatical not sure what region locks apply to these? I am in US
There are some decent deals going on right now, not so much for AAA titles really, they don't seem to be going on sale much in my opinion in the past year or so.
Indie games on the other hand have been having some really great discounts.
Here is the /r/gamedeals steam summer sale thread
https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/1dpxrdr/steam_summer_sale_2023_day_1/
The thread you are really interested in is the Hidden Gems thread tho...
https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDealsMeta/comments/1dpxyff/steam_summer_2024_hidden_gems/
Even more so than steam... I think some of the recent Fanatical bundles have been really great for indie games, I bought almost everything from these bundles
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/platinum-collection-build-your-own-bundle
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-revival-bundle
I also picked up a bunch from this one too
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-handheld-heroes-bundle
I really like the digital board games from direwolf like Instanbul, Everdell, Wings Of Glory. Concordia is also a brilliant digital board game and perhaps one of the best board games ever invented by humanity... (not kidding).
How about y'all? Have you picked up any good indie games for your steam deck lately?
Kinda spent a lot, but with a lot of these indie games, like the big metroidivania games and such I just don't think they are ever going to come down below $3, they aren't worth that little lol anyways.. but just look at the isthereanydeal stats for some of the indie games in the fanatical bundles they straight up destroy steam's "summer sale" in my opinion at least at a cursory glance.
For example, look at "Trinity Fusion" in the "handheld heroes bundle", Steam advertises it on "sale" for $12, but if you buy 5 games or so on fanatical's bundle it is $3....
...just saying, might be a good time to flesh out your steam deck's indie, local co-op, party and retro style catalog!
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Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam
steamdeckhq.com Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam - Steam Deck HQOut of nowhere, Hori announced a new controller specifically made for use with Steam and the Steam Deck, with some very nice unique features:
Features:
- 4 Custom Buttons to assign Functions
- Full Gyro Support (only when "Steam Mode" is activated)
- A customization feature to only activate Gyro when a specific joystick is touched
- Continuous button pressing or "Rapid Fire" mode for face buttons
- Supports both Bluetooth and Wired connections
- A dedicated Steam button to start big picture mode or bring Steam up
- A Quick Access Menu button
However it doesn't have:
- vibration function
- trackpad
- Headphone jack
It will cost around $50
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Steam Deck Users Account for 10% Of All Players Using Steam Input
steamdeckhq.com Steam Deck Users Account for 10% Of All Players Using Steam Input - Steam Deck HQValve has posted about more detailed information about their Steam Input feature, and shows how many users are using a Steam Deck!