Steam Deck @sopuli.xyz Fubarberry @sopuli.xyz 2w ago

SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ

steamdeckhq.com SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ

SteamOS 3.6 has officially been released into stable with performance improvements, mura compensation, and so much more.

24 comments

Steam Deck LCD only Improved battery life by up to 10% in light load situations Added overclocking controls

Amazing!
- only? Only?? ONLY???
  
  Edit: misunderstood the context of the sentence, but in my defense added punctuation would have helped.
  
  I was thinking the same! That’s pretty good all things considered!
Now that’s a hefty update.
Weird that they went to kernel 6.5 which is already a year old, rather than going to the LTS version 6.6 which is still in support.
- At some point you have to draw the line in the sand and say this is what we're updating to for this release, we'll update again for the next one. I compare it to Star citizen, who kept updating to the latest and greatest and never delivered a product. I don't care that you upgraded to the latest engine update, finish the product.
  
  Valid, if they created this update before November 2023 when 6.6 was released, and have needed to test Steam OS with the 6.5 kernel for a whole year before releasing it.
- Always porting not-yet-upstreamed patches to new release kernels is additional work to the upstreaming work towards the latest development tree. The Valve engineers interviewed around the very first Steam Deck announcement said their goal with moving from Debian to Arch was to minimize the patchset maintenance burden. Their approach surely has that goal in mind. There are only two variants of Steam Deck with minor differences between them. If backporting patches from newer kernels is less work than forward porting their patches, they just stay with that version for a while. Updates to drivers for hardware they don't use and filesystems they don't use aren't relevant to them anyway.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/4676514574283544994 Direct steam link instead of that awful site covered in ads
- Thank you
A new Dock firmware updated for compatibility fixes with VRR displays with high refresh rates

Does this mean that my games will stop "lagging" for no reason while gaming on my TV?
I really hope they actually fixed the dock display issues and blank screen problems when waking from sleep or switching displays.

I'll dig my dock out of the closet, update it, and see what happens. Fingers crossed.
- I have a 3rd party dock, but it's worked pretty well on the 3.6 beta as far as those issues are concerned.
- Oh god, me too. Fixing that and how having it connected to my TV disrupts every other device connected to it for some reason (HDMI-CEC problems maybe).
So is game recording now in stable?
- No, this is an update of SteamOS while game recording is a Steam Client feature. It's still in the beta channel.
  
  Thanks for this, but you might have to clarify for me. If I'm using a Steam Deck (and correct me if I'm wrong here), gaming mode doesn't use the Steam Client, right? Gaming mode is more an 'inbuilt feature' of SteamOS?
  
  I was wondering if game recording would now be included, as it makes reference to it here:
  
  Fixed a problem where a Game Recording capture failing could cause subsequent captures to also fail
Well I was wondering why the f'n thing updated so long.
- There was also a dock update... that failed... again!
  
  ... and it claims that everything is up to date. Same thing has happened every time since I got the thing.

24 comments