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[Game] Darkest Dungeon 2 gets full Steam Deck support in new update ( steamdeckhq.com )

New update adds controller support, fixes performance problems in some areas, and added some other new content. The game is now Steam Deck Verified....

[Game] FSR 2.2 has finally been added to Baldur's Gate 3 ( www.pcgamer.com )

Will hopefully help the handheld performance/battery. I know I personally have been waiting for FSR 2 before really getting into BG3 on my deck....

Happy Birthday to Steam as it turned 20 today ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

[Game] Baldur's Gate 3 - Patch 2 is "just around the corner", and includes lots of performance updates ( store.steampowered.com )

The next patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 is supposed to include a lot of performance improvements, especially for Act 3. I know I’ve seen complaints in this community that the game runs too rough in act 3 on Deck to be a good experience, so this should be great news for people....

Tweaking SteamOS For Better Steam Deck Performance ( www.phoronix.com )

[PSA] Swapping your Deck's filesystem to Btrfs is easy to do, and can give you more space for free ( gitlab.com )

Btrfs is a filesystem (like FAT, NTFS, and ext4), but has some distinct advantages:...

Valve adds ability to see Steam Deck verification in desktop Steam ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

Useful new Decky Plugin: Battery Tracker ( github.com )

Battery tracker is a new plugin that seems pretty useful. Gives a chart of tracked battery levels, but more importantly it tracks the average power draw of the different games you run....

Steam :: Steam Deck :: SteamOS 3.5.5 Update ( steamcommunity.com )

tl;dr Steam OS 3.5 released to stable branch, adding sRGB emulation, and HDR and VRR (for external devices)

[Game] Diablo 4 is coming to Steam ( www.pcgamer.com )

While it was playable before through 3rd party tools, this will make it much more accessible to many Steam Deck players....

Valve detail their plans to combat Steam Deck OLED scalpers ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

Counter-Strike 2 is out, but it’s not Steam Deck Verified ( www.theverge.com )

This just seems odd to me. I know it’s a competitive game, and most folks will be playing with a mouse and keyboard, but it feels weird for Valve to put out a brand new game (built from scratch, at that) and not plan for this.

Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 Beta gets a GPU fix for an upcoming game ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

Here’s something interesting for you. Valve released a fresh upgrade for the Steam Deck OS now in Beta, including a fix for an upcoming game....

[PSA] How to use your Steam Deck as a PC controller ( www.xda-developers.com )

Easiest way is by using remote play, you’ll want to change settings to enable audio on the host, and possibly lower stream bandwidth....

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.8 Preview: Flatlined - Steam News ( store.steampowered.com )

General...

[News] Steam Deck Preview update has a Unified Refresh Rate and Framerate Limit slider ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

[PSA] Battle.net broke in Wine / Proton - here's how to fix for Steam Deck / Linux ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

Steam Deck 2 delay was right choice for Valve as mid-generation refresh would fare better - NotebookCheck.net ( www.notebookcheck.net )

Release 2.9.1 Heroic Games Launcher fixes Amazon support. ( github.com )

If you’ve been collecting the free games from Amazon with your Prime subscription, you should check out the new integration in Heroic.

Steam Deck OLED: Sold Out in Japan! ( boilingsteam.com )

[News] Gamescope added support for ReShade shaders on Linux / SteamOS ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

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...

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