Steam Deck

I’ve been playing through the first one and was curious if anyone has tried running the second one on deck yet? Seems like it will probably not run great due to the graphical fidelity.

I was thinking about the anti-cheat scenario and this popped on my mine. Consider the following scenario.

Valve comes out with an alternate OS for the Steam Deck called "Steam OS Secure" which supports anti-cheats. Special proprietary blobs were added to the OS, in collaboration with the game devs, which allow it to monitor metrics at the kernel level. These anti-cheats will only be able to run on an unmodified Steam Deck which gets disabled the moment you "modify" your Deck.

(I'm unsure what "modify" means here. Maybe if the user creates a root password or if a new layer has been added on top of SteamOS)

This will come pre-installed with the Deck (Steam Deck 3 maybe), but a seperate OS without the proprietary blobs is also available and can be downloaded/installed right from the Deck itself. This can be switched anytime but it's a lengthy procedure. Obviously, the one without the anti-cheat performs better.

What do you think about this? Would you approve this? Will your perception towards Valve change? Will it be better for gaming over all?

Edit: I can understand the dislikes. No one wants RING-0 anti-cheat on Linux. But I just want to have a discussion on this. I don't see game devs making exceptions their game only on Linux in the near future.

I have unfortunately not been able to figure out how to load controller configurations that I have shared to steam into games that weren’t the original game I made that controller config in. I click on the controller layout and it fails to load and reverts back to the layout I already had selected.

My recommendation (cobbled together from recommendations from others) for getting around this is adding the file manager "Dolphin" (steam deck already has it) as a non-steam game to steam as well as “Corehunt” (which you have to download from Discover, it is made by the same people that made CoreKeyboard). Or you can just use Dolphin and Corehunt in desktop mode.

https://flathub.org/apps/org.cubocore.CoreHunt

https://gitlab.com/cubocore/coreapps/corehunt

(you already have Dolphin)

Before I start, if y'all have a better way feel free to chime in and show me the light :P.

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Go to the game you want to copy a controller layout into. Edit one of the default controller layouts, make a random change to it, rename the controller layout to a unique name like TARGET_game then export the file as a personal save (or a personal shareable save I can’t remember which).

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In Corehunt, search for the file, Corehunt should find the file fairly quickly (it is muchhhh faster, fuzzier and more thorough than the other file search programs I have used on the Steam Deck so far). Note the file path.

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If needed, also search the name of the controller layout you want to copy into the game (name that layout something you can search for easily too).

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Navigate to the file path for your controller layout you want to copy, click split view in dolphin and then open up the controller layout for the game you want to copy the controller layout into (that contains your “Target_game” file) and… drag and drop copy!

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Done! Now when you go to browse layouts for your new game, the layout from your old game will show up and be loadable.

Note… you can also look up your steam deck’s file path to controller layouts in a guide or documentation but the filepath is really annoying and one of the folder steps is your steam user-id… so I actually think this explanation is much more concise and easy to do. Just let Corehunt find the folder location for you and then pin it to Dolphin’s sidebar so you can quickly jump to it again.

Steam games should name themselves according to the name you have in Steam, but sometimes the folder name is a number (the steam game’s id number or something).

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/ea-sports-wrc/wrc/news/ea-anticheat

There's a new beta for Caves of Qud, available by opting into the beta from the game's steam properties.

Noteworthy changes for Steam Deck users:

• 🚨ALL NEW INTERFACE🚨 Our transformational UI redesign is complete! Fully mouseable, fully gamepaddable, and much prettier, but all carefully designed to maintain the essence of what makes Qud Qud. More polish is coming, but everything functional is in.

• Support for Steam Cloud saves. Play between PCs or between Steam Deck and PC, at your leisure

There are a lot of other good changes too, full patch notes are here.. This patch will exit beta on June 6th.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/15531304

The Steam Deck's multitouch screen might be its most underutilised feature. Until recently, I wasn't even sure whether devs could use it for anything more than simple mouse emulation. But I've just started playing "Sky: Children of the Light" on my Deck (which is generally a great experience on Deck, especially on the OLED with 90Hz HDR) and I found that when using a musical instrument, you can actually use the touchscreen to play up to 10 notes at the same time.

This got me curious: Do you know if there are any other games on Deck using multitouch, or is Sky the first one that does it?

With graphics turned to low (which just looks retro to me and fits the vibe of the game like I am playing midtown madness-ultra) Motor Town is a blast on the Steam Deck!

What really makes it fit well with the deck is the autopilot feature where you can hit a button and your car will automatically navigate to the next step of whatever job you are doing. That makes it perfect for picking up and putting down while you do other stuff.

According to the developer:

You may notice that Steam marks the game as 'Unsupported' for Steam Deck. This is due to the Legends co-op multiplayer mode requiring Windows to access PlayStation Network integrated features.

They're rolling out a new in-game PlayStation overlay that requires PSN and windows to work, and multiplayer features won't be available without the two. It's possible that Valve will be able to fix the windows incompatibility issue, although there's no hope for the PSN requirement part being removed.

It should be available on flathub "soonish"

Trying to play Elden Ring on the deck and not enjoying it. Anyone have tips on how to improve the experience, it’s my only platform and I want to like the game?

Most noteworthy is it now allows remote connection through PSN, allowing you to connect without configuring port forwarding.

CachyOS is an Arch fork that focuses on optimizations and improved performance.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15265672

If you aren't familiar with it, GE-proton is an alternative proton version for running windows games on Linux/steam deck. It's most noteworthy because it includes additional media codecs needed for video playback in some games, which valve can't distribute for legal reasons. It also includes some hot fixes for specific games that might not yet work in regular proton.

• added TCP_KEEP patches needed for Star Citizen 2.0 launcher

• updated wine to latest bleeding edge (fixes Apex Legends)

• updated dxvk to latest git

• updated vkd3d-proton to latest git

• updated dxvk-nvapi to match upstream

• updated various build files to match upstream

• updated steam client to match upstream

• added upstream cpu topology fixes

• protonfixes: Add fix for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (thanks R1kaB3rN)

• protonfixes: Add fix for COJ Gunslinger (thanks Tiagoquix)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Total War: Shogun 2 (thanks Crumb5)

• protonfixes: Update Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee fix (thanks doZenn)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (thanks doZenn)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Overlord II (thanks doZenn)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Stranger's Wrath HD (thanks doZenn)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Ducati World Championship (thanks doZenn)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Add fix for Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies (thanks R1kaB3rN)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Add fix for Sabbat of the Witch (thanks R1kaB3rN)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Add fix for Riddle Joker (thanks R1kaB3rN)

• protonfixes: Add fix for Add fix for Senren * Banka (thanks R1kaB3rN)

• protonfixes: Add fix for (Newest) Many WMP9 Video Playback fixes for Yuzusoft VN's (thanks R1kaB3rN)

Is anybody else dealing with this? In game mode updates install normally, but if I go into desktop mode, updates stall and never finish downloading. And unfortunately you don't get to install desktop updates from game mode.

My internet connection works fine on firefox, and is plenty fast, so it's not a connectivity issue. I'm not sure what's going on.

Hello all groovy people –

I released my Renoise controls for the Steam Deck to Steam today as 'RenoiseDeck'. Not perfect, but pretty usable. Here's how:

– Left shoulder button = Edit on / off (Esc). Toggles entering notes. – D-pad = Arrow keys, move around. – (X) = delete. (A) = play / stop. (Y) and (B) = notes C and G for jamming, entering notes, previewing sounds etc.

– Left mousepad = 4 x 4 grid with a chromatic octave of notes starting at C on the top left. On top of of the 12 notes, there's the stopper (Caps Lock) and a couple of useful hex values. Right shoulder button shifts the grid to numbers and more hexes and effect command letters.

– Left hand back buttons: Top = F4 (Copy), Bottom = F5 (Paste). – Right hand back buttons: Top = Alt, Bottom = Ctrl. – Right shoulder button = Shift.

With these, you can: – Shift + arrows = make selection in the editor. – Alt + arrows = select instruments. – Ctrl + arrows = manipulate the pattern sequencer.

– Alt + copy / paste = Copy / paste selection in pattern. – Ctrl + copy / paste = Copy / paste pattern. – Shift + copy / paste = Copy / paste track.

One of the analog sticks acts as a slow mouse for precise control of sliders.

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