It’s in proton 11(beta) and proton experimental, which are both available on the deck in the compatibility menu for games. I don’t know when proton 11 will move past being beta.

iOS has it built in as an accessibility setting apparently, on Android there are multiple apps like KineStop that offer some version of it.

He has a son who will supposedly take over, but we’ll have to see how that goes when it happens.

The usual rule with denuvo is that if you change proton versions 5 times within 24 hours, it will lock you out for 24 hours.

As far as denuvo can tell, every proton version is a different PC, so they don’t want you sharing the game between more than 5 different PCs per day.

I suspect Valve’s primary goal is giving realistic fps estimates for Steam Deck/Machine/Frame. With those having fixed hardware, it should be a decent way to know if its even possible to run a game at an acceptable frame rate on those devices.

It’s usefulness to other hardware will vary, we’ll have to wait and see how helpful it actually is.

Steam recently started giving people the option to share fps/hardware details for games. So it should be real data from real users who have opted in.

Steam’s fps overlay can show base frames and generated frames separately, so I’m assuming they’ll be able to only show base frames.

Yeah, and it makes a ton of sense for Steam Deck/Machine/Frame

My understanding is common practice is for people to log onto the gaming cafe computers with their own account, and then log out of steam when they’re done. So the same computer may have a bunch of different steam accounts log in and get surveyed on the same day.

You might try pinning gpu speed or setting a fixed cpu speed (through powertools if installed). It can fix some games that have drops when they shouldn’t, at the cost of slightly worse battery life.

That makes a lot of sense.

It runs pretty good. I reduced a few of the less noticeable graphical settings (like shadow quality), and locked the frame rate at 40fps. It can hit 60 a lot of the time, but 40 keeps it very consistent.

At default high settings it can probably run at 30fps the whole game.

I was playing a couple games, but I’ve dropped everything else to focus on playing Sekiro.

Fantastic game, I never got into the regular Dark Souls games that much, so I’ve kinda avoided it. But I find parry focused combat incredibly satisfying, and the streamlining of some of the mechanics is nice too.

A lot depends on the game too. Some games are naturally slower movement, slower to swing a weapon, etc. In those slower paced games, some added input lag can be unnoticeable, while feeling like a major issue in a more twitchy game.

It’s also worth mentioning that the popular lsfg frame gen option doesn’t work this way, unlike baked in frame gen, the game engine’s ability to accept input isn’t delayed at all since the additional frames are added after. This means the generated frame quality is lower, but input lag is much less on most games.

An important note is that this is compared to base wine, not Proton with Esync/Fsync.

There may have still been significant gains, since those were some of the games worst affected by the lack of proper sync, but someone would need to run more benchmarks to find out.

A lot of really exciting changes here.

The updates to arch Linux base/graphics drivers will hopefully include mesa 26, which is looking like one of the most significant performance boosts we’ll see the deck get. It massively helps with ray tracing performance, so games like Doom the Dark Ages, Indiana Jones, all UE5 games, etc are expected to get significant performance boosts. Basically, the games that the deck currently struggles with the most are expected to benefit the most from this.

Improved support for the screencasts in Game Mode (e.g. OBS/Discord)

Cool

Re-re-enable Bluetooth Wake for Steam Deck LCD

The saga continues

LCD Bios Added “Memory Power Down” setup option Preliminary support for hibernation

This sounds cool, I’ve wondered about why the deck doesn’t have hibernation.

OLED Bios Charging LED now changes color when charge limit is reached, rather than only at 100%

Been waiting for this, ever since they added charge limits.

Overall very exciting update, doesn’t seem available for my deck on the beta update channel yet, but I’m excited to get it and check the mesa version.

Edit: just got the update installed, Mesa is not version 26, still version 25. Very unfortunate".

My only issue with it is that some people install windows the moment they get the SD out of the box. No interest in even trying SteamOS, they consider it just wasting time before they can get windows installed and have the Deck “ready to use”.

They’re probably going to have an option to buy it bundled with the Steam Machine for a discount, if the release it early then people who buy it as a stand-alone would feel like they missed out on that deal.

Biggest thing (from what I understand) is that losing weight too rapidly will result in significant muscle loss. Losing muscle also lowers your metabolism, which can lead to rapid weight gain when you get off the drug.

This isn’t glp-1 drug specific, and can be offset by exercise, eating more protein, etc.

I’ve mostly been playing Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza on Hawaii. It’s been a great time so far, easily the silliest Yakuza game I’ve played. I prefer the turn based combat of the newer mainline games to the beat-em-up combat of this one and the originals, but I’m still having a great time with it.

Been playing Monster Hunter Wilds with a friend, and as you know, Deck performance is pretty rough. However I was able to get it to run acceptably enough.

Finally been replaying an older game I had called “A Robot Named Fight”. It’s basically Super Metroid, but as a rogue-like. It’s a lot of fun, really captures a lot of the fun of those games while having every run feel different.