Steam Hardware Survey for the Deck will change PC gaming FOREVER (plus more Steam Deck news)

Very excited to see Valve listening to community feedback and delivering the kinds of features people are asking for. This week, we got new per-game performance profiles. Hopefully, soon, we’ll have community-sourced profiles be made available.

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EmulationStation release: https://gitlab.com/leonstyhre/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Western Digital announcement: https://www.westerndigital.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/2022/2022-05-09-western-digitals-new-purpose-built-ssd

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# What are your machines specs?
Office Rig:
* AMD Ryzen 7 1800x
* MSI Pro Series X370 SLI PLUS
* AMD RX VEGA 64
* GSkill Ripjaw V DDR4 8GB x4 (32 GB)
* Fractal Design Define R9 Case
* Manjaro GNOME

Living Room Gaming Rig:
* ASUS X99-E-10G WS
* Intel Core i7-6900K @ 3.2GHz
* NVidia Titan X (Pascal)
* DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RGB 8GB x8 (64GB)

Backup Rig
* System76 Thelio Minor
* AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
* DDR4 16GB RAM
* Zotac Nvidia GTX 970 4GB

Home Server:
* ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3
* AMD FX 6300 at 3.5 GHz
* Nvidia GTX 750 1GB
* DDR3 20 GB RAM

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00:00 – Intro
00:16 – Don’t call it a “Steam Deck” bundle
01:31 – More resolution options on the way
02:57 – New EmulationStation Release
03:22 – Meme break
03:56 – Western Digital’s new 2TB M.2 drive
04:33 – 2500+ Verified/Playable games!
05:11 – Steam Deck Update
06:00 – Per-game Performance Profiles
06:54 – Steam Hardware Survey!