HUGE Steam Deck Update: What changed??

This is a HUGE new update for the Steam Deck!

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Stutter: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-gpu-driver-linux-steam-deck-big-improvement-stuttering-problems/
Update: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/big-new-stable-update-for-steam-deck-and-desktop-steam/
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Stutter:
AMD GPU driver on Linux and Steam Deck to get big improvement on stuttering problems
By Liam Dawe – 31 January 2023 at 12:45 pm UTC | Views: 20,623
The work to improve gaming performance on Steam Deck and Linux desktops for AMD GPUs is always ongoing, and it seems we’re set for another nice improvement to how smooth games are.

One of the biggest problems is shader compile stutter, where you play through a game first-time and see it stuttering about all over the place until the shaders get built. It’s less of a problem in plenty of games if Valve have them ready for download but that’s not always possible, and doesn’t always solve it. Some games also update a lot and need shader cache updates often, this will again help with those times where it’s not yet available. For games not on Steam, it will also be a huge bonus win for performance.

DXVK 2.0 released back in November 2022 included some major changes to work around it, and work is ongoing in the AMD GPU driver RADV to make use it what’s needed. Later NVIDIA drivers have it and the improvements there are quite impressive but the current experimental work in the AMD GPU driver needed work.

As Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz blogged about recently going over work they and others have done regarding the VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library Vulkan API extension, and the blog post is well worth a read for some background into it but to cut to the chase — the result of the work is a “50,000%” improvement in fast-linking which for gamers should result in a much improved experience for certain games.

The work should hopefully come in Mesa 23.1 due later this year where use of the noted Vulkan extension above should hopefully be turned on by default, and then for Steam Deck players specifically hopefully in something like SteamOS 3.5.

Ubisoft:
Last night was a restless one for the Steam Deck. In addition to a huge client update for the handheld PC, Valve pushed out a Proton Experimental update to fix a crashing problem with games that use the Ubisoft Connect launcher on Steam.

Ubi’s launcher had received an update of its own, sadly one that interfered with the ability of Proton – the layer of software that helps made-for-Windows games run on the Linux-based SteamOS – to keep it compatible with the Deck. Indeed, just like the 2K Launcher last year, with the added irony that the affected games (which include The Division 2, Watch Dogs Legion and Ghost Recon Breakpoint) only arrived on Steam in the past few weeks

Big Picture:
General
Replaced launch option dialog with new UI that includes a checkbox to remember the user’s selection – this selection can be changed in game properties
Changing download regions no longer requires restarting the Steam client
Further optimizations to load times for users with large game libraries
Fixed intermittent browser crash when closing Update news dialog
Fixed the controller settings tab not showing up in the game properties menu
Fixed DLC hover on game details page being cropped
Fixed several issues related to popup dialogs being sized incorrectly
Fixed issue with duplicate streaming dialogs appearing on Mac & Linux
Fixed background images on a collection on the app details page not being clipped correctly

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