A Steam Deck Hardware Refresh could be on the Horizon – Steam Deck News

Today was a relatively light week in terms of Steam Deck news, but what we lacked in quantity we made up for in quality. This week, Bazzite released version 1.1 of their SteamOS-like operating system for x86 handhelds and it looks awesome. Plus, we have a new community-made mod for Starfield aiming to improve performance on Steam Deck. And Valve’s latest commit to the Linux kernel reveals the potential for a new Steam Deck hardware refresh (or perhaps something else). All this in today’s episode of Steam Deck news!

Bazzite project: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/
Bazzite 1.1: https://universal-blue.org/blog/2023/09/06/bazzite-buzz-no-2/
ROM Properties shell extension: https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties
Greenlight 2.0 client: https://github.com/unknownskl/greenlight
Starfield performance mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/538
Valve’s Sephiroth code references: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Sound

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— Chapters —
00:00 – Introduction
00:19 – Bazzite version 1.1 release
04:32 – Starfield Performance Mod makes waves!
09:06 – Steam Hardware Refresh on the Horizon?

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