Game developers should be happy to learn that Steam Audio SDK, including all of its plugins, are now covered under the Apache-2.0 license.
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Valve released today Proton 8.0-5 as the latest version of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components that enable Linux users to play Windows games.
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After announcing SteamVR 2.0, Valve released today a new Steam Client update for all supported platforms that introduces several new features, improvements, as well as bug fixes to provide gamers with the best possible Linux gaming experience.
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Proton 8.0 is the biggest update to date, bringing support for numerous Windows games that you can now play on your Linux system.
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Dying to get your hands on Valve’s Linux-powered Steam Deck? Well, there’s a limited-time discount you’ll want to be aware of. To celebrate the first anniversary of the Steam Deck’s…
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Steam Client is getting a brand-new Big Picture mode ported from the Steam Deck UI. Learn more about how now everyone can enjoy the Steam Deck UI on their personal computers.
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Steam is coming to Chrome OS? It looks like Google is planning to make Steam work on Chrome OS with Linux. Learn more here.
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The biggest new feature in the Lutris Game Manager 0.5.10 release is support for Valve’s Steam Deck gaming handheld device. Learn more here.
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Valve has released Proton 7.0, an open-source custom version of Wine that enables Linux users to run Windows games directly from Steam. Learn more here.
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Announced in July 2021, Steam Deck promises to be a revolutionary gaming handheld powered by Valve’s SteamOS 3.0 operating system based on Arch Linux and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Initially planned for the end of 2021, Valve delayed their upcoming Steam Deck device for February 2022, but now the company has finally revealed […]
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Coming less than two weeks after DXVK 1.9.3, the DXVK 1.9.4 release is here to enable performance optimizations and DLSS support for the God of War video game, which needs the Proton Experimental branch of Valve’s compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine. To improve both accuracy and GPU-bound performance, DXVK 1.9.4 also enables […]
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Good news for Linux users! The new Steam Client update adds support for VA-API hardware encoding on Linux. Users who don’t want this feature will be able to disable it by turning off AMD and Intel hardware encoding in the Remote Play advanced host settings. Moreover, Valve added support for DMABUF PipeWire capture on Linux, […]
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The past week has been a slow on Linux news, but exciting because we got a new Ubuntu Touch release on our Linux smartphones, a new Steam Client release with some goodies for Linux gamers (like me), and a new major Mesa graphics stack release that also brings good vibes for Linux gaming. On top […]
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This has been yet another great week with cool Linux news, starting with Valve’s SteamOS 3.0, which will be available for download after Steam Deck’s launch in February 2022, and continuing with the latest Raspberry Pi OS release based on Debian Bullseye. On top of that, I take a look at an unofficial LineageOS build […]
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The new stable Steam Client update is packed with lots of goodies for Linux users, starting with the availability of the PipeWire desktop capture feature, which can be enabled if you launch the Steam Client with the -pipewire command-line option. It also reduces the size of Vulkan pre-caching datasets by splitting and versioning them according […]
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Coming about five weeks after Proton 6.3-6, the Proton 6.3-7 release is here to add support for the Life is Strange: True Colors, Quake Champions, Divinity: Original Sin 2, eFootball PES 2021, EVERSLAUGHT VR, as well as WRC (World Rally Championship) 8, 9 and 10 video games. This means that you’ll now be able to […]
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The biggest new feature of the new Steam Client update is a brand new downloads page that’s easier to use and has a new design. The new download page now displays the total progress, including disk allocation process, when downloading or updating a game, as well as a faded progress bar and percent completed for […]
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With Steam Deck coming to gamers everywhere later this year, Valve is putting a lot of effort on making their Proton compatibility tool for Steam Play support as many Windows games as possible. In fact, Valve said that they plan to make all Windows games in the Steam library compatible with Linux systems before the […]
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Valve and AMD are working together to develop a better CPU performance scaling driver for Linux, targeting the Steam Deck gaming console. The new driver will allow the processor in the Steam Deck to quickly ramp up to a higher performance state when ne…
This week has been slow in news and I was busy traveling for personal matters. Despite that, we got some very hot news, such as the release of Firefox 90, the Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 software update for Linux phones, and Valve’s own gaming handheld powered by Arch Linux and KDE Plasma. On top of that, […]
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