Valve released Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.21 Beta "Update of the Year" to fix up various problems, and then re-released it shortly after to fix up more issues. Here's what you need to know.
Many people diving into the new release of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle noticed a bit of a problem, where characters' eyes were glowing various colours like something out of a horror film. It looked quite funny but now thankfully it should be fixed. Along with various security issues in the SteamOS system itself also solved.
Here's all the changes:
General
This update has been re-released with the following additional fixes:
- Fixed a rendering issue with characters' eyes in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Added support for the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller
- Fixed Linux kernel CVE-2024-50089
- Fixed mpg123 CVE-2024-10573
- Fixed libarchive CVE-2024-20696
- Fixed high single core CPU usage for users with large libraries during Steam startup.
- Fixed a regression w/ reading the Wireless HORIPAD For Steam's grip buttons.
Taken from the official changelog.
For Desktop Linux users the bug report on the Mesa drivers GitLab shows the Indiana Jones fix will be backported to Mesa 24.3.2, which releases around December 18th. Valve just pulled in the changes directly for their version of Mesa used.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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QuoteFixed a rendering issue with characters' eyes in Indiana Jones and the Great CircleI wonder if this fix comes from a Mesa update or just a Proton one because it appears on Desktop Linux as well (at least with AMD graphics).
Last edited by Spyker on 13 December 2024 at 10:03 am UTC
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Quoting: SpykerQuoteFixed a rendering issue with characters' eyes in Indiana Jones and the Great CircleI wonder if this fix comes from a Mesa update or just a Proton one because it appears on Desktop Linux as well (at least with AMD graphics).
I think this is related to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/12257
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Quoting: SpykerIt's literally linked in the article. It's a Mesa update.QuoteFixed a rendering issue with characters' eyes in Indiana Jones and the Great CircleI wonder if this fix comes from a Mesa update or just a Proton one because it appears on Desktop Linux as well (at least with AMD graphics).
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Quoting: jensQuoting: SpykerQuoteFixed a rendering issue with characters' eyes in Indiana Jones and the Great CircleI wonder if this fix comes from a Mesa update or just a Proton one because it appears on Desktop Linux as well (at least with AMD graphics).
I think this is related to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/12257
Ok so it seems it's a game bug but they have a workaround now in Mesa... Let's hope it will be fixed in the game because I won't get a Mesa update anytime soon.
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Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: SpykerIt's literally linked in the article. It's a Mesa update.QuoteFixed a rendering issue with characters' eyes in Indiana Jones and the Great CircleI wonder if this fix comes from a Mesa update or just a Proton one because it appears on Desktop Linux as well (at least with AMD graphics).
Fair enough, I didn't see the last line.
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Cool that the issues seem to be fixed. Until then one had to use AMDVLK. On a side note, performance of this game is extraordinarily good, rare to see such optimized and good looking games these days.
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QuoteAlong with various security issues in the SteamOS system itself also solved.Hopefully it won't be long before it's released to stable, then.
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Quoting: KROMCool that the issues seem to be fixed. Until then one had to use AMDVLK. On a side note, performance of this game is extraordinarily good, rare to see such optimized and good looking games these days.
IDTech has always been a different beast.
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Quoting: KROMCool that the issues seem to be fixed. Until then one had to use AMDVLK. On a side note, performance of this game is extraordinarily good, rare to see such optimized and good looking games these days.On a good machine with 32Go RAM it runs very well but on the Steam Deck it really struggles.
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