Quoting: F.UltraImmersion also want the court to forbid Valve from selling more Steam Decks and Index:es.

They want Valve to be prohibited unless they pay the tithe. Some fee on the units they've sold to date is much less attractive than the fee on the (15? maybe?) millions of future units, plus the fees on Deck 2/Index 2/Controller 2 in the future. They want to just kick back and collect rent; the threat of an injunction is the stick to make everyone get a licence.

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Can it do the timing tricks that the Deck's screen can do to run at 40 Hz?

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QuoteRemoving the graphics settings in Atomic Heart on Steam Deck was a hard decision for us to make

You chose... poorly.

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Quoting: silmethno idea how the log-out or Steam caused this… or if something else happened simultaneously and broke the BT device settings…).

On the Steam Deck Big Picture Mode has to manage Bluetooth (and power settings, fan curve, refresh rate, and all the rest). Valve didn't isolate Steam Deck things from Big Picture things before they rolled out the new Big Picture to people where all of those things are managed by something else.

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Does anyone have a firm grasp on where the issue lies? Some spec that isn't implemented by Nvidia? Some out-of-spec behaviour from Steam that happens to work on Mesa? Deliberately taking a slow path? Since it's been an issue for so long, it seems like no one knows, and they're just blindly poking.

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Quoting: LacSlyerThis is 100% a patent trolling company.

Of course it is. But that's a not-yet-illegal-in-the-US and very lucrative line of business to be in. Although I believe they prefer the term "Non Practising Entity."

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Quoting: MayeulCI believe patents to last way too long for software

Patents on software are prohibited, although that hasn't stopped patent filers and the CAFC from trying to slip them through anyway - generally with the figleaf that a machine that's running software is an entirely different machine to one that's running different software.

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Quoting: elmapuli know that will sound like conspiration theory, but.. who else thinks microsoft is behind this?
that seems like an familiar situation, microsoft funding someone else to sue...

Microsoft have helped out with legal attacks against their rivals before, but it's not really necessary in this case: Immersion are plenty aggressive already. Sony tried to front out that "customers don't really want rumble anyway" with the first PS3 controllers because they were being sued by Immersion, before ultimately caving. At most it would take "that Steam Deck is doing quite well" to some Immersion executive.

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The Deck is definitely hitting success milestones: the Steam Controller and Index didn't hit the levels that were worth suing over rumble (although the Steam Controller hit the level where it's worth suing over back paddles). Onward and upward!

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QuoteAlthough if you're on desktop Linux, you might want Proton Experimental which recently enabled the NVAPI for it (for NVIDIA GPUs).

For those that aren't aware, you can enable NVAPI for those games that don't have it automatically enabled with
PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command%
as the launch option.

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