Quoting: toorThe verification process for steam deck compatibility doesn't take into account if it's optimized for the hardware of the Steam deck at all.

It does, but 720p at 30 fps at default settings isn't a particularly high bar to clear with this hardware.

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Quoting: elmapul"Mad Max" ironic, this game used to have an native version

It still does: Feral's licence for WB IP expired. You can still buy it and Steam will install the native version, but the people that did the Linux version won't get paid for it.

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Quoting: Liam DaweThe problem is really Valve's marketing there on how they tell developers stuff should just run. However, the more developers that get a Steam Deck and the more players that get one, developers will inevitably be forced to actually test with Proton.

Marketing, yes, but the documentation says that they need to test, and gives instructions.

Quoting: rustybroomhandleI should hope that if one reports a game as broken after an update on a Steam Deck that whomever handles support at Valve will be able to mark it as such. Valve is not huge on housekeeping though, but maybe the Steam Deck has changed this a bit. It'd be a mindset shift that would benefit Windows gamers too.

Valve have said that if they get reports then they'll retest, and there may be games that lose the verified mark because of that. But the developers will have already got the money; I give more money to developers that provide more Linux support. Supported native version: 100%; supported Proton version: 50%; unsupported version: maybe 10%.

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One thing that I'd like developers to do is confirm that if their game is running through Proton and is Deck Verified, that they are also testing their game through Proton themselves - especially before they release updates. It would make a big difference to how much money I'm willing to give them. Hopefully they won't want to lose their nice checkmark, so they will test, but if they don't say they're testing then I'm going to assume that they're not.

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Quoting: EhvisI wonder which Mad Max was "verfied". Native standard, native vulkan-beta or proton.

Cannot be something different from what you get by default IMHO.

While I think that's likely true for these titles, it's not actually strictly the case in general; it would be what you get by default on the Steam Deck.

If developers put up a depot of lower-res textures for use on devices with small screens, the Deck can be given that automatically, and the old Proton whitelist has been replaced by automatically applying options listed in the manifest of general games. So the version that you get by default on the Steam Deck (which is the version that will have verification testing) isn't necessarily the same as the version that you'd get by default on any other Linux machine.

In most cases they'll be the same, because no one wants extra work and Valve want to show with the Deck that Linux is a viable gaming platform, but they won't necessarily be the same in all cases.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: einherjarIt would be interesting to know, how many titles are steam deck verified by now

Probably still just 1.

Yep, just one for now.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhat to do?!

What I do is to wait for a sufficient discount: the developer gets some money by virtue of their game not being broken on Linux, but they'd get more money if they'd made a properly-supported game.

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This looks exactly like the kind of game I'm planning on enjoying on the Steam Deck, so I hope they'll have their native build (not currently listed) and controller support (not currently listed) sorted by the time I have my unit, and that the text isn't too tiny.

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I'm really looking forward to shots of this running on the Steam Deck. And that the exposure brings more contributors, too, of course.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: CatKillerI hope this won't be an issue for the Steam Deck; that they'll have rolled out their re-encoding solution by the time the Deck ships.

I haven't followed too closely; does anyone know the (technical? legal?) issues with the solution used in ProtonGE?

GE just takes the library from Windows to decode those files. That's at least copyright infringement if you don't have a licence for that software on the machine you're running it on. Likely patent infringement, too (since that can be a thing for software despite it making no sense), given that Valve haven't taken the reimplementation approach.

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