Quoting: minidouHas Shader Pre-Caching been broken for a few weeks ? My Steam updates almost every game every day for a few MB (I figured it is shader downloading since it used to look like small updates).

If they download every time and for the same games, your download cache is broken. Clear the download cache in the options (requires you to log in again), and steam downloads them once more and then you should be good.

If it's about updating the cache when you start a game - that happens on every proton and driver update.

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Quoting: vipor29i'm assuming raceroom works fine on AMD cards it crashes on my system with nvidia lol

Does not on mine. I still get the user error though on experimental, but it starts perfectly well.
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070] driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01

https://imgur.com/a/otYRRSe

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Quoting: MohandevirBefore worrying about the 100% compatibility mark, I would try to get the same tests on Windows 10-11 with Windows games... It might be lower than 90%.

Ex: My son was never able to run Batman Arkham Asylum on Windows... I did with Proton.

I mean... 100% support doesn't exist, even on Windows, so...

The difference to Windows is that they target one hardware platform. Steam Deck has one hardware configuration. That's doable. They've hired external testers and are hiring for their internal team to get that curated and to provide (according to valve) verification within a week.

A week is nothing in the time of game development.

I'm actually not wondering if they can test 50.000 games. I am wondering if they have the means to improve then when they find out 20 % are not running properly, since that will very likely be more intensive, and having 10k games to improve is for sure no easy task for a small team as Valve is. Except if the original game developers help on that, either paid or on their own accord.

I'm seeing a lot of proton based updates to games (not proton itself, but the actual games updating), so I think that devs are actively working on making their games run on the deck. That's a good sign and will help us all (unless the new settings and improvements only work on steam deck).

There certainly seems to be a lot of interest in steam deck by developers. They probably do that with their existing titles to have the skills for their next title to come, but still that's interesting. Game devs hardly every showed any interest in that.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: GuestProbably just some wifi-6 features being wrapped up in nice marketing terms to convince everyone they need this, and to get ahead of the competitors (forcing them to be compliant to whatever wifi quirks Qualcomm have).

Lets hope so. proprietary software/hardware that goes outside of industry standards (especially wireless transmitters) are usually horrible for everyone else that's on the (regulated) 802.11 standards.

But im sure it's fully compliant.

I assure you, 802.11 implementations and standards compliance are only very loosely connected. Some can't even get the beacon timestamps correct (oh wow were they ever so much fun to work with).

No, they were not. I had that pleasure. But well, it was a broadcom product - what did I expect, their quality always has been utterly garbage, software and hardware side.

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While Steam could use a competitor, it's certainly not Twich and their Linux-Unfriendly clients I want to show up in that place.

Quoting: ShmerlDoes Vapor predate Amazon buying Twitch or it's Bezos's idea?

I'd say it should predate it, since Amazon is a marketplace for literally everything. Would make no sense to have a different marketplace for games.

So if Amazon decides to go there (and they will eventually), I'm pretty sure it will be under the Amazon brand and not Twitch - but featuring heavy twitch chat and streaming integration.

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Would be interested in the "Other", since what we see is all Ubuntu or Ubuntu based or Arch or Arch based.

Would like to know how others, as Solus, Fedora, Suse are doing. There are not so many big players, but personally with Fedoras switch to Wayland that would be interesting.

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Quoting: STiATVery well, I've looked it up, it's actually true, the 6800 TX is ~3.6 % faster than a 3070 Ti, and ~5 % slower than a 3080, so somewhere in between those two :D.

Plus from what I was reading about Linux gaming specifically, in some workloads Nvidia is just worse due to some of their driver deficiencies, like with vkd3d-proton especially. So I don't regret getting 6800 XT since at least currently I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077.

Very well, as I said, I'd have gone with a 6800 or 6900 anyway despite any performance if there was the possible temperature side of things, since proprietary driver ... wasn't my first choice.

So the only thing I would have regretted would be - I couldn't have cooled it passively.

So I did the right choice for my usage I'd say, though, ye, I'd have preferred to use a AMD card.

Especially since most games I play don't really bother my system (except for probably Cyberpunk and KCD - KCD is interestingly very heavy on the GPU).

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Quoting: STiATAnd according to tests, 6800 XT is actually worse than 3070Ti to the sources I am reading at least. But ye, I couldn't cool a 3080 either ...

From what I was reading, 6800 XT is pretty close to 3080 Ti, so I don't expect it to be worse than 3070 Ti really (I mean performance wise).

Very well, I've looked it up, it's actually true, the 6800 TX is ~3.6 % faster than a 3070 Ti, and ~5 % slower than a 3080, so somewhere in between those two :D.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: STiATMy fans don't even start when gaming ;-). That's what I was aiming for.

I see. I doubt it's possible with higher end models, regardless whether it's AMD or Nvidia. For slightly more mid range ones - may be, especially if you downclock them.

I.e. 6800 XT is comparable to something like 3080 Ti I suppose, not 3070?

And according to tests, 6800 XT is actually worse than 3070Ti to the sources I am reading at least. But ye, I couldn't cool a 3080 either ...

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: STiATMy fans don't even start when gaming ;-). That's what I was aiming for.

I see. I doubt it's possible with higher end models, regardless whether it's AMD or Nvidia. For mid range ones - may be, especially if you downclock them.

It's about the voltage they take and the actual passive cooling they'd take. My tower weights 24KG for that reason ... but 30W difference makes a huge difference on actually being able to passively cool them.

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