I really hope they actually fixed the dock display issues and blank screen problems when waking from sleep or switching displays.
I’ll dig my dock out of the closet, update it, and see what happens. Fingers crossed.
I have a 3rd party dock, but it’s worked pretty well on the 3.6 beta as far as those issues are concerned.
Weird that they went to kernel 6.5 which is already a year old, rather than going to the LTS version 6.6 which is still in support.
At some point you have to draw the line in the sand and say this is what we’re updating to for this release, we’ll update again for the next one. I compare it to Star citizen, who kept updating to the latest and greatest and never delivered a product. I don’t care that you upgraded to the latest engine update, finish the product.
Valid, if they created this update before November 2023 when 6.6 was released, and have needed to test Steam OS with the 6.5 kernel for a whole year before releasing it.
Steam Deck LCD only Improved battery life by up to 10% in light load situations Added overclocking controls
Amazing!
only? Only?? ONLY???
Edit: misunderstood the context of the sentence, but in my defense added punctuation would have helped.
I was thinking the same! That’s pretty good all things considered!
Looking at the article itself, the context is that it’s a list of things that are for the LCD only versus the OLED only.
A new Dock firmware updated for compatibility fixes with VRR displays with high refresh rates
Does this mean that my games will stop “lagging” for no reason while gaming on my TV?
Well I was wondering why the f’n thing updated so long.
There was also a dock update… that failed… again!
… and it claims that everything is up to date. Same thing has happened every time since I got the thing.
Now that’s a hefty update.
So is game recording now in stable?
No, this is an update of SteamOS while game recording is a Steam Client feature. It’s still in the beta channel.
Thanks for this, but you might have to clarify for me. If I’m using a Steam Deck (and correct me if I’m wrong here), gaming mode doesn’t use the Steam Client, right? Gaming mode is more an ‘inbuilt feature’ of SteamOS?
I was wondering if game recording would now be included, as it makes reference to it here:
Fixed a problem where a Game Recording capture failing could cause subsequent captures to also fail
- Modified files in /etc are now migrated to new OS versions based on a whitelist
- Additional whitelist entries can be added via config fragments
- Up to five previous snaphots of /etc modifications will additionally be retained in /var/lib/steamos-atomupd/etc_backup/
Now, this is an interesting feature! Reminds me a bit of NixOS inspired.
