In addition to Valve contributing to the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for enhancing the Linux gaming experience and their AMD-powered Steam Deck, the upcoming Steam Frame VR headset is making use of Mesa’s open-source “Turnip” Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics.
Linux consulting firm Igalia who has long seen funded work from Valve wrote a blog post today to outline their recent efforts given last week’s Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller announcement. Igalia highlighted the work they have been doing for the Steam Frame around FEX for x86/x86_64 emulation on ARM for the Qualcomm Snapdragon powered VR device. Plus the work done to Turnip for serving as the Vulkan driver on the Steam Frame
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Valve recently published a Steam Deck Verified rating for the smash-hit extraction shooter ARC Raiders. I decided to see if it deserved the rating.
With close to 100 hours on my Linux desktop where it has been working beautifully, I feel like I have a decent enough grasp on how it should feel by now. It’s also one of the few bigger games like this that actually has the anti-cheat enabled for Linux / SteamOS which is going to be a big problem for the Steam Machine, so it’s quite an important one. There’s many that simply disable Linux support as noted on our anti-cheat page.
With the latest minor update, the newer Quake II re-release that saw Nightdive Studios jump in to improve it is now Steam Deck Verified.
Back in August 2023 the re-release update came with lots of enhancements to the classic including the expansions, Quake 64, big multiplayer improvements and various gameplay improvements. It was quite the overhaul for the classic shooter. Valve’s original rating was Steam Deck Playable but that was from their test in 2022.
A small update was pushed to the game with no patch notes on what they changed, they simply said “Quake II is now Steam Deck Verified and Handheld Optimized on Xbox ROG Ally devices” and with that - it’s now Steam Deck Verified. So now you’re truly good to go across Desktop Linux, Steam Deck and other SteamOS machines and it should work without much of a fuss at all.