People will be really pissed if they announce/release the SD2 there first!

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Why, I mean seriously WHY put windows on a handheld!

Am not saying that as a linux fanboy either, I wouldn't recommend a desktop distro either.

Valve spent all that time and effort on the deck UI for a reason!

!TO MAKE IT USABLE AND EASY!

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Quoting: Nexxtic'confusing' level design and enemy encounters that are extremely unforgiving.

No ****, Got battered in the first 5 mins, would have been sooner but took me at least 4 and half minutes to figure a way out of the start room.

Nice to see a Steam deck settings option too in the menu.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: MacTavishAlthough I like Epic

May I ask what you like? It seems an unpopular opinion, but I'm open to your thoughts.

Because of how broken it is and what's lacking + the fact no linux native makes people appreciate Steam a whole lot more!

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Soooo, TF2 with new skins then ?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: JarmerThank goodness GOL exists as a free independent entity with quality content.

And for all those who wish GOL to remain that way, *taps the sign*.

Quoting: Jarmeryes absolutely! Sorry I should totally have posted that link myself lol. Everyone go sub, because by god we need to keep this community around.

Cough* have done for years! Cough*

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Quoting: Vasilis

Quoting: stormtuxFrom the Steam store:

QuoteSystem Requirements

Minimum:
OS: SteamOS 3.5.17

Really?!?

I was thinking for a Linux exclusive first, we are testing it on:

1. Fedora (it's my machine)
2. Ubuntu
3. Steam deck

It should work for all Linux distros, we just put that as a minimum.

No arch !!!! tut, tut, tut.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRum"on Steam's proprietary console"
Haha, nice little dig there! Reminding us it's not as free as it may seem

Odd thing to say to be honest as I bet the hardware they where making said game on is proprietary too.

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Quoting: tuubiOBS already has an AMF encoder.

This is what I use, like stated before I have used va-api it's just not even close to AMF as AMF actually works reliably and good quality recording with next to zero performance hit.

Quoting: ShmerlWhat exactly is bad?

Quoting: pete910Slow with bad quality at a given bitrate, and more often than not just overloads and crashes.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: pete910

Quoting: tuubiSucks in what way?

Slow with bad quality at a given bitrate, and more often than not just overloads and crashes.

Did you test with OBS? I know they had bugs in their VAAPI implementation causing worse quality at some point, but those should be mostly fixed in 30.x. Also Mesa improved video encode quality on AMD's VCN in Mesa 23.3 and older VCE/UVD hardware in 24.0. You might be basing your opinion on outdated information.

For me there was no real difference in speed, quality or resource usage between the APIs, testing with ffmpeg on latest stable Mesa. And that makes sense as both make use of the same encoding hardware. I pretty much only tested AV1 encoding though, and not very thoroughly. YMMV.

Quoting: pete910Still need AMD's bit though to use the hardware.

Mesa doesn't need any proprietary bits to access the video encode hardware.

Tried with mesa 24.1 and OBS 30.1.

Quoting: tuubiMesa doesn't need any proprietary bits to access the video encode hardware.

That maybe the case but why is it so bad then if using the hardware to the full extent that AMF can?

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