Valve has announced that the Steam Deck PC portable will be available on February 25th. Let us be clear: this is not the date on which you can anticipate getting your device. Rather, the embargo on press reviews and impressions will be lifted on February 25th. Valve will also send out the first wave of order emails to reservation holders, allowing them to complete their purchase within three days. If no purchase is made after that time, the reservation will be passed on to the next person in line.
Valve plans to begin shipping the first devices on February 28th. It also intends to send out new batches of order emails every week. Of course, if you haven’t yet reserved a Steam Deck unit, you’ll have to wait a lot longer.
We found out a few days ago that some of the Steam Deck Verified games are already available on SteamDB. Take a look at the list below, which includes some titles that have several difficulties and a few that are presently unavailable.
Steam Deck Verified:
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite
- Ape Out
- Castle Crashers
- Celeste
- Circuit Superstars
- Cuphead
- Dark Souls 2
- Dark Souls 3
- Death Stranding
- Death’s Door
- Dishonored
- Final Fantasy 1 Pixel Remaster
- Guacamelee! 2
- Gunfire Reborn
- Hollow Knight
- Hot Wheels Unleashed
- Into the Breach
- Mad Max
- Manifold Garden
- Mark of the Ninja Remastered
- Noida
- Portal 2
- Psychonauts 2
- RAD
- Record of Lodoss War -Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
- Remnant: From the Ashes
- Risk of Rain 2
- Rogue Legacy 2
- Sable
- Scarlet Nexus
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Super Mega Baseball 3
- Tetris Effect Connected
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Repentance expansion is NOT Linux native, however)
- The Messenger
- Total War: Warhammer 2
- Tunche
- Webbed
Have issues but run on the Steam Deck:
- Among Trees
- Black Skylands
- Bravely Default 2
- Cats in Time
- Cookie Clicker
- Crypt of the Necrodancer (default controller config doesn’t work, controller glyphs don’t match)
- Dyson Sphere Program
- Factorio
- Farming Simulator 19
- Inscription
- NieR: Automata
- Plants vs. Zombies GOTY
- RimWorld
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders
- Slay the Spire
- Stormworks: Build and Rescue
- Subnautica
- Swords of Legends Online
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Tomb Raider 2013
- Tribes of Midgard
- Vilhelm
- War Thunder
Does not run:
- Arizona Sunshine (VR title)
- Budget Cuts (VR title)
- Job Simulator (VR title)
- Persona 4 Golden
- theBlu (VR title)
In other Steam Deck news, Phoronix claims that Valve engineer Samuel Pitoiset has been trying to enhance power savings when utilizing Variable Rate Shading by making improvements to the open-source Radeon Vulkan ‘RADV’ driver. This will be enabled by default on Van Gogh, according to Pitoiset (the AMD APU the Steam Deck is based upon, with some customizations).
For power saving.
This MR is composed of roughly 3 parts:
- lower RADV_FORCE_VRS in NIR to avoid duplicating code in both compiler backends
- rework it by adding a new intrinsic to load the VRS rates dynamically
- add RADV_FORCE_VRS_CONFIG_FILE and monitor it using notify
It’s now possible to force per-vertex VRS dynamically by writing eg. 2×2 via RADV_FORCE_VRS_CONFIG_FILE (previously the VRS rates were hardcoded in the vertex shaders). This is enabled by default on VanGogh and the default rate is 1×1 if nothing else is set.
also read:
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