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SteamOS 3.5 has just been released to the Preview channel, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel. Display The default color rendering for Steam Deck has been adjusted to emulate the sRGB color gamut, resulting in a slightly warmer and more vibrant color appearance. Added Settings -> Adjust Display Colors, to tune the display's Color Vibrancy and Color Temperature.
  • NightOwlEnglish
    50·
    1 year ago

    • HDR can now be enabled in Display Settings if supported by the external display.

    • VRR can now be enabled in Display Settings if supported by the USB-C adapter.

    Excited for these two.

      • kadu@lemmy.world
        48·
        1 year ago

        You might know VRR from the commercial names from AMD and Nvidia: G-Sync and FreeSync.

        Your game/software can render as many frames as it wants or the hardware allows, yet your screen can only refresh at a set interval.

        Assume your game is running at 55 FPS, but your screen is refreshing at 60 Hz. There’s no way to assign one full frame to each display refresh, because these are not integer multiples of each other. This means that if you do absolutely nothing and just feed the display the latest available frame at all times, you get screen tearing: parts of the image shown on screen will come from one frame, and parts will come from the next frame, this results in weird artifacts where vertical lines appear to be cut or mixed. This is bad.

        You can then take the classic and most universally used approach: software vsync. In this case, your GPU will hold back each frame on a buffer and wait for your monitor to send a command requesting the next full frame. This fixes the artifacts, but because each frame must be kept waiting on a buffer, you get a delay between when the frame was calculated and when it shows up, this results in increased latency and it’s quite noticeable.

        VRR compatible displays will do something entirely different: they won’t just warn the GPU they’re ready for the next frame, but rather the display and GPU will constantly negotiate the refresh rate and adjust on the fly. The game is running at 55 FPS? The screen will refresh at 55 Hz. A heavy scene came up and now the game dropped to 43 FPS? Display will immediately refresh at 43 Hz.

        The end result is that if both the monitor and device support VRR, you get smooth frame delivery without latency spikes and without artifacts.

    • kayazere@feddit.nl
      4·
      1 year ago

      I just had to RMA mine in for this issue, still waiting for new unit. Hopefully this does really fix it.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      It was pretty easy to add those options to the bios before, but it’s nice that it’s no longer necessary.

      I wonder if we’ll get all the options, or if people will still have to use the bios script to unlock everything.

      • Jz5678910@lemdro.idEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Not sure if it carried over or if it was included with the update, but I do still have the full suite. I was curious about this myself. The bios got wiped with the update, so I can only assume that it was included.

  • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Nice, they added flatpak-kcm. No need to install Flat seal anymore.

    Also the sRGB gamut looks much better. No wonder people were complaining about the steam decks screen.

    • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If only my usb-c dock supported it hahaha. Any alternatives to the official dock to get this kind of support?

    • BlinkerFluidEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      That seems like something a third party company like 8bitdo or Gulikit would have business creating, and they likely wouldn’t do a bad job.

    • bhj 🦥
      5·
      1 year ago

      You can also just get an actual Bluetooth keyboard and it should just work.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        …you’re not actually serious with that comment are you?

        You don’t think I also have a bluetooth keyboard?

        Obviously and of course I have a bluetooth keyboard. and a portable monitor. and the hub.

        That’s not the point.

        If their keyboard wasn’t utter garbage, I could go completely without any of the above. Its so close to being everything I need, but the keyboard in its current state is a deal breaker. Instead of it being an option, I actually need a bt keyboard.

        They could do something like t9 or some of the other key pad style key boards from the mid 2000’s. I dont want to tap the screen.

        I want to be able to quickly use the controller to type. Its a broken experience as it currently stands.

        • bhj 🦥
          25·
          1 year ago

          I was just trying to be helpful. Some people might not know you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard to the device.

          I don’t know of any system that does a better job of typing with a controller than the Steam Deck with the touch pads. Granted, I’m not a console gamer so I have no idea what typing on the current gen Xbox or PlayStation is like, but I can’t imagine it’s better than the Steam Deck.

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 year ago

            I don’t know of any system that does a better job of typing with a controller than the Steam Deck with the touch pads. Granted, I’m not a console gamer so I have no idea what typing on the current gen Xbox or PlayStation is like, but I can’t imagine it’s better than the Steam Deck.

            Phones with number pads right at the beginning of the smart phone era had a number of good solutions that were surprisingly effective for typing. We’ve got so many buttons to work with on the steam deck.

        • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          1 year ago

          Have you tried using the touch pads with it? I found it to be a decent enough experience. I’m not going to type a novel with it, but it’s good for some web browsing if I’m doing some adminy on desktop. Unsure of your usecase.

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year ago

            Yep. Its a bit better, but still a shit keyboard. It seems like they went through great effort to not take advantage of the fact they ahve a crap ton of buttons they could be using.

            • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              I personally don’t mind it now that I have the groove for it but I can understand your side of things. What’s your usecase exactly?

    • klay@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      same here! I’m a huge fan of MessagEase, a keyboard specifically made for the cell phone touch screen form factor. I think Valve used to dabble in something like this for the controller form factor, the ‘daisy’ or whatever? I think that should absolutely make a comeback, typing with touchpads is a short-term solution but with all the buttons and analogs on a modern controller, we should really have more keyboard options! Maybe something like each stick has 8 positions, and holding any combo of left-stick + right-stick gives one of 64 virtual ‘keys’, which you can click with the triggers, and the bumpers let you swap between different alphabets.

    • oldGregg@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Im positive theres one already, i use an xbox 360 controller to control my arch desktop and it has a keyboard using the steam controller config