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656 Valve open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2007.

Improved Sound Open Firmware On The Way For Valve's Steam Deck OLED
Improved Sound Open Firmware On The Way For Valve's Steam Deck OLED

Earlier Phoronix reporting on the "Valve Galileo" as a new Steam Deck device proved accurate and that is the new Steam Deck OLED gaming console. Further improving the upstream Linux kernel support is a set of patches to further refine the Sound Open Firmware (SOF) support for this new platform.

10 December 2023 - SOF For Steam Deck OLED - 9 Comments
RADV Adds Knobs To Force Shader Re-Compilation - Helping Games On The Steam Deck
RADV Adds Knobs To Force Shader Re-Compilation - Helping Games On The Steam Deck

Valve's Steam Deck is a heavy user of relying on pre-compiled shaders to yield quicker start times and a more efficient handheld gaming experience. But in cases where bugs happen and a shader compiler fix needs to be back-ported, there isn't a straight-forward means of properly handling that for the Steam Deck. But with new knobs being added to the Mesa RADV driver code, there will be some options for better dealing with this moving forward.

13 November 2023 - Forced Shader Re-Compilation - 19 Comments
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor

Kicking off XDC 2023 yesterday in Spain was Igalia's Melissa Wen talking about her work on color management with the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack to empower Valve's Linux work on the Steam Deck. That was followed by Joshua Ashton of Valve talking about their work on HDR and color management from the Steam OS / Gamescope side for the Steam Deck.

18 October 2023 - HDR - 38 Comments
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

This shouldn't come as any surprise to any longtime Phoronix readers and dedicated open-source/Linux enthusiasts, but Valve with their work on the Steam Deck and SteamOS have been lifting the open-source ecosystem as a whole. A talk this week at the Linux Foundation Europe's Open-Source Summit highlighted some of the great and ongoing contributions by Valve and their partners.

22 September 2023 - OSS EU 2023 - 67 Comments
DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK
DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK

A new version of DXVK-NVAPI is now available, the NVIDIA public NVAPI interface implemented atop DXVK for use by Direct3D games running on Valve's Steam Play (Proton). DXVK-NVAPI allows for NVIDIA DLSS for Vulkan / D3D11 / D3D12, NVIDIA Reflex support, PhysX, and other NVIDIA features to be enabled for popular Windows games running on Linux.

9 September 2023 - DXVK-NVAPI - 6 Comments
Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very Exciting July
Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very Exciting July

In July the Steam Survey results pointed to a half percent jump in the Linux gaming marketshare, taking it to nearly 2% thanks to the success of Valve's Steam Deck that runs their Arch Linux powered SteamOS platform. After the big boost in July you are probably wondering what happened in August... Well, a few minutes ago the new Steam Survey monthly results were published.

1 September 2023 - Steam Survey For August 2023 - 26 Comments
After A Strange March, Valve's April Numbers Show Steam Linux Numbers Appearing Inline
After A Strange March, Valve's April Numbers Show Steam Linux Numbers Appearing Inline

At the start of April there were the Steam Survey results for March 2023 that showed a 0.54% dip to the marketshare. With that were als some strange shifts in the Windows 10 vs. 11 marketshare as well as a big boost to the Chinese marketshare. The March numbers were not revised but with the start of May comes the April numbers... Showing a boost to Linux and largely recovering from the April anomaly.

1 May 2023 - Steam For April - 18 Comments
Improved AMD Color Management Being Worked On For The Steam Deck
Improved AMD Color Management Being Worked On For The Steam Deck

Open-source Linux graphics driver engineer Melissa Wen with Igalia, Joshua Ashton with Valve, and Harry Wentland with AMD have been working on kernel mode-setting (KMS) color pipeline enhancements for SteamOS and in particular for enhancing the Steam Deck.

24 April 2023 - Steam Deck Color Management - 20 Comments
Steam Deck Goes On Sale For Steam's Spring Sale
Steam Deck Goes On Sale For Steam's Spring Sale

Valve today started their first-ever Steam Spring Sale that runs through next week. In addition to sales on games, this is the first time Valve has offered the Steam Deck at a discounted price.

16 March 2023 - Steam Spring Sale - 38 Comments
Proton 7.0-6 Released With More Windows Games Playable On Linux
Proton 7.0-6 Released With More Windows Games Playable On Linux

Valve has just published Proton 7.0-6 as the newest version of this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux. Proton 7.0-6 had been available in testing and release candidate form since the end of last year while now has been promoted to stable.

3 February 2023 - Proton 7.0-6 - 9 Comments

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