Huh. Mmmaybe the LCD model has board revisions that are still different enough to trip things up? It’s definitely a bug to have wireplumber not “do the right thing no matter what hardware it booted up on today”, it would probably take a Valve engineer to chase that down and submit a patch.

👆 this sounds like the most probable fix. I suspect OP buried a very critical factoid - moving the drive between OLED and LCD models. The systems have some significant hardware differences (as evidenced by the Windows drivers changing so much that Valve took a long time to update em). Somewhere, Pipewire has squirreled away details about routing or preferred devices from the old system.

Heck, there might be journalctl log entries being generated you plug into the headphone jack. Pipewire could already be trying to tell you exactly what’s wrong.

Fields of Mistria.

Just finished up “Last Time I Saw You”, ehh I think it’s the weak one in the “Until Then & Space For The Unbound” untrilogy.

The HDMI port on any dock is output only. You would have to get an HDMI capture adapter to go that route, and watching those live with low lag is problematic. Beware of capture adapters that are USB 2.0 (a lot of cheapos will lie about this).

Another way to go would be Steam Link over wired ethernet.

One last way, which involves only one higher-end USB-C cable, would be to directly plug the deck to the tablet. One (or both) would act in a CDC-ether role to network the two together. (How do you simultaneously access the internet/Steam’s servers?). This setup is very fussy on the software side. I have been remarkably unsuccessful at connecting the deck to a laptop in this fashion, but Android is more open to doing “dual role” usb stuff.

Steam should be loading a separate controller config for every game, or at very least loading a default profile of “every button is literally the same as on an Xbox controller”. A weird SteamInput config shouldn’t affect across all games, I think.

Does it act up in Desktop mode? How about if Steam is closed, and you play something from Heroic?

It’s possible that a hardware fault is sending insane inputs. Bad connections to the controller-sub-boards? The controller microchip just going batty?

It sounds like they have to wait for support to move from the Steam Client Beta to mainline. That happens on Valve Time, so they genuinely do not know.

SteamOS isn’t really meant for any system outside the Steam Deck and a handful of similar handhelds. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have any Nvidia drivers, for starters.

Bazzite and Nobara are the general answers to gaming on any random PC hardware.

Finally!

Terminal/Esc looks interesting

Opening something that’s a (mostly) static page works. Doing anything that involves talking to a database, such as aggregating your wishlist or searching for a game, is hopeless.

Try searching for any game, any game at all. Steam can’t do it.

You can have VRR when connecting to an external DISPLAYPORT (not hdmi) monitor. The internal panel is 60hz (or 90 on the OLED). You can adjust the refresh rate to any fixed value down to 40hz, but this doesn’t happen dynamically.

With fixed frame rate you have the fundamental problem that any time the GPU takes even one clock cycle too long to finish a render, you drop to 1/2 framerate. With fixed frame rate you can’t miss by just a little bit, every miss is rounded up to the next full frame.

The thing that I would keep an eye out for is if Valve ever does a refresh with a VRR panel. With VRR, you don’t need to have “so much excess GPU power that it’s impossible to miss a rendering deadline”.

Epic hasn’t gone out of their way to make life hard for Legendary/Heroic, yet. I guess that is a kind of support.

My biggest regret with Epic is buying Eastward there, and then whoops the DLC sidestory is available on every store but there. I can only read that as meaning “nobody makes money selling games, to the end user, on EGS. The only money you’ll make is from selling directly to Tim Epic for a giveaway or an exclusive.”

Am I going to put any more money in Epic? No. Am I going to take the freebies? Sure.

Before you do that, try replacing the EOSSDK-Win64-Shipping.dll file with an emulator (in the flavour of Goldberg).

Fun fact - Nemirtingas made exactly such a thing, but it’s really hard to find a copy! I ended up finding it in “Nucleus Co-op”. Get the zip, don’t bother installing it, just yoink it out of the utils folder.

I can personally attest that “it hasn’t cryptolockered me as of this moment”, for what that’s worth.

Yeah, Kaizen had a really poor showing for a demo. Making a good demo - something that shows off just the right bits of your game while teasing about more - there’s an art to that.

I figure that Zach is just really bad at designing demos and the game will be fine.

Öoo, Hirogami, Under the Island, Primal Planet, Escape Simulator 2. I like my puzzles, metroidvanias, and zeldas.

Particle Hearts was one that I didn’t click with, but still worth checking out just for its visual style.

I’m pretty sure that this “streamlined, gaming-first” development team will last right up to the moment they come into conflict with any other corporate goal.

You’re not doing AI-first? You’re not injecting Bing into every experience? Where are all the ads? Oops, so sorry, your role has been made redundant.

Standby time is 99% a function of “how much power the ram takes”. If you have less ram, it takes less power to refresh.

Trackpads cost “money”, and besides you already have a touchscreen.

The thing that really makes me jealous is the Freesync panel. The secret to getting a battery-powered GPU to keep up with the screen is to stop making it keep up with the screen.