The day Proton Experimental got updated, was also the day Proton 7.0-6 graduated from release candidate to Proton Next. The changes are almost exactly the same as the release candidate. As a reminder, playable titles include: Gotham Knights UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection Wargame: Red Dragon Heroes of the Dark Super Arcade Racing Crazy Machines 3 NinNinDays2 雀姬 (Mahjong ladies) Bug fixes are as follows: fix Microsoft Flight Simulator: crashing during longer flights not displaying live traffic not starting after a recent game update crashing when starting next to big cities fix being unable to log in to Xbox Live from Main Menu in As Dusk Falls fix Septerra Core hanging on redistributables installation fix Super House of Dead Ninjas, Enemy Mind, and Out There Somewhere frame hitching every few seconds fix on-screen keyboard popping up every time when starting A Plague Tale: Requiem on the Steam Deck fix Zeepkist freezing when using controller fix Overcooked!

Pretty interesting update to Proton Experimental. Today’s update adds compatibility with Gungrave G.O.R.E. Force feedback compatibility has been improved with BeamNG and Forza Horizon 5. As far as bug fixes go, Alt+Tabbing should no longer present any issues for those of you using GNOME 43 or later. Also, Life is Strange Remastered should no longer crash after chapter 2. See the patch notes on GitHub. Cover image credit: Iggymob Co., Ltd/Prime Matter

New Deck client is out for Beta and Preview users. This fixes the reboot loop that could occur when failing to update a broken Steam install (could this perhaps fix the “brick” situation that I had described last weekend?). The New Big Picture Mode got some improvements as well – Steam controller dongle pairing is now possible, and controllers can be turned off when exiting BPM. As far as Steam Input, the ThrustMaster eSwap PRO Xbox controller has been added, and the long delay when connecting Razer keyboards should no longer be present.

Here are my top games that were released in 2022. Please note: These picks aren’t sorted in any particular order. Obviously, my opinion on these is subjective. Your favorites will likely differ from mine. Some games may have previously been released on other platforms/stores prior to 2022, but migrated to Steam in said year, so those games are included here. The Entropy Centre Great game to play if you’re a fan of the Portal series.

10 months in since LGC has been around, and I’m kind of exhausted. I was hoping I could wait until the one-year anniversary in March, but I don’t think I’d be able to make it. Rarely has a day gone by without me writing at least one post, including holidays and weekends. Sometimes I’ve had to sacrifice time eating, sleeping, or taking a shower just to make sure I have news delivered in a timely manner.

Fraymakers is a game that I’ve been following closely. It’s basically a pixel-art platform fighter with mechanics that are akin to the Smash Brothers series. The team behind it is McLeodGaming, who also made Super Smash Flash and Super Smash Flash 2. This was originally slated to be released in Early Access on Steam back in August. It’s been pushed back and now we’ve finally got a release date: January 18th.

Steam Deck planning on going somewhere without Internet? Here’s a few tips so you can avoid unexpected updates be careful where you buy your MicroSD card; it might be a fake I have an updated guide for modding Sonic Frontiers SteamOS 3.4.5 (preview) fixes update loop when doing factory reset and fixes focus issue with Forza Horizon 5 the Deck doesn’t need exclusives beware of scam Deck and Steam account stores Software Updates Cemu 2.

So there I was, away from home, sitting in a parking lot in my car. One of the few times I actually take my Steam Deck out, I awaken it from sleep while it was in Desktop Mode. I switch to Game Mode. Then I get the fatal error as shown in the cover photo. The device kept rebooting. It wouldn’t go away until I had Internet. But I wasn’t home, and I had no way of connecting to any Wi-Fi network.

So, those GLIBC developers…they have a tendancy of breaking things related to anti-cheat (particularly EAC). So much so that even Valve’s own Pierre-Loup Griffais had complained about it, mentioning that this “contributes to damaging the idea of desktop Linux as a viable target for third-party developers.” If you’re on Arch Linux on desktop, or you’re using the Steam Deck, you might not be able to get certain games with EAC to run anymore, because both platforms updated to the latest version of GLIBC.

Small but important update out for both stable and preview branches on the Deck. SteamOS 3.4.4 (stable) fixes an update loop that could occur when doing a factory reset. 3.4.5 (preview) – in addition to adding the update loop fix – also fixes a focus issue with Forza Horizon 5.