Weekly News Recap (HDR on Deck, RTX 4070 Ti, Ray Tracing on AMD)

Steam Deck⌗
- Thursday’s Deck client update fixes reboot loop on broken Steam install, controller settings for non-Steam games can now be modified
News⌗
- looks like we’re finally starting to see initial support for HDR on desktop and Deck. Red Hat is putting together a hackfest to accelerate the development
- NVIDIA launches the rebranded RTX 4070 Ti
- “exciting times” for Vulkan video
- ray tracing for AMD is getting closer
- Fraymakers launches in Steam early access on the 18th
- RPCS3 (PS3 emulator) – “every PS3 game at the very least boots and shows image output”
- Mesa 23 will get reduced CPU overhead on RADV
Software Updates⌗
- Proton Experimental 01.06.2023 adds compatibility to Gungrave G.O.R.E, fixes Alt+Tab issues on GNOME 43 and later
- Proton 7.0-6 now available in Proton Next
- Wine 8.0-rc3 fixes 28 bugs
- NVIDIA driver 525.78.01 adds a few fixes while adding support for the 4070 Ti
Other⌗
- I went over my top games of 2022
Cover image credit: Pierre-Loup Griffais
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