Valve Pushes Out Big Steam Beta Update, Linux Changes & Steam Remote Play

[toojays]

Hope that those network changes fixes solve a 3/4 years old bug where disconnecting and reconnecting NetworkManager forces you to restart Steam. Example: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/1518.

From this comment by Paul Fenwick on a similar bug I've been watching, it sounds like it should.

[R41N3R]

Emulation* of OpenGL in Vulkan would most likely slow the game down due to overhead unless the emulator and Vulkan driver are far more clever at optimization than existing OpenGL drivers, so the only benefit would be for GPUs with only a Vulkan implementation. If you need or want to try such a thing, there is [Zink], but I don't believe it has advanced past OpenGL 2.1 yet.
*more like a compatibility or translation layer, like Wine is
[Zink]: <https://www.collabora.com/news-and-b...tation-vulkan/>

Zink supports OpenGL 3.0 already, as far as I know.

[smitty3268]

Zink supports OpenGL 3.0 already, as far as I know.

It's also running at half the speed of native GL.

[d3coder]

> Fixed a bug where copying/moving files bigger than 2GB would fail with an I/O error
Oh yeah!

[Templar82]

OK, so that was about 20GB of updates. Holy monkey.

Wow you weren't kidding

[nomadewolf]

Congratulations to Valve for keeping to invest in Linux!

[sabian2008]

From this comment by Paul Fenwick on a similar bug I've been watching, it sounds like it should.

Thanks for this. I was a bit lazy to download the beta and test it. 2012 bug, damn.

[cl333r]

why would valve do another level of slowdown?

Hard Reset Redux over DXVK (Vulkan) on Linux runs smoother than on Windows on "native" OpenGL where I often experience stuttering.

[swagg_boi]

> On the Linux front specifically, there is a fix that was causing Steam to crash randomly when launching games,
But crashing games when they launched from XFS partition they don't fix yet.

Which games are giving you this issue? I haven't experienced this issue (I'm also using XFS) but I play just a couple old games which maybe aren't affected

[mv.gavrilov]

Which games are giving you this issue? I haven't experienced this issue (I'm also using XFS) but I play just a couple old games which maybe aren't affected

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ste...ment-418441314
This issue reproduced on XFS partitions over 2TB