SteamOS 3.5 Rolls Out In Preview On The Steam Deck With Many New Features

[Kepsz]

Unigine Superposition 1080p result does increased to 3020 points from 2820 point with this update. But the fan get somewhat louder under load.

[loganj]

i wonder if they will make a custom install without the need to format the entire hdd. something like how holoiso works which allows the select of non allocated space on a selected hdd

[bemerk]

With a multi monitor setup and non english keyboard layout , improvements to Steam OS are needed. Nice to see they push new majors and not just proton updates

[geearf]

Michael

So, I just published my article here:

https://medium.com/@a.b.t./here-are-some-possibly-useful-tweaks-for-steamos-on-the-steam-deck-fcb6b571b577

It all comes down to these commands:



You can simply copy & paste the whole block above into the terminal in order to have them all applied at once.

Just a handful of games would be enough to see any differences between SteamOS 3.4 vs. 3.5, which would certainly drive quite some traffic onto Phoronix, too.

Hope you consider it...

Why not use /etc/default/cpupower instead of creating an extra service? Also is performance really the better idea on a mobile device?
Why set min_ttl_ms to 0? That's not enabling the feature but disabling it.

[dragorth]

Why not use /etc/default/cpupower instead of creating an extra service? Also is performance really the better idea on a mobile device?
Why set min_ttl_ms to 0? That's not enabling the feature but disabling it.

Creating the service makes it easy to tell someone to turn off the service rather than remember that one place you have to put that specific value or number.

[Michael]

Michael

So, I just published my article here:

https://medium.com/@a.b.t./here-are-some-possibly-useful-tweaks-for-steamos-on-the-steam-deck-fcb6b571b577

It all comes down to these commands:



You can simply copy & paste the whole block above into the terminal in order to have them all applied at once.

Just a handful of games would be enough to see any differences between SteamOS 3.4 vs. 3.5, which would certainly drive quite some traffic onto Phoronix, too.

Hope you consider it...

I have a SteamOS 3.4 vs. 3.5 preview article coming out with benchmarks tonight or tomorrow... If you are content with that collection of benchmarks, will then proceed to do a follow-up article looking at your changes atop 3.5.

[geearf]

Creating the service makes it easy to tell someone to turn off the service rather than remember that one place you have to put that specific value or number.

He's already using sed for grub and fstab, he can use it for undoing the change to cpupower similarly.
If the random person searches online for how to undo without remembering that page, they may find the default way to do so but not this one. Plus restarting the standard cpupower service will reset to the value set for default, making things weird. I think, when it makes no runtime difference, it's easier to stick to the default and tested architectures to configure stuff.

[dragorth]

He's already using sed for grub and fstab, he can use it for undoing the change to cpupower similarly.
If the random person searches online for how to undo without remembering that page, they may find the default way to do so but not this one. Plus restarting the standard cpupower service will reset to the value set for default, making things weird. I think, when it makes no runtime difference, it's easier to stick to the default and tested architectures to configure stuff.

I would prefer an all in one place solution. But you can't really do that with grub and fstab, right? So a service doesn't make sense there. But if all of them were separate services, you have a lot less to deal with.

[ezst036]

Let's not make that phrase meaningless while we still have Apple, ok?

That's fair.

[geearf]

I would prefer an all in one place solution. But you can't really do that with grub and fstab, right? So a service doesn't make sense there. But if all of them were separate services, you have a lot less to deal with.

Correct, I miss the old days of Arch where almost all the important stuff was in a single file.