Valve has launched another small update for the Steam Deck with SteamOS 3.6.6 Preview now available for testing which may be essential if you're playing ELDEN RING.
  • Fixed a an issue with a rare session crash during early startup of ELDEN RING
  • Fixed a general issue affecting all units on 3.6, and OLED units on 3.5, causing a slow memory leak during gameplay
  • Fixed a DSP firmware crash with previous 3.6 versions that could result in internal sound disappearing until next reboot
  • Improved responsiveness of session restart in case of session crashes caused by certain GPU errors
  • Fixed an issue that could cause videos to stutter in titles such as BlazBlue Centralfiction

Some pretty good fixes. Unfortunately you’ll need to be on the beta/preview channel to get them, but hopefully it won’t be long before they come to stable.

  • Water_Melon_boy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    The Elden Ring one actually isn’t so rare. It feels more like a 10%. Every time I boot up the game I half expect it to crash.

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Elden Ring just updated a day ago for the DLC, and it introduced multiple issues. If you haven’t played a lot of sessions in the past day you probably wouldn’t have noticed the issue.

  • AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    3 months ago

    I’m on Stable, but there must have been a hot fix. I’m able to play online now without the anti-cheat triggering

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Valve has launched another small update for the Steam Deck with SteamOS 3.6.6 Preview now available for testing which may be essential if you’re playing ELDEN RING.

    Fixed a an issue with a rare session crash during early startup of ELDEN RING

    Fixed a general issue affecting all units on 3.6, and OLED units on 3.5, causing a slow memory leak during gameplay

    Fixed a DSP firmware crash with previous 3.6 versions that could result in internal sound disappearing until next reboot

    Fixed an issue that could cause videos to stutter in titles such as BlazBlue Centralfiction

    Great to see so many fixes coming in, SteamOS 3.6 is starting to shape up quite nicely now!

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    • lengau@midwest.social
      4·
      3 months ago

      FWIW Plasma 5.27 works very well on Wayland with AMD GPUs. The fact that desktop mode uses x11 is probably not related to them still using Plasma 5. I would guess once KDE announces an LTS version of Plasma 6 (possibly as early as 6.2?) they’ll upgrade Steam OS to that.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Assuming it still works, you can always startup desktop mode nested within game mode, and that will have it running through Wayland.