Valve Prices the Steam Machine as SteamOS 3.8 Opens DIY Builds
SteamOS 3.8.10 now installs on any PC, letting you build your own Steam Machine, while Valve sets the prebuilt box at $1,050 with a randomized waitlist.
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Valve develops the Steam gaming platform, the Linux-focused Steam Deck handheld PC, and Proton compatibility layer that enables thousands of Windows games to run natively on Linux.
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Valve Adds Ray-Tracing Inspector GUI to Mesa 26.1 for RADV Driver Tuning
Valve's Linux team merged the Ray-Tracing Inspector into Mesa 26.1, a GUI for dissecting RADV's BVH and ray dispatches to push AMD ray-tracing performance further.
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Valve Devs Improve GPU Crash Recovery for Older AMD Radeon Cards on Linux
Valve's Linux team is adding IP block soft reset to AMDGPU, letting older Radeon GPUs recover from hangs without resetting the whole card or losing VRAM.
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Valve Engineer Posts AMD Anti-Lag Implementation for RADV Vulkan Driver
Valve's Daniel Schürmann has posted a VK_AMD_anti_lag implementation for RADV, bringing native low-latency frame pacing to the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver.
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Valve Hires Veteran AMD Mesa Developer Marek Olšák
Marek Olšák, one of Mesa's most prolific contributors and a longtime AMD developer behind the modern RadeonSI driver, has joined Valve's growing Linux graphics team.
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Valve Developer Brings DRM Format Modifiers to Aging AMD GCN GPUs on Linux
Valve's Timur Kristóf has posted patches adding DRM format modifier support to AMD GCN 1.0 through GFX8 GPUs, the last AMDGPU-supported cards that lacked it.
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Valve's New Steam Controller Now Shipping at $99
Valve's redesigned Steam Controller ships today with magnetic thumbsticks, four haptic motors, and wireless support for $99.
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Valve's GameNetworkingSockets Gets First Major Update in Nearly Four Years, Adds Rust Bindings
Valve's battle-tested GameNetworkingSockets library hits v1.5 with community-contributed Rust bindings, P2P improvements, and security fixes after nearly four years without a release.
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Valve Ships Proton 11 Beta 2 With EA App and VKD3D-Proton Fixes
Proton 11 beta 2 fixes EA App lockups via Xalia 0.4.9 and updates vkd3d-proton with Marvel's Avengers fixes.
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Valve's New Steam Controller Goes on Sale May 4 for $99
Valve's new Steam Controller launches May 4 with Linux, Windows, and macOS support, designed to work across the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame ecosystem.
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Valve Engineer Finally Brings Linux Support to AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT After Nearly 14 Years
A Valve engineer's patch series finally enables the Radeon HD 7870 XT to work under Linux, fixing a 14-year-old bug caused by the GPU's unusual harvested silicon configuration.
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Valve Engineers Merge RDNA 4m Driver Support Into Mesa Ahead of AMD's Unannounced APUs
Valve's Linux graphics team merges RDNA 4m (GFX 11.7) Vulkan driver support into Mesa, revealing next-gen floating point features headed to unannounced AMD APUs.
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Valve Engineer's Linux Kernel Patches Give Games First Dibs on VRAM
A Valve engineer's kernel and KDE patches give foreground games priority VRAM access, dramatically improving Linux gaming on 8 GB GPUs.
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Valve Engineer Submits OneXPlayer Linux Driver for RGB Controls and Button Remapping
Valve engineer Derek Clark submitted a Linux driver bringing native RGB lighting and button remapping support to OneXPlayer gaming handhelds.
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Valve Tests Containerized Steam Client With 64-Bit Linux Runtime
Valve's experimental SteamRT3 beta runs the entire Linux Steam client inside a container with a new 64-bit architecture for better cross-distro consistency.
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Valve Developer Fixes AMD Radeon Graphics on Decade-Old Apple iMacs Running Linux
Valve developer Timur Kristóf fixed a bug preventing AMD Radeon GPUs in decade-old Intel iMacs from working with Linux's AMDGPU driver, enabling better performance and Vulkan support.
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Vulkan 1.4.344 Adds Mixed Precision Shader Extension From Valve
Vulkan 1.4.344 introduces a Valve-developed extension for mixed precision dot product operations in shaders, supporting various combinations of low-precision inputs with higher precision accumulation.
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Valve and Igalia Push Linux Kernel Changes to Improve ARM Gaming Emulation
Valve is funding Linux kernel changes to fix ARM emulation limitations, paving the way for Windows games on the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame.