Kataploom
Gold Member
And this is the reason why Valve should come back with stationery Steam Machines, but using fixed hardware (say Standard and Pro tiers) so they can take advantage of pre-compiled shaders and optimized settings, I'm sure this time around they'd succeed in having console-like PC gaming for people that don't want to deal with PC specificsIt was, during the short-lived time of "Steam machines", but at the time it was only capable of running native Linux games, which weren't (and aren't) that common, especially outside indie titles. But after that (mis)adventure Valve put a ton of work into Proton (basically a translation layer that translates DX calls to Vulkan), which is why Steam Deck is able to run most of the titles on Steam. Some with issues, yes, but it's way better than what the situation was with Steam machines.