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Not only is it the first release to support the upcoming Steam Machine living room gaming PC, it comes with long-awaited features for Valve\u2019s handhelds and<\/em> more support for other companies\u2019 handhelds than we\u2019ve seen to date \u2014 including Microsoft and Asus\u2019 Xbox Ally series, the Lenovo Legion Go 2, the OneXPlayer X1, and additional support for MSI, GPD, Anbernic, OrangePi, and Zotac.<\/p>\n The one that excites me most: Valve is adding genuine hibernation and \u201cmemory power down\u201d modes to the Steam Deck \u2014 though just the LCD model to start \u2014 which should help extend battery life when you hit the power button or leave them idle. Some Windows machines currently last longer than the Steam Deck when asleep, because they self-hibernate to save power, while the Steam Deck has an instant-on sleep mode.<\/p>\n Plus, Valve has finally added a setting in its gaming mode to let you use your Bluetooth headset microphones \u2014 something I\u2019ve been asking for since the beginning. (Valve did add it to the Linux desktop mode last year.) And the Steam Deck LCD is finally getting Bluetooth Wake re-enabled, so you can turn on your TV-connected Deck with a wireless controller from your couch.<\/p>\n The update comes with all sorts<\/em> of improvements for the Linux desktop modes that sound like they\u2019ll come in handy on a Steam Machine plugged into a TV or monitor, too, including desktop HDR, VRR display support, per-display scaling, \u201cimproved windowing behavior for games running in Proton,\u201d and an upgrade to KDE Plasma 6.4.3 among other things.<\/p>\n And for a Steam Machine or Steam handheld plugged into a home entertainment system, they can now detect how many audio channels you have over HDMI to enable surround sound. (I believe surround sound was already a thing, so perhaps this is just a different and better automatic implementation.)<\/p>\n There\u2019s also a new Arch system base and an updated graphics driver.<\/p>\n Perhaps most surprisingly, the \u201cNon-Deck\u201d section of the changelog is huge. Valve says long-pressing your power button should work \u201cacross a wide variety of devices\u201d to power off, restart, or switch to the desktop mode. You should be able to change your processor\u2019s power modes on the Xbox Ally now, and night mode and screen color settings should work on AMD Z2 Extreme handhelds in general.<\/p>\n There\u2019s also \u201cGreatly improved video memory management with discrete GPU platforms,\u201d you can limit how far the battery charges in any of the Lenovo Legion Go handhelds (in desktop mode), and it should fix \u201cwashed out colors for Zotac and OneXPlayer handhelds with OLED.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot in this update, and it\u2019s possible I missed a feature you care about, so check out the whole changelog here and below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not only is it the first release to support the upcoming Steam Machine living room gaming PC, it comes with long-awaited features for Valve\u2019s handhelds and more support for other companies\u2019 handhelds than we\u2019ve seen to date \u2014 including Microsoft and Asus\u2019 Xbox Ally series, the Lenovo Legion Go 2, the OneXPlayer X1, and additional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3982,46,383,5229,1197,343,3892,5794,1071,4019],"class_list":{"0":"post-5820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pc-gaming","8":"tag-adds","9":"tag-features","10":"tag-huge","11":"tag-longawaited","12":"tag-machine","13":"tag-steam","14":"tag-steamos","15":"tag-supports","16":"tag-update","17":"tag-valves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}