Bazzite's Biggest Update - Deck 44 has Launched & Happy 5th Birthday to Universal Blue!

Partial HDMI 2.1 FRL support is huge (even if it's from upstream)! I finally have 12bit color on my home theater PC! Content looks amazing now 😍

Unfortunately, it does flicker occasionally if VRR isn't enabled, but that's why it's behind a debug flag to begin with. I can't wait for Linux 7.3 to complete the implementation.

Eat shit, HDMI Forum.

The part about the OGC kernel is cool to hear. I heard about it back when they announced it, but nice to see it's still going. A nice accessible GitHub repo for more bleeding edge gaming-focused patches to be gathered and tested before going to mainline is great. I always thought grouped forks could improve efficiency in getting things to mainline.

I've never been able to successfully run Total War: Warhammer III on my Bazzite pc... until today.

Zero artifacts, runs with zero issues. Didn't work on proton 11 prior to today.

This is awesome.

Hadn't heard of chunkah. Sounds cool.

Huge update. Congrats and thanks to all the devs. I don't use my mini PC with it much at all yet but the hour I have you can tell it's a great feat.

I'm not super tech literate, is the VRAM section of this article referring to the VRAM patches valve was/is adding to steamOS to help optimize VRAM usage for lower end cards?

Pasted for convenience:

Mesa 26.2.1 & VRAM overcommit / cgroups

The kernel carries the full VRAM overcommit series along with the dmem cgroup work. The benefits of this include buffer eviction priorities, ordered bulk moves, VRAM claim throttling, protection limits, and a fast path so the compositor stops evicting your game’s textures.

Bazzite wires the userspace half up out of the box so there’s nothing you need to do as an end user to enjoy these features:

dmemcg-booster runs system-wide on every image

KDE images get plasma-foreground-booster-dmemcg

GNOME images swap uresourced for uresourced-dmemcg

Unfortunately it looks like it has problems with discrete AMD graphic cards : https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/5520

don't tell me to be calm, I AM CALM ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪