A hefty steady Steam Deck replace offers the Dock a brand-new function

Among the largest are ones we’ve already seen in a September beta, like assist for VRR and HDR exterior shows, the flexibility to tweak your display’s coloration and undervolt your processor with new firmware, and a graphics driver replace with an enormous efficiency enchancment for Starfield (although it nonetheless appears to be like like mud in cities).

However there’s one factor on the record I didn’t count on: The replace offers the official $79 Steam Deck Dock the brand new capacity to assist VRR exterior displays itself. (Final I checked, the Steam Deck Dock web page mentioned “FreeSync assist is in-progress, replace is forthcoming”.)

Personally, I’m most excited by the flexibility to customise the MangoHud efficiency overlay to indicate what I need it to indicate. For instance, I’d like a minimal model that’s simply FPS, wattage, and battery life remaining.

There’s additionally “barely improved sleep resume velocity,” “Improved Bluetooth connection stability, particularly with a number of controllers,” plenty of KDE Plasma modifications to how the Linux desktop mode appears to be like and works, and way more.