Steam Deck: Which games can be gambling on Valves handheld?

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That team deck of Valve promises the latest games on the handheld. But which games will ever work?

After the performance, many users have called the Steam cover as a real Switch Pro. Nevertheless, there are clear differences between Steam deck and Switch, which we had already explained to you in detail by MeinMMO.

Especially the fact that Valve's Steam deck comes with a Linux-based operating system on the market, discussions had started what games really work end up on the handheld PC.

The question of which games will work at all on the Steam deck is not easy to answer.

Can you playing any games on the Steam deck?

Valve had already stated that the Steam deck like a mini-PC should be: ye software and operating systems to your liking on the device to install and without restrictions.

In theory, this means that you can actually playing any games on the Steam deck. In addition to Steam you can also install the Battle.net or Epic store on Windows.

Kaci Aitchison Boyle from the PR department over reaffirmed the colleagues of Gamestar once again that should the entire Steam library on Steam deck run (via gamestar.de). Some games will run better and others worse, they are but all work.

Is there a downside? But the there is a catch, as the Steam cover comes with steamos, a Linux-based operating system. the console is also optimized for this operating system. Should you now Windows or something else on your handheld, install, it could be that programs or Windows itself also does not look good on the handheld.

Basically, you can of course remain at steamos. Therefore Windows games work, Valve has come up with something. Valve relies on Proton, which one would in the long term improve the compatibility of games.

Proton is to ensure that your games run on Linux

What is proton at all? Windows games do not run officially under Linux. This is partly because the Linux specific runtime libraries such as DirectX does not offer pre-installed with Windows.

At this point, Proton would provide the solution. Proton was first published on August 21, 2018th Proton has specific libraries are available and implemented as DirectX programming interface using the volcano. In this way, we want to significantly increase the performance of Windows games on Linux.

What is the advantage? Proton offers you the advantage of games on Linux work without problems and without that you have to make adjustments themselves. So you do not have to lend a hand until the game is working properly. Valve himself writes about this:

Developed by Valve compatibility layer proton execution of games possible without loss of performance. Using third-party developers were significantly improves the game compatibility and anti-cheat solutions of proton for the deck.

(Via steamdeck.com)

games with Anti-Cheat make loud users still have problems

run What games? Users have an unofficial website created called protondb where users list the compatible games (via protondb.com).

Meanwhile 20,000 games are almost stored in the database, which are 16,000 games work with Proton. Games like Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 or CS: Go even run natively on Linux.

Which games make trouble? First of all multiplayer games that rely on sophisticated protection mechanisms that ensure even for problems. For example, some users complain on protondb that some games do not start with Proton as anti-cheat does not start or there are other problems. A few examples include

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All of these games have problems with Easy Anti Cheat, BattlEye Service or another protective mechanism. The games overthrow either immediately or Easy Anti Cheat refuses to work. Thus, a user writes on protondb: There's not much more to say, BattlEye does not work on Linux, and we can not do much at the moment.

An alternative is here then to switch from steamos on Windows.

Windows as an alternative to Linux on the deck Steam

Valve had already stated that it install on the Steam cover Windows also can. Valve and AMD had also promised that they wanted to develop for users who want to install Windows on Steam deck, functional drivers.

In this way you can then games on the steam deck, which are not supported by Proton. How well the performance with an installed Windows is, we can not tell you yet. Because official tests or gameplay with a Windows version has not yet exist. What do you think? Do you already order the steam deck or are the console not interested? For a while, the rush was so great that the pre-orders forced the Steam servers into the knees and temporarily were reservations not possible.