Steam Client Has a Major Update with Lots of Linux/Vulkan Improvements | Linux Today

Steam Client Has a Major Update with Lots of Linux/Vulkan Improvements

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Marius Nestor
Aug 30, 2020

It’s been about two months since the last stable Steam Client release, which didn’t brought any major changes for Linux users. The new version, however, is packed with improvements for Linux gamers. For starters, Valve has fixed a regression that caused invalid rendering on NVIDIA configurations with on-screen keyboard and the transparent visual selection for SteamOS overlays and reduced the Vulkan shader processing memory usage with the open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV).

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Marius Nestor

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