Steam Deck Thread

[chrisis123]

(05-18-2022, 04:04 PM)MayImilae Wrote: I honestly don't know how long it takes. I wasn't paying attention the last time the flatpak was updated. ┐(´-｀)┌

According to flathub org it was last updated on May 5, 2022 so about 2 months after the previous beta was released... I guess someone from the Dolphin team has to build the flatpak version (or does it get built automatically?) and has to send it to flathub.org? But like I said I really don't know how flathub.org publishing really works so I may be way off...

[Neui]

(05-18-2022, 04:33 PM)chrisis123 Wrote: According to flathub org it was last updated on May 5, 2022 so about 2 months after the previous beta was released... I guess someone from the Dolphin team has to build the flatpak version (or does it get built automatically?) and has to send it to flathub.org? But like I said I really don't know how flathub.org publishing really works so I may be way off...

For each package there is a GitHub Repo containing the metadata and how to build it. It seems they use a build bot to automate the building, and someone already has created a PR to update the Dolphin version to build. Probably when it gets merged (seems the PR creator also can merge it judging by their "role" top right) it'll be deployed on FlatHub. Looking at some previous PRs they were usually merged within one to two days, so probably soon.

[chrisis123]

(05-18-2022, 07:52 PM)Neui Wrote: For each package there is a GitHub Repo containing the metadata and how to build it. It seems they use a build bot to automate the building, and someone already has created a PR to update the Dolphin version to build. Probably when it gets merged (seems the PR creator also can merge it judging by their "role" top right) it'll be deployed on FlatHub. Looking at some previous PRs they were usually merged within one to two days, so probably soon.

Ah thanks that explains a lot

[chrisis123]

Just noticed the latest beta version is now on Flathub.org (thus also available on the Steam Discover app )

[SiriusVI]

The option to activate borderless fullscreen mode seems to be missing on the stream deck, which is not ideal, since it is needed to get FSR to work. An idea how to activate borderless fullscreen mode?

[MayImilae]

I'm able to turn on FSR just fine through the Steam Deck quick settings. Is that not working for you?

Spoiler: (Show Spoiler)

Not that FSR is all that useful for Dolphin. The only time you'll be non-native to the display is when you are running at 1x Native, and that's not enough pixels for FSR to work with. It's not designed for 480p.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

(05-21-2022, 10:32 AM)MayImilae Wrote: The only time you'll be non-native to the display is when you are running at 1x Native, and that's not enough pixels for FSR to work with. It's not designed for 480p.

This has me curious - isn't FSR still better than your basic bilinear or bicubic or whatever that is typically used by default when rendering at sub-native resolutions?

It was my impression that this is basically the entire benefit of FSR, because real-time spacial upscaling has been sadly stagnant in the last... like, 2 decades? in the computer-generated imagery and video game space despite substantial improvements to real-time upscaling in the video and home theater space over the last decade (see also: outputting 720p to a 24" 1080p TV almost always looks way better than outputting 720p to a 24" 1080p monitor regardless of whether you have the GPU or the monitor doing the upscaling, and this is even on TVs like my own where total input lag is only like 30ms).

I mean heck, even just taking a 720p screenshot and upscaling it to 1080p via lanczos3 should pretty much always look better than what monitor or non-FSR GPU scaling looks like, and lanczos is similarly like a 2 decade old algorithm...

[gameboy96]

Hey so I realize that I'm very late to the game, but I am new to Linux and I'm not sure how to update my dolphin if I used emuDeck to install it initially. Is there any advice that you guys can give me?

The reason I'm so eager to update is because that frame pacing issue is extremely annoying

[MayImilae]

Basically, don't use emudeck. Just get Dolphin from Discover, add it to Steam as a non-steam game, then turn on Dolphin's auto-update and you're good. We have something cooking to make this nicer but that's the best option for now.

[gameboy96]

Okay sorry this is going to be kind of a stupid question but when I look in the general menu I don't see an option to have auto update on although I will not very familiar with where it would have been normally.

When I go to discover in search of dolphin it says it's already installed I'm assuming it's referring to the one that was installed through emu deck.

Are you saying I should remove it and then reinstall it?

If I do that will I lose all my per game settings I set up?