SteamOS update 2.164 pushed to brewmaster beta

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Pierre-Loup

Aug 3, 2018 @ 4:52pm

SteamOS update 2.164 pushed to brewmaster beta

This update contains:

Linux 4.16, with DC enabled for AMD pre-Vega cards
Mesa 18.1.5 with an LLVM 7.0 snapshot
NVIDIA drivers 396.45

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dubigrasu Aug 3, 2018 @ 6:31pm

Great update, thank you. It worked without issues for me.

NeptNutz Aug 3, 2018 @ 10:17pm

All went well. Nothing to report (except that damned BPM freeze exiting MAD MAX in Vulkan!).

Wow! Kernel 4.16? That's front-and-center, stand-up-and-take-notice of SteamOS, Aye?!

Last edited by NeptNutz; Aug 19, 2018 @ 9:34pm

ProfessorKaos64 Aug 3, 2018 @ 10:18pm

Thanks!!!

thorneo Aug 3, 2018 @ 11:04pm

Well this really is a surprise... So how long to stable??? I don't install beta updates only stable..

Last edited by thorneo; Aug 5, 2018 @ 3:07am

Teddy Aug 4, 2018 @ 12:32am

GTX970, i5-6400. Installed as expected, Talos on Vulkan works, Rocket League on OpenGL has some microstuttering. No stability issues thus far.

warpig Aug 4, 2018 @ 3:42am

Heads down...indeed. Thank you.

Bago Team Aug 4, 2018 @ 10:26pm

Rise of The Tomb Raider Performance ?

dubigrasu Aug 4, 2018 @ 10:33pm

OK, I did a fresh install of the latest SteamOS DVD (*) and then upgraded to the latest stable 2.154.

The upgrade process to 2.154 went OK-ish, more exactly I had to do multiple restarts and even when finished, one package refused to install, namely the "steam launcher" package, both 64 and 32 versions. It was available for upgrade in desktop mode, but I choose to leave the old versions in place.

Then added in desktop mode the beta repos and upgraded to 2.164, and this time the upgrade process went without issues (it took a long while though, so you have to be patient) and even the problematic "steam launcher" packages were updated to the latest version.

* I did encountered at this point the Steam login issues discussed in the other thread. SteamOS is stuck here, and you can't upgrade to 2.154 or do anything else until you solve (or workaround) the login issue.

grandmastermoth Aug 5, 2018 @ 4:08pm

Excellent, been looking forward to this!!

By the way I've been playing Rise of the Tomb Raider on a GTX1070/SteamOS and the hard part was getting around the Feral Launcher. I've been playing for around 8hrs without any issues on max settings. Feral support said it renders fine on those drivers but may occasionally crash (haven't had that happen yet). That said, I'm curious to see if I'll get an FPS increase with the new drivers.

Last edited by grandmastermoth; Aug 5, 2018 @ 4:11pm

Stompy Aug 6, 2018 @ 4:22am

Hi, are the RX Vega cards now supported? I've updated to this version however i'm stuck with software rendering. glxinfo | grep vedor shows the vendor as VMWare instead of AMD.

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Coucouf Aug 6, 2018 @ 11:56am

Zotac Nen and IvyBridge laptop updated and rocking.
Thanks.

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ProfessorKaos64 Aug 6, 2018 @ 6:41pm

Thanks a bunch for adding a progress bar and the status of the upgrade during the OS upgrade process. Small things go a long way for me, and those little details rock. Using pv to get the progress percentage? :P

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D1stRU3T0R #240Hz #AMD Aug 7, 2018 @ 11:04am

Why SteamOS isn't based on Debian 9.5 or Debian 10, that would be extremly BIG and usefull update, also bringing new security features and more performance/FPS for us. If Valve polishez a little bit, update everything possibble to squeeze out every little drop of performance from our hardware, than we would have that "dream" gaming OS which we all wanted....

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