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

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

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

Personally, I’m most excited by the power to customise the MangoHud efficiency overlay to point out what I need it to point out. 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,” a number of KDE Plasma modifications to how the Linux desktop mode appears and works, and far more.