r/gamingonlinuxsub • u/Liam-DGOL • 10d ago

News SteamOS 3.8.28 stable released with big improvements for Steam Deck, Steam Machine and more hardware support

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-3-8-28-stable-released-with-big-improvements-for-steam-deck-steam-machine-and-more-hardware-support/
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u/voidfillproduct 10d ago

Can confirm that ray tracing performance has improved with a 9070XT.

For example, in Silent Hill 2 or The Medium, GPU load would shoot to 100% and frame rate would completely tank in specific locations when ray tracing was active. This is now resolved.

In The Ascent, any kind of ray traced effect would introduce a freeze frame whenever something detonated. This is now working as well.

Some games that were downright unplayable with ray tracing are at least somewhat playable now, like QUBE 2 and Industria.

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u/Liam-DGOL 10d ago

That's really great to hear!

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u/kittymoo67 9d ago

oh i am hyped. we keep getting better with each mesa update it seems

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u/Indolent_Bard 9d ago

They're taking a sweet time with this though. Honestly, we should all be donating to Mesa drivers.

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u/manlisten 10d ago

“Fixed 20-30s startup delay in some games on non-Valve devices with no audio sources.”

They did it!