The Crew 2 loads D3DGear64.dll from its folder. Its DXGI Present hook
faults over a thousand times within seconds under Wine and the game
never presents again: black screen while the sound keeps playing.
droiddeck-game-env now disables the DLL when it finds it beside the
game, and DLL overrides from several engine fixes are kept together
instead of the last one replacing the others.
Steam's native QAM sliders now control Android brightness and media
volume, with device changes reflected back in Steam. Holding Android
Back for 700 ms sends a real held QAM button for Steam shortcuts. Single
and double taps keep the existing menu/QAM order and swap setting; the
double-tap window remains 500 ms.
- Discover native brightness through a guest backlight descriptor and
use Android's Modify system settings permission. Retain the latest
pending request until permission is granted or the session stops, with a
notification action for hidden sessions.
- Give DirectAudio and fallback AAudio sinks Android media volume/mute
callbacks, keeping software gain at unity. Recover when initial volume
state is absent or invalid, brightness acknowledgements differ or never
arrive, or the Display bridge is not ready yet.
- Forward other buttons while QAM is held in Steam Deck and Steam
Controller modes. Consume release after a hold and clear pending input
on overlays, focus loss, pause, disconnect, and teardown. The session
menu retains its compact Back choice without an explanatory paragraph.
Validation:
- Local ARM64 release build passed. The latest timing change passed 20
targeted input tests, including release at 600 ms remaining a tap. The
preceding full feature check passed 61 Android input/device-control
tests, with permission cases on API 28 and 33.
- 66 Linux Python/Node/C tests passed for device controls, audio
recovery, Steam compatibility, and file dialogs. Both audio sink modules
rebuilt with Android NDK 27.2.
- Release-signed integration build 14d12cf0 is installed on the unrooted
AYN Thor, carrying the Android/input changes through 749ade4a plus the
existing portrait changes. Device checks confirmed the configured
QAM/menu tap order, Back dismissal, removal of the inline menu
description, and held QAM overlapping X with clean release. Hands-on
testing confirmed this installed build works.
- Earlier Thor testing covered brightness permission and pending
requests, brightness synchronization in both directions, native volume
changes, hardware volume key readback, and both sink backends. Failure
recovery is covered by the automated tests above.
The subsequent queued-notification fix in 4d7ceb23 is covered by the
Linux regression suite and has not replaced the Thor install.
Bluetooth/wired output switching and other device models remain
untested. CI and CodeRabbit monitoring continue against the pushed head.
A tag that matches no longer vouches for the build: FEX and FEXServer must
also load (ld.so --list), otherwise the session reinstalls it and x86
programs use the Steam or system FEX meanwhile.
A failed catalog install is retried after an hour or when the session names
another build, a missing updater falls back to the FEX already here, and the
archive download gives up on a stalled connection.
The Sentry GDExtension was turned off for every Godot game that ships it,
because its crash handler takes the .NET runtime down under FEX. GDScript
games such as Pathogenic call SentrySDK from their scripts, so without the
extension their autoloads fail to parse and the game quits. Only Godot .NET
builds have it turned off now.
The launch view lives under the app's files folder, so games saw an
install path like Z:\data\user\0\com.droiddeck.launcher\files\xbox-runtime
\views\launch-<n>\droiddeck-xbox-<id>. Forza Horizon checks that length and
quits with "Installation path is too long". The view is now mapped to a
free drive letter in the prefix (X: first) for the length of the launch.
A frame limit only paced what reached the screen: a game without vsync
kept drawing hundreds of frames a second that were thrown away (AIO at
a 60 fps limit drew 155 to 2,446 fps), so the limit saved no power.
With Performance mode on and a frame limit set, the session now sets
gamescope's per-game limit over gamescope_control (gamescopectl
debug_set_fps_limit). gamescope's limiter then has its WSI layer hold
Vulkan games, DXVK and VKD3D included, to the limit. gamescope's own
--framerate-limit option is reset on its first frame in 3.16.29, and
Steam resets the per-game limit while it starts, so the session watches
gamescope's limiter state file and sets the limit again whenever it is
off (a once-a-second check with shell builtins, no process started).
With Performance mode off, a limit paces the screen only, as before.
The session also gives gamescope a fixed limiter state file path, so
gamescope stops leaving a new one behind on every start, and removes
the old ones.
Device-proven on the AYANEO Pocket FIT (Turnip, AIO D3D11, 45 s runs on
battery, three runs each): at a 60 fps limit the game held exactly
60.0 fps and the device drew 7.08 W instead of 9.45 W, with 1.3 instead
of 2.6 busy cores and 5 instead of 11 % GPU load. No limit: unchanged.
Once Blizzard's Agent has removed a game it answers GET /game/<uid> with
an empty object, not installed false, so a finished uninstall read as a
failure and opened Battle.net.
A cancelled install now waits for its Agent job to end before the
uninstall runs, and removes the folder only once the Agent no longer
lists the game or the folder is empty. Uninstall gives up when Battle.net
or a game keeps the prefix busy for a minute, so the page falls back to
opening Battle.net. An uninstall only counts when the Agent reports the
game as not installed.
Battle.net games now install like Epic, Xbox and itch games: Install,
pick a location, and the download runs in the Downloads tab while the
Stores page stays open. droiddeck-battlenet starts Blizzard's own Agent
on its own under a headless gamescope and drives its local API, so no
window opens and nothing waits on the Battle.net client.
- Progress, speed and time left come from the Agent, with pause, resume
(the Agent keeps what it downloaded) and cancel, which uninstalls the
partial game and removes its folder.
- A job only finishes once the Agent has really run it and the game is
playable; the first status after a request can still describe the
previous operation.
- Installed games check Blizzard's version service and show Update when
the build on disk is behind; the update repairs missing files too.
- Battle.net games can be uninstalled from their page through the Agent.
- Games land in the chosen location: internal storage, other storage or
a Games folder.
- The hero keeps its action row clear of the playtime column.
Steam games and Battle.net started from the KDE desktop run on the GPU in gamescope, opened as a KDE window, and Plasma no longer leaves programs with a zero realtime CPU limit that got games killed.
* fix: Reuse the prefix the client made for a shortcut id
droiddeck-proton-run builds the prefix path as steamapps/compatdata/<appid>,
but the client names that folder with the signed 32-bit form of the shortcut
id. A shortcut whose id has the top bit set therefore got a second, empty
prefix, and the first launch after that ran wineboot from scratch: the
session sat on a black screen for the length of a full prefix init, and the
old prefix was never reused.
Match the folder by its unsigned value instead, the way the client does:
int(name) % 2 ** 32 == appid % 2 ** 32. prefix_of() also accepts a negative
folder name now, and reports its unsigned id so the Steam environment it sets
up stays valid.
* fix: Reject folder names int() cannot read, and skip files
lstrip("-").isdigit() accepts "--1" and superscript digits, which int() then
raises on, and one such entry in compatdata would stop shortcut resolution.
Match r"-?[0-9]+" instead. A matching name is also only used when it is a
directory, so a stray file cannot take STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH.
* fix: reuse signed shortcut compatdata prefix
* fix: prefer initialized Proton shortcut prefixes
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* feat: adjustable RAM and VRAM caps for the container
Performance > Memory gets two sliders:
- RAM cap (soft, Steam sessions): when the session is resident above the
cap, the session watcher compresses the Steam client into zRAM, waits for
its page-out acknowledgment, then compresses the rest of the session
(processes that loaded libblsession) if still over. Nothing is closed.
Measured at most every 30 s; the client is read back once usage drops
below the cap. Invalid values leave the cap off. Needs zRAM swap.
- VRAM cap: sets dxgi.maxDeviceMemory ahead of the game's own DXVK_CONFIG,
so Direct3D games budget for less video memory. A game profile still
wins. Applies from the next session.
* fix: back off the RAM cap when paging out cannot get under it
A cap below the game's working set was never met, so the watcher paged out
the client and the whole session every 30 s for the rest of the session.
Usage is still measured every 30 s, but after a page-out that leaves the
session over the cap the next one waits twice as long (60 s up to 10 min),
resetting once usage is under the cap. The client step is skipped while the
client is already under 512 MB resident.
* fix: RAM cap covers desktop Steam, signals each group once, no idle churn
- Steam opened from the desktop runs the same session watcher, so the cap
is exported whenever the Steam client runs, not only in Steam mode.
- The second page-out goes to the rest of the session only; Steam was
signalled again even when its own step had been skipped as already small.
- A cap page-out while no game runs stays paged out. Reading the client back
right away pushed it over the cap again and repeated every minute; only a
game closing while over the cap still defers a read-back.
* fix: RAM cap marks the client packed only when it compressed it
When the cap skipped the client as already small during a game, it still
recorded the client as packed, so the regular in-game client page-out
waited up to 300 s for a page-out that never happened.
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GE-based Protons, the default with the x86-64 Steam client, run umu-protonfixes. Its Black Ops III fix switches the prefix to Wine's ALSA driver, which has no device here and replaces DirectAudio, and its Dark Souls Remastered fix runs the VC++ 2017 installer, which fails under ARM64 Proton.
On some phones (tester: Honor BKQ-N49, Android 17) Xbox sign-in stopped with
"the Xbox helper stopped with exit code 1" before Microsoft's page opened.
The backend asks the app to read and save credentials over a socket and waits
10 s for each reply. The app sealed credentials with a StrongBox-backed
Keystore key, and each StrongBox operation took 7-15 s on that phone, so the
backend gave up. The app still finished those saves afterwards, leaving a
record without a username that every later attempt had to read back slowly.
- Seal new store credentials with a TEE Keystore key (v2 envelopes); v1
envelopes still open with the old key and move to v2 on their next write.
- A sign-in discards an Xbox record without a username (an unfinished
sign-in) before starting the backend.
- The backend waits 30 s for the app's credential reply.
- The backend names the failing step instead of only credential-io (socket
connect/exchange, session lock, missing socket name/port/key), and falls
back to a keyed 127.0.0.1 port when the abstract socket is refused.
- The app's credential listener logs and retries accept errors, serves each
connection on its own thread, and logs slow requests with per-stage times.
Refs #1337, #1300
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Steam's ARM64 client has no desktop-portal file chooser, so
SteamClient.System.OpenFileDialog failed at once and every Browse button
(Add a Non-Steam Game, shortcut target, library folder) did nothing.
The Steam UI bridge now answers it with a GTK file chooser run under
Steam's reaper, so gamescope shows it over Steam.
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