SteamOS 3.9.2 Beta brings fixes for VRR, VR Streaming, Remote Play, Boot Time and more

New in SteamOS 3.9.2 (Beta)

Common

• Add preliminary assist for Legion Go 2 brightness management.
• Mounted Steam Distant Play not engaged on Steam Machine when booting with no exterior show related.
• Mounted “Disable Body Limiter” toggle not working when VRR is enabled.
• Mounted the body limiter incorrectly making use of to VR titles when streaming from Steam Machine to Steam Body.
• Mounted lack of enter if a launcher window is by accident dragged round in Sport Mode.
• Mounted logging in to Desktop Mode by way of RDP with system customers when enabled.
• Mounted a difficulty inflicting sure video games (incl. ELDEN RING and DARK SOULS™ III) to fail to run on latest Panther Lake Intel CPUs.
• Labored round a firmware subject on some ASUS units inflicting extreme fan velocity upon waking from sleep.
• Mounted a bug inflicting hidden WiFi networks to fail to attach on the primary try.
• Mounted boot display screen corruption on Intel PTL+ units.
• Mounted a regression from earlier 3.9 previews inflicting Steam Machine to often wake from hibernation unexpectedly.
• Mounted a regression from earlier 3.9 previews slowing down system boot velocity and inflicting the boot brand to briefly vanish throughout boot.
• Mounted a regression from earlier 3.9 previews breaking digital keyboard enter for some languages in Sport Mode.
• Mounted a regression from earlier 3.9 previews with nested desktop mode.
• Safety and stability fixes.

SteamOS 3.9 (beforehand in Preview)

Common

• Up to date Arch Linux base.
• Up to date Desktop Mode from Plasma 6.4.3 to Plasma 6.7.3
  
• Mounted a system crash when launching Forza Horizon 6 on Legion Go 2.
• Mounted a difficulty inflicting body limits to end in decrease than supposed FPS on sure exterior shows.
• Mounted points with droop/resume on programs with RDNA1 or RDNA2 primarily based devoted GPUs.
• Safety and stability updates.

Misc

• Up to date the bootloader to enhance compatibility with sure motherboards.
• The Desktop Mode lockscreen is not prevented from being explicitly enabled in settings (however stays off by default).

Developer

• Switched WiFi backend to wpa_supplicant by default for brand new installations, bettering compatibility with numerous WiFi networks

  • Enhanced wpa_supplicant to assist quick WiFi reconnect on resume from sleep, beforehand solely out there within the iwd backend.
  • Identified subject: Present installations will proceed to make use of iwd except manually enabled in Developer Settings.

• Linux kernel rebased on Linux 7.2.
• Added preliminary assist for hibernation, not but uncovered in Sport Mode UI

  • Enhanced Linux kernel hibernation assist to allow interrupting hibernate requests and stuck numerous driver points.

• Varied scripts and packages have been renamed from `steamos-` to `holo-`, with aliases to the previous names the place applicable.
• Improved assist for working SteamOS as a VM visitor with accelerated graphics (virtio-gpu, venus).
• Up to date included renderdoc model.