AMD’s Z2 Steam Deck Whoopsie

AMD Ignites Z2 Steam Deck Rumors, Robocraft 2 Shuts Down, Nvidia's Frame Hallucination Advances, Profiling Games with Tracy, and Why Microsoft Should Fear SteamOS. Enjoy the show? Become a Patron! https://patreon.com/linuxgamecast LINKS Show notes: https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/01/amds-z2-steam-deck-whoopsie/ Studio Wishlist: https://throne.com/interfacinglinux Interfacing Linux: https://www.youtube.com/@InterfacingLinux Have questions about your Linux setup? Ask in the forums. https://interfacinglinux.com/community/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:36 A Logitech near miss 01:12 The Amazon box box 03:35 New Magic cards & tournaments 05:07 Shoopin for new places 07:24 GeForce NOW for Steam Deck exits beta 08:25 Will it be on Steam? 08:46 Know anyone using GeForce NOW? 09:31 Do people notice latency? 10:28 The last wired console 11:19 Bazzite (beta) Nvidia images 12:26 Don't report bugs! 13:28 Good for HTPC 13:45 Where are the Nvidia handhelds? 14:55 What if Intel licensed X86? 16:10 AMD Z2 slides ignite Steam Deck 2 rumours 20:39 Microsoft fears SteamOS 24:42 The Android fragmentation problem 25:50 The second Half-Life 3 rumour of 2025 28:34 Deadlock development cycle update 29:38 Robocraft 2 ends development 34:33 Release the server code? 35:37 Tracking performance issues in Neverwinter Nights 38:50 PC games on mobile suck 40:14 Neverwinter on Steam Deck 41:03 AMD at CES and no RNDA4 43:04 AMD in DELL PCs 44:20 Worried about the Nvidia announcement? 45:08 New naming schemes 46:22 Mobile GPU naming is deceptive 48:42 Nvidia at CES 50:04 5070 outperforms the 4090 50:51 The era of GPU gimmicks 51:11 Benchmarks are tuning into spreadsheets 51:59 Dual-slot 5090 52:30 Is your GPU good enough?