Steam: Valve client now with PS5 controller support

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Valve has updated its video game client Steam. Now, with the new version, you can enjoy some advantages, such as support for the video game controllers of the new PS5 and some additional corrections. That way, if you want to play with the Sony PlayStation 5 controller, you can do it without problem.

The new Sony Dual Sense it works excellent, including its trackpad, gyroscope, lightbar, and the hápitca (vibrate) function of this controller. Valve has also added swipe mode for trackpads and gyro, and better support for games that use a raw output, as well as fixing some bugs from previous versions.

The Steam client for Linux it also has some cool changes. Not only are there some browser performance improvements, some other aspects have been improved and fixed as well. For example:

  • There is an update for the Steam runtime to version v0.20201203.1.
  • The filtering of the compatibility tools available in the dialog properties of the video game has been improved.
  • The problem with the launch of video games that occurred with version Proton 5.13 (the Valve and CodeWeavers implementation of Wine to make native video games compatible for Windows on GNU / Linux with total comfort from the Steam client itself) has also been corrected.
  • Fixed bug that did not stop when using the stop button in the client interface.
  • Added auto-migration of Steam libraries used in old SteamApps.
  • Fixed the bug that caused the interface windows to appear blank when starting Steam in some cases.
  • Other ...

If you are interested to update, you can do it from the Steam client that you have installed or directly download the new version If you still don't have it and you want to start discovering all the possibilities of the gaming world in Linux.


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