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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TPM is basically never for your benefit. It’s becoming a requirement because Microsoft is going to one day say “you can only run apps installed from the Windows Store, because everything else is insecure” and lock down the software market. Valve knows this which is why they’re going so hard on the Steam Deck and Linux.

This is the comment I was replying to. I was simply pointing out that for a company "going hard" on SteamDeck and Linux, it's curious that they would spend any amount of effort at all enabling the TPM to allow people to run Windows. I guess my point is I don't think they're "going hard" quite as much as the person I responded to thinks.

Also it was just pointing out that this specifically can affect the SteamDeck since they use an AMD processor with AMD fTPM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see how it affects the Steam Deck. It's entirely possible that the Steam Deck supports fTPM purely because it was part of the motherboard template Valve chose and it would have been more trouble to change it than to just leave it in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are "going hard" the way I see it. Without Valve doing legwork behind the scenes and collaborating with anticheat developers we wouldn't even have Apex Legends running on Linux like we've had for a year and a half. They've been talking about wanting to use Linux as a viable PC gaming platform to escape Microsofts lockdown of their platform since the days of Steam Machines when Windows 8 and the new store app were giving bad signs.

Either way Valve would be silly not to provide a compatible way to use Windows on the Deck. Even though the situation is much better these days, they know very well that a lot of enthusiast PC gamers would be dismissive of the Deck if Windows couldn't work properly on it and that word of mouth would bring less confidence in the product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does EAC work correctly playing Apex Legends under Linux? If it does I'll download the game tonight.