Valve quietly updates Half-Life 2 to run better with Steam Deck

Half-Life 2 is an exceptionally old game, obviously, however Valve has covertly started a major update – presently in beta – for the shooter which applies some significant changes, and it’s reasonable these are pointed toward making the exemplary title run better with the approaching Steam Deck. 

A YouTube leaker who has practical experience in Valve news, Tyler McVicker, detected that Half-Life 2 has started off an unannounced beta branch, with Valve unobtrusively chipping away at various significant enhancements. 

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That incorporates adjusting the interface so it scales effectively to the goal the game is being run at, implying that HUD components are bigger, and Half-Life 2 will actually want to get along with the Steam Deck show’s odd viewpoint proportion (support for super wide screens will likewise be fused). 

Another exceptionally telling change is getting support for Vulkan, which will permit the game to run all the more easily on SteamOS, which is the working framework introduced on the Steam Deck. It’s certainly clear enough that this is work being done to guarantee that Half-Life 2 looks great, and plays well, on the approaching handheld from Valve.

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Half-Life addicts have been shouting out for a portion of these changes, and especially the crushing of some long-standing bugs, for a long time, so it’s nice to see them at last applied. 

Albeit taking a gander at it another way, it’s quite baffling that these pieces of clean are just barely being applied when Valve has been compelled to guarantee that its games don’t wind up making its new piece of equipment look senseless, with an awkward HUD and different irritating errors. A portion of the previously mentioned bugs are 10 years and a half old, it appears, and many individuals have for some time been exasperated at being confined to a FOV of 90 in Half-Life 2. 

YouTuber McVicker additionally calls attention to that Vulkan support was acquainted with Portal 2 toward the beginning of the year, and considering that, the probability is that Valve will give this retuning treatment to every one of its games to prepared them for the Steam Deck.