{"id":185075,"date":"2025-12-15T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/185075\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:56:08","slug":"the-opt-in-proactive-crash-time-data-collection-on-valves-steam-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/185075\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opt-In Proactive &#038; Crash Time Data Collection On Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"VALVE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/valve.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nValve&#8217;s Steam Deck with SteamOS features built-in crash data collection as well as for logging other system events worth having knowledge about like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/search\/split+lock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">split-lock detection<\/a> and other events. This is all opt-in by users for data collection by Steam, but for those curious about a bit more insight into this Steam Deck data collection, a presentation at this past week&#8217;s Linux Plumbers Conference dove into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Guilherme Piccoli of Linux consulting firm Igalia who has been a long time partner with Valve presented on the data collection leveraged by Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck. The data collection is focused both on being able to deal with software\/hardware breakage as well as areas where software developers can better optimize their game\/engine\/library to better handle Steam Deck \/ SteamOS.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765763768_280_image\" alt=\"Steam Deck data collection presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Breakages like crashes, GPU hangs, kernel oops, and more are obviously important as are out-of-memory events, split lock detection, and other such data that is useful but not critical.<\/p>\n<p>Again, with the Steam Deck \/ SteamOS the data collection by Valve is all opt-in. Those curious and wanting to learn more about this Steam Deck data collection functionality can see <a href=\"https:\/\/lpc.events\/event\/19\/contributions\/2058\/attachments\/1818\/3901\/gpiccoli-lpc2025.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this PDF slide deck<\/a> for the details. The video recordings from LPC 2025 aren&#8217;t yet available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve&#8217;s Steam Deck with SteamOS features built-in crash data collection as well as for logging other system events&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":{"0":"post-185075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-linux-benchmarking","12":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","13":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","14":"tag-linux-how-to","15":"tag-linux-performance","16":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","17":"tag-open-source-graphics","18":"tag-phoronix","19":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","22":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}