Bazzite's September 13 update adds Strix Halo TDP controls, restores desktop TDP

14 Sep 2026 at 10:15 am UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

The September 13th update for the popular Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it some excellent sounding improvements for handheld and desktop gamers.

In the announcement they noted quite a number of goodies in this release - as the weekly updates continue to cleanup after the massive Bazzite 44 release for all devices. Next to SteamOS for my Steam Machine, and Fedora KDE for my desktop, Bazzite is my next-favourite version of Linux to use because it makes so many things easy to get going for gaming.

Key Features

• A workaround has been put in place for users experiencing blank screens after the Kernel 7.2/HDMI 2.1 update. A full-fix will be available in Kernel 7.3, but for now the issue should be resolved.
  • Huge thanks to everyone who helped test this fix over the last week.
• Numerous Strix-powered devices now have full TDP control enabled!
  • This also includes the Framework Desktop and we’ll be expanding to some other HTPCs in the near future.
• TDP control from the desktop returns via a new Applet and Extension on KDE and GNOME respectively!
  • Exposes the full set of controls available in Steam Game mode using the same backend.
  • These are able to be installed locally for use on any other Linux distro that implements steamos-manager for TDP control, including SteamOS itself. RPM packages for Nobara/otherwise can be found on Terra and we’ll expand this to the OGC Arch repo as well. Sharing is caring!
• InputPlumber v0.79.5 now in use
  • Numerous fixes across all supported handhelds.
  • Improved controller polling.
  • Improved touchpad experience.
• Wifi power saving now defaults off, this can be toggled back on in gamemode settings.
• Latest mangohud
  • Issue causing higher power draw under VRR has been resolved.
• Latest gamescope
  • Greatly improved support for HDR on the Legion Go 2.
  • Fixed upstream regression affecting AMD 5XX GPUs.
• LSFG-VK ujust installer now installs the new version 2.0 release.
• Now shipping kernel 7.2.4.
• GPU warnings for game mode have been relaxed on our website.
  • Intel is promoted to stable.
  • Nvidia game mode images now work with caveats, we’ll upgrade them to stable when the official workaround from Nvidia is available.
• We now use GamingOnLinux as the source for anti cheat compatibility information on our website.
  Oh hey, that's us!

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