valve today Steam Deck announced that it provides Windows drivers for the handheld console. These drivers will provide important hardware compatibility for those who want to use Microsoft’s operating system.
Drivers released today are for GPU, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Valve said the sound drivers are still being worked on with AMD so they are not available today. Therefore, Steam DeckThere will be no audio support through the speakers or the headphone jack. Users will need to use Bluetooth or USB audio devices.
Drivers only Windows 10 is provided for. Windows 11 drivers are working and will later come with a BIOS update that will enable fTPM support, which is mandatory for Windows 11.
Steam Deck does not currently support dual boot, this feature will come later. Users are therefore present SteamOSThey will have to replace it with Windows 10 and vice versa if they want to go back.
Steam Deck is essentially a handheld x86 PC and thus supports the installation of any desktop operating system, but full functionality still requires native driver support. The device comes preloaded with Valve’s SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system that uses the Proton emulator to run Windows games on the Steam store.
SteamOS, Steam Deck While it was designed specifically for its hardware and has good initial game support, it doesn’t support every game on the Steam store the way Windows does, and it doesn’t support installing games from other sources like Epic. Games Store or Microsoft Store, the latter required for Game Pass. This is a great reason to want to install Windows on the Steam Deck right now, as long as you’re willing to deal with the downsides.