Steam Deck (opens in new tab) homeowners who use Home windows on their moveable gaming machines somewhat than the Linux-based SteamOS have an up to date APU driver to play with. Introduced by the Steam Deck Twitter account — which tweets utilizing the online app, elevating the chance that whoever’s behind it actually is utilizing a Steam Deck, the brand new driver doesn’t include any launch notes, however guarantees “compatibility, safety, stability, and efficiency enhancements.”
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Howdy! Only a fast word that there’s an up to date Home windows APU driver for Steam Deck. This replace contains numerous compatibility, safety, stability, and efficiency enhancements for Home windows on Steam Deck. The brand new driver is accessible right here: https://t.co/zjU2UbJhz8 pic.twitter.com/ylmbu90eKqNovember 8, 2022
The brand new driver might be of explicit curiosity to those that need to take Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II on the highway, as the newest installment within the CoD saga solely runs on Decks utilizing Home windows. Hypothesis on Reddit (opens in new tab) is that the driving force improves the efficiency of OpenGL, and that it permits {hardware} accelerated video. It has been famous that the Citra 3DS emulator, which makes use of OpenGL, runs extra easily on the Deck after the replace — although not in addition to it does beneath SteamOS.
Valve would not provide any help for utilizing Home windows on its moveable PC (opens in new tab), although because it’s powered by an AMD Zen 2 APU it needs to be easy. Anybody who’s tried to put in an working system on a laptop computer, nonetheless, is aware of in any other case, and it was some time earlier than inner audio was engaged on the Deck beneath Home windows. The newest audio drivers arrived final month (in two elements), however the unique driver to allow the Home windows Deck to make a noise appeared in Could this yr — nearly three months after launch, and two months after the primary graphics and Wi-Fi drivers appeared (opens in new tab).
Our first impressions of Home windows 10 (on the time, the Deck didn’t help the {hardware} TPM options wanted to put in Microsoft’s newest OS) on the Steam Deck had been “tough across the edges,” and we concluded that SteamOS was the higher match for the system. Due to a BIOS replace, now you can run Home windows 11 on the gadget, however dual-booting between Home windows 11 and SteamOS isn’t supported.
The brand new driver, together with all of the others you may have to get Home windows operating in your Deck, is accessible now from the Steam Help web site (opens in new tab).