Valve Shipped Its $400 Handheld Game Console steam bridge, before all the promised features were ready, but one of the most important is now available. You can now install Windows 10 on Steam Deck and expect it to work because Valve just released the most important drivers for GPU, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth You will need to download and play the games.
Crucially, you’ll need to clear the Steam Deck to do this, there’s no dual booting yet, and Valve says you can only install Windows 10 since the current Steam Deck BIOS apparently doesn’t include TPM firmware support (Which unfortunately Microsoft needs for Windows 11).
Oh, and the speakers and headphone jack won’t work since there are no audio drivers yet. Bluetooth or USB-C are the two options at the moment.
You can find Valve Windows on deck here – and the Steam surface restoration instructions here In case you fail or hit one of the unfortunate deck errors. Valve writes: “To access the boot menu, shutdown. Then, while holding the Volume Down button, click the Power button.
I should point out that Steam Deck is not Is enough As buggy today as it was during the review process, updates aren’t fast and furious: after launch, Valve created “stable” and “beta” release channels that you can access directly from the desktop interface. I still have crashes and games that mysteriously stop working like they did days or weeks ago (look at you, Vampire survivor), but I also played for hours elden ring And in the breach without problems.
I’ll be releasing Windows 10 on my review unit soon, so stay tuned for that!
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