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The specs and pricing for Steam Machine have been revealed, and the preorders are opening soon. But if you’d rather sidestep that headache and build your own Steam Machine, Valve is officially making it easier for players to do so.
While speaking with The Verge, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that the recently launched SteamOS 3.8.10 is part of the company’s ongoing attempts to make the Steam operating system “more compatible with desktop hardware.” That includes “improved compatibility” with the most recent Intel and AMD platforms.
“If you have something that is similar to the use case of a Steam Machine, where you have a PC that’s gonna be plugged into a TV, and has a single hard drive that you’re not going to try and dual boot … you can put SteamOS on there, and you’ll have an experience that is very similar to a Steam Deck docked or a Steam Machine,” said Griffais. “With some caveats, of course … The core bits of the experience are there. The SteamOS graphics driver, the shader precompilation … you can get at all of that with the SteamOS.”
However, SteamOS doesn’t currently support Nvidia drivers. Griffais noted that Valve and Nvidia are
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