{"id":84839,"date":"2026-06-22T15:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84839"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:36:38","slug":"valve-is-making-it-easier-to-build-your-own-steam-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84839","title":{"rendered":"Valve Is Making It Easier To Build Your Own Steam Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/steam-machine-price-and-release-date-officially-confirmed-by-valve\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/steam-machine-price-and-release-date-officially-confirmed-by-valve\/\">specs and pricing for Steam Machine<\/a> have been revealed, and the preorders are opening soon. But if you&#8217;d rather sidestep that headache and build your own Steam Machine, Valve is officially making it easier for players to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/953411\/valve-steamos-desktop-nvidia\" id=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/953411\/valve-steamos-desktop-nvidia\">The Verge<\/a>, Valve&#8217;s Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that the recently launched SteamOS 3.8.10 is part of the company&#8217;s ongoing attempts to make the Steam operating system &#8220;more compatible with desktop hardware.&#8221; That includes &#8220;improved compatibility&#8221; with the most recent Intel and AMD platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If you have something that is similar to the use case of a Steam Machine, where you have a PC that&#8217;s gonna be plugged into a TV, and has a single hard drive that you\u2019re not going to try and dual boot \u2026 you can put SteamOS on there, and you&#8217;ll have an experience that is very similar to a Steam Deck docked or a Steam Machine,&#8221; said Griffais. &#8220;With some caveats, of course &#8230; The core bits of the experience are there. The SteamOS graphics driver, the shader precompilation \u2026 you can get at all of that with the SteamOS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, SteamOS doesn&#8217;t currently support Nvidia drivers. Griffais noted that Valve and Nvidia are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The specs and pricing for Steam Machine have been revealed, and the preorders are opening soon. But if you&#8217;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&#8217;s Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that the recently launched SteamOS 3.8.10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":84841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84842,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84839\/revisions\/84842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}