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If you don’t have luck with Valve’s The Steam systemyou can make your own Steam Machines on the contrary. Valve says that “starting with the release of SteamOS 3.8, you can integrate your Steam system using any PC hardware you want.” SteamOS 3.8.10 it was launched last week and several improvements, including “better integration with the latest Intel and AMD platforms.” Along with this integration, Valve is giving players the green light to install SteamOS on their computers.
In an interview with SeasideValve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais said that Valve “has been supporting the evolution of (SteamOS) so it is more compatible with computer hardware,” including support for Nvidia graphics.
Griffais says Valve has a “growing team” working to support Nvidia’s SteamOS drivers, adding, “We’re working with Nvidia a lot.” Although he said that Nvidia’s support may not come this year, Griffais confirmed that “it’s something we’re doing in the background.”
It has been technically possible to run SteamOS on your devices for a while, but compatibility is limited to AMD systems. Until now it has been installed using the Steam Deck recovery imagea process that, speaking from experience, is not much more straightforward than the process of installing many other Linux distributions. Trying to run SteamOS on Intel or Nvidia hardware has not been easy until now.
According to Griffais, Valve is working to change this, which could mean that down the line, you’ll be able to run SteamOS on almost any PC game you want, including Nvidia.
For the near future, Griffais says that SteamOS as it is now should provide “a good experience” for installation as a PC: “If you have something similar to using Steam Machine, where you have a PC that is connected to the TV, and it has one hard drive that you can’t try with a dual boot (…) you can also install Steam’OS similar to it on Steam’OS. locked or Steam Machine, with a caveat,” such as the lack of HDMI-CEC. But “the main features of the event are there. SteamOS graphics driver, shader precompilation (…) you can get all this with SteamOS.”
While Griffais mentioned a “SteamOS installer,” he also said it’s not designed to dual-boot with another OS at this time. “There’s no setup wizard where you can, you know, move another OS and partition your hard drive.”
The latest version of SteamOS still requires installing the new OS on a new PC, but Griffais says he thinks “the best time to install it on your computer is to install it with another machine.”
Building a gaming PC right now can be as expensive as a Steam Machine because of constant lack of RAM. But if you don’t want to wait to reserve a Steam machine, the DIY option is now possible. You can also install SteamOS on an existing gaming PC running Windows or another operating system, but you’ll need to wipe your drive (so back everything up before that).
