Last month, valve released an update to steamos to bring official windows 11 support to steam deck. Nevertheless, windows on the handheld game console from valve still performs badly, and some key components are missing, such as audio driver Yesterday, valve finally solved this problem. The windows official audio driver on steam deck can now be obtained by machine owners
The release of steam deck's official audio drivers means that players who install them on game consoles can now use built-in speakers and audio jacks. Previously, [windows] was used on steam deck( https://microsoft.pvxt.net/x9Vg1 ) The only audio output mode is Bluetooth.
Although steam deck now has all the required drivers and can run Windows 11 and 10 like any computer, if it is to replace steamos, its performance is still not perfect, let alone easy to use. Steam deck does not officially support dual system startup, so you need to erase all the contents in the memory before installing windows. This is also what valve is trying to solve. The company promises to enable optional dual system startup when steamos 3 is released in the future.
Not every steam deck user cares about replacing steamos with windows, so valve is naturally more interested in improving its own steamos.
Players can download the latest steam deck windows driver from the official steam support website: