Valve has released an update for the b lwa ta of SteamOS that support for Intel gpus is significantly need to improve. To resolve problems with AMD gpu’s being worked on. Includes the update has been improvements to the audio playback.
In the first beta release of SteamOS made Valve list in the system requirements still mention that only Nvidia gpus are supported by the Debian based operating system. Users could, however, by a few changes to the kernel parameters at startup, still AMD and Intel gpu’s to get. Especially owners of an Intel HD Graphics gpu got to do with the bugs. Also the included Mesa, a collection of open source libraries for OpenGL support, was version 9.2 is outdated.
With a recent update to the SteamOS get Intel users now available to Mesa 10.0. This will the performance, in particular Intel Haswell and Ivy Bridge processors significantly improve. Also, is now OpenGL 3.3 support. There is no kernelparamaters more adapted need to be.
Involving audio, there is now a sound available if the user switches to the desktop mode. Also audio problems with the game Trine 2 would have been fixed. Valve uses a ‘hard coded’ hdmi-audio-driver, allowing the switch to another audio device manually performed will need to be.
SteamOS by Valve during the beta with regular updates be provided. Therefore, the company has a private repository set up. A number of problems with AMD gpu’s is by Valve and AMD itself still worked, so for users of those cards the necessary patches and fixes lie ahead.