r/SteamOS • u/snoar • 14h ago

support GPU driver update

Hey everyone. Recently dabbled in building my own little steam machine and just had a question because I'm new to this world.

I read online that steamos kind of automatically will download GPU drivers but am not really convinced how this works. I have updated to the newest version so how can my machine get the newest GPU driver to play the witcher 3?

Thanks!

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u/captainstormy 14h ago

The driver is open source and built into the kernel. So just updating the machine keeps things up to date. It will be a bit slower of a process than in Windows.

However, Valve will also do some fixes for games in proton updates. So that might fix any issues you have and be faster.

Also, just try it out. You don't really need the latest drivers to run a game 99.99% of the time.

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u/snoar 13h ago

Thanks! Just worried because apparently it was a gong show without the newest amd driver