Windows 11 on Steam Deck? Valve and AMD take care of it

Windows 11 on Steam Deck? Valve and AMD take care of it

According to information reported by PC Gamer, Valve and AMD are working to bring Windows 11 to the Steam Deck. Valve's portable console is natively equipped with the Steam OS operating system, based on Arch Linux and which allows you to play the titles of the Steam library thanks to Proton, but is also compatible with Windows 10. After the announcement of Windows 11, however, it seems that the two companies have started working to bring it to the device.

Photo Credit: Valve, Microsoft While Steam Deck uses a processor capable of supporting Windows 11, since the "Van Gogh" APU uses the same architecture of the Ryzen 3000, on the other hand the need to support TPM 2.0 could be a problem: Valve and AMD are evaluating the situation, to understand how they can integrate it into Steam Deck so as to also support the new version of Windows.

“We are working on the TPM right now,” said Greg Coomer, Steam Deck designer. However, we expect to be able to meet this requirement as well. We're also talking to AMD to make sure we don't have any issues at the BIOS level, but it doesn't seem like there will be any issues with Windows 11 at the moment. ”

If Valve could really integrate the TPM into the Steam Deck and add support for Windows 11, the portable console would become even more interesting: we could find in our hands a device capable of running three different operating systems, compatible with a large amount of games as well as with many emulators for retro gaming.