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Valve says full Nvidia GPU support for SteamOS is a top priority and making steady progress, with drivers now in the main tree enabling some cards (though performance still lags). (www.ign.com)
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[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Sounds like they are supporting open source Nvidia drivers?

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 28 points 1 week ago

no, it sounds like they're just talking about the same kernel module interface that other distros are already using

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Couldn't be, right? Installing the official Nvidia driver on steamos can't be this hard

[-] arudesalad@piefed.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I don't think gamescope (steamos ui) works with nvidia yet

[-] Bobby@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Couldn’t be, right?

NVK works with modern GPUs. See this from 2025:

Installing the official Nvidia driver on steamos can’t be this hard

For Valve: no. For users: yes because the system is immutable.

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 19 points 1 week ago

they said they're aiming for full performance? maybe they're working with Nvidia to get Nvidia performance close to Windows

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

i think if you compare like-for-like (e.g. vulkan native) they have similar performance? if you need compat layers that's different, but that's not a nvidia specific overhead.

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AMD Proton is closer to their Windows performance when talking about DX11/DX12 games, ray tracing, ai upscaling, VRAM overflow, and stuff like that

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

also, like, if they are using nvidia proprietary drivers there's nothing they can really do to improve performance. AMD linux driver works so well because it's open source and some of the main contributors work for Valve. if they aren't going to use open source nvidia drivers they'd have to kneel before Jensen Huang and beg for a trickle of performance gain 'cause they (steamos) are like a tiny bit of nvidia's market.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Great news. Wish I had the time and energy to contribute!

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