Steam On Linux Restores Hardware Acceleration by Default for NVIDIA GPUs

[T0@st]

A previous attempt to enable NVIDIA GPU video hardware acceleration by default within Steam running on Linux platforms was thwarted by numerous bugs and faults - adopters of the mid-May Steam Client Beta update reported their experiences of various crashes encountered in Valve's user interface. The embattled software engineering team has since investigated this matter and released a new update (yesterday).

The June 6th Steam Client Beta patch notes list a number of general improvements along with Linux-specific adjustments: "a crash when Steam windows were closed with hardware (HW) acceleration enabled on NVIDIA GPUs" and the re-enabling of "HW acceleration by default for NVIDIA GPUs." Early reports indicate that Linux gamers are having a smoother time after installing yesterday's update.



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[Nordic]

Valve is the best thing to have ever happened to Linux gaming. I am excited for them to release the new SteamOS for general use.

 

[progste]

hopefully one day I can ditch microsoft for good.

 

[droopyRO]

new SteamOS for general use.

So you could install it on any PC like Mint or Ubuntu ? that's so cool, i will keep an eye on this.

 

[progste]

So you could install it on any PC like Mint or Ubuntu ? that's so cool, i will keep an eye on this.

as far as I know it's already out but not really necessary to install it since you can use it functions on other distros.

 

[kacperoo29]

So you could install it on any PC like Mint or Ubuntu ? that's so cool, i will keep an eye on this.

If you want to try experience that's basically the same as SteamOS 3.0 I recommend HoloISO. It's a community made distro that is functionally identical to SteamOS, but can be installed on other machines.