Steam Oled Windows Drivers

[NRM]

"Have we mentioned Steam Deck is a PC? Like any other PC, you can install other applications and OSes if you'd like. For those interested in installing Windows, you'll need a few additional drivers to have the best experience."

How long is it going to be? its getting ridiculous at this point... we are getting closer and closer to a year since the deck oled released and still no drivers... come on valve...

[Murasakino Rin]

nobody here will know the answer to this question. its been figured that the drivers are not a direct focus for valve or AMD at this time.

what programs are you wanting to run under windows?

[PopinFRESH]

Steam Deck - Windows Resources

Steam Deck OLED

• APU driver - download here, run setup.exe to install. This driver is updated as of November 17th, 2023.
  
• SD Card reader driver - download here, run setup.exe to install.
  
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Audio drivers for Windows on Steam Deck OLED are currently being worked on, and will be available soon.

That isn't what I'd call "no drivers". It's not "all drviers" but it isn't "no drivers". You can also find a 3rd party compatible driver for the WiFi/BT chipset as well (from a lenovo that uses the same chipset); so the only real issue is the audio drivers.

[NRM]

Originally posted by Murasakino Rin:

nobody here will know the answer to this question. its been figured that the drivers are not a direct focus for valve or AMD at this time.

what programs are you wanting to run under windows?

DST cant be played with mouse and keyboard sadly, so windows would work (steam deck version has no support)

Every game that has any kind of anticheats usually wont work either, i have a deck with dual boot but cant use it

[NRM]

Originally posted by PopinFRESH:

Steam Deck - Windows Resources

Steam Deck OLED

• APU driver - download here, run setup.exe to install. This driver is updated as of November 17th, 2023.
  
• SD Card reader driver - download here, run setup.exe to install.
  
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Audio drivers for Windows on Steam Deck OLED are currently being worked on, and will be available soon.

That isn't what I'd call "no drivers". It's not "all drviers" but it isn't "no drivers". You can also find a 3rd party compatible driver for the WiFi/BT chipset as well (from a lenovo that uses the same chipset); so the only real issue is the audio drivers.

If the driver is available why does lenovo get them and not Valve? are they lazier? i am fine with it not being priority number one, but almost one year is unreasonable waiting time for something that should be supported out of the box, steam deck has them, it sucks that the "better" version of the deck does not have them... and yah sound is a huge part of playing games, in short instead of defending steam for being lazy we should ask for the stuff they promised instead.... their website still promotes the deck as a windows able machine when it is not.

[alive]

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Audio drivers for Windows on Steam Deck OLED are currently being worked on, and will be available soon.

[F A B L E D]

Originally posted by PopinFRESH:

so the only real issue is the audio drivers.

It's only the speakers that doesn't work. If you use wired earplugs or attach anything into the mini jack output, you have audio.

[PopinFRESH]

Originally posted by alive:

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Audio drivers for Windows on Steam Deck OLED are currently being worked on, and will be available soon.:happy_seagull:

I'm aware. My point was that the OP said No drivers and there are most drivers already available. There are 2 parts of the audio drivers; one for the actual audio chipset (codec) which Windows has a default driver for, and the second for the AD MAX98389 amplifier for the built-in speakers which is the only driver that doesn't have a solution for on Windows yet. BT audio, wired aux via the 3.5mm jack both work.

That wasn't my point in my previous post but it is worth also pointing out; thanks

[NRM]

Ugh apologists are the worst, fact is Steam itself is not offering Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Audio drivers for Windows... The drivers are out there and i doubt valve cant get them... as you said they could at least have the rest except the audio driver, but no dumb asses still defend valve laziness, dude you are a consumer not a valve representative, don't defend stuff that damage you as a consumer.
As it stand right now valve officially ONLY support:

APU driver
SD Card reader driver

So yah that's no support for windows which is advertised by them.

[TheKrapfcat]

Valve is clearly prioritizing SteamOS development over Windows support, you claim they have "promised" that the Deck would support while the very next line on the page states
"We are providing these resources as is and are unfortunately unable to offer 'Windows on Deck' support. If you get stuck and need a way back to the default Steam Deck OS, please follow these recovery instructions."
and the official Steam Deck page not even mentions the ability to use Windows.
you call it "laziness" but SteamOS and Linux in general is in a bit of transition and rapid development these past years with SteamOS having 3 different Kernels for every development branch (Stable, Beta, Main) and they still have a lot of work to do, especially on the Desktop side that is still running X11 and I doubt Valve wants it as it currently is, I am suspecting they are working on something to make it more friendly for Windows users before they release it as a Standalone Distro. but who knows when, ever heard of Valve time?

[NRM]

Originally posted by TheKrapfcat:

Valve is clearly prioritizing SteamOS development over Windows support, you claim they have "promised" that the Deck would support while the very next line on the page states
"We are providing these resources as is and are unfortunately unable to offer 'Windows on Deck' support. If you get stuck and need a way back to the default Steam Deck OS, please follow these recovery instructions."

its fine for it to not be a extremely high priority but it seems to not be even on the back of their minds...
I understand the drivers are provided "as is" and that is fine, but they are NOT providing the drivers for the better and most expensive version of the deck, that right there is awful.

As soon as they started promoting the steam deck they spoke a lot about it being windows compatible, and to their credit regular steam deck is windows compatible, is the OLED that has trouble and seem to be absolutely forgotten, i understand that wanting windows in the deck is not super important for everyone BUT they did advertise it a lot and i love my deck but being unable to play a bunch of games just because they cant bother to get the drivers which to be honest they most likely dont even need to develop in house makes me a bit angry, they said the deck was windows compatible several times in interviews, the reality is that rn the steam deck OLED is simply not compatible and the fault lies in Valve, their priority's should not get in the way of what they promised us before we bought their product.

[F A B L E D]

I have a bluetooth adapter attached to the USB-C port, and via a charging split cable if i need. And i don't really need the speakers, i would always pick a headset or earplugs over speakers any chance i get. Those speakers are really bad in sound anyways.

Point is, it IS compatible with Windows. it just lacks a few drivers. Some PC's doesn't even come with bluetooth, you have to buy a bluetooth adapter and attach it.

This doesn't mean it doesn't suck that they haven't released drivers for the OLED yet, but the Deck isn't advertised as a Windows handheld, it's just compatible.