SteamOS, the operating system that Valve created to be able to use new forms like the legendary Steam Machines or the current Steam Deck, has been updated with great new features that provide better performance on its portable console. This update brings big changes that allow us to modify the Steam bridge to increase your performance thanks to overclockas well as other settings that increase the viewing quality it is capable of offering.
The Valve console arrived a few years ago as one of the biggest novelties in the video game industry, offering a completely optimized system to be able to play any compatible title found in the extensive Steam catalog. Following the great triumph that this launch represented for the company, many other companies joined together to launch a similar or more powerful device, capable of offering everything the Steam bridge
New Steam Deck update brings big changes
Often when the software is updated we can see how the performance of any device increases; Ultimately, the operating system is extremely important because it is what allows us to exploit the full potential of the hardware. This is why we can see how more importance is often placed on how an operating system can work rather than offering an augmentation to the physical part of a device, because as we can see in many other companies, a poor software implementation can ruin all the work done at the hardware level.
In this way, the Steam Deck has been updated with one of the biggest patches to date, 3.6.0, which includes a large number of new features that can make a difference when using this console .
Overclock
One of the biggest new features brought by the new SteamOS patch is the ability to apply various forms of overclocksince a function has been incorporated which includes a series of commands for overclocking in the BIOS which can be found in the Steam Deck LCD Display. This will allow us to adjust various parameters such as the consumption of the different components, either so that they operate at a higher or lower capacity, offering us the possibility of increasing their performance or, on the contrary, reducing the consumption of the battery.
Even though he overclock This is not the only novelty brought by the system BIOS, since they have also made a series of adjustments and corrections, including the possibility of activating an SD card as a boot device.
Drivers
In addition to the new features applied to the performance level thanks to the overclocking What can we do, they also updated the graphics drivers to a higher version, this should initially bring a lot of improvements in performance and accuracy. On the other hand, the compatibility with the different devices that we can connect via Bluetooth, such as audio devices, has also been updated, also adding support for Bluetooth A2DP and BAP, also offering wake-up control from More precise Bluetooth.
Better Dock support
On the other hand, we also have an update in the Dock that we can use to connect the Steam Deck to a larger screen, since the fixes they have included for the Deck Dock and the firmware of the console itself- will even improve compatibility with VRR screens. and they will add HDMI CEC functions.
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