Valve is working with AMD to make the Steam Deck Windows 11 ready

Valve is aiming to get their Steam Deck portable gaming PC ready for Windows 11. While we’ve known for weeks that Steam Deck can run Windows, it wasn’t clear to what extent this would be supported by Valve, or if an option. for a Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) would be enabled to get Windows 11 on Steam Deck.

Now Valve has confirmed that it has focused heavily on supporting Windows. “There is work on TPM right now,” says Greg Coomer, a designer of Valve Steam Deck, in an interview with PC player. “We’ve been so focused on Windows 10 so far that we haven’t really gone that far. Our expectation is that we can answer them.

Valve is working with AMD to ensure that TPM is supported at the BIOS level and that the Steam Deck is Windows 11 ready. “So nothing tells us yet that there will be problems with Windows 11”, explains Coomer.

It looks encouraging for the possibility of installing Windows 11 on Steam Deck once it launches later this year. While the portable device will ship with SteamOS, a customized version of Linux, Valve will support Windows installations.

So why would you want Windows on Steam Deck? Valve is still working on getting games with anti-cheat ready to go on this handheld, and titles like Apex Legends, Destiny 2, PUBG, Fortnite, and Gears 5 will work without Windows. “We are working with BattlEye and Easy Anti-Cheat to get support for Proton ahead of launch,” Valve says.

The Steam Deck uses Valve’s Proton software to run many officially unsupported Windows games on the device, but anti-cheat has been the biggest headache for Proton in recent years. Windows support avoids the obvious compatibility issues here, but it will bring an interface that is not suitable for a 7-inch screen and a lot of unknowns until we see how good the operating system is. works on Steam Deck.