Valve Enables NVIDIA Drivers in SteamOS, Performance Gap with Windows Remains

Valve activated NVIDIA drivers in the main SteamOS development branch: some GeForce generations now initialize and display output. Developer Pierre-Loup Griffais said the performance gap with the current NVIDIA driver stack remains but is narrowing daily.

• NVIDIA driver enabled in main SteamOS branch
• Some GeForce generations already output image
• Performance gap with NVIDIA driver remains
• No timeline for full GeForce support in SteamOS