Bluetooth And Wi-Fi Available, Steam Deck Now Coming To Windows

Steam Deck now available bluetooth and Wi-Fi for Windows 1 (Photo: Steam Deck)

JAKARTA - Valve sent a handheld game console for US$400 or around Rp. 5.6 million, the Steam Deck, before all of the promised features were ready.

Now, however, you can use the Steam Deck on Windows 10, as Valve has just released the GPU, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth drivers you'll need to download and play games.

Most importantly, you'll need to remove the Steam Deck to do this, there's no dual-boot yet, and Valve says you can only install Windows 10 because the current Steam Deck BIOS doesn't seem to include TPM firmware support.

No Loudspeaker Audio yet

Your speakers and headphone jack won't work because there's no audio driver. Bluetooth audio or USB-C are both options for now.

You can find Valve's Windows and Steam Deck Recovery Instructions on the Steam page. “To enter the boot menu, turn it off. Then, while holding Volume Down, click the power button," wrote Valve.

The Verge notes that the Steam Deck isn't as buggy today as it was during the review process, and updates won't be coming that fast once it launches, Valve created a stable and beta release channel that you can access directly from the Deck interface.

The Verge also still has a few crashes and the game mysteriously stops working like they did days or weeks earlier in Vampire Survivors, but they've also been playing Elden Ring and Into the Breach for hours on end without a problem.