Valve updates SteamOS to add support for AMD cards

The beta of SteamOS now supports AMD graphics cards, courtesy of the latest update from Valve, the company announced this week.

The Jan. 7 update to SteamOS included an update to a preview release for the AMD Catalyst driver, version 13.11 beta 9.9. It "should fix the poor in-game performance and malfunctioning return to desktop functionality," said Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais in a Steam Universe post.

Griffais noted a couple of known issues with the preview release: screen tearing and "poor overlay performance in-game."

Earlier this week, Valve updated SteamOS to add out-of-the-box support for Intel graphics chips. The Linux-based operating system initially launched only with Nvidia graphics support.

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