Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck
Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck
Valve has officially released the Windows drivers for the Steam Deck OLED, making Windows OS officially supported on the device!
To be clear, while the article says this is "official support", this is only drivers provided by valve.
Per valve:
We are providing these resources as is and are unfortunately unable to offer 'Windows on Deck' support.
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I guess it's nice of them to release the drivers but that still won't make it a good experience. They should have designed the deck to use full length nvme so you could get bigger drive sizes and not feel like a dual boot leaves no room for games. Not that I would do this or recomend it, yuck.
I use a 2TB Kingston SSD through the USB-C port. All the Steam Deck stuff stays on the internal drive, Windows 11 on the Kingston.
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/xs2000-portable-usb-c-solid-state-drive
There are also docks that support NVMe:
https://jsaux.com/products/m-2-docking-station-for-steam-deck-hb0604
That kinda makes it not very portable. However, it's true that you can get short high capacity drives. They're just a bit harder to find.
Is that faster than loading it on a microsd card? That's how I currently boot windows on my steamdeck, but it's a little slow to load and initial loads for some games can be painful.
Yeah, the MicroSD slot is around 100mb/s:
https://www.polygon.com/deals/22938610/steam-deck-best-sd-card-micro-storage-price-speed
USB-C is anywhere from 5 Gbps to 20 Gbps. Not sure what standard the Deck supports, but even the slowest is 625 to 2500 mb/s.
Thanks, I'll have to take a look into that, I can definitely tell the microsd struggles (and it would free up my microsd slot for extra steamos storage).