AMD FSR Confirmed to be Coming to Steam Deck via Gamescope
Valve's Steam Deck is set and primed to launch towards the end of the month, with more and more information coming out on how the device handles various gaming and gaming-adjacent tasks. One of the major considerations of this type was whether SteamOS 3.0, the Deck's operating system, would feature support for AMD FSR. Thankfully, fans now have their answer with the latest announcement confirming that it will.
Being one of the most exciting hardware releases of 2022, the Steam Deck promises to deliver an entirely new sort of handheld gaming experience at the given price point. Since performance is a major concern for such a small form-factor PC, potential buyers have been wondering if AMD FSR would be an option for fast and lightweight image clarity improvements.
Steam Deck Is Officially Launching On February 25
While Valve did suggest that it would work on adding FSR support for the Steam Deck at some point, the latest production update for the device's game rendering solution called Gamescope comes with full official support for AMD's upscaling suite for all games available on the Steam Deck. This means that, at launch, the Deck will have the option to run games at a lower than native resolution, and then upscale them to improve image quality across the board with minimal performance losses.
The availability of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling was particularly important since Valve confirmed early on that DLSS will not be supported on Steam Deck. As much was to be expected, since DLSS needs physical Tensor cores for it to do its job, while FSR has no such requirement. Now that Valve's Gamescope offers image upscaling functionality as a core part of SteamOS 3.0's feature set, early Steam Deck adopters will have
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