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A July 10 Steam Deck Beta Client update surfaces Steam Machine Verified and SteamOS compatibility info directly on game capsules in Home and on game detail pages, alongside Remote Play and Steam Workshop fixes.
Square Enix's HD-2D turn-based RPG, the first mainline-adjacent Final Fantasy built around the mobile hit Brave Exvius, has already earned Valve's top compatibility rating on both Steam Deck and Steam Machine three months before it ships.
Valve pushed a new Steam Deck Client update on June 30 that moves the Maximum Game Resolution setting out of the Advanced submenu, warns you when a game is rendering below native resolution, and bundles more Steam Machine compatibility fixes as the console starts reaching doorsteps.
New benchmarks confirm what Valve quietly admitted last week: shipping the Steam Machine with one 16GB RAM stick instead of two costs real performance in CPU-heavy games like Baldur's Gate 3, while GPU-bound titles barely notice.
Valve quietly built AMD's FSR 4.1.1 upscaler into Proton Experimental, auto-upgrading any FSR 3.1 game on RDNA 3 hardware — including the Steam Machine's GPU, in the same week the console started shipping.
Valve's Steam Machine started shipping June 30 at $1,049. The first wave of reviews agrees on almost everything: beautifully built, silent, SteamOS is a joy — and the memory-crisis price tag exposes underpowered internals.