Valve made a big impact at Consumer Electronics Shows 2014 in Las Vegas by announcing no less than 13 partners which will launch their own version of the Steam Machines and today we finally have integrated driver support for both AMD and Intel GPUs for SteamOS.

As you already know, Valve's SteamOS has been out for quite a while but was unfortunately, limited to Nvidia graphics. With the latest SteamOS update, Valve has updated AMD Catalyst driver to preview release 13.11 Beta 9.9 as well as fixed crashes on Intel graphics. With the new update all Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs and later products are supports but SteamOS still lacks support for Nvidia Optimus switching technologies.

According to Valve, the new update should install automatically. It is really good to see that Valve is pushing hard with support for SteamOS and it is definitely shaping up to be the next big thing when it comes to gaming. Valve also noted that there are some "open issues" left with AMD graphics driver but at least there is an option now.

The full release notes include:

Fixed Steam controller firmware upgrade process
Updated AMD Catalyst driver to preview release 13.11 Beta 9.9
Fixed crashes on Intel graphics by merging Keith Packard's dri2-xlib branch
Fixed an fbcon kernel panic with Intel graphics
Fixed a problem where SteamOS session screenshots taken by the Valve bug reporter would be incorrect
Enabled full repaints in the GNOME compositor for reliable tear-free rendering
Removed startup and shutdown hooks from the pulseaudio package, fixing the transition to system-wide mode on upgrade
Updated firmware packages to match the Debian Jessie kernel
Updated Intel graphics stack to Mesa 10.0.1
Applied an Intel kernel fix to re-enable KMS support
Fixed a problem where Trine 2 could cause audio to stop working by restricting direct audio access to the sound server
Enabled audio from the desktop session; the default audio device is still hardcoded to discrete graphics HDMI audio for now
Enabled 3D passthrough in the VMWare driver
Fixed Steam controller firmware upgrade by adding USB auto-mounting
Added NTP time support
Added XDG directory helpers
Added text feedback when building kernel drivers during first boot

Source: Steamcommunity.com.