Tesla Launches Steam Game Support For Newest Vehicle Models

Tesla's newest models are steam-powered. That implies the vehicles' central consoles can play thousands of Steam games.

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The new feature, part of Tesla's "Holiday update" 2022.44.25.1, is only available on the 2022 Model S and X. Each of these cars has 16GB of RAM.

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The update's release notes say that these cars should be able to run any game that has been Verified by Valve for the Steam Deck handheld.

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On the list of Verified games, there are currently over 6,000 titles that run on the Deck through SteamOS.

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Most of these games use a compatibility layer to run on the Arch Linux-based system, even though they were made for Windows.

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The bigger list of "Playable" games on Steam Deck will also work on these Teslas, though users may have trouble with the interface for some of these games.

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Deck-verified games currently aim for at least 30 fps on the 7-inch, 1280×800-resolution screen of the Steam Deck.

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On the other hand, the 17-inch centre console in the 2022 Teslas can support a resolution of up to 2200×1300.

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So, the "10 teraflops of compute power" that AMD says Tesla's Ryzen APUs have may need to be tweaked a bit for each game to get the most out of them.

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