{"id":653007,"date":"2026-06-22T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653007\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:12:12","slug":"valve-fsr-4-is-coming-to-steam-machine-just-not-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653007\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve: FSR 4 Is Coming to Steam Machine – Just Not for Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Valve:<\/a><\/p>\n

AMD’s FSR 4 is by far the best upscaler the company has ever produced<\/a>, but is it coming to the Steam Machine? We asked Steam OS developer Pierre-Loup Griffais and he confirmed that FSR 4 is indeed on the way – but it won’t quite be ready for launch.<\/p>\n

Even that qualified statement is quite a relief, given that AMD has gone back and forth on whether FSR 4 was a feature exclusive to Radeon 9000 series GPUs. That was the party line when the tech was first shipped – even as a leaked INT8 version<\/a> was making the rounds with support for older architectures. Team Red finally announced an official July release window<\/a> for Radeon 7000 back in May, though support for RDNA 3.5 is still officially doubtful<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FSR 3 can be quite heavy on the Steam Machine<\/a>, to the point where targeting a 1440p output resolution can see you being CPU-limited – which isn’t ideal for ensuring a stable frame-rate. FSR 4 ought to improve things, as while it is marginally more expensive, its quality is much better – so you can get away with using a lower internal resolution that runs faster while enjoying similar or better image quality overall.<\/p>\n

Are you going to pre-order the Steam Machine? (565 votes)
\nYes, I can’t resist it at any price9%No, I’ll wait until it’s more affordable38%No, I’m not interested at all53%<\/p>\n

Pierre-Loup mentioned that while Valve has been working with AMD to bring FSR 4 to Steam Machine, the final release time frame isn’t yet confirmed:<\/p>\n

“We don’t have a time-frame to share with you, but we’re excited that it’s coming through on the same schedule… Any game that supports the FSR SDK with a new enough version that it has the upgrade path within the AMD software will just light up, and the FSR option will just start using FSR 4 when Proton rolls out support for it.”<\/p>\n

That implies that it should be available next month, or at least at the same time as the eventual Windows release, and that it will be handled in a similar way to on Windows where the DLL is automatically upgraded with no special fiddling (and no involvement by the developers).<\/p>\n

Currently, using FSR 4 is quite a manual process on Linux, requiring some additional Steam launch commands, so we’ll be fascinated to see whether Valve and AMD are able to provide a more streamlined alternative.<\/p>\n

\"William<\/p>\n

Will is website editor for Digital Foundry, specialising in PC hardware, sim racing and display technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMD’s FSR 4 is by far the best upscaler the company has ever produced, but is it coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,50,1180,109681,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-pc","tag-steam-machine","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}