Hey all! Waiting on my OLED Steam Deck to arrive and been doing some research on games and such.
I’ll very likely be installing Windows on an external drive in the off chance I want to play something like Valorant that doesn’t play well with SteamOS - I’m moving soonish and won’t have access to my gaming rig so this seems like a sensible option.
That said, most of the articles and posts I’m reading are older ones saying that the Steam Deck doesn’t support secure boot/TPM 2.0 so install Windows 10 if you’re going to be playing Valorant (because of Vanguard).
Is this still the case? Does the Steam Deck support Secure Boot/TPM2.0 yet, or is my best bet still to stick with Windows 10?
Rest of my games are all good to go for playing on SteamOS - I’m so excited!
Valorant, or, rather, vanguard, on windows 11 requires secure boot to be enabled. And while Steam Deck’s bios supports it, it doesn’t have the signing key generated on the board, so you’d have to go through multiple technical hoops just to get that enabled, and then, after enabling that you’d have to sign SteamOS bootloader after every update to even be able to boot it with secure boot enabled. Going with windows 10 removes Vaguard’s secure boot requirement, meaning you shouldn’t run into vanguard problems and it requires no modifications to the deck itself, especially when booting from external.
Can’t speak about valorant working, because I still haven’t gotten around to reformatting the drive from win11 to 10.