As detailed in an announcement published on Wednesday, September 3, a recent Beta update to Steam’s client has implemented support for AMD hardware, allowing for better optimization for the client’s in-home streaming feature.
Specifically, VCE hardware encoding of D3D (Direct 3D) games is now possible, which in itself is supported by the latest AMD drivers for a wide range of AMD graphics cards. The full list of support AMD GPUs has been detailed below.
Radeon HD 79xx
Radeon HD 78xx
Radeon HD 77xx
R9 295x
R9 290x / 290
R9 280x / 280
R9 270x / 270
R7 265
R7 260x/260
R7 250x
In order to enable the support, you’ll need to “ go to the remote computer and enable hardware encoding in the advanced host options. ” Additionally, the update also adds support for Nvidia ShadowPlay, which enables hardware accelerated OpenGL capture, as well as streaming support from Linux hosts.
You can find the update’s full patch notes via the source link below. We’ll bring you more news on Steam’s Client Beta should further information reach our ears.
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