Tesla Offers Steam Game Support with Its Newest Model Vehicles

The Verified Games List More than 6,000 titles are currently available That run on the Deck via SteamOS, the most used A compatibility layer Windows-coded Games running on the Arch Linux-based system . We believe that the more extensive list of Steam Deck games listed as “Playable”, will also work in these Teslas. However, users might run into issues. Some interface problems these titles are available.Deck-verified games aim for a minimum of 30 frames per second on the Steam Deck’s 7″ (1280×800 resolution) screen. The 2022 Teslas’ central console of 17 inches can handle resolutions up to 2200×1300. Individual game settings might need to be adjusted to make the most of the 10 teraflops of compute power that Tesla’s Ryzen CPUs boast.

Musk tweeted Tuesday night that Tesla’s Steam integration now supports wireless Bluetooth controllers as well as mouse/keyboard combinations. To retrieve games from other devices, users can also download cloud saves to their car.

Journey to a gaming vehicle

The Teslas now have full Steam support. This is the culmination of a long journey that began in 2018 when Musk issued a call for developers to create Tesla-based ports. The Tesla center console display now supports a few dozen individual ported games. This includes Cuphead in 2019, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher III Wild Hunt.

Musk stated that Tesla had made a change to its game porting strategy in February. He said the company was “working through a general case of Steam games working on a Tesla vs certain titles”. Musk stated in July that Steam integration was progressing, leading to Tuesday’s Steam support upgrade for late-model Teslas.

A Tesla update last year added a controversial feature that allowed supported games to be played. You can still run while the car is in motion . This move was a spark. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has conducted a broad-based investigation Tesla had to rethink its gameplay and limit it to when the car is parked.