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1080p at 30fps – Valve Finally Details Steam Machine's Verified Program
Valve requires Steam Machine Verified games to run at 1080p and 30fps, automatically including over 25,000 Steam Deck Verified titles to simplify certification.
- Valve outlined the Verified program during its GDC 2026 presentation, requiring games to run at 1080p and 30fps for Steam Machine verification, and said Steam Deck-verified titles will carry over automatically.
- To ease developer work, Valve leaned on the Steam Deck model, streamlining certification for tens of thousands of Deck games and limiting verification beyond 1080p to reduce costs.
- Performance-first: Valve estimates Steam Machine performance at roughly six times that of the Steam Deck, with a GPU equivalent to a Radeon RX 7600M and FSR Performance Mode rendering at lower resolution.
- Developers can opt in to port anti-cheat programs to SteamOS, enabling more competitive games despite Valve acknowledging kernel-level anti-cheat and Secure Boot issues; most PC games should qualify for Steam Machine Verified.
- Valve says both devices will ship later this year despite memory shortage delays, and Steam Deck-verified games must be tested on the Steam Frame, which demands 90fps VR or 30fps at 720p.
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1080p at 30fps – Valve Finally Details Steam Machine's Verified Program
While we continue to wait for Valve to launch the Steam Machine amidst painful hardware shortages at the hands of AI hyperscalers, the company has released some details on its verification program at GDC 2026. Much like the Steam Deck, one of the big selling points for the Steam Machine is going to be the "Steam Machine Verified" program that'll let you know at a glance whether or not a game will run well on the Steam Machine. We've known that t…
According to Valve, all games on the new Steam Machine, which are verified for the Steam Deck, have a performance target of 1080p and 30 frames per second. Read more
Steam users have become accustomed to seeing Steam Deck Compatibility on the game pages for a few years now. By November 2025, Valve had warned that similar certification programs would be offered for Steam Machine and Steam Frame...
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