Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.

The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    That’s not really how it works given that so many devices have HDMI ports.

    If we expect to make hardware devices that are generally compatible with interfaces non-technical users use, then excluding an entire class of common modern interface spec isn’t a great choice.

    It’ll be fine for now but as the specs bump up inversion and HDMI changes over time is just going to get worse

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      but as the specs bump

      Eh, 4k is already at the point of diminishing returns. There are 8k displays for a while now, but nobody buys them.

      Rather, create 5k, please.

      • TotalCourage007@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        I wish game devs knew how to optimize for storage better. Let me install HD instead of 4k games if I choose. I do the same thing for anime series because HD barely takes up any space at all.