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SteamOS with r9 290X?
n30p1r4t3 Mar 13, 2014
Hey guys,

I just recently acquired a pair of Samsung 840 Evo 250GB SSDs and would like to run SteamOS on one of them. My question...will the current AMD Catalyst drivers be able to handle MLL and any other steamOS game at 1080p on Max details and run at 60+ fps? I cannot and will not play a game if I can't run it at max detail. OCD or something to that effect.


I'd love to take a steamOS bite...but I just wish AMD would fix their drivers so I didn't have to ask this question.

Other Specs:

i5 3570k @ 4.5Ghz
32GB 1866Mhz Ram
2x 250GB SSDs
860W Psu
H80 Water Cooler
Prodigy M Case
Maximus V Gene MB
GoCorinthians Apr 11, 2014
Nvidia are doing a great job no bugs os SteamOS running a i5 3470/ Gigabyte 780.

Witcher 2 were already heavy on Window/Mac on linux it will be a really benchmark lol;
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