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SteamOS 0.4.2 Beta for Steam Frame brings streaming improvements

| Last updated: 29 Sep 2026 at 5:01 pm UTC
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Valve just put out SteamOS 0.4.2 Beta for Steam Frame, quickly fixing up more issues to hopefully give the early adopters a nicer streaming experience.

Still waiting on getting your Steam Frame? Join us in the Steam Frame waiting room on the GamingOnLinux Forum.

This update follows on from SteamOS 0.4.1 Beta for Steam Frame that was only released a few days ago with even more fixes and improvements in there.

SteamOS 0.4.2 Steam Frame Beta Changes

Streaming:

  • Improved audio reliability while streaming.
  • Improved connection reliability while streaming (including "protocol error 17").

General

  • Improved user proximity detection.

This OS release includes SteamVR (2.18.1)

Valve also recently put up a script to help Linux gamers debug issues with the Steam Frame wireless Dongle.

In case you missed it - we also had SteamOS 3.9.2 Beta for normal devices recently too.

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Purple Library Guy 30 Sep 2026
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After all these years, sometimes I still can't get over how silly a word "dongle" is.
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