SteamOS version 3.9.1 fixes issues on the Lenovo Legion Go 2 and Steam Deck

Now that the new Valve glasses are now available to “reserve”, the Steam Framethe video game giant (and now it seems also hardware), continues working on improving the operating system included in its devices, Steam OS. The new version of the popular Linux-based OS, the 3.9.1includes some fixes with compatible portable devices while maintaining major compatibilities such as kernel 7.2 and the new KDE Plasma 6.7.3.

SteamOS 3.9.1 fixes issues on Lenovo Legion Go 2 and Forza Horizon 6

In this new version Valve has focused on solving a problem with the Lenovo Legion Go 2 and Forza Horizon 6where the system crashed when starting the game. Also fixed an issue with FPS capping when using an external display and other system sleep/resume issues when using AMD dedicated GPUs with RDNA 1 or RDNA 2 architecture.

As for the Steam Deckthis has also received a fix with the fan control, which will now work correctly in the different available modes. The problem returned control of the fan to the BIOS until the system was restarted, which often caused it to work much faster than expected.

SteamOS improves stability and compatibility with new hardware

Other errors solved are related to the stability and securitywhere each version is used to correct these types of errors, and improve the user experience with this operating system on devices beyond Valve’s own. Compatibility with motherboards has also been improved, for which they have updated the boot loader.

At the moment the version 3.9.1 has not become stablealthough it seems to work correctly, Valve warns that it may have some bugs. If you are willing to try it on your system with SteamOS you can install it making sure you have the channel selected for Preview versions. You can check all the news and changes at the following link.