Tesla Holiday Update Brings Steam Games to Model S and X EVs
Tesla's AMD RDNA 2 GPU will be put to use by Steam games:
With their 10 TFLOPS infotainment system, the newest versions of Tesla's Model S and Model X electric vehicles have been poised to gain thousands of games to play on the in-vehicle displays. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first promised Steam integration earlier this year, and on Wednesday, the company finally brought Valve's gaming platform to select vehicles.
"Steam is here — bringing thousands of games to new Model S & X vehicles," said Tesla in a statement via Twitter.
For now, games confirmed to work with Valve's Steam Deck also work on Tesla Model S and X (model year 2022+) with 16 GB of memory and Premium Connectivity. Yes, Cyberpunk 2077 is among those games. Eventually, more titles may come to these electric vehicles, but Tesla refrained from revealing which games and when. The Tesla vehicles fully support Steam's cloud synchronization for saving game progression between devices.
Self driving cars with integrated gaming. What could possibly go wrong?
Valve: No Performance Upgrades for the Next-Gen Steam Deck
Valve: No Performance Upgrades for the Next-Gen Steam Deck:
Valve is not looking to improve performance of the next iteration of Steam Deck, the designers of the portable console told The Verge. Instead, the company will for now try to improve the battery life and display quality of the device. Once computer architectures evolve significantly, Valve will possibly consider a major upgrade.
"I think we will opt to keep the one performance level for a little bit longer, and only look at changing the performance level when there is a significant gain to be had," said Pierre-Loup Griffais, a Steam Deck designer.
Many new games do not really run smoothly on Steam Deck's custom-designed Aerith system-on-chip featuring four Zen 2 cores with SMT at 2.40 to 3.50 GHz and an RDNA 2-based GPU with 512 stream processors operating at 1.0 to 1.60 GHz. As a result, demanding gamers (who tend to buy plenty of games) would prefer a Steam Deck with a higher-performing SoC in order to enjoy their latest titles on the go. But for now, Steam Deck designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais are looking forward to improving battery life and display in their next Steam Deck iteration.
While they tend to cost quite a bit more than the Steam Deck, there are competing handhelds that may find more of an audience with demanding gamers. The Aya Neo 2 is based on the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U (eight Zen 3+ cores, RDNA 2-powered Radeon 680M iGPU with 768 SPs), which delivers higher performance, but at the cost of battery life.
(Score: 3, Funny) by kazzie on Sunday December 18, @12:08PM
This is not the way I expected to see steam-powered cars return to the road.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday December 18, @02:48PM
All the hookers you can actually run over while, while pretending to beat them up on the Steam Deck!
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Barenflimski on Sunday December 18, @04:07PM (2 children)
I don't own a Tesla. I can hardly stand touch screens instead of knobs as it diverts my attention from what I grew up learning was important, not hitting/killing everything on the other side of the glass.
But, that is clearly not what most folks think. Between the people that can't wait 2 minutes at a stoplight without looking at their phone, and then missing the green light, to the people looking at their phones because they don't know where anything is without GPS and running a red light. To the folks that are pressing so many buttons on their touch-screen displays that they don't see pedestrian or bicyclists. It feels significantly more dangerous on the road today as it did 20 years ago, as people aren't paying attention to the things I was taught mattered.
So that leads me to this question. Who wants to play games while driving? What is the purpose? Wasn't the GPU in the car originally there for its "almost automated driving" features? Is there something I'm missing here?
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday December 18, @05:43PM
Not to mention those looking at their phones at freeway speeds while approaching a red light and a row of stopped traffic, which they completely fail to notice. How reliable is that automatic braking, and does it work from 70mph with a stationary obstruction?
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(Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday December 18, @06:42PM
I thought we went through this and it was disabled [bbc.com]. Did they re-enable it while moving, or is this a tempest in a teapot? It would be nice, I suppose, to play while waiting at the drive-thru if it does a good job of pausing when you move the car. Otherwise it just seems kind of silly unless you spend a lot of time sitting in your car, otherwise unoccupied. Maybe they're anticipating a future where many Tesla owners will be homeless.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday December 18, @04:12PM (2 children)
California VC, Section 27602, forbids TV or entertainment monitors where it could distract the driver.
https://www.californiacarlaws.com/vehicle-tv/#:~:text=In%20state%20of%20California%20Using,t%20able%20to%20view%20it. [californiacarlaws.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18, @04:24PM
Elmo knows the laws do not apply to him, or his factories.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18, @08:47PM
Used to be the law in Oz that it was illegal to have a video screen operating in a vehicle where it was viewable by the driver. Sort of got ignored when GPS's got common, and I think that was the thin edge of the wedge. It was also illegal to have anything stuck on the windscreen where it would impede the driver's view. Seeing how much crap is now stuck to them, they are obviously not enforcing that one either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20, @02:53PM
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