Valve Gears Up for Steam Frame Launch With Improved Arm Support in Proton, Qualcomm Listing (opens in new tab)

With the launch of the Steam Controller now firmly behind us and shipping slowly getting some momentum, gamers have started speculating about the two remaining products in Valve's 2026 hardware line-up: the Steam Machine and Steam Frame. Now, an update to Valve's Proton 11 Beta 3 indicates that Valve has updated FEX, the Arm64-x86 emulator to run traditional x86 games on the Frame's Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile SoC. The update brings Proton up to FEX-2605, which includes performance imp...