Thats pretty damn cool. I should go check if its on now.

I said years ago that steam should do driver updates like it does game updates. Hopefully before long, more companies will get on board, and we'll see a range of drivers automatically updated through steam.

This is interesting, since I have integrated ATi/AMD chipsets in both my main desktop and laptop I guess I should check it out.

" I said years ago that steam should do driver updates like it does game updates. Hopefully before long, more companies will get on board, and we'll see a range of drivers automatically updated through steam. "

heh, if they ever launch the rumored linux version I'm they could do that. They would obviously compete with the package managers out there already, but it would be rather awesome to have Steam both as the place to purchase and download your games, and update the kernel or something. I guess it could actually be useful for the small market of commercial products for Linux, since most of that stuff is hard to find in stores, even in web stores.

Oh, I'm installing the drivers now, but I noticed that everything is automated, which you should obviously expect from something available through Steam, but I also remember that when you download the Catalyst installer from AMD's web site, it will try to install a lot of useless junk along with the catalyst control center and the driver. Like a lot of trial versions of MMORPG's you'd never want to play and such. Now I wonder if it's defaulted to install all that crap, since I was never given the option to not install it.

Edit: Never mind, it actually seems they were kind enough to only install the stuff they said they were going to do. I can't see anything has changed except the CCC and driver version.

I hope they make the process even more streamlined. Steam updates games silently in the background. Video driver updates should be silent as well, though since there are always things that could go wrong, you should be warned that it's happening and warned about any errors that occur in the process.

It installed new drivers like it said it would. This is good news. Saves me the trouble of going to AMD's site. 

" Thats pretty damn cool. I should go check if its on now. "

This is a good fucking idea.

Sounds like a great way of letting more people get easy access to driver updates.

" @MattyFTM said:

" I said years ago that steam should do driver updates like it does game updates. Hopefully before long, more companies will get on board, and we'll see a range of drivers automatically updated through steam. "

fuck it, everything should just update through steam. Steam should just be own OS. "

So how do i update VIA steam. I down loaded a new driver. Screen flipped out. So I assume it went well. 

" @Geno:  I just updated the drivers for my 5850 (thanks for the recommendation on that by the way, great card!) and it went pretty smoothly. The driver package was downloaded and extracted automatically, and the installation process started automatically as well. The only "bug" was that once the new drivers were installed, I got dumped to a 1280x1024 desktop and had to manually restart. However, once I restarted, everything was fine. "

" @The_Laughing_Man:  It popped up for me automatically when I closed Steam an hour or so ago. I didn't even know about the feature, I found this thread afterward. "

 In related news the 10.9a hotfix drivers have just been put up on the site to resolve issues with the 4870 X2 and 4850 X2.  Didn't take long.

Steam is doing everything right, now please come natively to Linux

" @adoggz said:

" @MattyFTM said:

" I said years ago that steam should do driver updates like it does game updates. Hopefully before long, more companies will get on board, and we'll see a range of drivers automatically updated through steam. "

fuck it, everything should just update through steam. Steam should just be own OS. "

OS Steam would be sickk. "

 @The_Laughing_Man:  A window popped up automatically for me with an AMD logo, informing me that Steam now does ATI driver updates. I have no idea where to find it manually.

Restarting steam after an update. Lets see whats happenin. Where would I find this "update drivers" option?   All I see is a "Video driver update" and that takes me to the AMD website  

Had to click Steam > Update AMD Video Drivers.
 
Trying it out now.
 
Edit, had to do it twice - install didn't launch first time.

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

Restarting steam after an update. Lets see whats happenin. Where would I find this "update drivers" option?   All I see is a "Video driver update" and that takes me to the AMD website  

Same here. I'm on a laptop, though. "

"  @The_Laughing_Man:  A window popped up automatically for me with an AMD logo, informing me that Steam now does ATI driver updates. I have no idea where to find it manually. "

This is very nice. Way easier than trying to figure out  if I should update by myself...

" @The_Laughing_Man:  Most laptops don't even support the stock Catalyst drivers unless you mod them, which is pretty easy to do by the way. "