Steam Big Picture 2.0 — controller-first UI finally lands

Steam Deck UI on every PC, Vulkan-accelerated, Proton hints inline. Couch PC gaming just got better.

Valve shipped Big Picture 2.0 to stable. The interface is the same Steam Deck UI you already know, scaled up and Vulkan-accelerated for desktop and TV scenarios. Proton compatibility hints are now inline in the library, so you no longer need to bounce to ProtonDB to know if a title runs.

The big quality-of-life win is shader pre-caching surfaced in the UI. Big Picture now tells you whether the cache for a given title is already on disk before you launch, and pre-fetches the cache on Wi-Fi while a title is downloading. For Steam Machine 2.0 watchers, this is the software base case.