Steam Game mode on GTX 970 card

I am trying to turn one of old pc into a console ish machine. currently it has a GTX 970 card and on the website says

Your selected hardware does not support Steam Gaming Mode at this time. The Desktop version of Bazzite is still available.

Your selected hardware does not support Steam Gaming Mode at this time. The Desktop version of Bazzite is still available.

Your selected hardware does not support Steam Gaming Mode at this time. The Desktop version of Bazzite is still available.

Your selected hardware does not support Steam Gaming Mode at this time. The Desktop version of Bazzite is still available.

Damien StaeblerOP•12/19/25, 11:25 PM

guessing no way around it?

Hammer•12/19/25, 11:58 PM

Nope, it's unsupported

AgentElrond•12/20/25, 12:26 AM

I would suggest not using Nvidia with Steam gaming mode regardless, it seems to have some very bad glitches

AgentElrond•12/20/25, 12:26 AM

What you can maybe do is run desktop mode and then open Steam big picture

AAgentElrond What you can maybe do is run desktop mode and then open Steam big picture

Damien StaeblerOP•12/20/25, 1:04 AM

is there a way to automate such process? eg steam command line arg?

DDamien Staebler is there a way to automate such process? eg steam command line arg?

AgentElrond•12/20/25, 1:05 AM

Unfortunately I don't know if you can do this by default

Ally The Protogen•12/20/25, 1:09 AM

Doesn't steam have the big picture mode on startup thing in the settings somewhere?

Ally The Protogen•12/20/25, 1:09 AM

I feel like that's the closest you can get

HikariKnight•12/20/25, 1:16 AM

big picture mode with nvidia has the exact same issues as gamemode does on nvidia

except big picture mode will at least run on legacy cards (unlike gamemode which will crash)
however you will have all the same issues as you would in gamemode had it run, like artifacting of the steam ui and stuff

AgentElrond•12/20/25, 1:18 AM

nevermind then

AgentElrond•12/20/25, 1:19 AM

you might be doomed until a future update (I don't personally use big picture mode except when streaming to my Steam Link)

AAgentElrond you might be doomed until a future update (I don't personally use big picture mo...

HikariKnight•12/20/25, 1:23 AM

doomed until getting newer gpu
nvidia has killed off the 900 and 10 series

HikariKnight•12/20/25, 1:24 AM

no more driver updates other than security updates

HikariKnight•12/20/25, 1:24 AM

until their eventual complete killoff in the future

Steam Game mode on GTX 970 card

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