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"Steam vastly improves life for Linux gamers" (and Lots More "Proton" Coverage)

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of August 2018 04:19:27 AM Filed under
Gaming
  • Steam vastly improves life for Linux gamers

    It probably won't obviate the need for Linux gamers to beg for ports of their favorite games. But Steam's update to Steam Play, its buy-once, play-on-any-platform engine, intends to improve its ability to deliver a no-compromise gaming experience when playing Windows games on a Linux box. And it'll make it easier for developers who use the popular Vulkan engine to create compatible games.

    In an announcement on its Steam for Linux group on Tuesday, Valve rolled out a beta of the new version, with an initial list of more than 25 games that have been checked for compatibility. It includes a couple of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War games (Dark Crusade and Soulstorm), Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Tekken 7 and Nier: Automata. Steam seems to be going through the entire catalog checking existing games, creating a whitelist of titles that deliver an "identical (save for an expected moderate performance impact) experience."

  • Steam Now Plays Windows-Only Games on Linux

    Valve wants as many gamers as possible able to play titles from the Steam store, which is why for the past eight years buying a Steam game meant getting Windows, Mac, and Linux versions if they were available. This is called Steam Play, and it just received a major overhaul to open up thousands more games to Linux.

  • Linux Users Just Got Access to More Steam Games

    Linux users now have access to many more Windows titles on Steam with a new version of Steam Play, according to a blog post from Valve on Tuesday.

    While those who use the Linux operating system currently have access to “more than 3000” Linux-compatible games in the Steam Store, this new update will eventually give them access to the entire back catalog of games previously only playable by Windows (and sometimes Mac) users.

    Steam Play, released 2010, allows users to purchase games once on Steam and then have access to the title on all available computer platforms for the game, whether PC, Linux, or Mac. This new update to Steam Play is a huge upgrade for Linux users. Valve also wrote that there is an added benefit for developers who can “easily leverage their work from other platforms to target Linux.”

  • Valve's newest version of Steam Play aims to make Windows titles playable on Linux

    In brief: Valve has always cared about its Linux fanbase, but its latest announcement makes that clearer than ever - the company has rolled out a new version of Steam Play that integrates several third-party compatibility tools directly into the Steam Client, making it easier than ever for Linux gamers to play otherwise-incompatible titles.

    Last week, we reported that Valve appeared to be working on a set of compatibility tools that would streamline the process of playing Steam games on Linux machines.

    The information came from a series of database files obtained by the Steam Tracker team, but details were vague, and much was left to the imagination - all we really knew at the time was that the toolset would be an upgraded version of the aging Steam Play.

  • Valve's Steam Play Brings Windows Game Compatibility To Linux Via Vulkan

    Valve is working to bring more games to Linux users by rolling out a new beta version of Steam Play, which includes a modified version of Wine, called Proton, to provide compatibility with Windows game titles, the company announced. This essentially allows Linux users to run native Windows games without a Linux port or major hoops to jump through.

  • Steam Play update breaks more games out of Windows and onto Linux

    MORE GAMES ARE COMING TO LINUX thanks to an update to Valve's Steam Play service that enables Windows-only games to run on the open source operating system.

    Steam has been available on Linux for some time but a lot of games on the platform were limited to only running on Windows 10 machines. Now, however, thanks to an update to Steam Play that allows users to access their Steam library on Mac and Linux machines, gaming on Linux looks to be getting a shot in the arm.

  • Latest Steam update allows for more games to be played on Linux

    For years now, Valve has been making strides with Steam to get away from the closed-off environments of the Windows and App Stores that Microsoft and Apple provide. Valve is all about user freedom and allowing people to play games the way they want. One of the ways Valve did this was by creating a Linux distribution dedicated to getting more game support on the operating system. While somewhat successful, this newest update may be the biggest push yet.

    Valve has announced that its "Steam Play" program just received an update that will, essentially, emulate Windows playback on Linux. Called "Proton," this new compatibility tool replicates the functions of WINE, another popular piece of compatibility software for the Linux OS. Since the biggest hurdle to getting games running on Linux is a lack of Direct X support, Proton shifts Direct X 11 and 12 functionality to the newer Vulkan API and even natively supports all Steam supported gamepads.

  • Steam Play brings Windows games to Linux

    Steam for Linux launched in February 2013, bringing Valve's popular digital distribution platform off Windows for the first time. Prior to its release, users had been working around the lack of Linux support by installing Steam via the Wine Windows compatibility wrapper; the native Steam client did away with the need for this workaround, but at the cost of only supporting titles that developers had marked as natively supporting Linux. For those with a hefty library of Windows-exclusive titles, the only solution was to keep two copies of Steam installed: One copy of Steam for Linux to install native Linux titles, and one copy of Steam for Windows running via Wine to install native Windows titles.

  • Valve’s new Steam Play beta boosts Linux as a rival to Windows PCs for gamers

    Valve is best-known these days for its monstrously popular online storefront Steam, but has also spent much of the last six years quietly developing tools and technology to enhance Linux as an ecosystem for PC gaming, making the open-source operating system a more viable alternative to Windows PCs for some gamers.

  • Steam for Linux Now Runs Windows PC Games: Valve

    Valve has announced that the Linux version of its Steam client can now play Windows PC games complete with native Steamworks and OpenVR support. This is a result of the company's efforts to improve quality and performance of Windows compatibility solutions for Steam games by supporting Linux compatibility layers like Wine and eventually integrating these tools directly into Steam so games would run as if they were made for Linux to begin with. The end result is a modified, open source distribution of Wine known as Proton for the Linux version of Steam.

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