

Although, you do need to enable Steam Play manually (same as on a normal Linux desktop). Chrome OS is powered by Linux, and the Steam client on Chrome OS is the Linux version inside their special container - it works for both native Linux games and Windows games run with Steam Play Proton. Not only will this help those using Chromebooks do some gaming but Linux gaming as a whole too. Now though it's here at an "alpha-quality" level, meaning prepare for bugs and other weirdness. For real this time, they've actually released it, unlike when they claimed it was released during their recent developer event. The CPU requirement has been lowered to a minimum of Core i3 or Ryzen 3, and the knock-on effect of that is the number of supported devices has tripled.Steam for Chrome OS is here. Chrome devices using an AMD Ryzen 5000 C-series or Intel 12th-gen Core processor are now supported. The improvements mean that not only is Steam for Chrome OS ready for a beta release, the hardware requirements to run it have been lowered. The development team also improved the game scaling system so "you can now performantly play many more games on QHD and UHD displays, and see the performance benefits of reducing in-game resolution on all displays." Google worked on enhancing game performance by adding support for the DirectX 12 and Vulkan 1.3 graphics APIs. That way you won't lose progress if your battery unexpectedly dies. The biggest changes (Opens in a new window) made for the beta release include how games are stored on a Chrome OS device and power notifications being shown in full screen games. However, over the past six months Google has been gathering feedback from the alpha build and improving its usability. Steam for Chrome OS was released as an alpha build back in March, but it would only run on seven Chromebook models.

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