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James R Kirk ( Kirk@startrek.website )  to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish ·
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Valve escaped Windows. Now Steam is breaking free from PCs itself with ARM. What does it mean for the future of gaming?

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Valve escaped Windows. Now Steam is breaking free from PCs itself with ARM. What does it mean for the future of gaming?

www.pcworld.com

James R Kirk ( Kirk@startrek.website )  to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish ·
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Valve escaped Windows. Now Steam is breaking free from the PC itself
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Steam Deck made Windows optional. Steam Frame takes aim at x86. Valve is building a future where your Steam library barely cares what kind of computer sits underneath it. Is that good for gamers?
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  • jerakor ( jerakor@startrek.website ) 
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    We need more RISC V systems in the wild with gaming capability but for now ARM is a step in the right direction. It still is proprietary architecture though.

    I’ve been running Steam on ARM with an old phone I converted to gaming handheld for my kid. It runs about half the games we want it to which is better than I expected but not good enough. Support grows so rapidly that I have seen massivd performance and support gains there month over month.

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    TLDR: arm, obviously.

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