{"id":7783,"date":"2018-08-22T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:04:13","slug":"valve-is-bringing-more-windows-games-to-steam-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/valve-is-bringing-more-windows-games-to-steam-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve is bringing more Windows games to Steam on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2018\/08\/valves-steam-play-uses-vulkan-to-bring-more-windows-games-to-linux\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/27125350\/linux-gaming-640x360.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steam Play \u2013 Valve\u2019s name for its cross-platform initiative \u2013 is getting a major update, with built-in tools allowing you to run Windows games on Linux. We saw the first hints of the feature last week, and today Valve has confirmed it. It\u2019s available right now in beta, so if you want to test the compatibility features on your own Linux install you don\u2019t have to wait.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A frustration with Linux based Operating Systems for gamers is often the lack of compatibility for Windows-only titles. Valve\u2019s latest venture hopes to ease that pain, announcing Proton &#8211; a modified version of the popular open-source Windows-on-Linux compatibility software, Wine \u2013 now integrated with Steam Play.<\/p>\n<p>Currently in beta, <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/221410\/announcements\/detail\/1696055855739350561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only a handful<\/a> of newly compatible Steam games are available to try out on Linux. There\u2019s no plans for Mac support announced at this stage. You can opt-in to the beta via your Steam settings now, a nice excuse to download Ubuntu and fire up Star Wars Battlefront II (2005).<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well with the beta, we could see a much larger range of formerly Windows-only games available via Steam Play on Linux in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2018\/08\/valves-steam-play-uses-vulkan-to-bring-more-windows-games-to-linux\/\">Valve\u2019s \u201cSteam Play\u201d uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux | Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steam Play \u2013 Valve\u2019s name for its cross-platform initiative \u2013 is getting a major update, with built-in tools&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[193],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7787,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}