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Google says<\/a> that an alpha version of Steam is finally available for Chrome OS users with specific machines to test, as long as they\u2019re willing to put a beta OS on their computer. This announcement comes after the company prematurely said<\/a> Valve\u2019s PC game store was available last week before changing its tune to say it would be \u201ccoming soon.\u201d While Google\u2019s John Maletis, a Chrome OS VP, calls it \u201cearly days\u201d for the software, it\u2019s exciting that we\u2019re finally going to get a peek at what the Steam experience will be like on Chromebooks.<\/p>\n
Google says that the alpha will only be available on \u201ca small set of recent Chromebooks,\u201d as it\u2019s focused on \u201cdevices where more games can run well.\u201d (It\u2019s also limited to certain configurations of those computers \u2014 more on that in a second.) According to a blog post from the company<\/a>, those Chromebooks are:<\/p>\n
\nThe Steam alpha\u2019s really only for people willing to dig in and test unfinished software<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nThere are a few other additional caveats to note: Google\u2019s only opening it up for configurations of those Chromebooks that have Intel XE graphics, an 11th-gen i5 or i7 processor, and at least 8GB of RAM. The company also notes that if a game requires 6GB of RAM, it may not work very well with a laptop that has 8GB of RAM. There are also apparently \u201cperformance and scaling\u201d issues with screens that run at above-1080p resolutions, which Google is working on fixing. <\/p>\n
The install process also reflects the early state of the software \u2014 according to a post from Google, it involves switching your computer to the Dev channel version of Chrome OS, setting a flag, and entering a terminal command. After you\u2019ve gone through all that, though, you should be ready to test out Steam and the games that come with it (Google has a list of which ones it recommends trying out, some of which have a few caveats). Google says Steam on Chrome OS will \u201ctypically run the Linux version of a game,\u201d but it also says that Proton, a compatibility layer for running Windows games, is supported as well.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s a welcome surprise, though it does make sense given how much effort Valve\u2019s put into the Linux gaming experience<\/a> in an effort to make its Steam Deck console<\/a> as capable as possible. Maletis even sites Valve\u2019s \u201cdeep investment in the Linux ecosystem\u201d when talking about how Google worked with the company to get Steam working on Chrome OS.<\/p>\n
Steam has been a long time coming to Chromebooks \u2014 Google announced it in January 2020<\/a> and didn\u2019t say much else about it after that until last week. And given the number of warnings Google is giving people about the alpha \u2014 it says \u201canything can break\u201d and that \u201cyou will encounter crashes, performance regressions, and never-before-seen bugs\u201d while testing it \u2014 it could be a while before it\u2019s a good idea to put it on your main Chromebook. Still, it\u2019s nice to hear that it\u2019s finally time to run it on actual hardware, after all the waiting and rumors<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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