Liu said we could expect that to change: more powerful Chromebooks, especially AMD Chromebooks, are coming. Currently, most Chromebooks have extremely limited 3D acceleration performance, with only the most recent devices like Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook possessing vaguely passable GPUs.
The next question, of course, is just what sorts of games would even be worth playing on a Chromebook when run directly on local hardware. Even getting games running in a remotely playable way is kind of a nightmare.Ĭurrently, most Chromebooks have extremely limited 3D acceleration performance. Currently, it is possible to install the Steam Linux client on Chrome OS using the Crostini Linux compatibility layer, but there's no official support, and performance has been pretty lamentable even when comparing identical Linux-native systems to Chrome. Valve also seems like a good fit, as the company has no particular loyalty to any one platform, and is increasingly facing competition from players like Epic and Microsoft on its most popular OS, Windows.
Valve's motive here is largely in being the first major gaming storefront on a platform that, to date, has had no compatibility with mainstream PC or console releases. Liu implied, though would not directly confirm, that Google was working in direct cooperation with Valve on this project. The Steam client would, presumably, run inside Linux on Chrome- a platform for which it is already available. Liu declined to provide a timeline for the project, but did confirm it would be enabled by Chrome OS's Linux compatibility. In a wide-ranging discussion about the Chrome platform and ecosystem, Liu dropped something of a bombshell on me: the Chrome team is working-very possibly in cooperation with Valve-to bring Steam to Chromebooks. You’ll need to be sure your device is on the current list, however, so let’s check that out first.Last week in Las Vegas while at CES, I spoke with Kan Liu, Director of Product Management for Google's Chrome OS. Below, you can watch through the video and get Steam games running on your supported Chromebook with relative ease. We realized, however, that we’d yet to make a simple, straightforward guide on how to get this up and running on supported devices, so we wanted to put that out there for anyone looking. We initially covered the original announcement of Steam on Chromebooks and we even showed it off in a video not long after. Sure, there are bugs that still need a bit of squashing, but we’ve been able to play some games in our Steam library with better results than we’ve ever seen on a Chromebook, and that’s exciting. Games run pretty smoothly for devices utilizing non-dedicated graphics cards and after a few technical setup steps, the whole thing feels very thought-out and thorough. Launched in an official Alpha capacity back in late March, the long awaited ‘Borealis’ project has finally arrived and is quite impressive for an Alpha build.
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