Valve is working on new software that will allow PC games to run on devices with ARM processors
The performance of smartphones and tablets has grown significantly over the past few years, but there is only a small percentage of games that take full advantage of it. That could change in the future, as Valve is testing a new platform that will allow many games to run on Steam using ARM chips in mobile devices.
Valve is working on a revolutionary new product
According to resources from the web NotebookCheck engineers work Steam on a software solution that will allow some games to run from computers on the ARM mobile processors that power all smartphones and most tablets. This would greatly help mobile gaming as games that were previously exclusive to PCs could also be played on mobiles.
Today’s mobile devices have power to spare, and the only problem why we don’t find so many older PC games on mobile is that they have to be rewritten from the ground up for a different processor architecture, which is very expensive and time consuming. Valve wants to completely solve this problem with specialized software that translates the game’s code to work on ARM processors.
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What games can arrive on mobile first?
Several interesting tags have appeared in the database of the website SteamDB for many PC games from Valve. Specifically, the tag is proton-arm64 and has appeared on popular titles such as Garry’s Mod, Left 4 Dead 2, Kerbal Space Program, and Exploding Kittens 2. Most of them are Valve titles, with a few exceptions.
This designation suggests that these and other games could run on mobile devices in the future, allowing to fully exploit the ever-growing potential of ARM processors and take mobile gaming to a new level.
What else is Valve up to?
Recently, the long-standing speculation about Half-Life 3, which has been talked about since 2007, when the last part Half-Life 2 Episode 2 was released, has been revived. Currently, it really looks like a sequel is in the works. The question remains when Valve will officially confirm, because for now we can only rely on unconfirmed information from leakers.
Another thing that’s been talked about a lot is a VR headset with the working name of Deckard. We know absolutely nothing about it, but it should be a device that will work independently of a computer. The newest VR headset Steam Index requires a powerful computer to run.
Source: mobilizujeme.cz
