Valve's new Steam Play and testing a Windows game on Linux with it

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Published on August 22, 2018 4:13:32 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It3Cxu39cGI

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Valve have recently announced a new feature of Steam Play which allows Linux users to play Windows games on Linux through their official client.

Introducing a new version of Steam Play
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

From Valve's initial press release.
"In 2010, we announced Steam Play: a way for Steam users to access Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Steam games with a single purchase. More than 3000 of the games that have been added to Steam after that point have included Linux support, with more titles being added every day. Since then, we've continued to look for ways to make more titles easily accessible to Linux users.

"So, two years ago, we started an effort to improve the quality and performance of Windows compatibility solutions for Steam games. A lot of our work has been in the form of supporting Wine[www.winehq.org] and other existing compatibility projects. We have also been integrating these tools into the Steam client to provide the same simple plug-and-play experience offered by regular Linux games.

"Our goal for this work is to let Linux Steam users enjoy easy access to a larger back catalog. We think it will also allow future developers to easily leverage their work from other platforms to target Linux. This would give them the option of focusing on areas that would make a meaningful experience difference for all users instead, such as supporting Vulkan[www.khronos.org]."

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