More than 100 games supported
The Steam client has reached beta status on ChromeOS. Steam can now be installed on supported Chromebooks. Over 100 titles are already playable.
In April, the ChromeOS team, along with Valve, made an announcement Alpha-Version From Steam for Chromebook operating systems. It was only accessible through the dev channel, supported about 50 titles, and required a Chromebook with an 11th generation Intel Core processor (Tiger Lake). Availability, performance and game support are now significantly better than before. Google recently launched a beta version of Steam through it ChromeOS-beta-channel to (108.0.5359.24 or higher).
Also, Steam under ChromeOS now runs on devices with Ryzen 3 with Ryzen 5000 and Core i3 with Intel Alder Lake (twelfth generation). This mainly affects those presented in October (Cloud-)Gaming-Chromebook From Acer, Asus and Lenovo, but some HP models and frameworks are on the laptop support list. For an optimal gaming experience by recommending The ChromeOS team is one Ryzen 5 or Core i5 with 16 GB of memory.
Proton for untested titles, known beta issues
List of recommended games included 100 entries from beta phase And thanks to the compatibility tool Proton (Steam Play), which is also used with Steam Deck, other titles can also be played on Chromebooks.
As is well known, not everything is perfect in the beta phase, so the Windows version of the gaming client still has some bugs. Among other things, Easy Anti-cheat and BattlEye are currently not working, some titles perform poorly in the first few minutes, some games do not run with less than 16 GB of RAM, and external monitors are not supported. Currently standing There is no date for a stable release And on most older Chromebooks, Steam will likely never appear due to hardware requirements.
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