Steam OS on Pyra (imagining for fun)

[Stellanatus]

So with old games like age of empires off of steam? Is it the incompatibility thats the problem with switching x86 for Arm or is it just the processing power too much?

x86 and ARM are two different processor technologies, emulating an X86 processer on ARM and vise versa has a lot of overhead. I'm using a commercial product called Exagear Desktop which seems to have better performance than other solutions out there. I'm actually quite surprised with what I could get running on it.  FYI Exagear Desktop is an X86 emulator provides an install of X86 Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) and allows you to run x86 Linux programs on an ARM device. This makes it so that Wine works allowing Windows programs to run as well. 


I'd say Age of Empires would run fairly well seeing how Diablo 2 runs pretty good, better than my Pentium 166Mhz at the time for sure.. I made a video of that. 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/O9rMnam6KME?feature=oembed

What about running the Steam Operating System (Linux) instead of the Steam Client Application executable program on Linux variations?


Is the Steam OS instead of normal Steam possible to test yet?

 

[TrashyMG]

It may be possible to use a SteamOS guest image instead of the ubuntu 12.04 one Exagear uses as a default, not sure what complications would there be. SteamOS really isn't much different than Debian it is based on, It just provides a platform to launch Steam from and from what I understand a version of Steam no different than you can use with any Linux Distribution. Only real difference is it launches Steam automatically into the fancier interface, which you can use on regular Linux Steam client by selecting "Big Mode".

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/558754260173610717/

Edit: Correction, SteamOS currently is only released for 64-bit Hardware... so essentially I think that makes it impossible to use with Exagear Desktop as that can only handle 32-bit.

 

[elwing]

isn't the benefice of steamOS that you directly have the right driver for your graphic card setuped correctly?

 

[ekianjo]

isn't the benefice of steamOS that you directly have the right driver for your graphic card setuped correctly?

Not sure if that's the actual benefit. It's not like it's a big problem on Linux distros anymore.  

 

[elwing]

isn't the benefice of steamOS that you directly have the right driver for your graphic card setuped correctly?

Not sure if that's the actual benefit. It's not like it's a big problem on Linux distros anymore.  

for plain 3d sure, but isn't it a bit trickier to get steam streaming working correctly?

 

[ekianjo]

for plain 3d sure, but isn't it a bit trickier to get steam streaming working correctly?

What kind of issue did you have with steam streaming ?  

 

[TrashyMG]

isn't the benefice of steamOS that you directly have the right driver for your graphic card setuped correctly?

Not sure if that's the actual benefit. It's not like it's a big problem on Linux distros anymore.

for plain 3d sure, but isn't it a bit trickier to get steam streaming working correctly?

Not really, it generally works fine out of the box. There was one patch that broke the sound, but it was quickly fixed.