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Homebrew Question Run game from steam from Linux?

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Sumandora said:
you're running a ARM BASED SYSTEM and ARM is not compatible with AMD

but there are workarounds
you can use a wine modification (idk if mods are needed)
or you can use a QEMU Machine which has been setuped as AMD Device

both of these methods are terrible because they run but they dont run WELL.
theoraticly you could recompile Steam as ARM App BUT you dont have the Source code of Steam and thats needed

at the end we can say yes you can but Games could be hard. I would recommend using wine method because it is a LITTLE bit better than QEMU but everyone how he wants
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Steam link is the best option but requires a VERY good LAN connection. WINE on it's own cannot run Windows x86 applications, it requires QEMU or other emulation middleware.
 
stitchxd said:
Steam link is the best option but requires a VERY good LAN connection. WINE on it's own cannot run Windows x86 applications, it requires QEMU or other emulation middleware.
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well then InHomeSwitching would be a option for op but i guess he wants having it local and WINE CAN but need mods as far as i know
saw this video:
he never uses QEMU or?
 
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stitchxd said:
WINE Cannot run x86 on ARM without emulation.
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i said as far as i know so im really not good informated. im using AMD64 and never used ARM64 and i actually dont know why someone should use it i mean yes its a bargain but its just shit
 
Sumandora said:
i said as far as i know so im really not good informated. im using AMD64 and never used ARM64 and i actually dont know why someone should use it i mean yes its a bargain but its just shit
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Yes yes. Sorry, not trying to argue, but just trying to educate friend.

WINE stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". So it really can't. BUT it can (in theory) run Windows applications built for ARM like it does for a small number on Android. Especially where there is source code to be compiled.

InHomeSwitching also doesn't apply here because OP is asking about running Steam games on Linux4Tegra, Not Horizon. (InHomeSwitching is a homebrew for switch, but it's built for Horizon OS, the default OFW for Switch.) Steam Link has an ARM build for the RPi which would run here on the switch or can be compiled to do so.
 
stitchxd said:
Yes yes. Sorry, not trying to argue, but just trying to educate friend.

WINE stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". So it really can't. BUT it can (in theory) run Windows applications built for ARM like it does for a small number on Android. Especially where there is source code to be compiled.

InHomeSwitching also doesn't apply here because OP is asking about running Steam games on Linux4Tegra, Not Horizon. (InHomeSwitching is a homebrew for switch, but it's built for Horizon OS, the default OFW for Switch.) Steam Link has an ARM build for the RPi which would run here on the switch or can be compiled to do so.
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yea but not everything what run on RPi does run on our L4T build. good example is TeamViewer try it yourself if you dont trust me
 
Sumandora said:
yea but not everything what run on RPi does run on our L4T build. good example is TeamViewer try it yourself if you dont trust me
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Oh no I understand, the RPi CPu and Switch CPU are different. Same architecture though, so recompiling is simple in some cases (was my point.)
 
stitchxd said:
Oh no I understand, the RPi CPu and Switch CPU are different. Same architecture though, so recompiling is simple in some cases (was my point.)
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so at the end we can say running Steam without QEMU on Linux is currently impossible
 
The Switch is ARM based, most computers are x86. The instruction set of ARM processsors is not compatible with x86 instructions so you wouldn't be able to run Steam natively. I think ome people have managed to have Steam run on ARM processors, but that in't even the biggest issue, the biggest isue here is that I don't think Steam has a single game that was made for ARM so you'd need an emulator. I think the guys at Wine are working on ARM stuff, but can't really tell you how far along they are and compatibility/speed would probably be terrible anyway. If you want to play PC games on your switch your best bet is streaming.

Just remembered, you can probably run steam on the switch right now through virtualization, but I seriously doubt you'd get anything to be playable.
 
Osga21 said:
The Switch is ARM based, most computers are x86. The instruction set of ARM processsors is not compatible with x86 instructions so you wouldn't be able to run Steam natively.
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That's why we were talking about Steam Link. We have established what you just said about 4 or 6 times in this thread.
 
stitchxd said:
That's why we were talking about Steam Link. We have established what you just said about 4 or 6 times in this thread.
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Unfortunately Steam Link for Raspberry PI will not help. IIRC it's not open source and the only binary are currently build for armhf and not arm64.
 
Sumandora said:
well then InHomeSwitching would be a option for op but i guess he wants having it local and WINE CAN but need mods as far as i know
saw this video:
he never uses QEMU or?
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Oh I forgot to answer the question about the video, yes it uses QEMU see the tutorial linked in that video for specsheet:

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