How would that even work if they did make excusives since it’s just a pc? Run a hardware check and stop the game from launching if it doesn’t detect steam machine hardware?
There were some games that can be run on Steam Deck, but will not run on other Linux systems, I think they might be able to do similar stuff for the Machine.
IMO I think it is just limited the game’s visibility, but ultimately it’s up to the game devs. (Like tech support or “fairness” reasons)
I think he might be referring to infinity nikki, or at least that’s what i thought of when making my original comment. Idk if it ever got bypassed though.
That’s simply not true. Steam deck is nothing special hardware wise. You can use proton on any Linux distro to run the same games that will run on steam os. Valve is not in the proprietary console market.
It was true but it wasn’t done by Valve and not in hardware. Just some developers deciding to explicitly not support Linux, but wanting to support Steam Deck, so they added some naive checks for that. Unfortunately I don’t remember the specific titles as I wasn’t interested in any of them.
How would that even work if they did make excusives since it’s just a pc? Run a hardware check and stop the game from launching if it doesn’t detect steam machine hardware?
There were some games that can be run on Steam Deck, but will not run on other Linux systems, I think they might be able to do similar stuff for the Machine.
IMO I think it is just limited the game’s visibility, but ultimately it’s up to the game devs. (Like tech support or “fairness” reasons)
EDIT: This list show games that only run on Steam Deck or SteamOS, but not other Linux systems https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/status/steamos/
It were possible but it’s more on the developer side at that moment.
What games?
Didn’t BG3 do this? They made a Linux version of the game but it only allowed itself to work on steam deck
I think he might be referring to infinity nikki, or at least that’s what i thought of when making my original comment. Idk if it ever got bypassed though.
Yeah, one of the game I thought is Infinity Nikki, another one is Delta Force.
I updated my comment to include a link to the list about which games have restricted Linux system(s) support.
That’s simply not true. Steam deck is nothing special hardware wise. You can use proton on any Linux distro to run the same games that will run on steam os. Valve is not in the proprietary console market.
It was true but it wasn’t done by Valve and not in hardware. Just some developers deciding to explicitly not support Linux, but wanting to support Steam Deck, so they added some naive checks for that. Unfortunately I don’t remember the specific titles as I wasn’t interested in any of them.
I think it was infinity nikki