The Morning After: We played Steam games on the Chromebook

Games have been one of the weaknesses of Chrome OS for years. Most Chromebooks have lower-power hardware combined with an OS built on web technology, so playing AAA titles found in Windows is simply not an option. Cloud games, such as Google’s own Stadia, offered a solution, but many players were eager to see how Steam would do after the Google Valve platform was in its early alpha phase.

News editor Nathan Ingram is testing things on one of the seven Chromebooks that can run on Steam, the ASUS Chromebook CX9 with Intel’s 11th generation Core i7. (Google says Steam requires a device with at least a Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM.) He explains that many games work like a dream; however, his attempts to play in 2018 God of Waroriginally released for PS4 and ported to Windows in January this year, it was clearly “completely impossible to play a slideshow.” God of WarThe specification requirements require either NVIDIA’s GTX 960 or AMD R9 290X graphics cards – this was no big shock.

While Google and Valve will improve the Steam experience from this early alpha version, it’s fair to say that Chrome OS will never be the place to play cutting-edge games. But Steam’s library is huge and has thousands of titles – most for offline play, something Stadia can’t offer.

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