


Avoid sleeping when game indicates activity via dbus.The list of games they've tested and recommend has grown but still on the small side. Tons of other improvements like DirectX 12 and Vulkan 1.3 support, improving shader storage and so on. Power management was also upgraded, adding in power notifications on top of full-screen games. Some games need to download additional data outside of Steam, so they entirely reworked that and this gave an additional benefit like improved filesystem access performance for Windows games in the Proton compatibility layer.

On top of that, Google are now supporting AMD Ryzen 5000 C-Series and Intel 12th Gen Core CPUs and lowering the minimum CPU requirement to i3 / Ryzen 3.Īnother big improvement is how they handle storage. Part of bringing it to more people is that it moves from ChromeOS Dev to ChromeOS Beta, meaning while Chromebook users still need to switch over to it they're likely to see far less system issues overall while testing. In the announcement, it's mentioned that this stage brings with it "broader availability, an improved user experience, and better performance and compatibility for more of your favorite games". For those less technically-minded reading, Chromebooks run ChromeOS, which is Linux.īack in March it was in Alpha, and it was pretty severely limited in what systems it supported and what it could play but that changes today. Well this is exciting! Even more people will be able to play games on Linux from today, as Google announced Steam on Chromebook is now in Beta.
