{"id":272223,"date":"2018-08-16T16:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=272223"},"modified":"2018-08-17T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:44:27","slug":"valve-reportedly-working-on-tools-to-improve-linux-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/272223-valve-reportedly-working-on-tools-to-improve-linux-gaming.html","title":{"rendered":"Valve reportedly working on tools to improve Linux gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve is working on a new set of tools to get Windows-compatible PC games running on Linux operating systems, according to data uncovered in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/SteamDatabase\/SteamTracking\/blame\/6cb3db9ac4cb1f7d0bf218721f4e6f2d173c5b9b\/ClientExtracted\/public\/steamui_english.txt#L4375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Steam&#8217;s GUI files<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were noted by Reddit users, who discovered hidden text related to an unannounced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/linux_gaming\/comments\/979m4u\/steam_play_compatibility_for_wine_seems_to_be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Steam Play<\/strong><\/a> system.<\/p>\n<p>There are various text excerpts in the code, and many point to the ability for Steam Play to enable Linux gamers to play Windows games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steam Play will automatically install compatibility tools that allow you to play games from your library that were built for other operating systems,&#8221; states the text.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can use Steam Play to test games in your library that have not been verified with a supported compatibility tool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming system has the potential to improve gaming on a Steam Machine or other devices with SteamOS installed, too.<\/p>\n<p>Valve has not revealed any information regarding the system.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/270873-top-south-african-isps-on-steam-8.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top South African ISPs on Steam<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve is working on a new set of tools to get Windows-compatible PC games running on Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":257267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[53179,1799,8045,3602,53177,18208,807],"class_list":["post-272223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-emulation","tag-linux","tag-reddit","tag-steam","tag-steam-play","tag-valve","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272229,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272223\/revisions\/272229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}