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Codeweavers demos Steam game client running on Android*

03/22/2016 at 12:30 PM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

Crossover is a tool that allows you to run some Windows software on Mac or Linux machines. It’s developed by a company called Codeweavers, and it’s basically a commercial version of the open source WINE software, and last year Codewavers announced it was working to bring the software to Android.

That means you could eventually run some Windows games and applications on an Android machine.

Now Codeweavers president James Ramey has posted a short video showing the Steam game client working on a computer running a version of Google Android. There are a few caveats though.

steam remix

First, Crossover is only expected to work on machines with x86 processors, so this doesn’t mean you’ll be able to play Starcraft on you Nexus anytime soon. Second, the video only shows the Steam client loading… not any actual games.

For this demo, Ramey says Codeweavers worked with Jide, developers of Remix OS, a custom version of Android designed to look and feel like a desktop operating system. Remix OS for PC is based on Android-x86 project code, and as Lee Mathews points out, that means any computer that can run Remix OS for PC can also run Windows, Ubuntu, or other operating systems… so if you really wanted to run Steam on those computers, you could probably just run a different OS.

Still, it looks like we’re getting a little closer to being able to play PC games on at least some devices running Android… if that’s something you think you’d want to do.

via Slashdot

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Maybe not on your Nexus, but how about on your ASUS ZenFone2?

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it’s got an x86 soc so possible

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It certainly has an x86 CPU, but what about the GPU support? These has the not so well supported PowerVR GPUs (or at leas not supported under Windows). You can’t use a simple framebuffer-level driver for gaming. You’ll need DX10/11 for example, an that is missing even for Windows.

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wine translates DX calls to OpenGL calls I think. Then I guess it’s just a matter of translating those translated calls to GLES calls?

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Zenfone 2 has DX10 support…

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So Code weavers rips.off open source Wine and charges you money for it so you can be saddled with Steam which is really just DRM. No thanks. It’s greedy crap like this that made me give up PC and console gaming all together.

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Code Weavers is a major contributor to Wine. Wine wouldn’t be nearly as useful if it wasn’t for their contributions. I personally appreciate what they’ve done for the Wine project.

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Then you are missing out on a lot!!!!!

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You have no clue what you’re talking about: https://www.codeweavers.com/ab…. Seems like you are quite misinformed.

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