Steam Games Now Have 'SteamOS Compatibility' Scores

Valve is updating its crippled compatibility standing strategy to see devices moving SteamOS beyond its main handheld, the Steam Deck. This caller strategy volition person "SteamOS Compatibility" ratings, which are meant to assistance users fig retired whether games volition enactment decently connected non-Steam Deck hardware moving SteamOS.

The archetypal absorption is connected the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S, the archetypal officially supported SteamOS instrumentality extracurricular the Steam Deck lineup. However, Valve intelligibly sees SteamOS being utilized connected much hardware successful the future, which makes it look similar this standing strategy portion of that bigger plan.

The SteamOS compatibility ratings are based connected the existing Steam Deck Verified system, but they enactment with a cardinal difference. While Steam Deck Verified checks however good a crippled runs and performs, the caller strategy lone checks whether the crippled works astatine all, including its other bundle similar launchers and anti-cheat programs, successful the SteamOS environment.

This means a crippled could get a "SteamOS Compatible" standing but inactive person show problems, specified arsenic debased framework rates oregon overheating, connected definite devices. It's important to support successful caput that determination are already problems with games that are "Steam Deck verified," but this narrower absorption simplifies the standing process and lets Valve grow the strategy quickly.

Unlike the Steam Deck Verified process, which needs manual testing, SteamOS Compatibility ratings are mostly automatic. If a crippled already has a Steam Deck Verified rating, its SteamOS Compatibility standing is created automatically utilizing immoderate of the aforesaid trial data. The aforesaid waiting database strategy applies to games that haven’t been tested for the Steam Deck yet, and investigating volition hap based connected however overmuch the assemblage wants it.

This automated method lets Valve rapidly delegate ratings to galore games successful the Steam library. Valve expects that implicit 18,000 games volition beryllium marked arsenic SteamOS Compatible astatine the start. This faster process besides means crippled developers don’t person to bash immoderate other investigating oregon work.

The caller ratings volition amusement up adjacent to the Steam Deck Verified presumption successful the Steam store and app for users connected SteamOS devices that aren’t the Steam Deck. This gives a wide and elemental mode to cheque compatibility with that circumstantial hardware. These ratings volition lone look connected SteamOS devices, truthful things volition enactment the aforesaid successful that respect.

While the motorboat of SteamOS Compatibility ratings is great, it disregards the caller concerns astir however reliable the Steam Deck Verified statement is. While it’s expected to warrant a creaseless gaming experience, galore users person been vocal connected sites similar Reddit astir show drops, crashes, oregon adjacent not moving astatine each aft updates.

This shows the request for a much elaborate mode to justice compatibility, which intelligibly separates whether a crippled runs from however good it runs. The caller strategy does not code this; it lone tells players whether it volition launch. Still, hopefully, this is conscionable the archetypal measurement to a much elaborate standing system.

Source: Steam