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Steam announced OS release - cucubelu - Sep 24 2013
SteamOS announced by Valve, a free operating system “available soon” for living room PCs
PC Gamer at 06:17pm September 23 2013
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Following up on its enigmatic announcement-of-an-announcement last week, Valve has unveiled SteamOS, a free stand-alone operating system “for living room machines.”
The OS “combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen,” according to the announcement. In-house streaming to a TV, similar to what’s used in Nvidia’s Shield, is a feature of the OS.
Valve also emphasizes SteamOS’s openness. Users can “can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want,” and hardware manufacturers are free to “iterate in the living room at a much faster pace,” setting it apart from console-style closed systems.
A vague component of the announcement is Valve’s claim to have “achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing” in SteamOS. Valve adds that it’s “now targeting audio performance and reductions in input latency at the operating system level.” It’s also unclear how many of the 3,000 games on Steam will run natively on SteamOS–Valve says you’ll be able to “access the full Steam catalog” through in-home streaming. We’re also curious how well the operating system will be suited to desktop PCs or laptops that aren’t used in the living room.
Check back on Wednesday for the second of three announcements expected from Valve this week.
Story by Tyler Wilde and Evan Lahti
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Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/09/23/valve-announces-steamos/
RE: Steam announced OS release - evil smile - Sep 24 2013
I hope they can get the performance of their engine on par with the Windows version. Right now source games (and all other multi OS games really) are much faster on Windows than on OS X and Linux, on the same hardware.
RE: Steam announced OS release - ceddeeoo - Sep 24 2013
but source games are the past lol, valve hasnt even showed off its new next-gen engine yet
RE: Steam announced OS release - evil smile - Sep 24 2013
ceddeeoo, post: 102053, member: 9052 Wrote:but source games are the past lol, valve hasnt even showed off its new next-gen engine yet
lol. yeah. By source engine, I actually meant the series of source engines. The current one and the new source 2.