Factorio gets a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere – especially nice for the Steam Frame

Wube Software program gave Factorio one thing gamers have been asking for 11 years – a full ARM64 Linux port to play anyplace, which is prepared for the Steam Body.

It’s already accessible and transport on Steam, you simply have to at present be within the Experimental Beta updates department. They’re additionally doing a standalone ARM64 Linux obtain direct from their web site – you may even hyperlink your Steam account as much as get entry to it. So you may play it throughout any ARM64 system.

Writing in a wordy technical blog post on the official web site they go over the way it was totally ported, and Valve despatched over two growth kits to make sure they may get it completed. On the CPU facet they confirmed the Native port ran about 11% sooner than operating via FEX (the x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux funded by Valve) however they have been nonetheless very impressed with what FEX might do.

As for the way it performs:

“2D video games operating on the Body do not need entry to VR options, so Factorio largely performs the identical because it does on the Steam Deck or Nintendo Change. Nevertheless, even when in gamepad mode, Factorio will nonetheless reply to mouse actions and clicks, which occurs to synergize properly with the Body’s laser mouse. I’ve discovered it very handy to toggle the laser mouse when utilizing choice instruments or clicking quickly via GUI parts. And, after all, you may join your Steam Controller to get a really Steam Deck-esque trackpad expertise, and even join a mouse and keyboard to play historically!”

They did have some hassle because the “infrastructure for native ARM64 Linux video games” is not totally sorted but it appears, in order that they did a intelligent workaround transport each platform binaries to all gamers and simply utilizing a script to launch the proper one relying on the platform you are truly enjoying on.

Factorio is Steam Body Verified for standalone play.

Additionally they teased that now you may play natively on the Raspberry Pi too, though efficiency is probably not nice. And likewise on Asahi Linux too for MacBooks with the M collection processors.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.