{"id":611206,"date":"2026-04-17T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611206\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:30:11","slug":"steam-is-running-on-the-switch-thanks-to-the-latest-proton-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611206\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam is running on the Switch thanks to the latest Proton beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/p>\n

Proton 11.0-Beta1 adds ARM64 support, enabling Windows-on-ARM games on Linux.<\/p>\n

A modder has gotten Steam running on the Switch; it could now come to other ARM handhelds, too.<\/p>\n

The beta includes certified playable titles and fixes, likely preparing for the ARM-powered Steam Frame’s release.<\/p>\n

Valve’s latest Proton 11.0-Beta1<\/a> might seem like a relatively expected update given the update’s unassuming name, but under the hood, it includes a notable new feature: support for ARM64 devices.<\/p>\n

Even though this Proton update is still in beta, Bluesky user @aagaming.me<\/a> has already gotten Steam running on the Nintendo Switch and its Nvidia-developed ARM-based chip, specifically Ubuntu 24.04.2, by leveraging Steam’s built-in x86 Windows-to-ARM Linux wrapper. While it’s relatively easy to mod the Switch 2<\/a>, the console is far more difficult to crack. With that in mind, it’s unlikely we’ll see Steam on the newer handheld anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Proton’s beta Steam support makes it possible to run the platform on other ARM-based gaming handhelds from companies like Retroid <\/a>and Ayaneo<\/a>. In the thread under their initial post, @aagaming.me says<\/a> that they have shared “a working copy of proton arm + steamrt arm that you can drop right into conpatibilitytools.d to play games with this client.”<\/p>\n

The Proton beta update also includes fixes for various games<\/p>\n

It’s release is likely in preparation for the Steam Frame’s release<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The official Proton 11.0-Beta1 release is available on Valve’s Proton GitHub<\/a>. The release notes include, “Added FEX-2604 for ARM64EC builds.” FEX<\/a> is an open-source emulator that runs Windows games and software on ARM Linux devices.<\/p>\n

Steam’s ARM Linux compatibility is likely coming ahead of the ARM-powered Steam Frame<\/a> gaming headset, a streaming-first device powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and 16GB LPDDR5X RAM. The Steam Frame is expected to release in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n

The Proton 11 Beta also includes the following certified playable titles: Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Dino Crisis, Dino Crisis 2, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Shogun: Total War, Breath of Fire IV, and more. There are also several bug fixes in the release, both at the individual game level and for overall stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary Proton 11.0-Beta1 adds ARM64 support, enabling Windows-on-ARM games on Linux. A modder has gotten Steam running on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-611206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}