{"id":397179,"date":"2026-01-09T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:15:12","slug":"canonical-builds-steam-snap-for-ubuntu-arm64-leveraging-fex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397179\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UBUNTU\"
\nCanonical is making it easier for ARM64 Ubuntu users like those on the NVIDIA DGX Spark to do a bit of gaming with Steam. Canonical engineers have assembled a Steam Snap for 64-bit ARM that comes complete with the FEX emulator for running Windows\/Linux x86-based games on ARM64 Linux.<\/p>\n

Following quiet testing in recent weeks, today Canonical engineer Mitchell Augustin announced the ARM64 Steam Snap as well as an ARM64 version of the gaming-graphics “gaming-graphics-core24” Snap. <\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a><\/p>\n

Similar to how Valve will use FEX-Emu for running Windows\/Linux x86\/x86_64 games on the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame, the Steam Snap ARM64 is also bundling that Valve-sponsored emulator.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of the Steam Snap ARM64 testing has been done from the NVIDIA DGX Spark with the NVIDIA 580 series binary driver.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a><\/p>\n

Those testing have found decent performance with the Steam Snap ARM64 to handle games like Cyberpunk 2077, Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, and others.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a><\/p>\n

More details on the Steam Snap for ARM64 via the Ubuntu Discourse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a><\/p>\n

Looks like I’ll need to try that on the Snapdragon X1 Elite<\/a> and Dell Pro Max GB10<\/a> hardware. In fact, the screenshots in this article are of this new Steam Snap already up and running on the Dell Pro Max GB10… Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canonical is making it easier for ARM64 Ubuntu users like those on the NVIDIA DGX Spark to do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-397179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}