Steam on Windows RT

[Socky]

I know its Windows RT and of course Steam doesn't support ARM. I have an Asus Vivotab RT and I love it, somehow. I want to make use of it by putting Steam on it and playing my games off my computer using Steam In-Home Streaming. Does anyone have any idea on how to do just that?

[Skanic]

I know its Windows RT and of course Steam doesn't support ARM. I have an Asus Vivotab RT and I love it, somehow. I want to make use of it by putting Steam on it and playing my games off my computer using Steam In-Home Streaming. Does anyone have any idea on how to do just that?

You could try this? http://www.extremetech.com/computing/148841-how-to-run-normal-x86-windows-apps-on-your-windows-rt-tablet

First thing i found.

[dalekphalm]

I know its Windows RT and of course Steam doesn't support ARM. I have an Asus Vivotab RT and I love it, somehow. I want to make use of it by putting Steam on it and playing my games off my computer using Steam In-Home Streaming. Does anyone have any idea on how to do just that?

 

 

You could try this? http://www.extremetech.com/computing/148841-how-to-run-normal-x86-windows-apps-on-your-windows-rt-tablet

First thing i found.

 

That link Skanic posted is for an x86 Emulator. First things first, steam may not even work. Even if it does work, it's gonna run like utter crap, because frankly, it's an ARM CPU. You won't be able to play very many (if any at all) games with anything approaching playable FPS.

 

BUT with all that in mind, you should definitely give it a try and let us know the results. Hopefully Valve will eventually port Steam to ARM, but then on top of that, developers would need to port their games over, and we'd have the exact same problem as with Linux.

[Socky]

That link Skanic posted is for an x86 Emulator. First things first, steam may not even work. Even if it does work, it's gonna run like utter crap, because frankly, it's an ARM CPU. You won't be able to play very many (if any at all) games with anything approaching playable FPS.

 

BUT with all that in mind, you should definitely give it a try and let us know the results. Hopefully Valve will eventually port Steam to ARM, but then on top of that, developers would need to port their games over, and we'd have the exact same problem as with Linux.

With all due respect, did you even read the OP? I said I was going to stream games not use the thing to actually play games.

[flibberdipper]

With all due respect, did you even read the OP? I said I was going to stream games not use the thing to actually play games.

Even then, ARM processors are kinda weak, and some of them have terrible H.264 decoding abilities. But try that emulator and hope that it works.

[dalekphalm]

With all due respect, did you even read the OP? I said I was going to stream games not use the thing to actually play games.

Apologies for missing the part 

Frankly though, you're not likely gonna have a whole lot of luck even with Streaming. THOUGH that's certainly more reasonable than actually gaming. But as I said in my previous post, download that emulator that @Skanic linked you and try it out.

 

"In Theory" streaming to an ARM Tablet can work, as we've seen with Shield and with the ghetto-shield android options. The issue is that as far as I know, no one was written any applications for Windows RT to take advantage of that. The ASUS tablet you have has a Tegra 3 according to specs online (if accurate), so that's enough horsepower for the streaming, as I'm pretty sure that's the same SoC that Shield has.