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Windows games from your own Steam library now run on a jailbroken PS5 with no streaming and no PC involved. 143 of 207 tested games reach gameplay. The part nobody reported is that the launcher parks an unencrypted Steam token on the console.

Five ways to run PC games on an Android handheld, and the one claim everybody repeats that is wrong. The Adreno 730 floor is a DroidDeck limit, not an ARM limit, and that changes the advice for anyone on an older chip.

DroidDeck runs Valve's actual ARM64 Steam client in Big Picture on an Android handheld, no root and no wiping Android. Version 0.4.0 added GOG, Epic and a full KDE desktop. The catch is still the GPU requirement, though it is softer than it was.

Valve enabled NVIDIA drivers in the SteamOS development tree, and the coverage is calling it an upgrade. It has shipped in no SteamOS release. The most useful thing Valve said is the part nobody quoted.

FEX, Box64, Proton, DXVK, DXMT, Rosetta, MoltenVK. Every guide to running PC games on ARM throws these names at you at once. Here is what each one does, why they stack, and why every extra layer costs you frames.

Epic has no Linux client yet, so Steam Deck owners use Heroic. Here is the full setup, from Discover to Game Mode, plus the failures worth knowing about.

ROCKNIX is the first custom firmware to bring native Steam and Proton to Android handhelds. Here is how to install it and what to expect from Steam on ARM.