There's a new launcher from Google. Play Android games on the Steam Deck

[ruifcastro]

Hi,

would be cool to add this new launcher: https://play.google.com/googleplaygames

Play android games on the Steam Deck

[ruifcastro]

I tried to install it on the Steam Deck, but I think the page detects it's not windows and the installation app does appear. Not sure if this launcher is possible to be used on the Steam Deck.

[ruifcastro]

Sadly, I think it's not possible to make it work. I was able to install it, download the windows download install file into the Steam Deck, and it seemed to install correctly. Then in the Steam app try to open it with Proton Experimental and GE-Proton8-4. Doesn't work. Close the issue if you like, or try it yourself. Perhaps you will have better luck then me.

[moraroy]

@ruifcastro if you can find a way to enable hyper-V or install it it will work. There is an .exe in the file that says Hyper-V installation.exe I saw it last night. Basically the steam deck needs this somehow enabled in the proton.

[ruifcastro]

Humm, interesting. But it seems that Hyper-V hasn't been something need so far in Proton. Haven't found any info on i yet. Still looking around.

[moraroy]

@ruifcastro well it's because Google play games to my knowledge runs like an emulator somewhat if I'm not mistaken. I have it installed in my windows PC and it requires hyper v to be turned on

[DarkenLX]

Pretty sure hyper v is dependent on windows kernel or something that wine cant use atm.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V Pretty lengthy but mentions a lot sounds like its similar to kvm but not exactly because M$ proprietary stuff or code variations.. not sure if the IOMMU setting in deck bios has anything to do this kind of thing or not but it's disabled by default but can be toggled

[DanHolli]

Furthermore, I believe that the Windows Google Play launcher is reliant upon the Windows Subsystem for Android and not simply its own emulator, but I could be mistaken