As far as I can tell, it’s creating container VMs that have Steam installed inside separately.
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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
How so you force steam to run multiple instance of the same game ?
Or just multiple different games at once?
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 3 months ago
still steam prevents you from running more than one game at once from one account
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I believe this is akin to an open-source version of Stadia or Geforce now. Essentially, you have a powerful server that can be used by multiple users to play their own games. So, along with a couple of friends, you could purchase a powerful server, and then connect to it with a weak home computer.
abeltramo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well said! That’s exactly the idea!
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Yeah, I think that’s the general idea. They are seperate instances of Steam that could be signed into different accounts. So yeah, if you’re doing multiplayer of one game, each account would need to own it. That would be the exact same limitation at a LAN party anyway. This just lets you host said LAN party on a single beefy box, and use thin clients for each gamer, like an RPi4, a tablet or even an Apple/Android TV.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It looks they are just containers. No hardware or kernel emulation needed.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
That doesn’t necessarily seem to be the case:
abeltramo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m not sure what you are referring to but in the chart
MesaandKernellayers are shared between the running applications and Wolf in a single host, no VMs involved. One of the main reasons behind the project was to allow exactly this so that you wouldn’t incur in the big penalty hit that incurs in GPU splitting
abeltramo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As others have pointed out below it’s going to run multiple separated instances of Steam with the limitations that Valve impose (there’s not much we can do there). This project is not limited to Steam though, you could easily run another session from a different device with something like Lutris or Pegasus.