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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Does anyone know what they mean by “legacy runtime environment”? Do they mean running of the host system libraries rather than Valve’s runtimes?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Previously they used library injection and redirection techniques, but the new runtimes are basically containers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Do they mean running of the host system libraries rather than Valve’s runtimes?

AFAIK yes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I was almost worried steam allowed devs to opt out of steam play, that would be horrible and 90% of devs would opt out