Any possibility to download steam-games by raspberry pi ?

[Aome]

Since I have Ras-pi 2 as a seedbox.
and i want to lower my electric-bill .
Does it possible ?

[Zyro]

RasPi has an ARM processor, Steam is x86. So, not possible (with reasonable ways and performance).

[Air]

Even if Steam games could run on ARM processors, the Raspberry Pi would only be good for very old games such as Doom or Quake, it would even struggle with modern indie games.

[Aome]

i'm so so Sorry , i didi't explain it clearly . i want to download it with pi , and bring it to install in my win10 PC. Not to play it in Pi

[Legend]

Aome の投稿を引用：

i'm so so Sorry , i didi't explain it clearly . i want to download it with pi , and bring it to install in my win10 PC. Not to play it in Pi

O.O? Is your Windows machine in a remote location with no internet and you use the raspberry pi as a courier?

[Zyro]

Aome の投稿を引用：

i'm so so Sorry , i didi't explain it clearly . i want to download it with pi , and bring it to install in my win10 PC. Not to play it in Pi

Maybe running Steam for Windows under WINE can do that?

[Aome]

Zyro の投稿を引用：

Aome の投稿を引用：

i'm so so Sorry , i didi't explain it clearly . i want to download it with pi , and bring it to install in my win10 PC. Not to play it in Pi

Maybe running Steam for Windows under WINE can do that?

good idea, i didn't know abot WINE before , if it doesnt work , maybe i can use it with IdleMaster for trading cards . THANK !

[Aome]

Dr Wily の投稿を引用：

Aome の投稿を引用：

i'm so so Sorry , i didi't explain it clearly . i want to download it with pi , and bring it to install in my win10 PC. Not to play it in Pi

O.O? Is your Windows machine in a remote location with no internet and you use the raspberry pi as a courier?

No sir , my pc has internet conection but i have raspberry pi as a seedbox as well.

the problem is when i want to download a big game like GTA V , i have to use my pc to download it overnight .

So i have an idea about using raspberry pi to download steam-games and bring it to pc to install it . ( TO LOWER MY ELECTRIC BILL )

[Aome]

Maleko の投稿を引用：

You might be able to do that with SteamCMD:
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD

Ohhh SteamCMD ! seems pretty much handy ,
i tried to google it in my language but found nothing .
i'll learn about it and if i success, i'll translate it to my language to others to read.

THANK !

[DirtyCamper]

As far as I know you can use steam desktop on an a pi using qemu. Then you should be able to run steamcmd. Oh, wait, your target is windows... Hmmm, yes, you can override target os with steamcmd and download it on your pi.
So you need qemu to emulate x86 or https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/, because steamcmd is probably only available for x86.

[Aome]

DirtyCamper の投稿を引用：

As far as I know you can use steam desktop on an a pi using qemu. Then you should be able to run steamcmd. Oh, wait, your target is windows... Hmmm, yes, you can override target os with steamcmd and download it on your pi.
So you need qemu to emulate x86 or https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/, because steamcmd is probably only available for x86.

Thank , i'll try to run steamcmd both with and without emulator .

[Legend]

Aome の投稿を引用：

No sir , my pc has internet conection but i have raspberry pi as a seedbox as well.

the problem is when i want to download a big game like GTA V , i have to use my pc to download it overnight .

So i have an idea about using raspberry pi to download steam-games and bring it to pc to install it . ( TO LOWER MY ELECTRIC BILL )

Okay I get it now. But data transport is not the Raspberry Pi's strong suit. I'm pretty sure the nic card shares the same USB bus as the keyboard, mouse, any HD's you have hooked up, etc. And the energy savings is not all that compared to a mini itx PC, which would blow it out of the water performance wise.

The Raspberry Pi 1 sipped power... But it also was terrible performance wise. The Pi 1B was an improvement, but used more power. The Pi 2 was a massive improvement, but used a LOT more power. Now with the Pi 3, it's energy usage is approaching energy efficient Intel based laptops without coming close to that level of performance.

Furthermore, I think it's already been mentioned that Pi uses an ARM architecture, and is thus likely incompatible with anything Valve/Steam has to offer, such as steamcmd.

Emulation IS possible, but not desirable. Think about it. In order to use that steamcmd, you'll need to provide it with a fully functional x86 environment to work with, all emulated by a ARM cpu. This will push your pi literally to the limit, leaving little room to do what is actually intended (downloading steam games). Considering the pi only has 256/512/1024mb of memory to begin with, swap (SD-card swap) will almost certainly be involved, reducing your pi to the performance of a slug.

Anything is possible I suppose. But this really doesn't seem worth the effort. I would just spend the extra $0.0075 to $0.86 in electricity (depending on location) and download GTA V on your PC.

[Aome]

Dr Wily の投稿を引用：

Aome の投稿を引用：

No sir , my pc has internet conection but i have raspberry pi as a seedbox as well.

the problem is when i want to download a big game like GTA V , i have to use my pc to download it overnight .

So i have an idea about using raspberry pi to download steam-games and bring it to pc to install it . ( TO LOWER MY ELECTRIC BILL )

Okay I get it now. But data transport is not the Raspberry Pi's strong suit. I'm pretty sure the nic card shares the same USB bus as the keyboard, mouse, any HD's you have hooked up, etc. And the energy savings is not all that compared to a mini itx PC, which would blow it out of the water performance wise.

The Raspberry Pi 1 sipped power... But it also was terrible performance wise. The Pi 1B was an improvement, but used more power. The Pi 2 was a massive improvement, but used a LOT more power. Now with the Pi 3, it's energy usage is approaching energy efficient Intel based laptops without coming close to that level of performance.

Furthermore, I think it's already been mentioned that Pi uses an ARM architecture, and is thus likely incompatible with anything Valve/Steam has to offer, such as steamcmd.

Emulation IS possible, but not desirable. Think about it. In order to use that steamcmd, you'll need to provide it with a fully functional x86 environment to work with, all emulated by a ARM cpu. This will push your pi literally to the limit, leaving little room to do what is actually intended (downloading steam games). Considering the pi only has 256/512/1024mb of memory to begin with, swap (SD-card swap) will almost certainly be involved, reducing your pi to the performance of a slug.

Anything is possible I suppose. But this really doesn't seem worth the effort. I would just spend the extra $0.0075 to $0.86 in electricity (depending on location) and download GTA V on your PC.

At least i've learn something even thoguh it doesn't worth it , right ?

[Legend]

Aome の投稿を引用：

At least i've learn something even thoguh it doesn't worth it , right ?

As a learning experience? You would learn tons. If that is your only goal, I'd say go for it. But it will be a difficult and time consuming process getting it to work right, especially if you a ARM newb. Unless you are using a ultra high power gaming rig with kilowatt power supply, flagship geforce card, 27" monitor, etc... You could probably buy a cheese burger after a year with the money you save. XD

[DirtyCamper]

Dr Wily の投稿を引用：

Aome の投稿を引用：

At least i've learn something even thoguh it doesn't worth it , right ?

As a learning experience? You would learn tons. If that is your only goal, I'd say go for it. But it will be a difficult and time consuming process getting it to work right, especially if you a ARM newb. Unless you are using a ultra high power gaming rig with kilowatt power supply, flagship geforce card, 27" monitor, etc... You could probably buy a cheese burger after a year with the money you save. XD

In my case that's almost true... In the winter it's not a real problem as any watts consumed is heating.
But I've replaced my main desktop from a core i7-920 to an exynos 5422, and it was well worth it.
Xterms are faster than any ati-fglrx combination I had for years.
And it went from 250W idle to 2W idle.
Replacing my HD4890 with an R9-270 already removed 150W usage though... Replacing harddisks with a single SSD as bcache on fcoe also helped a little.
But GCN1.0 is not that well supported. So currently the old desktop is heating in the winter, in the summer it's only on if I need to convert video files for demos, which take a lot of time.
For steam I have a steam machine with steamos. I have not tried to measure that one.

[Aome]

Dr Wily の投稿を引用：

Aome の投稿を引用：

At least i've learn something even thoguh it doesn't worth it , right ?

As a learning experience? You would learn tons. If that is your only goal, I'd say go for it. But it will be a difficult and time consuming process getting it to work right, especially if you a ARM newb. Unless you are using a ultra high power gaming rig with kilowatt power supply, flagship geforce card, 27" monitor, etc... You could probably buy a cheese burger after a year with the money you save. XD

Just 1 cheese burger ?? ahhh , all of my passion and motivation are gone . Now i trun my pi to Retropie ( retro-gaming machine ) to play with my wife instead . Thank for your advice. i'll go out , grab some cheese burger and say goodbye to SteamCMD.