DOS games not installing on Chromebook

[lauren84.all]

Hello. I just installed and joined Steam today. I bought 4 DOS games and have DOSBOX installed. I tried pressing the install button for each game, but nothing happened. Are DOS games not compatible with the Chrome OS?

[Chompman]

You would need to see what the system requirements are as most games will by default only be listed as windows for your OS with a few also for mac or linux.

[CZI]

I think it's depends on game.
Descent 2 is one of my favorite.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/273580/Descent_2/
Store page shows up to Win 8.1, but it worked on Win 10.
It has support for Linux.

If you take route for alternatives, you may need to take extra effort including picking proper OS.

[Iceira]

I have seen dos games with single cpu games has game requirements with 3,3 ghz base core
most pc such as laptop with 2,2 base core and intel boot to 3,4ghz actual dont have it.
intel boost cant keep 3,3 ghz so high all the time so it fail.

and no i dont recall what game from the past so many years ago.
and back then dual core issue as 2.0ghz wont even help. ( it was crazy time back then. )
thos games was made to use 1 cpu only, so you can actual still get issue with not have the single cpu requirements

[MancSoulja]

How did you install Steam on Chrome OS? AFAIK the only Steam you can install is the Android app.

[lauren84.all]

I used Linux. I found out about it on the internet and YouTube. I heard that Steam Deck can play DOSBox and Henry Stickmin.

[Bee🐝]

Originally posted by lauren84.all:

I used Linux. I found out about it on the internet and YouTube. I heard that Steam Deck can play DOSBox and Henry Stickmin.

Steam Deck uses Proton to play windows games. Do you have that installed?

[lauren84.all]

Originally posted by Bee:

Originally posted by lauren84.all:

I used Linux. I found out about it on the internet and YouTube. I heard that Steam Deck can play DOSBox and Henry Stickmin.

Steam Deck uses Proton to play windows games. Do you have that installed?

No, I`ve never heard of it.

[Bee🐝]

Originally posted by lauren84.all:

Originally posted by Bee:

Steam Deck uses Proton to play windows games. Do you have that installed?

No, I`ve never heard of it.

Google it and there should be instructions on how to install it and how it works.

.exe games won’t run on basic Linux; which is most likely why they can’t be installed. The normal client doesn’t do the “emulation” automatically.

The Steam Deck runs Proton by default.

[Kargor]

Whether it's DOSBox or Wine/Proton, Steam does not use any kind of installed 3rd party emulation layer.

Linux-Steam comes with Proton, but I think "Chromebooks" are something else. If you can't install a Linux-Steam on a Chromebook then it's not that simple.

If you can install Wine/Proton on a Chromebook, the usual way is to then install the Windows-Steam-client inside of that. So, basically, you're already running a Windows-Steam inside the Windows-Emulation, so it will download the Windows games and also install therm inside the emulation.

For DOSBox, since you can't run a DOS-Steam, there's a lot of manual stuff going on. DOS games on Steam come with their own DOSBox-ish thing for that reason; you'd basically have to download the game on another box and extract the actual game from it, so you can then install it into the DOSBox on the Chromebook.

Frankly, seeing the initial post, I think that's all much too complicated. Just accept that Chromebooks aren't meant for games.

[Washell]

You need a PC to download (install) the games from steam and then manually move them to your chromebook/dosbox environment. Steam does not support Chrome OS and will not recognise you installed DosBox for ChromeOS.

[Cathulhu]

Originally posted by Bee:

Originally posted by lauren84.all:

I used Linux. I found out about it on the internet and YouTube. I heard that Steam Deck can play DOSBox and Henry Stickmin.

Steam Deck uses Proton to play windows games. Do you have that installed?

Not of much help if the Chromebook uses an ARM CPU. Proton requires a x86-64 architecture.

[lauren84.all]

I have a PC laptop now, so now I can play Steam games.