This is using a Windows 7 VM using UTM. I’m guessing most people know how easy it is to run the steam client on android, using winlator, but I was curious if it was possible to run steam on an iPad , so I tried it.
The performance is even worse than a 5 year old budget android phone on winlator, I guess the performance cost of using a full virtual machine is really heavy , compared to something like winlator.
To get it running:
I used the settings from the UTM website for windows 7 and increased ram to 4 gigs.
I enabled JIT with stikdebug and enabled more ram with getmoreram.
I then installed supermium in the VM to get a working web browser and ran legacy update.
Next I downloaded oldsteam from the browser , extracted it and ran the 1.bat file to boot steam , and signed in
Games do open , I tried pokedate , holocure and a couple more , but even those super lightweight games run at an unplayable framerate , even for VNs . The steam client itself runs at a usable speed
(This is on a M1 ipad air)
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how do we know it’s an iPad and you didn’t add those black bars yourself
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This is using a Windows 7 VM using UTM. I’m guessing most people know how easy it is to run the steam client on android, using winlator, but I was curious if it was possible to run steam on an iPad , so I tried it.
The performance is even worse than a 5 year old budget android phone on winlator, I guess the performance cost of using a full virtual machine is really heavy , compared to something like winlator.
To get it running:
I used the settings from the UTM website for windows 7 and increased ram to 4 gigs.
I enabled JIT with stikdebug and enabled more ram with getmoreram.
I then installed supermium in the VM to get a working web browser and ran legacy update.
Next I downloaded oldsteam from the browser , extracted it and ran the 1.bat file to boot steam , and signed in
Games do open , I tried pokedate , holocure and a couple more , but even those super lightweight games run at an unplayable framerate , even for VNs . The steam client itself runs at a usable speed
(This is on a M1 ipad air)
how do we know it’s an iPad and you didn’t add those black bars yourself