r/nottheonion • u/Oblivious122 • 15d ago

Tesla warns owners new cars don’t have Steam Gaming support

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-warns-owners-new-cars-dont-have-steam-gaming/
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u/MarthaStewart__ 15d ago

Ugh, so I can’t play Baldurs Gate 3 while cruising down the interstate?? Definitely not buying a Tesla now!

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u/Llian_Winter 15d ago

You can still play Doom though.

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u/Eheggs 15d ago

even easier to play carmageddon.

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u/Cthulu95666 15d ago

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in years

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u/OtterishDreams 15d ago

carmageddon and twisted metal are my lost loves

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u/Almacca 15d ago

I want to play Assetto Corsa on it!

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u/Lokarin 15d ago

It's a pretty game, but man the tutorials in that game piss me off

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u/orangpelupa 14d ago

What tutorial? I only remember the game is very barebone with very confusing "launcher" thing.

Much better once using mod content launcher thing 

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u/Lokarin 14d ago

it's been a while, but I was having a hard time driving so I took one of the turning tutorials where it gives you guide lines and, like, none of the lines matched any button inputs

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u/not_creative1 15d ago

The games are for when you are at a super charger wairing for the car to charge. Seriously.

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u/MarthaStewart__ 15d ago

Thank you, Spock

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u/OtterishDreams 15d ago

every car you pass you roll for perception check. good luck

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u/BeaversAreTasty 14d ago

It is more of a feature to kill time while charging. Also works for entertaining kids on long road trips.

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u/paulwesterberg 14d ago

The problem is that most fast charging stops are now so fast that you don’t have much time to play games.

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u/BeaversAreTasty 14d ago

Sometimes you have to wait to charge, or wait for your spouse to finish shopping, or just wait in the car. It doesn't matter, they are luxury cars. If they are visibly cutting costs this way, they are cutting costs in not so obvious ways.

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u/Mitch82az 15d ago

So….no more Skyrim Tesla Edition?

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u/JerryRiceDidntFumble 15d ago

Nope, Skyrim belongs to the Fords

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u/Antoshi 15d ago

Todd Howard is out there somewhere malding right now.

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u/_regionrat 15d ago

Wait, how would that even work? Would you unlock new shouts every time the autopilot runs down a pedestrian or something?

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u/ConcentrateTight4108 15d ago

Fusroh-damn it!!! I just hit the neighbors dog again

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u/Bean_cult 15d ago

you have to squash an old lady in order to kill grelod

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u/Volistar 15d ago

That's one way to get rid of Lauren bobart

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u/mrlotato 15d ago

That's dumb.. tbh, playing games while you're charging is pretty cool. 

EDIT: why tf am I worried, I can't even afford a new tesla lol Steam deck it is

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u/TeosPWR 15d ago

You can afford the steam deck? :p

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u/monster_mentalissues 15d ago

I mean, I could buy one... But I would have to convince my wife it's a good investment or find a compelling reason why I should have one.

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u/iamnotexactlywhite 15d ago

wym bro just prepare a business case and present it on a meeting at 3PM on Friday

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u/somethingsome567 15d ago

I mean realistically it could have been an email

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u/iamnotexactlywhite 15d ago

reported, blocked and just fyi HR will reach out

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u/mrlotato 15d ago

I convinced my girlfriend by saying I could sit w her while she watches her shows instead of sitting at my pc. Worked instantly haha

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u/jang859 15d ago

Because you're a monster with mental issues.

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u/Sir-Mocks-A-Lot 15d ago

I thought you were being really judgmental until I saw the username, lol.

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u/jang859 15d ago

This, coming from you?

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u/DomDomW 15d ago

in other words... he is not getting that steam deck guys :(

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u/really_random_user 15d ago

Refurbished it's 300$

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u/mf-TOM-HANK 15d ago

I can play xcloud on any half decent smart phone these days. I already have a decent phone and I already have game pass ultimate. Even if I don't have a Bluetooth controller on hand there are plenty of simple twin stick shooters that are easily playable with touch controls.

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u/Merciless972 15d ago

Did this recently to try out starfield on an optiplex running Linux. Even from the edge browser it recognized my controller .

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u/Amazingawesomator 15d ago

so they added a non-support "feature"....

its running linux. linux has a flatpack for steam alongside a compatibility layer that allows even non-linux supported games to run..........

and they removed that functionality for no reason.

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u/Takaa 15d ago

I’m fairly sure they are just removing the expensive GPU from new cars due to lack of use by most owners. Existing cars aren’t losing the feature.

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u/OverSoft 15d ago

They might be transitioning to ARM / Nvidia Jetson or similar which doesn’t have a Linux version for Steam.

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u/Amazingawesomator 15d ago

https://boilingsteam.com/steam-games-with-proton-on-an-arm-pc/

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u/OverSoft 15d ago edited 14d ago

Ah yes, very plug and play and something Tesla will certainly support…

/edit: Fucking hilarious that I get downvoted for this. No brand in their right mind is going to support a hacky solution that’s not supported by the original vendor (Valve). They have no obligation to give you Steam on your car.

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u/Amazingawesomator 15d ago

this article was early in 2022. vulkan support is now available on arm processors, including mobile processors. it is quite simple to set up - i highly recommend checking it out on a raspberry pi : D

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u/OverSoft 15d ago

The problem is that there is no support from Valve themselves and Tesla certainly won’t pour any money into it to get it to work, since they’re in complete money-saving mode at the moment.

If they can’t get it to work with close to zero labor, they won’t include it.

Now, I could be totally wrong and they could still be including x86/x64 computers and there’s some other (monetary) reason for omitting it, but the hassle of getting it to work on ARM (even with minimal work) might completely explain it.

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u/Dr_Hexagon 14d ago

I can run Windows steam games on my M1 Macbook pro using WINE. Works just fine and very easy setup. You can either use Crossover or Whiskey.

https://getwhisky.app/

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u/skiboxing 15d ago

Most likely they are just leaving off the AMD GPU and only using the embedded one on the main CPU. From what I’ve read in the past all of the infotainment graphics are only rendered by the GPU in the CPU, not the external GPU. Makes sense since only Model X and Model S have the external GPU and most of the infotainment dev is for the much more popular 3 and y. I think the only thing that uses it is Steam. So basically S and X are getting the equivalent CPU of the 3 and Y now. I bet like sunroofs and passenger lumbar the actual number of people using Steam in their X and S is very low so why put in a relatively expensive outboard GPU than rarely gets used.

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u/blbd 15d ago

They might have had the GPU there for sensor number crunching for the quasi functional self driving and then it never went anywhere because Elon's bad rap and impulsiveness burned everything to the ground lately. 

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u/danielv123 14d ago

No, the self driving stuff runs on their own silicon. It wouldn't make sense to start buying a GPU for just some of the cars late into development to run an fsd fork on that. They want the same fsd software on all the cars.

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u/JustAnotherYouMe 15d ago

"Warns" lol

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u/BuGabriel 15d ago

Literally unplayable

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u/InsertScreenNameHere 15d ago

Good thing I can't even afford a Steam Deck

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u/WhyAreOldPeopleEvil 15d ago

You just wait until Todd heads about this!

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u/MaskedPapillon 15d ago

You don't need to, cybertruck has Carmageddon pre-installed

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u/CharlieSixFive 15d ago

Yeah, that was the reason I wanted to buy a Tesla....

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u/agprincess 15d ago

Outrageous!

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u/OtterishDreams 15d ago

steam users just use their steam deck in that situation anyway!

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u/H3racIes 15d ago

Can I get an older model to support it?

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u/Altea73 14d ago

So, no games and also no brakes because some update while driving?

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u/kushpeshin 14d ago

Why the f does a car need to have this shit? It’s a car ffs

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u/Luke_Flyswatter 14d ago

I know people are making jokes about this but it is/was a pretty cool and unique feature when you’re stuck waiting for or at a supercharger.

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u/Alone_Cap_2443 15d ago

Probably needs the compute power for when full self driving comes out next year. /s

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u/Im_in_timeout 15d ago

The last thing we need is a bunch of Elon dickriders playing games while their cars are cruising around on the roads.

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u/Antrikshy 15d ago

Games can't be played while the car is driving.

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u/Hessian14 15d ago

Bro, make your cars stop spontaneously combusting before trying to get cute about your murderous "autopilot"

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u/spindrift_20 15d ago

The best steam game in no steam game. I’m betting the number of people that use it is very small.

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u/Medullan 15d ago

I came here to post this.

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u/Humble-Hawk-7450 12d ago

Oh no! Anyway....