{"id":80171,"date":"2015-08-18T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T08:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80171"},"modified":"2015-08-18T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T09:06:50","slug":"steam-machines-wont-have-suspend-and-resume-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/80171-steam-machines-wont-have-suspend-and-resume-functionality","title":{"rendered":"Steam Machines won’t have suspend and resume functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"

PC elitists would have you believe that their platform of choice is superior to consoles in just about every measurable variable, or in every way that counts.<\/p>\n

While that may not be strictly true, PCs are generally a lot more capable than their console counterparts, hence the premium on purchasing or building one.<\/p>\n

The Steam Machine<\/a> is more a concept than an actual piece of tech. It\u2019s about taking the strengths afforded by the variability of PC hardware and combining that with the ease and simplicity of a console experience.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about turning a PC into a console-like machine for the living room. However, the use of Linux in the creation of SteamOS has hit a bit of a snag.<\/p>\n

\"Valve<\/a><\/p>\n

Valve\u2019s engineers have shrugged their shoulders, thrown their hands into the air and given up on the idea of \u201csuspend\u201d and \u201cresume\u201d functionality for Steam Machines.<\/p>\n

Suspend and Resume are essentially extensions of a low-power standby mode. It\u2019s something PCs have been able to do for some time now, courtesy of Windows, and so adopted by the latest batch of consoles.<\/p>\n

They allow for a quicker startup and a much shorter time between pressing a button and hopping back into a game, having been suspended rather than closed by the console concerned.<\/p>\n

It seems that as far as Valve is concerned, SteamOS can\u2019t be designed to reliably do so, so they\u2019re dropping the functionality from SteamOS.<\/p>\n

The news came by way of a Valve engineer\u2019s report via Github<\/a>, who said, \u201csuspend is no longer supported<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

The reason, reported the engineer, is that, \u201cGiven the state of hardware and software support throughout the graphics stack on Linux we didn’t think we could make this reliable.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

As you may know, SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system, and it apparently handles rediscovering hardware peripheral (component) detection after being resumed, in a way that disallows suspend and resume functionality for the most part.<\/p>\n

It results in a number of repeatable problems and conflicts with drivers and hardware, and isn\u2019t really acceptable for Valve.<\/p>\n

Granted, many are reporting to not have that issue, but it comes down to the variations of hardware that may be used in Steam Machines, and that Valve needs the function to work reliably, rather than in some configurations while breaking others.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a major train smash, but it is a bit of a loss for Steam Machines and SteamOS.<\/p>\n

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Source: <\/strong>Ars Technica<\/strong> <\/a><\/h4>\n

In other PC news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Windows 10 has already reached over 53 million devices<\/a><\/p>\n

Your PC probably doesn\u2019t suck: Steam\u2019s Hardware Survey suggests<\/a><\/p>\n

Blizzard is thinking about Warcraft 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perfect in every way, SteamOS is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2065,15379,1969,15397,15375,15377,15381,11340,11330,15373,697],"class_list":["post-80171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-linux","tag-low-power","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-rest-mode","tag-resume","tag-standby","tag-steam-machines","tag-steamos","tag-suspend","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}