{"id":49739,"date":"2026-11-07T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/valve-wants-steam-to-squash-arm-gaming-stutter-before-you-even-hit-play\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:35:09","slug":"valve-wants-steam-to-squash-arm-gaming-stutter-before-you-even-hit-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/valve-wants-steam-to-squash-arm-gaming-stutter-before-you-even-hit-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve wants Steam to squash Arm gaming stutter before you even hit play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/about\/affiliate-link-policy\" target=\"_blank\">editorial independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Executive Editor, PCWorld \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t  \t\t \t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\tValve tells PCWorld how it plans to tackle a nasty side effect of translating Windows games for Arm chips, before you even hit play.\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/p>\n<p>A powerful gaming PC can still stutter like hell. Now imagine your processor having to translate the game\u2019s instructions while you\u2019re playing it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the challenges Valve faces in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3266419\/valve-escaped-windows-now-steam-is-breaking-free-from-the-pc-itself.html\">fascinating push to bring Windows games to Arm chips<\/a>. And the company has a clever plan to tackle it before you even hit Play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFEX code caching is vital for frame time consistency,\u201d Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais told PCWorld in an interview.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3276245\/valve-wants-steam-to-kill-arm-gaming-stutter-before-you-even-hit-play.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our editorial independence . Executive Editor, PCWorld Valve tells PCWorld how it plans to tackle a nasty side effect of translating Windows games for Arm chips, before you even hit play. A powerful gaming PC can still stutter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3176,5164,140,36],"class_list":["post-49739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-computer-components","tag-cpus-and-processors","tag-gaming","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}