It’s exciting to see what Google has in store for the future of mobile gaming, and this beta is a hopeful but bare-bones step in the right direction. Overall, I’ll continue to tinker with Google Play Games Beta for PC despite my earlier hesitation in hopes that it improves. This is a frustrating and paltry attempt at forcing compatibility with peripherals since developers have refused for years to port their games properly, but what else could Google possibly do, right? It’s ambitious and admirable but ultimately may never feel as tailored as true PC controls. For now, it’s literally just mapping keypresses to touch or tap functionality and relating mouse drags to swipes of your finger. However, the upcoming Game Overlay could help with this sort of thing, but we’ll have to wait and see. For example, while clicking and dragging to rotate my character in Summoner’s War Chronicles, my mouse isn’t captured within the game window, so it goes off-screen and messes up battles. Google says it “can’t guarantee how well games run, or if games run at all, on some PCs.That being said, there are still some problems adapting touch controls to the mouse and keyboard. If not, continue by clicking Google Play Games in the Start menu. If Google Play Games is running in your system tray, exit it from the tray icon and restart it.Set Variable name to “GOOGLE_PLAY_GAMES_SUPPRESS_COMPATIBILITY_CHECK”.Click this panel: “edit environment variables for your account”.In the Windows search box, enter environment variables.Google will look into lowering the minimum spec further but is now officially providing a workaround to access Play Games for PC on currently unsupported devices that involves disabling the compatibility check: While we still believe meeting our current minimum system requirement is the best and supported way to experience Google Play Games Beta, we are looking into how we can reduce our minimum specs soon. That said, Google has “seen a lot of you reach out about having machines that are below our current minimum specs.”

The company is now providing a workaround for accessing the Play Games for PC beta on unsupported hardware.īack in August, Google started supporting integrated GPUs (like the Intel UHD Graphics 630 and comparable) after previously requiring a gaming-ready GPU from AMD or Nvidia, which remains “recommended for better gameplay performance.” There was also a lowering from “8 logical cores” for the processor to “4 CPU physical cores,” and just 10GB of SSD space (from 20GB). In bringing Play Games to open beta last year, Google lowered the minimum specs requirement.

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