Steam can run multiple games at once

steamclosed reviewedNot a bugSteam client

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2518 · opened 2013-05-25 by Sarkie · updated 2013-05-30 · 3 comments · github

SSarkie 2013-05-25 github

I don't have Windows any more so can't test, but in the past you couldn't run multiple games at once, I don't know if this is the case any more. But in Linux you can.

Screenshot shows me play HL2DM and CSS at the same time.

Sorry if a feature not a bug.
screenshot from 2013-05-25 12 52 25

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Hhakusaro 2013-05-27 github

It's definitely not possible to run multiple Steam games at once on Windows.

TTele42 2013-05-27 github

How is this a bad thing? I have seen others run multiple games from steam on windows at the same time. It sometimes causes a significant delay in announcing the player is in the second game that we were already playing a multiplayer match.

Aalfred-valve maintainer 2013-05-30 github

Steam lets you run multiple apps/games at a time, we just limit how many times you can run a single app (and that is configured on a per game basic, so some allow multiple launches).

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