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BeamNG for School Chromebook?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by megacar11003, Mar 7, 2025.

  1. megacar11003

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    Just wondering if this is possible, because my account is literally on a school chromebook and I have BeamNG downloaded but it says it's not able to run on this platform. So what if BeamNG was made on this type of platform? But the problem is that I think you have to rewrite all of the code and change some of the files so it can work. But this is just a suggestion, not a demand.
     
  2. Worded_Gamer

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    it probably would take years to do
     
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  3. Musicman27

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    Yeah, not only would it take a lot of coding tomfoolery to get it to work, but it would run horribly and you would be lucky to get a framerate above 0.25 on all low settings.
     
  4. Devel6016

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    short answer: yes and no

    marginally long answer: pretty much any chromebook is incapable of comfortably running beam, even if you install windows/linux/steam on the chromebook. you can use streaming services like geforce now, but i don't know how long that would be a viable option, especially with ads and shorter session time per month
     
  5. megacar11003

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    Oh. well I wished it could've happened though at some point. I was hoping at least an educational version for school.
     
  6. Devel6016

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    beamng.tech could count as an educational version, but educational has nothing to do with how something runs
     
  7. megacar11003

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    I was saying education because basically every school has some educational version of those games instead. For example, Minecraft Education Edition. But thanks for answering my question. I do appreciate that.
     
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    the school doesn't make the education versions, it's up to the game devs to make it
    and the reason i say beamng.tech is an education version is because (i think) certain institutions can get it for free, like mc education edition
     
  9. megacar11003

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    Yeah I was trying to say the devs, not the school.
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    Doesn't Minecraft Education have two different ones? Like the online coding puzzle one and the education edition with just some added blocks in the regular game?
     
  10. Devel6016

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    the coding one is completely different, you can't even call it minecraft at that point
     
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  11. megacar11003

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    By any chance would the 0.3 BeamNG work fine on a chromebook if it was recoded?
     
  12. Devel6016

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    bro at that point just get rigs of rods...
     
  13. zachariah.74

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    There is little to no demand to play anything that isnt browser based on chromebooks. The device itself is literally designed around the idea of cloud productivity. Sure, you can install Linux these days I think but the hardware is never going to be up to the task due to what the device was designed to do.
     
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  14. hamster081

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    No, BeamNG.drive, a PC-focused driving simulator, is not natively designed to run on Chromebooks due to Chrome OS's limitations and the game's high system requirements.
     
  15. Musicman27

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    I dunno if "High" is accurate anymore, my RX570 that runs Beam.NG great, is lucky if a modern game has the RX580 as the minimum requirement.
     
  16. megacar11003

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    Rigs of Rods runs on chromebook?
     
  17. Devel6016

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    yes, you just have to install linux from settings, then install the linux version of ror
    there's plenty of tutorials online
    i don't know if your school lets you do that though (if you're still in school)
     
  18. Lordlichi2006

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    100% not
    chromebooks from school are one of the most locked down devices you can find, to the point of literally not being able to access the bios or anything like that, youd have to be able to access the boot manager if it isnt locked out and run linux from a usb drive, because if you overrode the hard drive i bet youd get in trouble
     
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  19. simsimw

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    GeForce now?
    It works and you can use it for an hour before you have to sign out. You need good internet though
     
  20. StephenRitchie74

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    An RX 570 runs fine? Great that's what I'm gonna get
     
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