How to Download Chroma Lab

1. Click on the Chroma Lab download button below.
2. Choose "Install" to install the game on the windows steam client.
3. Follow the on-screen prompts
4. Let it download the Full Version.
5. Once a game is downloaded, use the Windows Steam Client to play the game.

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This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Some games may not work or may break because Steam Proton is still at a very early stage.

1. Activating Steam Proton for Linux:
Proton is integrated into the Steam Client with "Steam Play." To activate proton, go into your steam client and click on Steam in the upper right corner. Then click on settings to open a new window. From here, click on the Steam Play button at the bottom of the panel. Click "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles."

Alternatively: Go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and turn on the "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" option.

Valve has tested and fixed some Steam titles and you will now be able to play most of them. However, if you want to go further and play titles that even Valve hasn't tested, toggle the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" option.

2. Choose a version
You should use the Steam Proton version recommended by Steam: 3.7-8. This is the most stable version of Steam Proton at the moment.

3. Restart your Steam
After you have successfully activated Steam Proton, click "OK" and Steam will ask you to restart it for the changes to take effect. Restart it. Your computer will now play all of steam's whitelisted games seamlessly.

4. Launch Stardew Valley on Linux:
Before you can use Steam Proton, you must first download the Stardew Valley Windows game from Steam. When you download Stardew Valley for the first time, you will notice that the download size is slightly larger than the size of the game.
This happens because Steam will download your chosen Steam Proton version with this game as well. After the download is complete, simply click the "Play" button.

Windows Pc Requirements

Minimum:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS: Windows 7, 8, 10
  
• Processor: Any recent dual core but quad core recommended
  
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: AMD R9 280 / Nvidia GTX 970, slower may work but untested, faster = more particles!
  
• DirectX: Version 11
  
• Storage: 500 MB available space
  
• Additional Notes: Requires a VR headset and motion controllers, closing other applications and minimising steam is recommended to avoid occasional dropped frames

Recommended:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Linux Requirements

Minimum:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Recommended:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Mac Requirements

Minimum:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Recommended:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Chroma Lab is a VR particle physics sandbox. Surround yourself with hundreds of thousands of colorful particles that stick together like a fluid which you can interact with using a variety of tools.

A colorful fluid simulation to play with in VR.

Chroma Lab is based around a high performance, custom particle physics engine that utilises the vast computing power of modern GPUs to calculate billions of individual forces per second between the particles, necessary for them to interact with each other and behave like a fluid.

There is a variety of tools to interact with the particles as well as a well featured options menu that allows you to customise the visuals, physics and save/load scenes.

Key features

• Beautiful, psychedelic visuals
  
• Particles react to your music (any external music player is compatible, may not work with Bluetooth headphones)
  
• Tools to pick up, hit, pull, explode, shoot and paint the particles
  
• Placeable force spheres which can also teleport the particles between one another
  
• Save and load the particles and settings, included are a few presets to get started with
  
• Adjustable physics settings to change how the particles behave
  
• Multiple different particle shaders, color pallets and other graphics settings to choose from
  
• Throw blobs into orbit and create black holes
  
• Optional gravity and "lava lamp" modes
  
• Freeze the simulation or slow time to a crawl
  
• Great as first experience for people new to VR - intuitive controls and presets can be chosen outside of VR
  
• MixCast support for easy, high quality mixed reality
  
• Native Oculus SDK support for Rift and Touch users
  
• Number of particles can be automatically determined based on computer speed or manually adjusted
  
• Scale and bounding walls can be adjusted allowing Chroma Lab to be played from sitting to room scale

Beta tester quotes after playing Chroma Lab

• "okay - gorgeous, just gorgeous! love how well it performs :)"
  
• "I really need to sleep now, even if my dreams will not offer me the delight just spent in Chroma Lab."
  
• "it is absolutely fantastic and probably one of the most beautiful experience I have had in VR so far"
  
• "Wow. WOW I think I'm in love."
  
• "Ok, holy **** man. Congratulations, you've made the trippiest game I've ever played"
  
• "Wow. Just... Wow... I might have just found my new favourite thing in VR"
  
• "Well, I went in expecting to just have a quick go before bed. An hour disappeared. That was mesmerizing! Beautifully smooth and so many options!"
  
• "Holy **** man this is awesome!! I played for like an hour straight!!"
  
• "congrats on creating a very compelling and polished piece of software!"

“Chroma Lab is a mesmerising particle simulation and a simple but stunning VR showcase”
Road to VR

“Chroma Lab is very simple in set up, flawless in execution and really a blast to play with.”
8/10 – The VR grid