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OK one to try out then. Thanks<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/02/13 08:35, Dan Attwood wrote:<br>
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<span>from what it looks it uses Wine?</span></div>
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No it's native, the ubuntu version at least doesn't need
wine. You just install the deb and off you go. The
internals of steam then keep it all upto date. Ubuntu is
thew only officially supported platform at the moment but
their are packages about for others and valve are happy
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fully compatible with Steam on Linux (Given as
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<div style="">This is true. There are about 80 games in the
linux part of the steam store at the moment. A mix of
indie games and others. Many of the indie games were also
available as part of the Humble Indie bundles, which is
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<div style="">The important thing here though is that the
porting of games to linux means a shift away from directx
to opengl. Valve have reported that their port of Left for
Dead 2 runs much faster under ubuntu/ opengl then it did
under windows. Plus any changes they made to opengl have
been pushed upstream for the benefit of everyone.</div>
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hardware reqs I wouldn't have the foggyest. <br>
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<div style="">The hardware regs for steam as very basic. As
for the games it's exactly as you would expect for under
any os. the fancier the games to better spec you need.
When you look at a game in steam it tells you the minimum
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