[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Dan Attwood]

What's the graphics card? Also have you opened up the Ubuntu restricted
drivers panel and installed the drivers it recommends?
On Feb 22, 2013 6:37 PM, "Paul Lenton" <lentonp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't get steam to run on my pc at all, despite the fairly reasonable
> specs (2.7 amd Athlon, 3gb ram, ubuntu 12.10) - something to do with OpenGL
> that I haven't been able to sort to date
> On 22 Feb 2013 11:23, "Andrew Spode Miller" <spode at justfdi.com> wrote:
>
>> Just to add to this.
>>
>> I have it running on a Chromebook which is running Chrubuntu. This is a
>> 1.1GHz Celeron and it was quite capable of playing Half-Life and a couple
>> of other games.
>>
>> Many years ago I used to run Steam under Wine on Linux and a surprising
>> number of games ran very well indeed, but yes - the new version is Native.
>>
>> This is definitely going to have a positive effect on the Linux platform.
>>
>> Spode
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> from what it looks it uses Wine?
>>>>
>>>> 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 that this is
>>> happening. Allt he games are native as well.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not all games are fully compatible with Steam on Linux (Given as Direct
>>>> X and such), it's mostly the Indie games and Valve ones.
>>>>
>>>> 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 why
>>> they have linux versions.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> and as for hardware reqs I wouldn't have the foggyest.
>>>>
>>>> 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 specs required.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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