[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Paul Lenton]

Nvidia GeForce 5460 I think. Yeah, tried the recommended drivers, the
experimental nvidia 304 driver... Nothing seems to work! I'm doomed to
never play TF2 on my PC!
On 22 Feb 2013 18:43, "Dan Attwood" <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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