[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Paul Lenton]

Just checked - GeForce GT 430 1gb
On 22 Feb 2013 18:47, "Paul Lenton" <lentonp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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