[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Dan Attwood]

You could try the official nvidia drivers from the nvidia site. They can
take a little bit of fiddling to get to install but you might have better
luck getting it to work.
On Feb 22, 2013 6:59 PM, "Paul Lenton" <lentonp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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