[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Kevin Groves]

OK one to try out then. Thanks
On 22/02/13 08:35, Dan Attwood wrote:
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>     from what it looks it uses Wine?
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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 
> that this is happening. Allt he games are native as well.
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>     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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>     and as for hardware reqs I wouldn't have the foggyest.
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> 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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