[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Peter Childs]

Are you running 64bit. We had trouble installing it on 64bit mint.

I think it might be 32 bit only.

Peter
On 22 Feb 2013 19:04, "Dan Attwood" <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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