[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Paul Lenton]

Yeah, 64 bit. Might make a 32 bit partition and give it a go then! Thanks
for the heads up
On 22 Feb 2013 19:13, "Peter Childs" <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:

> 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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