[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Dan Attwood]

I've got it on 64bit Ubuntu with the restricted drivers and it works fine.
The only thing I had to do was to download the adobe flash manual install
and copy out the libflashplayer.so file to be able to get the game trailer
videos to work. The instructions for this are online.
On Feb 22, 2013 7:15 PM, "Paul Lenton" <lentonp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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