[mdlug] Steam on Linux

[Jeff Hanson]

You don't have to be in the beta to use Steam.  Just change the menu entry
to start with the store by default:
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop

Exec=/usr/bin/steam steam://store

The only limitation is with some games only being available to beta testers.


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Adam Behnke <abehnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was recently accepted too.
>
> I have the client up but, i can't play tf2. I'm getting a common error
> for x64 and radeon hd 5770 gc. I was following a work around but, i
> can't find "(`source ~/.bashrc`)".
> http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846938351012409765/
>
> what isn't helping is i'm using ubuntu studio and it's low latency
> kernel header.
>
> friend me and we'll play once i figure out my video driver.
>
> -Adam "sporto"
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ingles, Raymond
> <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> > Over the weekend I got accepted into the "Steam For Linux" Beta.
> >
> > Those of you who are not in any way gamers probably can skip the rest of
> this. Valve Software is a company that's made a lot of very successful
> games - most notably Half-Life and its sequels, and Portal and its sequel.
> They *also* created their own 'app store' for PC games, called 'Steam'.
> >
> > Steam is DRM, but it's DRM done pretty close to right. You can install a
> game on as many machines as you like, more or less. The only restriction is
> that you can only run it on one machine at a time. You can also take a
> machine 'offline', and play the games you have installed, if you're going
> to be away from the internet for a while (up to month, I gather).
> >
> > I installed it on my Xubuntu 12.04 system, and once I updated my Nvidia
> graphics drivers to the latest experimental version, everything seemed to
> work as expected. A few games that I had on Steam with Linux versions came
> right over (some Introversion titles and other stuff from a Linux "Humble
> Bundle"). A beta version of one of Valve's games, "Team Fortress 2", seemed
> to work fine, and very smoothly.
> >
> > Valve's game engine, "Source", underlies a lot of their games (and thus
> many of the most popular games, like Half-Life and Portal). When Valve came
> out with Steam support for the Mac, people who already had PC versions of
> those games got Mac versions at no extra charge. I rather anticipate that
> the same thing will apply when the official version of Steam comes out for
> Linux.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to booting into Windows a lot less for gaming
> purposes.
> >
> > You can read more about all this here:
> http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
> >
> > I like quotes like this: "After this work, Left 4 Dead 2 is running at
> 315 FPS on Linux. That the Linux version runs faster than the Windows
> version (270.6) seems a little counter-intuitive, given the greater amount
> of time we have spent on the Windows version. However, it does speak to the
> underlying efficiency of the kernel and OpenGL. Interestingly, in the
> process of working with hardware vendors we also sped up the OpenGL
> implementation on Windows. Left 4 Dead 2 is now running at 303.4 FPS with
> that configuration."
> >
> > ---
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