TheNatural
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Steam for Linux officially released, Team Fortress 2 Penguin item, 50-75% off sale
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Ah ok, thanks.
Schweinehund
Member
Seriously considering making a seperate partition on my comp, both because of the linux promo (earbuds are exremely valuable in the steam market, I assume tux may be as well) and the fact that I really should have more experience as a CS Major.
Bought a few games to round out my Linux games list. I've been avoiding Steam in Wine lately in favor of playing/replaying games that have been ported, it's actually a great backlog helper!
Performance has been great on Gentoo with pretty moderate specs (Phenom 2 X4 965, Geforce 550Ti) with only minor messing around to get some games working (like deleting some bad libraries for SpaceChem).
Performance has been great on Gentoo with pretty moderate specs (Phenom 2 X4 965, Geforce 550Ti) with only minor messing around to get some games working (like deleting some bad libraries for SpaceChem).
TheLucifer
Member
Downloading Ubuntu right now, I must have that penguin. Quick (dumb) question: do I have to re-download Team Fortress 2 even if I've already downloaded it on Windows?
CountAntonius
Member
No CS Go yet?
As much as I like the idea I want to see it move a long a bit further before I jump in.
As much as I like the idea I want to see it move a long a bit further before I jump in.
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
I hope so they have been super slow on the mac version of Dota 2. It would be cool if they came out with both versions at the same time, as long as its soon.
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
Yes.
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Visualante2
Member
Can I run this shit from a live boot drive? Are the files the same so I can just run from Windows Steam directory?
ThatObviousUser
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No... Linux executables are fundamentally different... that's why Windows programs can't run on Linux, and vice versa. Well, not counting something like WINE, which is a compatibility layer.
Visualante2
Member
Oh sure but... there's 7gb of map files, animations, voice samples and models to redownload. Kind of a pain to download all that stuff again when it could in theory be just a 30mb exe or whatever.
I'm quite tempted to just copy my TF2 folder from Win7 and have Steam do the "verify" thing and only download what it needs.
But it's just going to result in a cluster**** of vestigal files that are only used by Windows I assume.
Acidote
Member
After three evenings trying to make TF2 on Ubuntu with my AMD card, I give up. I'll have a friend get me that penguin. All this was more out of curiosity than anything.
In terminal I can read this:
But AMD reports I have 4.2 so that's not really it. And the driver installation is completely clean.
So I give up and say that, today, a steam linux market is inviable and major deals have to be made with card manufacturers for an easier driver installation. That, or they can wait a few months until AMD is bankrupt.
In terminal I can read this:
But AMD reports I have 4.2 so that's not really it. And the driver installation is completely clean.
So I give up and say that, today, a steam linux market is inviable and major deals have to be made with card manufacturers for an easier driver installation. That, or they can wait a few months until AMD is bankrupt.
arts&crafts
Member
yes they are, I don't play that much but once I bought a key and got a purple hat and sold it for 300 dollars haha
They're worth about $35 right now.
TheLucifer
Member
Damn it. Thanks anyway.
I keep waffling between selling mine or not selling mine.
But totally going to go through the effort to get the Tux, just for the set if nothing else.
Do I want Ubuntu 12.10 or 12.04?
Angry Fork
Member
I got an error like this a couple weeks ago too, installed ubuntu and tried to launch TF2 but it gave an error I think it was the same but I'm not sure. I googled around but many of the responses involved coding trial and error and ubuntu jargon which I have no clue about. Some threads on steam forums said it was an ATI driver issue or something so I just gave up. I wanted to see how it ran but figured it wasn't worth the hassle.
TouchMyBox
Member
Yes, this is correct.
yea, you can actually copy over those things.
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
Linux doesn't use exe in the way you are thinking (in a windows world).
edit: oh wow there is one for tf2? time to go check it out.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
FINALLY. I've been waiting for Aquaria to go on sale for ages, as I missed the bundle it was in, and it NEVER goes on sale. But it has now, so hopped on that in an instant.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Counter-Strike 1.6 was officially added to Linux and OSX today.
He's not talking about the exe. He's talking about the assets.
War Machine
Member
For people with AMD cards that can't run Source games because of an OpenGL error, if your card is a 4XXX card or older, AMD considers those "Legacy" cards, and they won't be getting anymore driver updates. Which is terrible because my Radeon 4850 runs Source great in Windows but not at all in Linux. If you uninstall the proprietary driver, then Ubuntu should use the open source driver and you will be able to run TF2. However, the performance will be terrible, so I suggest getting the penguin and then uninstalling TF2.
MrCunningham
Member
Oh I suppose you're right. I was wondering where part of those 100 games went.
It's been available for a few weeks now. Same with Counter Strike 1.6. They were released on the same day in Beta form a couple weeks ago for both Mac and Linux clients. I've heard that Blue Shift will be next in their release of GoldSrc games, hopefully Opposing Forces follows.
Left 4 Dead 2 is still in closed beta, as far as I know. Portal 2 has also been reported as being in closed beta too on Linux. Hopefully they will be coming sooner than later. I also hope they get around to releasing Half-Life Source sometime soon too.
Bidermaier
Member
hopefully bigger (dumber) companies will start to understand soon that releasing for linux gives them extra freedom since their games wont be tied to external proprietary technology .
Im pretty much a 3ds gamer these days but I will build a cheap rig ( like eurogamer s digital foundry one) to have fun!!!
Im pretty much a 3ds gamer these days but I will build a cheap rig ( like eurogamer s digital foundry one) to have fun!!!
Nabs
Member
Check your inventory under community.
Cloudius12
Member
Zero-Crescent
Member
Got it installed in Mint Linux, though it's been quite a while since I last booted Mint, so I had to upgrade from version 11 to 14 (Cinnamon) before I could install Steam. Once I updated, the install process went off without a hitch.
I ended up having more Linux games in my Steam library than I thought, 42 in total. Installed TF2, started it up to get the item; I'll probably uninstall TF2 later, since it takes up so much space on the partition.
I ended up having more Linux games in my Steam library than I thought, 42 in total. Installed TF2, started it up to get the item; I'll probably uninstall TF2 later, since it takes up so much space on the partition.
Yeah, I was finally able to sort of force the game but I didn't bother checking till after I did so so I'm not really sure when I got him. Anyways, I followed the instructions posted here with the edits from this post and the following command "steam -applaunch 440 -novid -textmode -nosound -noipx -nopreload -nojoy -sw -maxplayers 2 +sv_lan 1 +map "itemtest"".
Never actually saw the game launch, but it stopped spitting out the error so I went to go check my inventory and Tux was there!
BTW, while trying to find workarounds to my error I came across a guide for getting Tux in Windows by installing Ubuntu via VirtualBox. Here's the Steam thread for it, hope it helps someone who just wants Tux.
Emperor Bohe
Member
so I went through all of this trouble to get Steam working on Ubuntu, only to realize that I didn't make my Wubi installation of Ubuntu big enough when I installed it a year ago...
is there a way for me to increase the size allocated to Ubuntu? I installed in with Wubi under Windows
is there a way for me to increase the size allocated to Ubuntu? I installed in with Wubi under Windows
alexandros
Banned
Hey guys I have a question. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit, I installed the proprietary beta ATI driver through the "Additional drivers" menu but the system reports that the driver is "activated but not in use". Any ideas?
So copying over all of the Source engine and Team Fortress 2 *.gcf files (\steamapps\) from my Windows 7 install cut the 12GB download for TF2 on Linux down to almost nothing. I think those files accounted for 95% of the TF2 data.
No issues booting into TF2 (old GeForce 9600 GSO).
Totally pain-free experience with Ubuntu, no driver installations needed for anything.
No issues booting into TF2 (old GeForce 9600 GSO).
Totally pain-free experience with Ubuntu, no driver installations needed for anything.
Emperor Bohe
Member
this is what I want to do, once I figure out how to expand the space allocated to my Wubi Ubuntu install =/