More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux 256
SheeEttin writes "Back in November 2008, Phoronix reported that Linux libraries appeared in the Left 4 Dead demo, and then in March, Valve announced that Steam and the Source engine were coming to Mac OS X. Now, Phoronix reports that launcher scripts included with the (closed beta) Mac version of Steam include explicit support for launching a Linux version."
Valve servers available for Linux for years (Score:5, Informative)
Re:If it comes (Score:3, Informative)
You mean the shoddy PS3 ports they didn't do?
Re:Steam on Linux (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Steam on Linux (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Insufficient data for meaningful answer (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Using what video drivers? (Score:2, Informative)
On nvidia based hardware I got better performance in some games with Wine then running the same game in Windows. They might be closed source binary blobs, but they do work great.
On the flip side, my laptop (which runs WoW on the lowest settings) refuses to work at all with the binary ATI drivers. And the open source drivers crash X and don't give any real performance that you can use.
Re:I keep forgetting to buy Portal (Score:1, Informative)
Portal runs on my karmic without problems. Download steam,install, download portal,instal, play. No hickups, no glitches :-)
Re:Using what video drivers? (Score:2, Informative)
I don't know what world you're living in - FGLRX is buggy and will sometimes decide to start eating my memory like ice cream, but when it works it's not noticeably slower than the Windows drivers. Of course, the newest commercial Linux game I run is ETQW, and I've got a Radeon HD5850, so I may just be covering it up with more hardware.
Re:If it comes (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Steam on Linux (Score:5, Informative)
Because the journalists that coined the phrase were too stupid to know what it meant?
This term came from the same bunch of idiots that gave us "blogging" and "blogosphere" "web 2.0" and "podcasting" that we are now forever stuck with because they are trendy and catchy...
Rooting a box means gaining control of the root account. rootkits were typically a kit of tools you used to root a box, to get that root password or escalate your login to root privileges. . What we see as rootkits today are NOT rootkits. They are simply malware that used a bug to get in and run and then they hide themselves. Something that is NOT NEW and has been running around in computing for a very long time.
Re:Insufficient data for meaningful answer (Score:5, Informative)
UNAME=`uname`
if [ "$UNAME" == "Darwin" ]; then
PLATFORM=osx32 # prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
elif [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ]; then
PLATFORM=linux32
# prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
Re:Steam on Linux (Score:1, Informative)
True. But I think you could say about 90% of Windows PCs will never play a high end game either. You have to account for all the grandmothers that run Windows too.
Re:Using what video drivers? (Score:3, Informative)
The Nvidia drivers run very well in Linux; in the realm of OpenGL, I've literally found no difference in performance or quality. If anything, the Linux drivers are somewhat better-behaved - setting a 16-bit 3D video mode results in ugly dithering in Windows, but not in Linux.
I have not had occasion to try the fglrx drivers on remotely modern hardware, but last time I tried them it was reminiscent of ATI's driver situation in Windows from a decade earlier: glitchy and somewhat prone to memory leaks, but definitely better than nothing, and leagues ahead of the open source drivers.
Re:Steam on Linux (Score:3, Informative)
The script shown in the article mentioned linux32 not linux ARM. Whatever it's for, it's not primarily for phones.
Re:Steam on Linux (Score:1, Informative)
Valve doesn't even need to be the one to do this. Most of the "Mac" games on the market (including all of EA's games as near as I can tell) are just the Windows games wrapped in Cider, TransGaming's proprietary fork of Wine.
Re:I will buy (Score:1, Informative)
ATI has opened their specs. Please make me a driver that works as well or better than nVidia's supported binary blob. kthnkby.
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