Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS 93
jrepin (667425) writes "Aspyr Media, in partnership with 2K and Firaxis Games, announced that the critically acclaimed Sid Meier's Civilization V, and all available expansion packs and downloadable content, is now available on Linux for SteamOS. The title includes Steam Play support. This release of Sid Meier's Civilization V on Linux targets SteamOS and features support for Valve's upcoming Steam Controller."
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He attributed his source, so it doesn't matter either way.
It's no longer plagarism at that point.
Works on regular steam, not just steamOS (Score:5, Informative)
Available on regular linux steam client, not just the SteamOS distro. I've already got it running under Ubuntu, runs nice and smooth.
Re:Works on regular steam, not just steamOS (Score:5, Insightful)
Fraud in accounting? Sure about that? Sounds like it's more likely your account just got hacked.
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I don't think he means their account department is committing fraud. I think he means their billing department needs to better detect fraud.
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No, its ambiguous in common usage. It could mean either. I could cite thousands of instances around the web where notable sources use it to mean either.
Re:Works on regular steam, not just steamOS (Score:5, Informative)
Afterwards, attempts to even log in from a new location will require that you be texted or emailed a code which you type in, and can then revoke access at any time.
Sounds like maybe you should make use of some of their security mechanisms, the least of which being simply changing your password.
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Works on regular steam, not just steamOS (Score:1)
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Yup.
And as I already had the Windows version, it was free.
Works flawlessly on an HD7870 Ubuntu / Catalyst box. Squee!
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It is available, but it is not supported. People that use Linux should know there is a big difference between the two.
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If it is supported you have extra guarantees that it will run right without having to mess around configurations, also if it is supported and it doesn't run for reasons that are not your fault you have the legal basis to request a refund.
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Of course in linux the phrase "mess around configurations" is often more involved than that.
It's been a long time since I requested a refund but I remember the whole push for stores not wanting to give a refund for software once it was opened.
I agree that t
Stand-alone server (Score:3)
Great ... now can I run a freaking stand alone pit boss server that DOESN'T require logging into my steam account ... effectively making it so my option is to run a server or play the game but unable to actually run a server AND play a game?
A large multiple game of Civ takes weeks at best when you're an adult with jobs, a wife, kids and other bits of the real world, Pitboss is worthless if it still requires being logged into a steam account to use it.
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Nevermind, I guess I should have googled before I posted
http://forums.2k.com/showthrea... [2k.com]
Maybe multiplayer is actually doable now!?
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Unfortunatly it's kinda buggy in some ways after playing it with six-seven people. Crashes and desyncs galore, and regular multiplayer hosting is actually stabler.
It also crashes if it's started without a steam login, but it doesn't care who is logged in (so it can be a alternative account that dosen't have Civ 5). This could be a regression introduced with a patch at some point (it probably tries to do a callback with the steam API and fails).
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A large multiple game of Civ takes weeks at best when you're an adult with jobs, a wife, kids and other bits of the real world
That's what Civilization Revolution is for, a streamlined Civilization without the tedious time-sink..a "good parts" version of Civ. (Yes that's a Princess Bride novel reference)
About damn time! (Score:2)
They have a remote install option. So, by the time you get home the thing will be ready and waiting for you.
It is a monstrous download...
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...except the genre equivalent of the 'latest and greatest" already announced a Linux version awhile ago.
We can play with the "scraps" while waiting on that.
Although true classics should never get tiresome.
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No. You're the one lashing out like a deluded nitwit.
Doesn't FreeCiv... (Score:2)
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Sorry you don't love Civ, but its your loss. I wrapped up a couple rounds of it two weeks ago on windows.
Then again I occasionally go back to Master of Magic or Master of Orion (1 or 2) so YMMV.
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Civ V? it stinks. I've played all of them to death, but less then 100 hours in Civ V, mostly during the first month.
Boring, simple, and boring.
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I prefer Civ 3, I don't like how game companies release unfinished product, but to be fair the game is currently a whole lot better now than it was in the first month, you just need to have the expansion packs. Most people would call it the best Civ yet.
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This. I'm still looking for a decent modern version to either of these series. No luck.
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Even without Linux support a lot of the games they sell are old DOS based games that run just fine on DOSBox or ScummVM.
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Is Steam stopping me from playing the games I purchased? No? Then I don't really care. Steam doesn't get in my way, and is quite convenient for installing a game on multiple computers (plus I don't have to keep track of disks). Find something worth complaining about.
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Is Steam stopping me from playing the games I purchased? No? Then I don't really care. Steam doesn't get in my way, and is quite convenient for installing a game on multiple computers (plus I don't have to keep track of disks). Find something worth complaining about.
Yes Steam is probably the best, most consumer-friendly DRM distribution system around, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't care at all. Unless you are happy having all your games rendered unplayable if Steam goes offline / Valve goes out of business. In the scale of a year that's unlikely, but in 10? 50? Quite apart from the legitimate short-term disadvantages, I think in 50 years we will look back on this period of time in the same way we view the lack of archiving of television in the mid-20th century, as
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All but one (heavily multiplayer-centric) of my steam games currently work if steam is in "offline" mode, and most steam linux games run fine without even launching the steam client.
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I think in 50 years we will look back on this period of time in the same way we view the lack of archiving of television in the mid-20th century, as a massive unnecessary black hole in our cultural history.
I doubt it. Missing recordings cannot be recovered from. DRM can be cracked, generally trivially.
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I doubt it. Missing recordings cannot be recovered from. DRM can be cracked, generally trivially.
I wouldn't be so blase. Perhaps right now, but not always. And just because DRM can be hacked, doesn't mean it has been hacked for the thing that you want. *And* I don't see a widespread failure in Steam DRM, so why would we assume that it can be cracked so trivially?
Re:Yay DRM (Score:4, Funny)
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Look harder. I can download many 'Steam Only' games and play wihtout steam becasue they have been cracked. And you don't need to crack the encryption, only have the OS skip the check, or be fed a false positive.
So, a good hex editor and time and you will be good to go.
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I doubt it. Missing recordings cannot be recovered from. DRM can be cracked, generally trivially.
Which is why more and more of the essential code goes to live on their servers, not your client. Photos, audio and video are "trivial" in the sense that if you capture the output you're done. Applications and games? It's a cat and mouse game but if "always online single player" wins I think DRM does too.
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Valid point. Dependency on an external service under exclusive control of the publisher does introduce a real risk of eventual 'death'
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Nearly every Steam game release is instantly cracked by the pirate community. If you want your games forever, no matter what, just save the crack along with your Steam backups.
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Yup, all my Commodore 64 games are stored with their cracks on handy 5.25" disks.
Re:Yay DRM (Score:4, Interesting)
Is Steam stopping me from playing the games I purchased? No? Then I don't really care. Steam doesn't get in my way, and is quite convenient for installing a game on multiple computers (plus I don't have to keep track of disks). Find something worth complaining about.
Yes Steam is probably the best, most consumer-friendly DRM distribution system around, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't care at all. Unless you are happy having all your games rendered unplayable if Steam goes offline / Valve goes out of business. In the scale of a year that's unlikely, but in 10? 50? Quite apart from the legitimate short-term disadvantages, I think in 50 years we will look back on this period of time in the same way we view the lack of archiving of television in the mid-20th century, as a massive unnecessary black hole in our cultural history.
Worse, you run the risk of having all your Steam games unplayable if they accuse you of cheating. If they do that, you have no legal recourse. Also, you run the risk of having your EULA for all your games altered. Your option, should you not want the new terms, is to close your Steam account and lose access to all your purchases.
The second one is the deal breaker for me. I do not go an buy something and agree that they can take it away from me whenever they want and I can do nothing about it. That's just a really stupid deal to make. If they don't plan on doing it, then why make you agree to it? That's really scummy.
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the second one applies to all games, regardless if they use steam or not.
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the second one applies to all games, regardless if they use steam or not.
Claiming all makes this easy to refute: Baldur's Gate. If they were to change to EULA, it would not prevent me playing the game if I were to not accept the changes.
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Speaking as someone who watched TV in the mid-20th century, there wasn't much there that was really worth the trouble of remembering.
And there was quite a bit that suggested making active efforts to forget...
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Is Steam stopping me from playing the games I purchased? No? Then I don't really care. Steam doesn't get in my way, and is quite convenient for installing a game on multiple computers (plus I don't have to keep track of disks). Find something worth complaining about.
Yes Steam is probably the best, most consumer-friendly DRM distribution system around, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't care at all. Unless you are happy having all your games rendered unplayable if Steam goes offline / Valve goes out of business. In the scale of a year that's unlikely, but in 10? 50? Quite apart from the legitimate short-term disadvantages, I think in 50 years we will look back on this period of time in the same way we view the lack of archiving of television in the mid-20th century, as a massive unnecessary black hole in our cultural history.
In 50 years, I highly doubt you'd wish to come down from whatever advanced technology we will have to play games on x86 architecture, any more than I have a desire to dust off my Atari VCS and play pong.
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I quite like pong. It's a good party game. And we still watch old films... games are at a stage now that we can consider them legitimate, lasting pieces of entertainment, I have no doubt that they are starting to solidify. Tetris is 30 years old, it's still fun.
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and you can get 'pong' pretty much everywhere. Same with 'Tetris'
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and you can get 'pong' pretty much everywhere. Same with 'Tetris'
*Sigh*. Yes. Simple games that are easy to replicate. My point is that old games are still wanted, and in demand. Obviously I have no 30 year old games with complicated mechanics and huge numbers of art assets to use as examples, but in 30 years we will have those and no amount of technology is going to make those things easily replicatable.
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A) Steam as taken that into account and can remove DRM if they go out of business
B) Every one of those games is available via some sort of download mechanism. I won't bat an eye at downloading a game I already purchased.
C) Many of the games today require steam in order to install. So if you have those disks, but Steam is shut down, it won't exactly do you any good. On the other hand, if I have downloaded it, and Valve turns off the steam DRM I'll be able to play.
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And I'm glad they've thought about this. Though how much we can believe that will happen in the carcrash that is typical for a collapsing business, it's harder to say. How will they distribute the updates if all the assets are seized? Who will do the work necessary on their back catalogue of 1000s if the employees aren't paid and have left?
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Is Steam stopping me from playing the games I purchased? No?
YES it bloody well HAS stopped me from playing the games I purchased.
Specifically on roadtrips. It's finally someone else's turn to drive, I whip out the laptop to do something. I go to launch a game I haven't played in a while and GUESS WHAT?
No internet connection means no launching.
I hear they're getting better about this. And Valve and Steam are probably the best, least intrusive, most palpitate form on DRM currently out there. And there's some value with being able to download your game library on what
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Steam distributes and sells non-DRM protected games. Steam is not DRM, steam is a service that sells games like GoG, but unlike GoG it supports DRM-protected games and provides its own not so invasive DRM for companies that don't want to use other, more intrusive, DRM alternatives. If steam did not provide this kind of DRM more companies would want to push their own, broken DRM (like ubisoft does with uplay).
Really, this isn't much different than Firefox support DRM video. Who knows, maybe in a few decades
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Steam is DRM. If I launch game A on machine A, then attempt to launch game B on machine B, can I? Last I tried, I couldn't.
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You can launch a non-DRM protected steam game from outside steam on as many machines as you have it installed.
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That's nice. Can I do that without Steam running? I want to protect against the case of them changing the EULA terms and I disagree to the changes and don't want to just close my account and lose access to these games. Like, can I basically use Steam to download my game, delete Steam and keep my games working?
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I believe you can, as long as the game does not use the steam DRM or its own DRM that depends on steam being running. If the game uses steamworks for some kind of feature either that specific feature will not work, the game will crash when you try to use it, or the game will crash when you try to launch it.
A quick google search yielded these two lists of games that can be bought on steam and played without it:
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/T... [pcgamingwiki.com]
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/Li... [wikia.com]
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That's helpful. Thank you.
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Steam is a digital software store which mostly sells games. If they come with DRM or not depends on the wishes of the game studios who put the game there to begin with.
Yeah they do have their own DRM scheme but they don't force game studios to use it.
It is about time! (Score:2)
Well, my biggest time waster is now on Linux, without having to fiddle with WINE or anything. I guess I can now relegate this commercial OS to a seldom used secondary partition. Woot!
Also:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/06/10/sid-meiers-civilization-v-now-available-for-steamos-and-linux/?ns_campaign=article-feed&ns_mchannel=ref&ns_source=steam&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0 [pcgamer.com]
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/06/11/civilization-5-linux/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ [rockpapershotgun.com]
Awesome! (Score:1)
Possible Resolution for Sound Issues (Score:5, Informative)
Several Linux users are reporting audio issues. The initial movies play audio properly but then the sound of the game is pretty bad. Running Ubuntu 14.04 x64, I was able to resolve all sound issues by doing the following:
1. Typed: sudo nano /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
2. Found and changed the following parameters:
A. default-fragments = 5
B. default-fragment-size-msec = 2
3. Saved file (Ctrl + O), Exited (Ctrl + X)
4. Typed: pulseaudio -k
5. Launched Civ 5, no audio issues now.
I've posted the same on the Steam forums.
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I'm having some sort of video corruption (audio is fine for me). It seems to be related to whenever there is a full motion video playing. It causes black boxes to cover up the various menus, etc. My only option is to restart the game. I'm running x64 mint. Maybe it's some sort of mesa bug. I've set every video option to the lowest settings, but it still happens. The intro video does not play and I have to hit ESC to go by it (it just stays on the blue Steam screen) I hear the audio play from the video. Anyo
Works Great! (Score:2)
I saw the announcement yesterday afternoon, and found it listed already in my available games (since I had previously purchased it for Windows, under WINE).
It works wonderfully under Linux: it's faster, uses less resources, and doesn't crash nearly as often as it did under WINE.
I'm extremely happy, as this was one of the few reasons I still have a WINE install in place.
This is great news. (Score:2)
So now I can spend another 3700 hours on the game on lightweight hardware. w00t!
Alternative Headline (Score:2)
Aspyr Media inflicts Civ V on Linux users!
When asked for commit, the CEO simple said:"MUAAAHahahahha".
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