any body got any news on steam for linux

bpb101 · 12-03-2013 7:28pm

signs of immediate linux support for day of defeat CS:GO and l4d2 as well as half life 2

matrim · 12-03-2013 8:22pm

Looks like the fixed the repo issues with the 64bit package, as it's working for me now

I'll hopefully get a chance to play some of the games I bought during the steam linux sale

Edit:
Played around for a short while this evening and gave puddle a go. Fun game but controls make is seem like it was really designed to be used on a phone. Am I right in thinking it's from the same makers as world of goo?

Overall the new steam package seems smoother, also like that you can now run a game using primusrun (which works better than optirun) directly from steam. Makes it alot less awkward to start playing a game

Next thing I might try is to install it on my media center box and see if I can get a few games that support controllers going on it to play on my TV. I've only got average graphics on it but it should be able to play some games.

Ste_JDM · 14-03-2013 12:37am

When L4D2 and CS:GO arrive..

So many hours shall be lost.

bpb101 · 14-03-2013 5:46pm

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMyNzE
day of defeat has arived a long with Day of defeat: source

Khannie · 15-03-2013 11:16am

I have a general source engine question - I bought HL2 way back when. I never actually finished it so when the full thing gets released on linux I'm going to fire ahead and play it through. My machine is getting old enough now, but a perfectly respectable spec for a linux desktop:

Q6600 (quad core, 2.4GHz but will easily clock to 2.8)
4G RAM
GeForce 9800GT

So the source engine today is not the same as the source engine of whenever HL2 was released. Will it still play at any reasonable frame rate on my box?

Orion · 15-03-2013 3:36pm

I just finished it on a Windows box with similar spec - Q6400, 2Gb RAM and 9800GT - and it played fine.

Khannie · 15-03-2013 4:15pm

Nice one. Thanks for that 9800GT btw.

Orion · 15-03-2013 11:14pm

Forgot I gave that to you - seems it's a 9500GT I have in this rig and it still played fine. Gonna get me a 1Gb card and an extra 2gb of ram for this one.

bpb101 · 16-03-2013 4:23pm

missed this yesterday
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMyODQ

bpb101 · 16-03-2013 4:29pm

Gamer maker supports Ubuntu export with the touch of a button

www.store.steampowered.com/news/10158/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/232830/

bpb101 · 16-03-2013 8:18pm

Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 is showing signs of linux support as well as a fairly dead game Mare Nostrum. Both mods of red orchestra 1. This shows tripwire futher development in linux

Khannie · 17-03-2013 1:02pm

Orion wrote: »

Forgot I gave that to you - seems it's a 9500GT I have in this rig and it still played fine. Gonna get me a 1Gb card and an extra 2gb of ram for this one.

Happy to do the swapsee if you like? No problem at all.

bpb101 · 17-03-2013 6:58pm

for 23 more hours pick up killing floor for 4.49
http://store.steampowered.com/app/1250/

Orion · 17-03-2013 7:08pm

Khannie wrote: »

Happy to do the swapsee if you like? No problem at all.

Nah you're grand. Want an upgrade anyway.

Ste_JDM · 18-03-2013 5:09pm

Herp Derp. Bought a new wireless adaptor from the same manufacturer as my last one (which worked out of the box) and low and behold it does not work on Mint 14.

bpb101 · 18-03-2013 7:36pm

right, full list of percentage now for linux's( and i mean full)

Grand Total 2.47%

Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit: 0.71%
Ubuntu 12.10: 0.38%
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64 bit: 0.31%
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS: 0.20%
Linux Mint 14 Nadia 64 bit: 0.17%
Linux 64 bit: 0.14%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit: 0.11%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS: 0.06%
Linux Mint 14 Nadia: 0.05%
"Arch Linux" 64 bit: 0.05%
Linux Mint 13 Maya 64 bit: 0.04%
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy) 64 bit: 0.03%
"Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)" 64 bit: 0.03%
"openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)" 64 bit: 0.03%
Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) 64 bit: 0.02%
Linux: 0.02%
Linux Mint 13 Maya: 0.02%
"Gentoo Base System release 2.1" 64 bit: 0.01%
"Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)" 64 bit: 0.01%
elementary OS Luna 64 bit: 0.01%
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 0.01%
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy): 0.01%
Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch): 0.01%
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit: 0.01%
"Gentoo Base System release 2.2" 64 bit: 0.01%
"Arch Linux": 0.01%
"openSUSE 12.2 (i586)": 0.01%

Linux 3.2 64 bit: 0.00%
"Manjaro Linux" 64 bit: 0.00%
Linux 3.2: 0.00%
elementary OS Luna: 0.00%
"NAME=Gentoo" 64 bit: 0.00%
Ubuntu-Secure-Remix 12.10 30nov2012 64 bit: 0.00%
"Chakra Linux" 64 bit: 0.00%
"Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)": 0.00%
"Chakra" 64 bit: 0.00%
"Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)": 0.00%
Zorin OS 6 64 bit: 0.00%
Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) 64 bit: 0.00%
"Sabayon Linux amd64 11" 64 bit: 0.00%
"Manjaro Linux": 0.00%
Linux Mint 12 Lisa 64 bit: 0.00%

Khannie · 19-03-2013 2:06pm

Not too shabby, all things considered.

bpb101 · 21-03-2013 5:53pm

finally left for dead news

There's a new blog post on the Left 4 Dead site where they mention Linux:

We are hard at work on the Linux release. While we don’t have a solid ETA yet, we are internally testing on Linux, MAC, and PC. Right now, it is looking pretty good. We will have more news as we get closer to release.

bpb101 · 23-03-2013 5:40pm

Grudaire · 24-03-2013 12:54am

I wonder will that mean that the nice big link will be gotten rid of

bpb101 · 24-03-2013 1:55am

Cliste wrote: »

I wonder will that mean that the nice big link will be gotten rid of

thats what i was thinking

Grudaire · 24-03-2013 2:47am

Boo-urns.

I always know the big obvious link was spoiling us it was really easy to find and hit!

bpb101 · 29-03-2013 11:58pm

Team fortess classic relased

bpb101 · 30-03-2013 4:26pm

The Valve titles that are now publicly available with Linux clients include Ricochet, Deathmatch Classic, Team Fortress Classic, Half Life: Blue Shift, and Half Life: Opposing Force.

bpb101 · 30-03-2013 4:55pm

confusing march stats. somebody feel fre to double check my calulations

bpb101 · 02-04-2013 8:09pm

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
This weeks Humble weakly budles feature tripwire. The killing Floor and Red Orchestra 1 and 2 ( Ro 2 is not on linux, the other 2 games are)

Khannie · 03-04-2013 10:39am

On the stats - they may be rounding down (it is the default in most programming languages). So 0.1 may in fact be 0.199. On average that would make 0.15. That may affect things quite a bit when you have a large number of OS flavours being considered.

bpb101 · 03-04-2013 4:00pm

Khannie wrote: »

On the stats - they may be rounding down (it is the default in most programming languages). So 0.1 may in fact be 0.199. On average that would make 0.15. That may affect things quite a bit when you have a large number of OS flavours being considered.

Good point there is also a lot of Lunux flavours at 0.00 precent. On the other hand. This is from tripwires Facebook page
"Some good news for our Linux (and soon to be Mac)
players of Red Orchestra: Ostfront. You can now
download and play the total conversion mods Darkest
Hour and Mare Nostrum from the Steam store."

Grudaire · 04-04-2013 11:25am

Yeah the stats are a little undetailed to fully understand the meaning.

The total of all percentages currently adds up to 99.97% so there's definitely rounding differences showing through.

bpb101 · 04-04-2013 1:22pm

Yea we are losing % on some of the smaller linuxs however, we may be making on flavours like ubuntu and windows may also be losing as well as mac os
If they released something like half life 3 a week or 2 on Linux before windows, a lot of card core half life fans would jump ship quickly I'd say

any body got any news on steam for linux

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