any body got any news on steam for linux

Khannie

Super stuff. This is the highlight for me:

You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

I can use the powerful box upstairs to play games on the TV downstairs that has the crappy HTPC hooked up to it. Legendary move lads.

PropJoe10

Hopefully will encourage more major game labels to invest in Linux support. I only use Windows for gaming these days. If I can play my games (natively) on Linux I'll be ditching Windows at home for good.

Ste_JDM

Btw guys, just putting it out there. There is an Ubuntu Ireland community here in Dublin. I just got involved recently and they are a fun bunch of folks. So if anyone wants to get involved to just follow this link. Cheers

http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-ie/

Ste_JDM

Ubuntu 13.04 vs Windows 8 on Left 4 Dead 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pdEftFFG_I

Khannie

Ste_JDM wrote: »

Ubuntu 13.04 vs Windows 8 on Left 4 Dead 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pdEftFFG_I

Not sure that's an apples to apples comparison. The windows version may be showing more detail and using Direct3D. The 2X FPS difference is very, very impressive though.

srsly78

Khannie wrote: »

Super stuff. This is the highlight for me:



I can use the powerful box upstairs to play games on the TV downstairs that has the crappy HTPC hooked up to it. Legendary move lads.

disclaimer: only at lousy resolutions

Khannie

srsly78 wrote: »

disclaimer: only at lousy resolutions

Oooh. That's a serious limitation. Hopefully they overcome it.

Ste_JDM

Khannie wrote: »

Not sure that's an apples to apples comparison. The windows version may be showing more detail and using Direct3D. The 2X FPS difference is very, very impressive though.

Its apples to apples in terms of the end user experience and I would not focus on the detail you can see because of video compression on youtube. Its a direct comparison of OpenGL vs DirectX. Of Ubuntu vs Windows. If you want to get into the nit and gritty go ahead but I was posting purely for what average Joe see's out of the box.

bpb101

Ste_JDM wrote: »

Btw guys, just putting it out there. There is an Ubuntu Ireland community here in Dublin. I just got involved recently and they are a fun bunch of folks. So if anyone wants to get involved to just follow this link. Cheers

http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-ie/

www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056876759

i usually post the outings

Grudaire

If anyone needs extra friends on steam to be in for a chance to be a Beta tester then feel free to add me: Grudaire

human 19

I hear the steam OS is just for the box and their controller. No keyboard, mouse etc. Anyway...info about the steambox


http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/valve-steam-box-release-date-news-and-features-1127072

Ste_JDM

bpb101 wrote: »

www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056876759

i usually post the outings

Do you attend any?

bpb101

Ste_JDM wrote: »

Do you attend any?

Never got a chance.
I will start going though

Ste_JDM

bpb101 wrote: »

Never got a chance.
I will start going though

Do, we should be having a 13.10 release party around the 17th.

bpb101

Ste_JDM wrote: »

Do, we should be having a 13.10 release party around the 17th.

Talk on the mailing list , we'll arrange it there.

bpb101

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/red-orchestra-2-and-tripwires-future-titles-to-come-to-linux.2501
red orchestra 2 coming to linux

bpb101

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/halflife-3-has-been-trademarked-by-valve.2504?utm_content=buffer25547&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

bpb101

my god. look at the specs
Steam Machines - Prototype Details

4 OCTOBER - GREGORI
Hello from the Steam hardware bunker.

Thanks for joining the Steam Universe community group. As we get closer to shipping the prototype Steam Machines and controllers we talked about last week, we're going to be posting info here about what we're up to, and give you some insight into the work we’ve done to get to this point.

As we talked about last week, the Steam Machines available for sale next year will be made by a variety of companies. Some of those companies will be capable of meeting the demands of lots of Steam users very quickly, some will be more specialized and lower volume. The hardware specs of each of those machines will differ, in many cases substantially, from our prototype.

Valve didn't set out to create our own prototype hardware just for the sake of going it alone - we wanted to accomplish some specific design goals that in the past others weren't yet tackling. One of them was to combine high-end power with a living-room-friendly form factor. Another was to help us test living-room scenarios on a box that's as open as possible.

So for our own first prototype Steam Machine ( [URL="steam://openurl/http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/"]the one we're shipping to 300 Steam users[/URL] ), we've chosen to build something special. The prototype machine is a high-end, high-performance box, built out of off-the-shelf PC parts. It is also fully upgradable, allowing any user to swap out the GPU, hard drive, CPU, even the motherboard if you really want to. Apart from the custom enclosure, anyone can go and build exactly the same machine by shopping for components and assembling it themselves. And we expect that at least a few people will do just that. (We'll also share the source CAD files for our enclosure, in case people want to replicate it as well.)

And to be clear, this design is not meant to serve the needs of all of the tens of millions of Steam users. It may, however, be the kind of machine that a significant percentage of Steam users would actually want to purchase - those who want plenty of performance in a high-end living room package. Many others would opt for machines that have been more carefully designed to cost less, or to be tiny, or super quiet, and there will be Steam Machines that fit those descriptions.

Here are the specifications for Valve's 300 prototypes.

The 300 prototype units will ship with the following components:
GPU: some units with NVidia Titan, some GTX780, some GTX760, and some GTX660
CPU: some boxes with Intel : i7-4770, some i5-4570, and some i3
RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 (CPU), 3GB DDR5 (GPU)
Storage: 1TB/8GB Hybrid SSHD
Power Supply: Internal 450w 80Plus Gold
Dimensions: approx. 12 x 12.4 x 2.9 in high

As a hardware platform, the Steam ecosystem will change over time, so any upgrades will be at each user's discretion. In the future we'll talk about how Steam will help customers understand the differences between machines, hardware strengths and weaknesses, and upgrade decisions.

We aren't quite ready to post a picture of our prototype - just because they're not finished enough. Before they ship we'll let you know what the prototype looks like. And we expect people to redesign the machine, too. Both from a technical perspective, deciding on different components, and from an industrial design perspective, changing the enclosure in interesting ways.

So high-powered SteamOS living room machines are nice, and fun to play with, and will make many Steam customers happy. But there are a lot of other Steam customers who already have perfectly great gaming hardware at home in the form of a powerful PC. The prototype we're talking about here is not meant to replace that. Many of those users would like to have a way to bridge the gap into the living room without giving up their existing hardware and without spending lots of money. We think that's a great goal, and we're working on ways to use our in-home streaming technology to accomplish it - we'll talk more about that in the future.

Stay tuned for some closer looks at the Steam Controller.

Khannie

bpb101 wrote: »

my god. look at the specs

I think that about sums it up. :eek:

bpb101

Khannie wrote: »

I think that about sums it up. :eek:

We could only have dremant about the titan

Ste_JDM

Holy hell.

bpb101

http://store.steampowered.com/app/224860/

arma tactics on linux

bpb101

Does linux just need one AAA game to explode ? Heres what the director of Battlefield 4 said,

http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/12/4826190/linux-only-needs-one-killer-game-to-explode-says-battlefield-director

croo

I would imagine it would have to be a game that was not available on any other platform... Doom3 was an impressive game for it's time and it ran flawlessly on my linux system - actually most id software games ran well on linux. But since they were all available on other platforms it had little impact.

bpb101

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/10/03/valves-internal-database-accessed-suggests-half-life-3-and-left-4-dead-3-teams/?ns_campaign=article-feed&ns_mchannel=ref&ns_source=steam&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0

half life 3 and left 4 dead 3 teams?

bpb101

l4d2 officially out of beta beta
http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=11745

bpb101

Sorry These stats are late.

September stats










October stats

bpb101

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUxMDY

matrim

Not steam but good for indie games on linux

https://www.humblebundle.com/store

Ste_JDM

Anyone else playing Metro: Last light on linux? Works nicely with my new AMD card on SolydXK