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They just announced the launch of the final version de Steam for Linux, the acclaimed game and software download platform for PC, Mac and now Linux too.
As if this were not enough, Valve and proposes to celebrate his arrival at Linux with impressive discounts in all games. |
Valve has long been working on porting its Steam platform to Linux. It all started a few months ago when a tests period closed only for Ubuntu users.
Today, Valve announces the launch of the final version of Steam for Linux, releasing compatibility with no less than a hundred different games, which also come with great discounts of between 50% and 75% until February 21.
Valve notes that for the best Linux gaming experience they recommend using Ubuntu 12.04 and NVIDIA GPUs with their latest drivers.
Strawberry Shortcake: Those who play Team Fortress (which is available for free) will get a penguin outfit. Ha!
Who said Linux was not good for gaming? The excuses to switch to Linux are becoming less and less. Win, Mac? No, we better use Linux. 🙂
Hey thank you very much, the answer is appreciated a lot. Regardless that I had already solved it myself, but it enriches the feed back.
In the Steam forums I have opened a «discussion» to help us all: http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/29/864960354349605762/?l=spanish
After my original comment I got to get CS1.6, DoD1.3, TF2 (jumps) and CSSource working (the latter works better than in WIn) ... until I came up with the brilliant idea of reinstalling Ubuntu 12.04.2 from scratch It does not detect the ATI graphics and only CS1.6 and DoD1.3 work for me (perfectly also).
:-S
I have installed the Half-life that had it original and I have activated it from Games -> Activate a product on Steam, and it has directly installed the Half-life in its latest version and Counter-Strike for Linux directly, and through PlayOnLinux I can play the rest of mods without any problem (yes, configuring it previously *), which are the original Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, Deathmatch classic, Ricochet and apart, also the Opposing Force and Blue Shift (which never really I had originals but the gift is appreciated).
All of those suit me great. Besides I installed (now only on Linux) Team Fortress 2, Champions of Regnum and demos of Amnesia and The Book of Unwritten such, and they also work quite well.
Hopefully more games (which are for Windows) like DC Universe or Planetside2 are also free for Linux, it would be BRUTAL.
* If it helps someone, to start those games in PlayOnLinux, after choosing Steam, I went to Settings, and from there to Show, and I put it in the following way:
GLSL support: enabled
DirectDraw renderer: Opengl
Video memory size (this will depend more on the card of each one, I suppose): 3072 in my case
Off-screen rendering mode: fbo
Lock target rendering mode: readtex
And the other two I left in default.
The same also works for the first Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena and just in case I have it in the Age of Mythology with its expansion.
Geniaaaallll!
That's right guys… this is great news!
ewgjwejkg Good news!
I hope they put the left 4 dead 2 for Ñu linux soon, I'm not a fan of team fortress xD
Another thing, don't you think it would be useful if there was a way to install unsupported games, and that they work directly with Wine? I mean, no need to install an alternative Steam in wine
CS: Source and 1.6 work great, thanks
regards
Hola!
Answer to 3.
On Ubuntu 12.04.1 (64-bit) the Flash player does not work when viewing trailers from the Store page. This also occurs on other 64-bit distributions and is related to the fact that Steam for Linux is a 32-bit application.
The workaround is to provide the 32-bit version of the Flash plugin to the Steam client. The following procedure details the steps:
Close Steam
Download the install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz package from the Adobe site
Create a new directory (called plugins) in ~ / .steam / bin
Extract flashlibplayer.so from the downloaded package into the new plugins directory
restart steam
Note If you still get an error, you might need to install the libxt6: i386 package. For Ubuntu distributions, the command would be: sudo apt-get install libxt6: i386
The thing about your ATI graphics is the problem that you cannot play games, ATI does not behave very well with Linux OS, but there are guides and ways to install them well.
regards
Good contribution!
2013/2/27
What about the video games is because your system is 64bits and the flash that steam uses is 32bits, it is super easy to solve, just download the flash player in tar.gz for 32bits and put the file libflashplayer.so in / your_usuario /.mozilla/plugins and voila!
What is the Steam platform works "almost" perfectly.
1. At first you take the joy of seeing the installation working without having to get tired of installing wine, playlinux and the like.
2. The second joy is when you see that they have solved the problem with text fonts. With wine + steam you have to trick solutions online.
3. You get the first click when you try to see the advertising videos of the games, it fails due to a «queseyo» with the flash player, just what happened also with wine + steam.
4. Installing Valve's own games works perfectly, although that was already solved in wine + steam.
5. You install Team Fortress linux, flagship and free, correctly.
6. When I personally run TF with an Ati hd2600, I have no fucking idea that drivers have finally been installed in my Ubuntu 12.10 64bits. I HAVE NOT GOT ANYTHING. Blah blah blah error ...
7. Personally I say that in wine + steam I have only managed to play TF on a single occasion and for a few fleeting minutes.
Final opinion: You save a lot of work with Steam linux, but basically you get the same results as with wine + steam. It has the advantage that with each update made by Valve / Steam, I understand * that the problems will be solved. What fails is not having some configuration videos / tutorials of different brands of titles, one for intel, one for ati, another for nvidea with the reconmendations that they give.
* When I say "I understand" I mean that reading forums it seems that I must be the only one who has these problems, everyone speaks wonders and says "I play this and that perfectly blah blah blah ...". The official position seems to be "there is no problem, and if they do exist, it will be with third-party games, the program and ours is scandalous.
:-S