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Steam Closed Beta Now Live!

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Thanks to the Steam group chat it has been revealed that Steam will go live today when someone pointed this out, the news comes thanks to Nvidia's news here dated today with the release of an improved graphics driver.
QuoteAvailable for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.


Linux is also now available as a filter for finding games on the official website: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=#os=linux&advanced=0&sort_order=ASC&page=1

Steam also has some planned Downtime today at 11PM GMT (16:00 PDT) so it could well be a late night release for me.

UPDATE: media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
Update 2: It's officially on - and i didn't get in :( http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/882965118606625844/
Update 3: Over 60,000 people wanted in on the beta! http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/

So people, are you ready? What will be your first purchase on the Steam Linux client?

Ps. Add me to your Steam - "liamdawe" Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Anon Nov 6, 2012
I'm not in the beta, but...
http://minus.com/lhgbQciO34n1C
Kame Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "Anon, post: 6161"Kame, you were right!


I usually am! :p

Can't wait to get home and start downloading TF2!
Anon Nov 6, 2012
That doesn't work though, I tried and I can't get it to download. I'll have KF down in a couple of minutes and World of Goo is working fine, along with the overlay!

I'm disappointed with the lack of Team Fortress right now, I hoped it'd work.
Bumadar Nov 6, 2012
for us none .deb users:

open .deb with ark
open data.tar.gz
extract the bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32 file to directory named Steam (where you please)
execute ./steam.sh
it will update and you will end up with the inlog screen
enter login, it will see your on a new pc, get code from your email, enter it and your in :)

no other dependencies or root needed, there are some gtk errors, but that is why its beta

by the look of the directory structure they seem to go for builds per distro_version, but as long as your close enough with the libraries there should be little problem.
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
Hah fixed my error, i needed to use optirun (bumblebee user here).
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Well then, get on with it and download some games!

I still have 13 minutes left for KF and the speed sometimes dips really low.
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Btw., anyone able to install TF2? It's supposed to be part of the beta, but I can't get it to download either via browser or anything else.
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
So any easy ways to skip past the your not in beta popup anyone?
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6169, member: 1"So any easy ways to skip past the your not in beta popup anyone?


As I said, Kame was right, use his idea from page 2 :D

You'll need to everytime you start Steam.
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
Can't do it that way as i need to run a custom command to even get it to run - dual graphics chip :/
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