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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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Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
It's probably going to be easier for me to just wait heh.
Kame Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "aaannz, post: 6179"I encountered problem with missing tray icon so currently steam is "working" in background but no idea how to show its window. :D


Same here, my workaround was to have a group invite, the group invite pops up every time steam is launched so I click that and it opens the main steam window :p

Basically: Get a group or friend request!
aaannz Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "Kame, post: 6183, member: 102"Same here, my workaround was to have a group invite, the group invite pops up every time steam is launched so I click that and it opens the main steam window :p

Basically: Get a group or friend request!


Yeah, my steam name aaannz ;)
But it's nice steam game overlay is working fine even on radeon(r600) driver. At least with World of Goo. But the game itself has strange artifacts.
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
Well I think I will just sit back and wait for my invite, i need to re-install Ubuntu anyway i totally just bombed my install oops.
minj Nov 6, 2012
Redeemed my HIB 5 key. SPAZ seems to run :]
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Also, I don't know how, but all the games that have acceleration problems on touchpads, work fine under Steam! Yay, I can play Dredmor without carrying a mouse with me. The overlay doesn't work with Dredmor though.
aaannz Nov 6, 2012
By observing steam log "steam://open/friends/" is the golden url if anyone have problem with missing tray icon.
Gamerlv Nov 6, 2012
Even when you get past the prompt, probably wouldn't do you any good. As you're not in the beta you don't have the CDR subscription, so no linux TF2.
Just tried it myself, I got no games for linux in my library, whilst definitely owing ( as in payed for ) TF2
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "Gamerlv, post: 6189, member: 185"Even when you get past the prompt, probably wouldn't do you any good. As you're not in the beta you don't have the CDR subscription, so no linux TF2.
Just tried it myself, I got no games for linux in my library, whilst definitely owing ( as in payed for ) TF2


There's a bunch of Linux games there, which you can get access to without a beta, and the source games are not there for anyone yet.
FutureSuture Nov 6, 2012
I am so envious ,but alas, better, more knowledgeable people than I probably have access to the Steam Linux beta right now. Good luck to you folks, and make sure it's in brilliant shape when it reaches the rest of us!
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