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.
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.
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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well what do you guys think of this? View video on youtube.com
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are flash videos working for you guys on steam?
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How did you get the indicator to work? It doesn't appear for me.
Any updated packages needed?
Any updated packages needed?
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Works great with Fedora 17 :)
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Quoting: "SimmyD, post: 6201"Works great with Fedora 17 :)
Not flash though
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Quoting: "Anon, post: 6160"And someone in the thread is claiming it's easy to bypass the check. Anyone care to share? ;)
So people are trying to bypass Steam authentication already? Interesting sign... :P
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works fine with Mint 14 Nadia (alpha) 64bit, MATE Desktop also.
but the tray icon is missing.
but the tray icon is missing.
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I installed from the .deb, but whenever I try and run Steam from the terminal or quicklist it says that it cannot connect to the network. It works fine on Windows and WINE...
Here's the string I get in a terminal:
Any ideas?
Here's the string I get in a terminal:
steam steam://open/games
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1352224866_client)
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
[1107/125344:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
Generating new string page texture 12: 48x256, total string texture memory is 49.15 KB
Generating new string page texture 13: 256x256, total string texture memory is 311.30 KB
Generating new string page texture 14: 128x256, total string texture memory is 442.37 KB
Generating new string page texture 15: 384x256, total string texture memory is 835.58 KBAny ideas?
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Oh, and I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. Apologies for the double post.
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