Questions relating to the running of Steam (games distribution, and multiplayer software) in Ubuntu.
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Can I make a game use FXAA using NVidia application profiles?
I would like to be able to run Team Fortress 2 with FXAA enabled, but the only way I know how is to turn on in NVidia settings "enhance application settings" which effects all games and apps using ...
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How to remove proprietary AMD drivers & repair Unity
I have installed these AMD drivers for my HD 5770:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
When I launched Steam it threw me an error that something was wrong with OpenGL, ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 and Steam
I am having a major issue with steam working on Ubuntu. I previously had steam working on Ubuntu 12.04LTS but after upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 I have had issues. There are two issues, first sometimes ...
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Steam doesn't start on Xubuntu 13.04 32-bit
I tried to install Steam on my Xubuntu 13.04 32-bit. I used the .deb from http://store.steampowered.com/about/. When I first launched it, it downloaded updates. When I launched it for the second time, ...
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tf2 crash on startup
I played tf2 this afternoon, like the last 3 month on Ubuntu 12.04 I had no problem. I saw there was an update at 18h52. Now the game crash while still in the splash screen: I dont get to the menus. I ...
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Playing Mass Effect through Steam With Wine
Running Ubuntu 13.04, and whenever i start mass effect through steam, the game will not take up the entire screen (leaves the menu on the left side) and the graphics are horrible and laggy. Can anyone ...
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Cannot download Steam from the Software Center!
So, when I try to get steam, after entering my data (see logging in with SSO acc)
It displays an error which says that my payment was cancelled.
Do you have any answers for this?
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Steam and Nvidia/Optimus/crashes
I would like to share a solution to a problem i've managed to reproduce on two systems with two different setups, the first setup (Will be refered to as A) was an nvidia optimus setup with ubuntu ...
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Installing propriety Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 13.04
I have a 2012 Alienware x51 and I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on it with the hdmi plugged into my Nvidia 660 graphics card. It installed the nouveau drivers by default and I have no option in the ...
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How can use a different HDD with another OS to use as a Steam Library?
2nd HDD have XP while 1st have Ubuntu.But the Ubuntu drive is almost full and can't fit other games.The second HDD has enought space but when I try to use it it shows this error:
"New Steam library ...
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Can't play a game on Steam on Ubuntu12.04, keeps asking to install a texture compression file?
I’m using 12.04 32 bit and have an Intel® Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2. When I go to play a game on Steam that was downloaded from the Software Center it keeps asking me to install a texture ...
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Steam crashes on startup
I'm trying to run steam but for some reason it has started crashing on me. Here is my terminal trying to start it up
user@ChrUbuntu:~$ steam &
[1] 6001
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Problem with starting Steam on Ubuntu 64-bit
I've recently installed Ubuntu, and tried installing steam. It wouldn't start so naturally I went "Google has the answer", and it had. My problem is this: this line won't run.
sudo dpkg ...
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How can I share an HDD with Windows XP and Ubuntu on Steam?
My Ubuntu is installed on a disk drive F: while my Windows XP is on a disk C:.
F: is 20 GB while C: is 320GB.
When I try to open a Steam library it says:
"New Steam library folder must be on a ...
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Steam has a problem with my Nvidia diver
I'm having some difficulty with Steam. I installed the proprietary driver using Additional Drivers, and up until now, thought it had installed correctly. All my desktop effects worked flawlessly.
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Steam CS 1.6 Full screen mode screen shifts to workpace on dragging cursor
Has anyone faced this bug? In Ubuntu 12.04 when playing CS 1.6 from Steam in full screen mode if you drag the mouse cursor to right or bottom edge of the screen, it shifts to the respective workspace. ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 “could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glGetError'!”
Just recently upgraded to 13.04 and am having trouble running TF2 via Steam. Whenever I start Steam I get a dialog saying:
OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause ...
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How can I stop Steam from polluting my home directory?
I've just installed Steam, and I've noticed that Steam has created a lot of files and directories in my home directory: such as:
linux32
result
steamdeps.txt
steam_install_agreement.txt
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TF2 on Ubuntu 13.4?
When ever I try to launch Team Fortress 2 the loading screen is totally black then a green pixelated bar comes up on top of the screen and the Valve icon is backwards, and condensed into 1 corner of ...
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Need Help installing Civ 5 on Wine
I've already installed steam and wine. My question has to do with running Civ 5 on wine. Civ is already showing as installed on my steam account but I cannot figure out how to run it with wine. Any ...
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How can I get rid of of Wine's Steam icon in the Dash?
Using Ubuntu 13.04:
I decided it was time to uninstall the Windows version of Steam I was running through Wine. So I used Wine's uninstall applications function to remove it and all its files. Then I ...
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Valve Steam on Ubuntu 13.04 behind proxy
I am trying to using Valve Steam on Ubuntu but I am behind proxy server. I am not able to use Steam. I tried setting environment variables http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy. and tried setting ...
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Game playing on both screens
I have dual monitors setup on 13.04 with an ATI card using the propitiatory driver.
In install Steam then Amnesia and started the game up. The displays are mirroring instead of the game just playing ...
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Install non-Linux games via Steam
Is it possible to install non-Linux games on Ubuntu via Steam?
I have some games on my account and I hoped to run them via Wine. But Steam didn't let me to download them.
I've tried to use Virtual ...
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Problems with System icompatibility with sXe Injected
After Steam was released in Linux systems, i've downloaded counter-strike 1.6 to play with some of my friends, but the marjority of the servers are protected with sxe injected. So ive downloaded and ...
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How to diagnose/fix TF2 performance issues, despite good FPS?
I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with an AMD 6630M and the AMD 13.4 drivers. I run Team Fortress on Windows on the same machine, and despite getting 30-40 fps, the game is quite playable, very smooth and ...
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Team fortress blue screen and random color pixels (13.4)
I'm trying to run team frotress 2 on my laptop.
I have intel integrated card(About dialog says: Intel® Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2) and i3 processor.
I have 13.04 and latests drivers. Here's a screen ...
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steam-launcher cannot connect to network
I was downloading Team Fortress 2 via Steam for Ubuntu when the download paused suddenly.
I tried to replug my WLAN stick (TL-WN821N by TP-LINK) but it cannot connect.
Thanks for help.
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Lost Steam games stored in NTFS partition upon upgrading to 13.04; can't re-add Steam Library Folder
I used a Live DVD to upgrade to 13.04. However, this reset my fstab file, which I had previously set up to auto-mount using pysdm. Because of this, when I reinstalled Steam, it was unable to detect ...
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Can I install Steam without a credit card?
When I try to install Steam from software center it asks for payment details even though it is free, can I install with out a credit card ?
ps Running 13.04
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, should I stick with NVIDIA 310 driver or should I change it to 313 driver?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit edition), I checked the "Additional drivers" configuration and I noticed a new 313 NVIDIA driver entry. As a Steam user, I had previously changed from the open ...
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Countre Strike [steam] Lunix version Probleme !
i have allready installed steam in ubuntu , and i downloaded counter strike from it , that's mean i'm working in lunix version without wine . . ..
so i run it and it work fine , but when i want to ...
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Steam bug on Xubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
I installed steam on Xubuntu but interface appear white like this:
any suggestion?
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Steam does not create system starters for some games
For some games I installed, steam hasn't created system starters. So I can't access them from the system software menu, and I can't search for them in the program search. How can I force Steam to ...
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Will using the same Steam game library folder on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 create conflicts?
I have Steam installed on Win7 in D:\Games\PC\Steam. I installed Steam on my Ubuntu now and for Half-Life 2: Deatmatch it asked wether to install in the default folder or somewhere else. I chose the ...
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Running TF2 on Ubuntu
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with an old Intel Pentium CPU (mobile Intel GL40) and an Intel GMA 4500M onboard graphics card.
I downloaded the Linux-version of Steam and TF2 via Steam without using any kind of ...
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Steam not working in Ubuntu
I recently tried to install steam into Ubunutu 12.04 LTS. It worked for awhile, except there were white boxs where some of the text should be. I went online and found a fix for it. However, I tried to ...
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where is the icon to kick off steam?
I have installed Steam in Ubuntu 12.10 but cannot figure out which icon to use to start Steam or really, even where it is. confused! Help! Some help
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Can't type in password for Steam Install on Ubantu
I just got Steam from the Ubuntu Software Center, and it asked me to reopen steam to finish the installation. When I opened it up, I got a terminal that said the following:
Steam needs to install ...
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How to change graphics options for Intel chipsets?
I have Acer Aspire 5349 with some integrated Intel GPU. On Windows I could just open an Intel program in which I could change my graphical settings like colors, but also 3D settings for improving ...
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Is there a virtual machine with direct access to CPU and GPU for gaming?
Sorry for the long question.
With the coming of Steam for Linux I may have been over optimistic and got rid of windows installation.
The problem is that I have about 100 Steam games that are not (and ...
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steam refuses to launch
Quite new to Ubuntu by the way. I'm having, as the title suggests, problems with launching Steam. This happened recently after an update. As it didn't seam to respond at all I tried the terminal and ...
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Steam doesn't open - no errors
For some reason my Steam just broke today after working perfectly since I installed it a few days ago.
It was originally installed via the deb from the Steam site. So I uninstalled that using the ...
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Where is the steam directory folder in 12.04?
I've checked in the home folder but this is all I see.
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How to uninstall Steam cliend on Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
I've got a problem over here. I'm running out of space on my computer and decided to get rid of Steam, games, etc etc.
I have installed Steam with Wine. The problem is that i have removed Wine ...
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Cannot run Steam, bus error
I'm new in the world of Ubuntu. I installed Steam from the Software center, but when I click on its icon, I get no answer.
I tried to open it from the terminal, but I got this:
$ steam
Running Steam ...
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Changed Partition from NTFS to EXT4 and owner is set to root
I just changed the file-system of one of my partitions to be able to install games from steam on it. It is now ext4 and Owner is set to root, I can not create any folders there or do anything with it. ...
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Unable to login to steam ; Steam is having trouble connecting to the servers
Since Steam came out on Ubuntu (official) I've installed it and tried to log in but it didnt work at that time. I thought the servers were offline and I would try it later again.
Steam is giving me ...
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Bad performance in Dota2, AMD drivers fault or Wine fault?
Tried to play Dota 2 through Wine and got terrible performance, is it AMD drivers fault or generally Wine fault?
If it's AMD drives fault, does NVIDIA have better drivers for linux based systems?
My ...
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Checking battery state whenever I launch steam
This is a strange problem. Every time I launch steam in 12.10 64-bit, I get a black screen with Checking battery state [ok]. I press enter and it redirects me to the login screen. When I login, every ...
