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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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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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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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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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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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Need help Installing Civ. 5 in Wine

I am running 12.04 34 bit. I have the most up to date Wine and I have tried installing Civ. 5. DirectX 9 installed correctly and also updated Steam correctly. I have the Steam beta for linux instead ...
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Is there a problem if I install Steam for Linux AND Steam via PlayOnLinux?

I've been enjoying playing in Ubuntu 12.10 using Steam for Linux. The thing is some games (like Borderlands2) can't be installed there because you can only install games for Linux. Previously I used ...
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How to run Windows Steam games from Linux Steam (with WINE)?

I am currently using 2 versions of steam, the Linux one for games compatible with Linux, and the windows version in wine for games which are not compatible. I was wondering if it is possible to get ...
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Steam not detecting the right AMD Radeon drivers on Wine

I have recently installed ubuntu on my system, which has a Amd radeon hd 7850. The fglrx drivers installed just fine, and the system detects the right card (Pitcairn 7850) after playing with amnesia ...
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Steam crash on playonlinux

I'm trying to install steam using playonlinux/wine. There was nothing wrong with the installation, but whenever I try to login, steam crashes. After enabling the debugging mode, i got the log below. ...
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Steam in Wine update or package? [closed]

I'm not sure how to title the question so please excuse the title if I have entered a misleading title. First off, I recently bought Portal 1&2 in Steam. I was able to open Steam in Wine (don't ...
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Steam (using wine) starting civ 5 on the wrong screen

I have my left screen set as primary screen in ubuntu (unity) and most things just do what they are supposed to do when they are fullscreen. They run on my primary screen. But for some reason when I ...
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How run worms revolution in wine?

I have problem with running Worms Revolution (Steam version) in Wine. When the game starts, it shows me the main screen and no more after that. I have: Ubuntu 12.10 Wine 14.XX (standart Ubuntu ...
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Dishonored only displays a black screen

I've recently bought and downloaded Dishonored. Sadly, however, when I try to run it, all I get is a black screen. No video, no audio, nothing. I'm running it from Steam in Wine 1.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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How do I fix my resolution after Directx install through Steam?

I'm a bit long-winded so see bottom for quick version and specs. Friendly Hello: Hello all on these askUbuntu pages, I just recently built my own computer and decided to switch to Ubuntu for the ...
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Moving Steam (installed w/ Wine) to another HDD without reinstalling games

Is there any way to move Steam and all of my Steam games to another hard drive without having to re-installing everything? I would prefer to keep Wine on the original drive, if possible. I'm running ...
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how do i debug an audio problem?

I'm as green as it comes with ubuntu 12.04. And my Intuition only goes so far... I'm trying to figure out why I can't get audio with wine/CS:Source when Pithos is running. I can get audio if I don't ...
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Video Card not detected in Steam on Wine

I am new to Linux and was hoping someone can help me get Shogun 2 up and running in Steam which was downloaded via PlayonLinux. Currently, the game installs and shows a license screen briefly before ...
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Counter-Strike crashes on WINE [closed]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.1 x64 with proprietary ATI drivers. Everything works fine, but when I try to play CS:CZ via Steam/WINE (tried different versions), it crashes after some minutes of playing. I ...
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Steam football manager 2012 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I run Steam? Does anyone know how to play Steam Football Manager 2012 through Wine or playonLinux. It just directs me to a webpage stating, 'we have detected a ...
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Steam, Team Fortress 2 black screen? [closed]

I installed Steam with Winetricks and used Steam to install tf2, but when I tried to boot, all I see is the logos and then a black screen. What did I do wrong?
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After creating a symlink from PlayOnLinux steamapps to Windows steamapps, should games appear as installed in Steam?

I was able to successfully install Steam via PlayOnLinux. I can launch Steam, browse the store, see my library, etc. After I did that step, I followed these instructions to create a symlink from ...
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Linking steam games on windows to steam on ubuntu 12.04

I have a dual boot system consisting of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. Using the wine package on Ubuntu Software Centre, I installed Steam. Using the following command gives me an error cd ...
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Is there a native version of the Source engine on Linux?

I'm sick of using Wine because its full of bugs and lags a lot. I want to play Half-life on Linux natively. I have it on my Steam account. My brother says that there is a Linux version. Where can i ...
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What does it mean when wine crashes and i get the message Internal errors invalid parameters received? [closed]

i had gotten the message today wile trying to play DC universe: Online from steam right after i finished downloading it. i only get as far to see the Sony Online Entertainment logo before i get a ...
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Wine doesn't load Steam Ingame Overlay in any game

When I execute Wine in Steam, everything goes alright, except Steam Game Overlay I have check if it is activated in steam, if my hot key combination is alright and everything, but I still don't get ...
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Can I use Ubuntu on this desktop (for gaming)?

This is my first post. I know there are a lot of VERY similar questions like this, but no one has my PC specs or i didn't found one with them. Well, here is the story. Since 2010 i have been using ...
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Wine is no longer able to initialize OpenGL

Since a while, wine is no longer able to initialize OpenGL on my 64bit Linux. This is by no means a unique problem to me- Lots of people with nvidia cards running 64bit linux seem to have this problem ...
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Fatal error after installing Steam via Play On Linux

I've recently installed Steam via PlayOnLinux, but every time I want to run it, it gives me a screen with: "Fatal error: could not load module 'bin/FileSystem_Steam.dll' " There is nothing about ...
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How to play Window's Steam games from Linux? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I run Steam? I have two partitions, one with Windows 7 and all my games, and other with Ubuntu. I want to play my Windows Steam games without having to download ...
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Running Steam for TF2 - VM or Wine?

I'm installing Steam on my virtual machine as well as installing on my Ubuntu 10.10. Which do you think will run better?
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Steam (via Wine) crashes after login - any troubleshooting tips? [closed]

The Steam client crashes after I login. After submitting my credentials, Steam displays a dialog box informing me the client is 'connecting'. I then see the Steam main page and news page displayed ...
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Italic text in Steam under Wine [closed]

Running steam using wine. Works perfectly except for a small error: All my text is italic for some reason. I'm using the latest wine release 1.3.12 and Ubuntu 10.10 Thought I'd try here first, ...