Nvidia has just announced the release of their latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers, R310, and accidentally revealed the launch date of Steam for Linux, before Valve. According to Nvidia, the new drivers double the performance and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system.... (read more)
Installing a driver on Linux used to be quite difficult, but in the past few years the process has become quite common. Here is a short tutorial on how to install the latest certified drivers from Nvidia, 310.19. After the launch of Steam for Linux, Nvidia has released two major driver versions, featuring a huge number of i... (read more)
So I downloaded steam on PlayOnLinux and I installed some random games and they open but I can't do anything with them I can move the mouse around and the menu buttons change, but I can't actually click anything. The games I tried it on were Castle Crashers, Deus Ex: HR, and Super Meat Boy and they all did the same thing.
There is a Easy way to get steam for Linux Without beta access (No, Not using WINE)
From Terminal:
wget http://media.steampowered.com/client...ller/steam.deb
sudo dpkg -i steam.deb && sudo apt-get install -f
Then From Unity Dash Do:
Launch Steam App
Login to Steam
Lock To Launcher
You will get a message saying you arent in Beta close this.
Right Click Launcher Icon And
Nvidia announced the new NVIDIA GeForce drivers – R310 for GNU/Linux distributions, which is supposed to double the current graphics performance, specially the loading time for games. If you want to play games using Steam for Linux client, recently beta is launched for Ubuntu 12.04 – then you must update your NVIDIA drivers.
The R310 drivers supports the newest latest GPUs.
Hey all! I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for almost a month now and I love it! I wanted to start playing some old Steam games on it, but I have out of date drivers, so I get an error message at Steam's launch. I am using a GeForce 6200. To update my drivers, I went to the nVidia website and got the latest drivers for my system. The only way I could get them was as a .run file.
Valve has launched yet another Beta version for its Steam for Linux client, this time with just a few minor fixes and improvements.
After a development version garners sufficient changes, Valve promotes it to stable.
Gaming on Linux is getting more interesting by the day. Valve has updated its Steam December Survey to include Linux statistics. This is Valve’s first month with Linux and even though the Steam for Linux system is still in a beta stage, Linux users already account for 0.8% of total Steam users.
After the launch of Steam Linux beta, you may have seen a big Tux logo on Steam client download page.
When visiting Steam download page from a web browser running on a Linux based OS, you are pointed to Linux version of Steam and a promo ad about Steam Linux beta is shown.
However, Valve is now showing the same page to Windows users as well, encouraging them to
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