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| Thread ID: 125934 | 2012-07-28 03:59:00 | Steam being ported to Linux | Myth (110) | PC World Chat |
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| 1291162 | 2012-07-28 03:59:00 | As mentioned here: blogs.valvesoftware.com I personally don't game on Linux but figured this may be of interest to those who do game... |
Myth (110) | ||
| 1291163 | 2012-07-28 04:47:00 | I wonder if the video card drivers are up to it. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1291164 | 2012-07-28 05:46:00 | I wonder if the video card drivers are up to it.The proprietary ones certainly are. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1291165 | 2012-07-28 05:48:00 | The proprietary ones certainly are. But that only works if you card was made in the last 3 days... and many games on Steam would run fine on an older card IF it had decent drivers. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1291166 | 2012-07-28 05:59:00 | But that only works if you card was made in the last 3 days... and many games on Steam would run fine on an older card IF it had decent drivers.Bit of an exaggeration there (official driver support lifetime is generally a small number of years), but still a very valid point - people with older cards may be left out, although this depends very much on the card and which legacy drivers are available for it. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1291167 | 2012-07-28 06:06:00 | Bit of an exaggeration there (official driver support lifetime is generally a small number of years), but still a very valid point - people with older cards may be left out, although this depends very much on the card and which legacy drivers are available for it. Yes, the 3 days thing was a joke, of course. Take my Radeon 9600XT - you can still get official drivers for Windows and you can run Half life 2 etc on it just fine... but there are no official drivers for Ubuntu for it, and the open-source driver has worse performance than the official Windows one |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1291168 | 2012-07-28 07:07:00 | Steam may run, but the games.....not so much! Hopefully more compatibility to come! |
Hopper (14491) | ||
| 1291169 | 2012-07-28 11:10:00 | Yes, the 3 days thing was a joke, of course . Take my Radeon 9600XT - you can still get official drivers for Windows and you can run Half life 2 etc on it just fine . . . but there are no official drivers for Ubuntu for it, and the open-source driver has worse performance than the official Windows one LOL really, your example is a 10 year old card? |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1291170 | 2012-07-28 11:37:00 | ATI driver support has been pretty patchy over the last few years, although I think AMD has open-sourced the driver code now so the situation is improving rapidly. I've always used nvidia, which I have had no problem with at all. My old (10 years) GF4-440MX in my old lappy has been trucking along merrily on the legacy driver, but nvidia have now dropped support for it and it won't be updated to work with the latest Xorg update. But then I won't be playing games on that machine any time soon anyway ... :) |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1291171 | 2012-07-28 14:03:00 | LOL really, your example is a 10 year old card? Well, the card works, the drivers for Windows work... Linux has support for hardware much, much older, and the card is not useless for a lot of games, the lack of proper drivers for Linux is rather sad. I think Steam sucks anyway but how many Linux users are going to go and buy the latest hardware just so they can use Steam and play old games that would work on older hardware in Windows just fine where decent drivers already exist. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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