Comments for Steam Games on Linux

Comment on Skyrim – The Elder Scrolls V by Valmar

Valmar — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:42:59 +0000

The game works great on my Chakra 64-bit installation.
I’m running it via PlayOnLinux with Wine 1.5.20 (32-bit).
The ONLY bottleneck seems to be my laptop’s CPU, which is an AMD Athlon II P340 Dual-core. My graphics chip is an ATI Mobility Radeon 5470, which seems quite good for these kind of games.
Wish the proprietary driver was better, though…not that the free-source driver is better, by any standards. :P

Comment on Braid by Moon_LS

Moon_LS — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:01:28 +0000

I try to play Braid but i think there is a problem durind the installation.

When you install it with SGOL, it works, but there are no fil in the folder /Steam/SteamApps/common/Braid

When i check the localfiles, steam said no problem;

When you launch the game, you can’t because executable files are missing

Comment on Psychonauts by Robert "Ruedii"

Robert "Ruedii" — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:22:34 +0000

I’ve had problems with the game crashing when transitioning out of clip scenes. Any clue on how to fix this?

Comment on Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2010 by Robert "Ruedii"

Robert "Ruedii" — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:18:04 +0000

According to WineHQ’s appdb it is working now. You might want to retry.

Comment on Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition by Robert "Ruedii"

Robert "Ruedii" — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:07:59 +0000

There has been an update on this, many Games for Windows games either don’t use the DRM module, or have been patched to no longer use it. (Developers don’t seem to be too keen on the fact that it doesn’t support Windows XP either, apparently.) There is a Replacement “dummy” module for the Games for Windows “Live” module that is the most common module used, as it provides multiplayer functionality.

I’m not sure if Batman Arkham Asylum is one of these games.

Comment on Borderlands by admin

admin — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:06:32 +0000

The Steam Overlay Renderer does not work well with all games… you should actually disable the in-game overlay in Wine libraries. The overlay causes more problems than it’s worth. That said, it is getting better with each wine release.

Comment on Borderlands by phantasmor

phantasmor — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:38:19 +0000

I am having major problems I have tried ubuntu 12.10 and mint 14. I have tried wine 1.5 and 1.4 it installs correctly through steam but when I run it I get no text in the steam overlay(steam has text outside the game) and I get negative graphics behind the options menu. When I go to start a game it crashes.

Comment on Gun by N1CK3Y

N1CK3Y — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:58:03 +0000

I have been able to succesfully run and beat the game in fullscreen. Distro was Fedora 15 and 16 (yes, both) and wine versions 1.3.23 onwards. I am using an ASUS K73SV laptop with an NVIDIA GT540M.

Comment on Borderlands by admin

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:12:11 +0000

try deleting the wine prefix and installing steam + borderlands… try running the game. You may not need the winetricks overrides.
Install winetricks vcrun2008 if you have any problems.

Then try running – install winetricks d3dx9 if still problems – though it should run now without the winetricks overrides.

Comment on Borderlands by Shadow Night Black

Shadow Night Black — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:32:34 +0000

Hi,
I am having problems running borderlands, I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with an Nvidia graphics and wine 1.5.15. I started the installation with winetricks borderlands_steam, but then had to shut down the computer before it finished downloading borderlands, so the following morning I resumed the download on steam and let it finish. I am let steam install its first run dependencies, and have installed over winetricks d3dx9 + vcrun2008 manually ( as winetricks wont run the verb as it is installed), but when I tried to run borderlands, it refuses to run, saying to install Direct x 9, which is installed.
Any idea how I can fix this?

Comment on PAYDAY: The Heist by admin

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:15:25 +0000

Use winetricks – select the steam / game prefix – then edit the settings from there…

Comment on PAYDAY: The Heist by LeeYaoSan

LeeYaoSan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:09:24 +0000

How do you change wine d3d settings?

Thank you

Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization V by ricard

ricard — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:17:41 +0000

Running Debian Squeeze, Wine 1.4 (from the Ubuntu repository, as the Debian Wine version is more or less ancient), ATI 3650 graphics with fglrx driver (3D acceleration enabled).

Have installed the game as per the instructions above, which went fine (winetricks automatically disabled gameoverlayrender, and installed corefonts), but when playing the game there are portions of the graphics missing, most noticably the left hand part of the menu line, as well as status and START GAME fields during play set-up.

Initially the whole menu line was missing, but setting the sizes of nofile in /etc/security/limits.conf to larger values (which controls the maximum number of open files available) brought in the right hand part (MENU, HELP etc), as per a suggestion I found on the ‘net. There are probably other elements not quite right either, thought I’d try to get this right to start with.

Tried installing the Tahoma fontas per another suggestion (after the game was installed) but that didn’t help.

I’m rather stumped at this point, and I haven’t seen anyone else who seems to have this particular problem. Steam seems to run fine, with all fonts visible, etc.

Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl by x32jsf

x32jsf — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:52:32 +0000

2012. august 31.

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
wine 1.4
nVidia 9600m GT 512RAM

running without modifying anything!

i think run better than on W!N before :)

Comment on Orcs Must Die! by PetyrVeliki

PetyrVeliki — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:57:37 +0000

Yes, I tried at “low” graphics also, no difference. I’m with Ubuntu 12.04 and with i5 processor and Nvidia 330GM video with 1GB memory. I’m playing World of Warcraft with no problems, so I thought this should be an easy one :)

So – I’ll try using different desktop and see if some process can be killed and make the game run smoother. And also – I’ll see if the things will change if I clean my laptop, cause I have the laptop for two years and it hasn’t been cleaned by now. And it’s summer time here and the heat the laptop exudes is huge … so maybe the graphics card gets overheated and that’s why it gets slower.

I’ll post when have some results ;)

Comment on Orcs Must Die! by Necron99

Necron99 — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:38:35 +0000

Did you try lowering the graphics settings for the game? Also try using different desktop like Gnome Classic / No Effects – or Mint – or Cinnamon… kill all un-needed processes etc… run TOP while playing and see if it’s CPU or GPU issues = that laptop uses shared VRAM – so RAM speed could be a factor?

Comment on Orcs Must Die! by PetyrVeliki

PetyrVeliki — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:45:03 +0000

Hey, Guys,

I’m on Ubuntun 12.04 on Toshiba A500 1HK, and the game is running OK, but only when the orcs are a few. When they get more and more – the game slows drastically and becomes almost un-playable. Is there I can do?

Thank in advance :)

Comment on Team Fortress 2 by Necron99

Necron99 — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:52:39 +0000

What version Mint + what are your specs + where is Steam installed? Did you disable gameoverlayrenderer.dll under the libraries tab in wine config? It should be disabled…

Comment on Team Fortress 2 by Teapot

Teapot — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:59:52 +0000

I’m having problems, I have TF2 installed fine under Linux Mint but when I go to run the game all i get is the preparing to launch game screen which eventually disappears to be replaced by nothing. I can continue to try doing this and steam recognises I’m doing so because it updates its last played to today but the game will not launch. I also have this problem with half-life 2 episode 2, but not half-life 2 or episode one (which work fine). Any ideas?

Comment on Left 4 Dead 2 by Necron99

Necron99 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:58:09 +0000

I think Wulfe found the answer to your problem – see comment http://www.steamgamesonlinux.com/left-4-dead-2/#comment-1088