Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux

Re:Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux by pluma on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @05:48AM (#12260519)

I have an nvidia card because I naively thought having a proper graphics card would be an advantage. I have to run Steam from the shell with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH env to make it work at all.

A recent steam update for no apparent reason moved the steam folder so I had to manually move my steamapps (i.e. installed games) to the new location. Then I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 and Steam wouldn't work anymore at all, so I had to reinstall it using steamcmd (because the regular installer did nothing).

Oh, and some games still cause trouble: Wasteland 2 won't launch if I have Google Chrome open. It's a known issue although it sounds completely made up.

It's less painful but it's certainly not foolproof at any level comparable to the experience on Windows.

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Re:Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux by rawfan on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:26AM (#12260829)

That really doesn't sound right. I have an Nvidia card, too. It works flawless without any workarounds..

Also.. the Steamupdate did not move the steam folder.. There are two versions of Steam. The one from the Steam website and the one from Ubuntu. They have different app folder locations. You probably switched one with the other.

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Re:Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux by pluma on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:39AM (#12289313)

Oh, fun. AFAICT I now have three versions of Steam installed.

And I can't even start Steam when I'm not using the nvidia card (and to switch cards I have to log out from Ubuntu and log back in).

Maybe this is just the result of me being an idiot, but either way this proves Steam on Linux does not pass the idiot test either.

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Re:Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux by Kubuxu on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @08:10AM (#12261026)

My cool trick is:

    find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete

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Re:Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux by erikb on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @08:39AM (#12261189)

Yeah, Graphics manufacturers are not doing their job well.

I'm currently playing FO4 on windows 8 and there are a lot of hickups as well. Even the computer dies sometimes. Saying that something is less painful on Windows won't do good either.

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Re:Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux by voltagex_ on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:47AM (#12262147)

That's interesting. I wonder what an strace of the crashing Wasteland 2 would show. I'm guessing Chrome tries to take control of some GPU feature for some reason.

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Re:Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux by pluma on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:40AM (#12289316)

AIUI it has something to do with Unity3D and graphics acceleration in Chrome, so I guess you're right.

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