![]() ![]() I forgot to mention, that both l4d2 and hl2 use script which enables the bin directory, among other things, like debugging in case of crash. I knew it was bad idea to do something at night when I'm tired. Sorry for late reply, but life sometimes gets in the way, so to speak. Well, but none of this will fix the fact, that they don't run without Steam by default. Most other games just crash without any meaningful output pointing in that direction. Second, at least L4D2 seems polished enough to tell user that it requires S3TC compression to be available, so on Nouveau one knows that he must install libtxc_dxtn. But in case distro doesn't have it, it can be solved rather easily, e.g. Sure, I also tried installing SDL2 from repos, works fine after that as well. By default, L4D2 will not run without SDL2 installed, but simply copying it there from Steam installation fixes that problem. L4D2 will run, but just before GUI appears, it says that Steam must be running to play it.įirst, both HL2 and L4D2 use the mentioned bin directory, where are many. ![]() so's from that dir, just crashes with this one. HL2 complains about, which is present in HL2dir/bin and it apparently loads other. I used F19 32bit LXDE Live with upstream Nvidia installer, as Nouveau was crashing before any relevant error messages. It was late night and I was tired to post here, but I tried L4D2 and HL2, both are not working. Playonlinux is an option if you are in for a wine based solution and although i never liked the whole thing you can make a lot of newest games run through it and it is usually easier than using wine directly: Heroes of Newerth is there if you are in for a LOL/DOTA like game, also runs natively: There is an open source 3D remake of a classic UFO Enemy Unknown in the rpmfusion repo:Īll the classic Lucas arts and others adventure games from Monkey island 1, 2, 3, Broken sword 1,2, Indiana Jones, Dig etc. SELinux needs some tweaking on Fedora to get it running but it runs native and you can play online free: There is also OpenArena, a Quake 3 Arena open source port in the repositories:Īlso you can play QuakeLive if you want the original Quake 3 Arena through browser support its free and rather popular online. You will need to install a couple of 32-bit libraries if you are using 64-bit Fedora but it should not be a problem. Here is the forum post describing how to run it (on ubuntu) with all the needed links including the Linux based client download: It is fairy simple to run on Fedora and works perfectly. There's a win, right?:cool:įor the native Linux gameplay (besides a lot of Steam based games there is really a lot there so if you don't have a problem with DRM check it out) my personal favorite is Neverwinter nights which runs on OpenGL and a Linux client came out some time ago. I've always felt their DRM is probably the lesser of the evils when it comes to DRM and is fairly unobtrusive (unless you don't use any of the features of Steam anyway) but if nothing else, I'm just happy I can play on Linux now and gotten rid of Windows. I can't lie though, I've been a Steam user for 5 years and always loved it. I guess, whether right or wrong, I'll happily let Valve do what they are doing and reap the improvements we'll get, and then get cranky if they go overstepping any (what I perceive to be) boundaries lol. Though I will be on the lookout for a nice brick to launch through their HQ window for if/when the need arises. In one hand I think Valve embracing Linux is a great way to stop consumers relying on Windows.Īt the same time I feel that Valve should piss off and have to eat their own DRM infested, proprietary dogfood under the thumb of Microsoft.īut then we also get some better tech for the open-source gaming movement like better open-source drivers, togl (DirectX to OpenGL layer that Valve/Nvidia will likely open-source) ![]()
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