tried star conflift, robocraft, borderlands 2, crusader kings, outlast, tales maj eyal and others they worked fine, and they had better performance and up2date drivers, i have windows 7 because of drivers. ... two problem i had, firstly that more than half of my library is win only, 2. it fucked my bios, i have an older machine with strange half assed uefi support, so if your machine not uefi by default i suggest leaving seam os alone... it took me two days to figure out how to install windows from grub
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and the bios is still fucked, i had to install uefi os, which is win 8, i found out later that i can convert win 7 to uefi install, now i cant use the stupid win bootloader to boot anything else than already installed windows... i tried bcd, easybcd, easyuefi and whatnot. there isnt any graphic driver for win 8 only for 7 so fml. my machine is just a paperweight now.
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Works full proof: Penumbra, iBomber Defense Pacific, Super Meat Boy, World of Goo, Tales of Maj Eyal, Space Pirates and Zombies, To the Moon, Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition, Crimsonland, Aquaria, Jets'n'Guns, Toki Tori, Osmos, Zen Bound 2, VVVVVV, Postal, Syder Arcade + probably more. Generally the games which got ported out of love for the platform, before Steam started pushing. Most Unity Engine games also work very good.
But it's true - there are way too many games advertised as working on GNU/Linux, which are horribly broken.
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Im messing around with drivers, i was trying on debian, but i just install ubuntu, and there are 3 drivers, opensource, fglx (or something like that) and fglx update, i tried to download directly from ati website (they have a .deb package for ubuntu) but when i try to install, the s.o. gave me a message about uncompatiblity (i tried last night, half sleep, dont remember the message :p)
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Use fglrx from your distros official repo. Do not ever download drivers from the vendors website. The FLOSS Radeon drivers also work ok (even the performance is pretty good lately - in the coming years we won't need fglrx any more), but you need some extra packages at least for 3d proprietary games - libtxc_dxtn (it's for S3TC, which is commonly used in closed source games) and keep in mind that it supports only OGL3 so far.
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Another thing: if you are a newcomer to GNU/Linux - do yourself a favor and stay away from Ubuntu. OpenSUSE and Fedora provide a better experience than that (cause they are closely tied with commercial enterprise distros), plus they are standard, unlike Debian-based distros.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2r164j/hows_current_amd_gpu_performance_on_linux/ fast article I've found, they all report worse performance.. while nvidia seems to nail the linux with performance..
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The supposed badness of AMD drivers on GNU/Linux is a myth. It's been years since they were having any real problems. Performance is worse than on windows, that's unfortunately true though, but not by any visible margin for most games. Also: the worst case is with high end Radeons, the mid-range ones work generally very good.
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Did you use a supported Linux distro? I'm not sure if it would make any difference or not as devs don't test every one. Last one I tried was a recent Ubuntu install, and every game I installed and ran performed same as I would expect in Windows.
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there are 3 drivers, opensource, fglx (or something like that) and fglx update, i tried to download directly from ati website (they have a .deb package for ubuntu) but when i try to install, the s.o. gave me a message about uncompatiblity
if you use ubuntu or mint17 there is step by step instructions made by others that make it pretty easy to install the pain the the ass proprietary ati drivers from website.
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yeah, the problem is not steam, the drivers are, ubuntu works with debian unstable repos, thats why i tried with ubuntu, i finished the config and it seems that the 2 games that i choosed to play in linux have a few but annoying bugs xD Shame on me T.T
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well, unstable or stable depends on with wich Ubuntu you went with. If you take latest LTS, which is 14.04, you get as stable as you can. If you go for newer ones, 14.10 or 15.04, well you get newer stuff but also more unstable / unfinished things. That's the main difference between LTS and not-LTS. LTS is built for stability, while other versions are for trying new things and getting stuff ready for next LTS
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For me it works on all distros i've had. Currently on Xubuntu based BackBox, steam works great.
adding to other comments -> are you sure you have correct drivers working?
do you have desktop pc or laptop? or maybe you have integrated gpu? because integrated + dedicated on Linux usually is pain in the ass :D
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Best you can do is buy a steammachine that come with Windows 8.1 XDDDDD
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You heard about sarcasm?
SteamMachines: A Steam computer made for play games thats was going to use SteamOS, but all the SteamMachines you found in market use Windows.
You understand now?
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i went over like half of those machines and didn't see any mention of windows. where did you get your information from?
Steam machines are computers made for SteamOS which is debian based Linux distro. They're not going to sell them with Windows os, that would be stupid
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Try Half Life 2: http://store.steampowered.com/app/220/
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Can't think of any games I've had issues with on Linux.
Here's a few I've played:
Team Fortress 2
Half Life 1, Blue Shift & Opposing Force
Half Life 2 & Episode 1 + 2
Portal 1 & 2
Counter Strike: Source
Electronic Super Joy
Super Meat Boy
Super Hexagon
Fotonica
Hero Siege
Geometry Wars 3
Beat Hazard
Race The Sun
Velocibox
Fistful Of Frags
Borderlands 2
Civilization V
Drunken Robot Pornography
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I heard that a lot of people were having problems with it at release. Since then it's supposedly gotten patched.
It worked fine on my laptop at the lowest settings, but I'm using an i7 with Intel HD 4000 graphics. No graphics card. I'm surpried it worked at all.
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wanna have a laugh go here and laugh yo ass of and scream at me
http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/UNalG/i-have-a-question
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Well, i thought that with SteamOs the gaming on Linux would be a little more enjoyable, but i tried 2 games so far (both steamos + linux compatible) and both of them are almost unplayeable : Dungeon Defenders and ibb & bob :( Some advice about any game that works almos 100% in steam? Thanks :)
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