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Steam Closed Beta Now Live!

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Thanks to the Steam group chat it has been revealed that Steam will go live today when someone pointed this out, the news comes thanks to Nvidia's news here dated today with the release of an improved graphics driver.
QuoteAvailable for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.


Linux is also now available as a filter for finding games on the official website: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=#os=linux&advanced=0&sort_order=ASC&page=1

Steam also has some planned Downtime today at 11PM GMT (16:00 PDT) so it could well be a late night release for me.

UPDATE: media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
Update 2: It's officially on - and i didn't get in :( http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/882965118606625844/
Update 3: Over 60,000 people wanted in on the beta! http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/

So people, are you ready? What will be your first purchase on the Steam Linux client?

Ps. Add me to your Steam - "liamdawe" Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Anon Nov 10, 2012
Well, either way KF is now updated for everyone.
Liam Dawe Nov 10, 2012
Yup and even though it installs with a resolution of 800x600 (lolqut) i managed to find the config to change it, haven't tested performance yet though.
Liam Dawe Nov 10, 2012
Okay so Killing Floor on intel HD4000 at 1920x1080 resolution = good performance, awesome work!
Anon Nov 10, 2012
I changed it fine from the settings, why look for the config?

Annoyingly there are some texture bugs (surfaces completely white).

Also, why can't devs just use the bloody XDG specs? Even just hardcoding it to .local/share/ is better than dumping everything in the home directory...
Liam Dawe Nov 10, 2012
At such a low resolution half the screen gets cut off so i couldnt get to the settings.
Anon Nov 10, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6279, member: 1"At such a low resolution half the screen gets cut off so i couldnt get to the settings.


Ah, it just letter-boxed it on my laptop and scaled on my desktop, I never really experienced any issues of this kind.
Liam Dawe Nov 10, 2012
It's annoying I've no idea why apps won't scale but get boxed out.
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