Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6241, member: 1"Well i was enjoying Mars until it hard locked my whole system, nothing should do that :/

It also won't change screen resolution.

Sigh more buggy games. Maybe i should start calling them Crash Bundles in my titles, they release them far too bloody soon every time!

had the lockup but could get out of it with a double ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X, shame its buggy, had fun time with it so far

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I been playing with it under opensuse a bit and on one side I am happy, on the other side I feel a bit iffy, the whole hardcoded ubuntu12_32 in the scripts, the executable, the install directory and the ~/.steam make me feel that it is really build against ubuntu and not linux in general

Yes I know they said that from the beginning but "we" also all figured it would not last long till it runs against other distributions, and yup I got it working pretty fast but I also feel that there is no real guaranty it will work on my next opensuse release or that valve suddenly won't add some heavy dependency with unity in their next build, which they are allowed as they clearly stated ubuntu is their prime distro.

So I feel a bit iffy, with desura I know that it is not build against a specific distribution and with desurium I know I can compile it myself if I upgrade and desura won't match, so I feel comfy buying games there. For now I don't feel that same confidence with steam yet.

And yup I know it's early but I figured I share my thoughts :)

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6171, member: 1"Can't do it that way as i need to run a custom command to even get it to run - dual graphics chip :/

Liamdawe, steam is started with the steam.sh script, simply edit that script, add your command before it executes the steam binary

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for us none .deb users:

open .deb with ark
open data.tar.gz
extract the bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32 file to directory named Steam (where you please)
execute ./steam.sh
it will update and you will end up with the inlog screen
enter login, it will see your on a new pc, get code from your email, enter it and your in :)

no other dependencies or root needed, there are some gtk errors, but that is why its beta

by the look of the directory structure they seem to go for builds per distro_version, but as long as your close enough with the libraries there should be little problem.

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6157, member: 1".deb means you need to usually install as root, but it can then do what it wants from there remember.

yup, why I like installing games and such as user :) was just wondering.

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.deb means you need to install as root, never used ubuntu so correct me if I am wrong ? so not like desura where its a local/user install ?

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ty for replying, count me in then for the single player stuff :)

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looks good, but not sure if as a single player it is worth it, does say 1-4 but am not sure

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ooh thanks for ufo-ai, did not know about it, looks great

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time to dust of the old cd :)

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