Can Steam Games Be Installed

[Guest]

Hello i am new to kubuntu . can you tell me if steam our valve games can be played on this new version of kubuntu 8.04.1 desktop-amd64,yes our no. thanks

[Snowhog]

Re: Can Steam Games Be Installed

Steam: The Nexus of PC Gaming

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Windows 2000, XP or Vista
64 MB RAM
400 Mhz processor
1GB HD space (recommended)
Internet connection (broadband recommended)

Unless you install a suitable VM (virtual machine) software in Linux, such as Virtualbox or VMWare Player in which you install one of the listed Windoze OS to be run as a 'virtual machine', the answer to your question is 'no.'

Updated 08 July 2008: I have to retract my 'absolute' statement above. I had totally forgotten about Wine. As I don't use it, I didn't even consider it when I saw the specifications.

[Jean]

Re: Can Steam Games Be Installed

I run the orange box under wine, working is half life 1 source, half life 2 and half life episode 1. Episode 2 gives an error about direct x which many windooze users also report.

[skedone]

Re: Can Steam Games Be Installed

can confirm mate wine and steam run fine us it my self the install guide is at the wine-hq website if you look in app supported area it will tell you what works and how to install i did what they said and it was all working 3 mins later

[Jean]

Re: Can Steam Games Be Installed

@skedone, exactly what error do you get from episode 2?
Mine is something like 'you must have at least dx 8 to play this game'.

[skedone]

Re: Can Steam Games Be Installed

yep same error message for me mate