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I have an nvidia card because I naively thought having a proper graphics card would be an advantage. I have to run Steam from the shell with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH

by pluma 10y ago

I have an nvidia card because I naively thought having a proper graphics card would be an advantage. I have to run Steam from the shell with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH env to make it work at all. A recent steam update for no apparent reason moved the steam folder so I had to manually move my steamapps (i.e. installed games) to the new location. Then I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 and Steam wouldn't work anymore at all, so I had to reinstall it using steamcmd (because the regular installer did nothing). Oh, and some games still cause trouble: Wasteland 2 won't launch if I have Google Chrome open. It's a known issue although it sounds completely made up. It's less painful but it's certainly not foolproof at any level comparable to the experience on Windows.

voltagex_ 10y ago
That's interesting. I wonder what an strace of the crashing Wasteland 2 would show. I'm guessing Chrome tries to take control of some GPU feature for some reason.
- pluma 10y ago
  AIUI it has something to do with Unity3D and graphics acceleration in Chrome, so I guess you're right.
rawfan 10y ago
That really doesn't sound right. I have an Nvidia card, too. It works flawless without any workarounds.. Also.. the Steamupdate did not move the steam folder.. There are two versions of Steam. The one from the Steam website and the one from Ubuntu. They have different app folder locations. You probably switched one with the other.
- pluma 10y ago
  Oh, fun. AFAICT I now have three versions of Steam installed. And I can't even start Steam when I'm not using the nvidia card (and to switch cards I have to log out from Ubuntu and log back in). Maybe this is just the result of me being an idiot, but either way this proves Steam on Linux does not pass the idiot test either.
Kubuxu 10y ago
My cool trick is: find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete
erikb 10y ago
Yeah, Graphics manufacturers are not doing their job well. I'm currently playing FO4 on windows 8 and there are a lot of hickups as well. Even the computer dies sometimes. Saying that something is less painful on Windows won't do good either.

by pluma 10y ago

voltagex_ 10y ago

That's interesting. I wonder what an strace of the crashing Wasteland 2 would show. I'm guessing Chrome tries to take control of some GPU feature for some reason.

pluma 10y ago
AIUI it has something to do with Unity3D and graphics acceleration in Chrome, so I guess you're right.

rawfan 10y ago

That really doesn't sound right. I have an Nvidia card, too. It works flawless without any workarounds.. Also.. the Steamupdate did not move the steam folder.. There are two versions of Steam. The one from the Steam website and the one from Ubuntu. They have different app folder locations. You probably switched one with the other.

pluma 10y ago
Oh, fun. AFAICT I now have three versions of Steam installed. And I can't even start Steam when I'm not using the nvidia card (and to switch cards I have to log out from Ubuntu and log back in). Maybe this is just the result of me being an idiot, but either way this proves Steam on Linux does not pass the idiot test either.

Kubuxu 10y ago

My cool trick is: find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete

erikb 10y ago

Yeah, Graphics manufacturers are not doing their job well. I'm currently playing FO4 on windows 8 and there are a lot of hickups as well. Even the computer dies sometimes. Saying that something is less painful on Windows won't do good either.