How Can I Make Steam Games Run Better?

Hello, tf2 runs terribly bad on my linux system, and I think its because I need to update my graphics card. How would I go about updating the drivers for my gt 750m?? Thanks!

Hello, y'all with vast Linux knowledge, I've built my own gaming desktop, here are the specs:
1-MOBO Asus M5A78L-M LX Plus
2-AMD Radeon Graphics R9 270, 2GB DDR5 Memory
3-2 Hyper X Memory Cards totalling 16 Gb of RAM

Have installed and runninbg Zorin 9.0 Ultimate (Ubuntu 14.4) - MY PROBLEM, I am unable to downlolad any games especially "Minecraft", "League of Legends" and a host of other games on "Steam". I have Wine Geko (32 bit) 2.1 version installed and have Winetricks as well, when I open it I can install a host of games, however, nothing is installed. This is the last straw for me, I have no clue what to do do being a Newbie and unfortunately the folks at "Zoringroup/helpdesk" have been absolutely useless as well. Thanks.

So total Linux noob here, so I apologize for poor wording or not being able to understand anything!

So I want to love Linux (mint, btw) I really do, but my one problem is that I can't run games because, despite having the HDMI cord running through the graphics card, Linux is for some reason using the Intel integrated graphics as a renderer. Now, I have no tools to totally confirm this (I primarily use MSI Afterburner on windows) other than noticing that any linux games I have run sort of poorly (none of the games I have for linux other than Witcher 2 are demanding enough to be obvious). So how do I (or can I even) use my AMD card as a renderer? After looking around for solutions, I've picked up that AMD/Linux support is sort of poor, but is it really excluding me from using my card at all?! Thanks!

hello all at linuxquestions

first off would just like to say how useful this resource is, Ive been setting up a VM server in lubuntu recently and this site has given me alot of help and helped me get it off the ground. Im certainly a linux noob and only been messing around in linux for a week, so please forgive me for any derpy terminology

anyway, I installed lubuntu onto a VM as an intention to use it as a server
to be honest it was an ISO I had lying around and due to it being "light" I just went for it

however I have since discovered ubuntu do a flavour known as "ubuntu server"

first off..
what is the difference between ubuntu server and regular ubuntu/lubuntu etc?
is it just that it does not load a full fat gui?
if there is a big diffrence would it be easy to "turn" lubuntu into ubuntu server? since they are sort of based off each other?

secondly, lubuntu loads up lxde upon boot, I was wondering if there was a way for it to just boot up without the gui with the option to turn it on via shell (startx etc)
this is because I have little ram to play with but I also like to use the GUI sometimes when needing to do certain admin stuff, for example I use steam via Wine to download steam games sometimes

I was pondering the idea of installing ubuntu server and then downloading the lxde desktop and going that route, but Im not sure if it would bring any benefit opposed to just modifiying my current lubuntu installation

any advise or tips would be welcome

thanks!

Hello I'm real new to Linux mint 17 and I was wondering why some games work and some don't. Are they for different operating systems? The games that do work are really good so far. And also what should I do if the operating system hangs up just turn off the computer or is there something else I should do?

Would it be practical to have either SELinux or AppArmor for a home computer? The only two things I'm worried about are the proprietary AMD drivers and Steam. I literaly know NOTHING about SELinux or AppArmor so I'm relying on the more experienced users here.

All I need is to make sure they (Steam and the AMD Drivers) are contained within themselves and that my system will be a little more secure if an attack is posed against them.

Regards,
Amarildo

Hi im thinking to install Linux but i dont know which.Debian or Ubuntu?Which is fast and more secure?Also i want to install Half life 2 non steam version with Source sdk non steam (I know cracked version but i will buy it soon just testing)and i was wondering can i install them?

I've recently bought The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, and I can't get it to work with wine no matter what I do. I've followed this tutorial, which just gives me a white screen when I run the installation exe, I've run the script from POL, which gives me the same white screen when I run the exe, and I've tried running it with just wine, giving me the same result. I've tried using opengl in the "display" tab on play on linux, which does't do anything. I've tried installing some components such as vcrun, doesn't help. I've reinstalled play on linux and wine, didn't do anything. And I've tried installing steam and then installing the elder scrolls online from steam and it doesn't do anything.

"playonlinux.log" from installation script: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11549385/

"playonlinux.log" from this video: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11549531/

When I start up the installation exe it will bring up a window that looks like this (sometimes the text doesn't show up) or bring up a crash dialog that looks like this. Then When I press "go" or the blank button depending on whether or not the text decides to show up, it will bring up a fullscreen white window and then it will shrink down and freeze, not doing anything or showing anything. Sometimes it will bring up a window like this when I press "go", frozen, saying "play on linux is installing your application."

I'm using the latest version of Manjaro, just updated. And I'm using the "video-catalyst" proprietary drivers. Note that I did get it working with my laptop by just running "wine Install_ESO.exe" and it worked fine. The only difference is the hardware and the drivers, both are running manjaro. Does it only work with open-source drivers?

If any of you have any help, I'd appreciate it. If there is any log files you need I can provide them.

Hi Linux Guru's

just want to ask any keyword on hardware logs that show's the box shut downs it self

I'm using CentOS release 6.4 (Final)

Hey just signed up after lurking for a bit.

I'm using Mint 17.1 and following the advice in this post to solve my missing menu problem which worked fine.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5/#post4234891

But now after using Code:

mv ~/.config ~/.config.org

my FPS in a steam game went down from 70 to 30.

I did some re-installations in my package manager, but the FPS still sucks.

Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:15:01 2015


Completely removed the following packages:
nvidia-340
nvidia-settings
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

Removed the following packages:
xserver-xorg-video-all
Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:28:01 2015


Installed the following packages:
nvidia-340 (340.76-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1)
nvidia-settings (346.47-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1)
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (1:1.0.11+git20141030.3fb97d78-0ubuntu0sarvatt~trusty2)
Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:40:46 2015


Reinstalled the following packages:
steam-launcher (1.0.0.47)
I also re-downloaded the game as well to make sure it set a new configuration file if it needed to.