Tag Archives: Steam

Dying Light Crashes in Fedora 23

Posted on January 2, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

Resolution Up Front: $ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_i386.deb ./ $ mkdir amd64 && mv libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb amd64/ $ mkdir i386 && mv libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_i386.deb i386/ $ cd amd64 $ ar vx libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb $ tar Jxvf data.tar.xz $ cp usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl3-gnutls.so.4.3.0 ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ $ cd ../i386 … Continue reading →

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Installing the Proprietary NVidia Drivers and Steam in Fedora 23 Workstation

Posted on December 6, 2015 by The Civilized Cynic

So this process was a bit more troublesome that I expected it to be, having been in the AMD camp for the last two years and hearing of the glory that is the land of NVidia.  Unpleasantly, there seems to … Continue reading →

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Installing Steam on Fedora 22

Posted on June 5, 2015 by The Civilized Cynic

The available information is a bit stale and somewhat harder to find than I would’ve liked, but it seems to work, so I thought I’d post it: Steam It’d be nice if Ubuntu weren’t hoggin’ the Steam spotlight so hard..  … Continue reading →

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Another Route for Windows-to-Linux Gaming

Posted on March 27, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

So, I was attempting with all my energy to get PlayOnLinux along with wine working to the point where I could comfortably run Windows games on my Linux machine.  While this met with (very) limited success in that I got … Continue reading →

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Debugging the phoronix-test-suite in Fedora 20: The following tests failed to properly run (TF2)

Posted on March 19, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Caveat:  This is a work in progress, so it’s quite possible that I’m overlooking something stupid.  I basically logged my work as it progressed, and given the length of time I’ve spent on this, I’m probably doing something stupid… So, … Continue reading →

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Error: Failed to Initialise d3d11.dll

Posted on March 10, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

It looks like this is a very widespread issue and that it is not limited to Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army (it is hilarious that I am writing seriously about that game).  From a broad view, the file appears to … Continue reading →

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Steam on PlayOnLinux and the Missing SteamConfigServers (etc.)

Posted on March 9, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Up-Front Problem Solution Summary: I was thinking to myself: “People probably don’t want to read all that to find out that you simply have to download the SteamSetup.exe file from http://store.steampowered.com/about/  and install it as an unlisted program in PlayOnLinux.” So … Continue reading →

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