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How to Install STEAM in Ubuntu

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YEEEEEEEEEEES! Oh, God what a day today! Let me show you how to install STEAM in Ubuntu. Not wine-wise but native! Yes, Steam is now a native Linux application — yet in beta phase though. [button color=”orange” link=”http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb”]Download Steam for Ubuntu[/button] Nov 6, 2012–Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) … Read more

How to fix Steam for Linux video problems

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As you can probably imagine, Steam in Linux issues are related to video drivers. Thus, Valve wants to be ensured that only with the latest binary blob you’ll be able to play Steam games into Ubuntu. So, if you want to become Steam compatible you have to install proprietary nVIDIA or AMD drivers into your … Read more

How to change Desktop Environments in Ubuntu 12.10

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If you want to change Unity and install anything else (like KDE) in Ubuntu 12.10, then this article is for you. Just copy-paste the commands into your terminal, press enter … wait a little bit for the packages to download and you are ready. Logout, pick your favourite Desktop Environment and log back in. It’s … Read more

How to speed up Unity Gaming Performance

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It is widely known that Ubuntu 12.10 has a major problem with Unity and gaming performance. In case you haven’t noticed, there is dramatic regression in performance compared to other Desktop environments. Doing the math or so, Unity costs about 10% in frame rate performance drop when running a game. Well, that doesn’t sound really nice … Read more

How to fix your AMD Graphics in Ubuntu 12.10 (updated)

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The last week or so has been one of transition for AMD’s Catalyst driver, especially for those you have a quite old Radeon GPU. Alongside the launch of Ubuntu 12.10 – that comes with new xorg 1.13 and breaks the fglrx (aka Catalyst 12.9) – AMD has also drop the support for Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 or HD 2000 graphics cards, forcing a broken upgrade up to Quantal 12.10. On the development side of things, this problem is not 100% percent related to Ubuntu 12.10, but it comes with the new version of xorg 1.13 that is included in Quantal, meaning that you need to downgrade xorg down to 1.12.  So for the time being there is no AMD Legacy support with X-Server 1.13, and you need to downgrade. Capping this off, the solution comes from inside the root of the problem, thus AMD’s driver team has launched a new driver for these outdated GPU models, called Catalyst Legacy.

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What is VSync? Should I enable it?

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When it comes to game settings, it’s true that Linux gamers are not as experienced as Windows guys. Oh, you don’t believe me ? Okay then, please raise your hand if you know the above terms: AA, MSAA, AF, Vsync, Tessellation. Just in case you are not sure what’s about, I strongly recommend you to … Read more

How to install nVIDIA 310.14 drivers, major changes

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NVIDIA has released a new (beta) Linux graphics drivers for Linux community. The latest beta nVIDIA 310.14 driver is now available for download. This time nVIDIA comes with some new major changes, such as fixing (at laaaast) the Youtube-blue-face bug caused Adobe Flash and libvdpau. Next to that, VDPAU is optimized for significant improvement in moving … Read more