Anyone have steam working on debian?

I have tried wine alone and playonlinux and the best I have gotten is the game loads to right before the menu and I get a black screen and it crashes. I have gone through a ton of guides and loaded all the fonts and libraries that are recommended. Now Im at a loss and would like to know if Im missing something that one of you has done to get steam working.

Thanks!

 

Isn't it one of those things that it might just be best to run in windows? I run windows for only games, and linux for everything else. For me anyway, it's the best of both worlds. I had so much trouble getting any games to work in wine, that I finally had to give up.

 

What game are you trying, and what graphics card do you have?

Also, make sure you install winetricks tahoma for steam buddy lists and menus

 

Yeah I have tried everything. Playonlinux actually installs everything in the process of loading a game. Wine has a nice list of things to install and I did so prior to running the game.

Honestly since I refuse to disturb the setup I have on my x200s Ill probably just use an old hard drive I have lying around and put windows 7, mse and steam for gaming as this is the second game I really enjoy playing that I cannot get to run on wine. I was just hoping for a long shot fix as I have been pretty desperate with my xbox dying. I want to try and do everything to NOT go back to WOW(been clean for 9 months!) as I know it will work on wine.

 

i had an idea last week about wine, sense so many games are coming out for Mac OS X, would it not be easy to do what wine does but with mac os x. i mean with it being based on BSD (all be it horribly mutilated) and with it using OpenGL for 3d, i would think it would be far easier to emulate a OS X environment then a windows one. dont you think so too?? im no mac system expert so i dont know if its true, just an idea.

 

Yeah unless you have an nvidia card gaming with wine can be troublesome.

 

I would imagine that there is far less work for mac emulation on linux, so that would make it harder. I also recall that Mac games perform worse than their Windows equivalents, which is likely to result in even worse performance than a Windows port.

 

While I have gamed on an ATI card linux box, Ill agree all their documentation is for nvidia...

 

it may help if people knew what program you were trying to run.

 

Even if you do get to run and render corerctly it will more than likely have a performance decrease. I have a decrease of about 40% in Source engine games, and roughly 20-40% in Quake engine based games.

For this reason I have Win7. Linux will never be a gaming platform, period.

 

Linux is a gaming platform... for linux games.

 

unfortunately, extremely few AAA titles have linux compatibility.

 

True. But their are so few native linux games that are good.