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Steam says I do not have enough disk space available to install a game, even though I have plenty. How do I solve this?
Steam probably displays in mebibytes (1024 kibibytes per mebibyte) and your file manager in megabytes (1000 kilobytes per megabyte).
Converting 12846MiBs to MBs give us 13470MBs, which is just a bit ...
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Is there any way to play Runescape singleplayer?
I spent some time researching this because I couldn't find an answer, but the tl;dr is yes, but not officially.
First: None of these methods use Jagex accounts or servers, and I couldn't find a good ...
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Is there any way to play Runescape singleplayer?
Dr-Bracket provided some good answers, however, being former military who was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, I'd like to point something out. The internet out there is not as bad as you might think ...
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Is there a painless way to run Starcraft 2 on Linux?
Yes there is, and I'm amazed on how easy that is. You can do all installation, download and configuration with flatpack (a similar installer like Ubuntu snaps).
This is the tutorial for Ubuntu:
sudo ...
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It is possible to use Xbox One controller on Linux distros?
With USB cable
It´s supported natively in the kernel (3.17 or newer) by the xpad driver.
If you have an older one (like 3.16 in Debian 8) you need to install the updated xpad driver.
You may need ...
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Which games in my library are supported by steam?
The Linux version of Steam has a specific library for Steam OS + Linux.
On other platforms you can use SteamDB: sign in via Steam and show owned games only.
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How to set default color and brightness of LEDs of the DualShock 4 controller on Linux?
I've created a udev rule for this that works just fine. First it's needed to identify device attributes once the controller is connected, e.g.:
udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/input/...
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How to download Windows games from Steam onto a Linux computer?
In 2018 Steam introduced something called Proton, which is a fork of Wine that's integrated into Steam and continually updated.
It can be enabled under Steam > Settings > Steam Play by checking ...
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Steam: "You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libdrm.so.2"
It turns out that Steam is 32-bit and the 64-bit libdrm2 package I have is obviously not being recognized. This was clear from the console output when running the "steam" executable directly:
$ steam
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Sharing game files between Linux & Windows (Dual boot)
Sharing your game library between windows and Linux is in fact possible. You have many ways of doing so. Many games are organized as small binaries coupled with large archives where the media files (...
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Any solution to play Roblox on Linux?
Per the Roblox Fandom page on Linux compatibility:
While Roblox does not officially support Linux, the Wine compatibility layer for running Windows programs is able to run Roblox Player and Roblox ...
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Trying to downgrade the Steam version of Stardew Valley on Linux from 1.3 to 1.2
Sure:
AppID: 413150 (same for all platforms)
DepotID: 413153
ManifestID: 6405006757821704906
Do note that the AppID is the same for all platforms. Also, the ManifestID is for the GNU/Linux build ...
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How to resolve "You must install .NET Desktop Runtime to run this application (6.0.16 x64)"?
You need both .NET Desktop Runtime, and hostfxr.dll
These steps result in a stackoverflow error on the particular BFME Launcher, but they get past the initial .NET Desktop Runtime screen:
winetricks ...
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Will the humble version of halcyon 6 work on steam for linux?
Yes.
As long as you get the steam key and the steam store page states that it supports steam for Linux, you should be fine.
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Use Steam/Proton (a.k.a. Wine) on Linux to run Windows games which are not part of Steam?
I found an interesting reply on Proton's github. Apparently there is a way to run non-steam games with just the Steam client.
Do these steps once:
Go to your Steam settings, "Steam Play" on ...
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How can I play Minecraft through a SOCKS5 proxy server on Linux?
Your command is incorrect; when you enter a command you do not keep the brackets.
Instead of:
-DsocksProxyHost=[127.0.0.1] -DsocksProxyPort=[2078] -Djava.net.socks.username=[] -Djava.net.socks....
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Roblox for Linux
Use this installer script off of Github making sure you run Wine 6.11 or later. Keep in mind this method is completely unsupported, and might also cause an automated account ban for cheating, due to ...
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Minecraft FPS at Windows and Linux
VirtualBox can’t efficiently run “heavy” applications like Minecraft, as it is emulating an entire computer, which takes a lot of processing power for that process alone. Additionally, VirtualBox can ...
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Where is SuperTux user folder located on latest Debian Bullseye Stable install?
The SuperTux user directory, as well as the configuration files, are stored in ~/.local/share/supertux2 for later versions, and in ~/.supertux2/ for earlier versions. I found mine in ~/.local/share/...
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Abnormally slow speeds downloading from Steam
I had the same problem and the dnsmasq solution did not work for me, neither did changing download server or set a download limit. I hope this will help others in the future:
The problem for me was ...
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Abnormally slow speeds downloading from Steam
On Linux Mint Cinnamon 19 (and possibly most of Ubuntu based OS) :
In a terminal :
sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
In nano editing add this lines at the bottom of the file :
net.ipv6.conf.all....
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How to sync my save between PC on Creeper world 3 AE
The Dropbox way
As CW3 make the save cross compatible with windows / ubuntu and mac, you can share a same save file.
How-to :
First, you'll need a cloud account, I choose Dropbox, but it'll ...
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Pause Terraria on Linux?
As far as I know, even on the Windows version, Terraria does not "stop" rendering. Entities (enemies, NPCs, the player) don't move, but particles (such as sparks from torches) keep going, up to some ...
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Texture issues, glitched screens, crashes in games
The solution turned out to be simpler than I expected: installing libtxc_dxtn.i686 (the 32-bit version, to be exact), a texture-related package, solved all issues in the 3 games:
sudo dnf install ...
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How to fix random crashes with Linux+AMD on Vulkan & Source Engine games?
SOLUTION:
Ignore stock (libre/open source) drivers
Ignore AMD website's Crimson or older driver recomendations
Check for latest AMD drivers (phoronix 1 is the best way)
download latest (for now ...
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Minecraft chat sometimes contains 't' when opened on Linux?
Sadly, this is a Minecraft bug that started from 1.13. You need to play 1.12.2 or lower or manually delete the t. This is a bug recorded in the official tracker from Minecraft.
Edit: Bug report: https:...
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Civilization VI/6 crashes on startup on Linux
Since you are running Fedora, try this:
Check that 'freetype' is installed
dnf list installed | grep freetype
Open Steam, Select the Game, Go to Properties, Select 'Set launch
options'
Enter the ...
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Unable to get the server IP address via CS:GO "status" command in linux
That string is a SteamID for a Steam Datagram Relay enabled server. It is intended to hide the public IP address from players on the server, along with some other benefits, such as authentication, ...
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Is it possible to play minecraft with a single account on different platform (mac, windows and Linux)
Is it possible to play minecraft with a single account on different platforms (mac, windows and Linux) without purchasing again on each platform.
These 3 platforms all support Java Edition. Download ...
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How do I install StarCraft 1.18 on Wine with 64-bit Linux?
Installed Wine-staging 6.6 and the game is running fine.
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