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No, you cannot.
Steam is a DRM enforcing client. It doesn't provide a version of software that is not DRM restricted.
However, you can install Steam on WINE itself. It will then detect it is on a "Windows platform" and install the game.
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Did you install Steam for Linux? If so you will only be able to play the games that are supported on Linux.
You can play the Windows games by installing Steam through Wine. See here for more information
The terminal command you are looking for is:
sudo apt-get install wine
winetricks steam
Note that it still may not be possible to play all games on ...
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If you don't want to install the Windows version of Steam and just want to download the Windows binaries for a game you can use SteamCMD which does have a Linux version and an option for force downloading binaries for any given platform.
You'll need to know the SteamID of the game which you can find from steamdb.info.
./steamcmd.sh
@...
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I would recommend installing PC Steam on your Mac. Using Wine, it allows you to download PC versions of your games and run them regularly through Wine. I've attempted this for Torchlight II, but YMMV depending on the game.
First, install winetricks and Steam dependencies:
Save http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks as a file named winetricks, in ~/wine/bin ...
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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 less than the space you have available, but with cache usage and stuff like that, the storage you have free might fluctuate, causing steam to think that you ...
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1) Launch Battle.net
2) Leave the window with the error message open
3) Launch Battle.net again
It's a strange workaround, but it worked for me every time so far.
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For those experiencing the same error, what you need to do is:
Go to Lutris launcher
Select Hearthstone
Under Play button, click Configure
You need to add this to DLL Overrides under Runner Options: Key: locationapi.dll | Value:
disabled
and it should be good to go.
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Dota 2 is now supported on Linux!
Not only can you now watch games in client on Mac and Linux computers, the complete Dota 2 game is available for Mac and Linux players.
Grab it here.
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As of 15 Feb 2013, Steam is officially available on Linux!
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As of the time of me writing this answer, there are no ways to tell Steam to open Windows games using Wine. Many people have asked, and want this feature.
The only workaround to getting Windows games running in Linux (under Wine) is to run Steam itself inside of Wine. I can understand why this is problematic, but this is the way it was designed.
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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 add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install --install-recommends flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://...
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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 the left and Enable Steam Play. Optionally, Enable it for all titles too, so that you need fewer steps for each game you want to add (though I suggest against ...
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Now is posible to connect two clients, e.g. Linux-native and Wined-steam, in same machine in same os.
The dual login is now possible because of Steam Home Streaming feature, the restriction login changes and life goes easier for us.
http://store.steampowered.com/streaming/
START STREAMING TODAY
1 Log into Steam on your Windows* PC
2 Log into Steam ...
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EDIT: I have found out that, unfortunately, no one has been able to get the Unity3D Web Player to run under Wine and there is no native version of the Web Player. I'm afraid it is impossible to get it to run under Linux for the time being.
If you have other things installed in your .wine folder, try making a new, clean Wineprefix to do the install in, so ...
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I found a temporary fix for this, but if anyone has a real answer to the problem, I will select it as answer.
World of Warcraft
I found that changing the game resolution settings either in game or by the configuration file don't actually change the game resolution but my desktop resolution. The result is that most of the game interface is now off screen ...
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This is a little bit tricky. The oddest concept you need to know is that there are two ways to install Steam on Ubuntu. One natively, and one through Wine. THESE WILL NOT RUN THE SAME GAMES. The native Steam version will only let you install games with a native version, and I think you've discovered that does not include HoM&M5.
However, the Steam ...
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Even if it could be technically possible, you can't be logged on the same Steam account at the same time in two different clients, and I imagine that you wouldn't have two accounts with games split around.
Running games on wine would also be game-dependant more than steam-dependant since each game has it's own requirements and prerequisites, therefore some ...
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I had to enter winecfg and change the library dbghelp from "disabled" to "native" and it opened right up.
Unfortunately neither of those solutions fixed the issue
I had the same situation when I tried the override in that battle.net.exe would still fail because I did not have the native dbghelp.dll installed.
Using winetricks on my dedicated battle....
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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 the tickboxes:
Enable Steam Play for supported titles will let you download and play titles already tested under Proton
Enable Steam Play for all other titles ...
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I found that the "servers are too busy" message was thrown basically any time an error prevented the game (Borderlands 2 in my case) from launching. It was certainly not in any way related to the Steam servers, and pretty unfortunate that it so misleadingly masks some specific problem with the system.
After much trial and error, based on clues on the Wine ...
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Unless you've modified the default values for your Wine and WoW install, the path should be:
~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/
~ being your home folder. Perhaps you won't need backslashes before spaces if you're using a graphical file explorer.
Once you've found this, there should be no differences with the Windows ...
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Yes and no.
First of all: This is not directly related to any game, so you're better off at a Linux forum for help. I recommend you the most popular Linux subreddits on reddit.
1. No ...
... it's not possible in a very convenient way. And to say this at the beginning, you're really better off having a native Steam and a WINE Steam and switch between them ...
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For some games you can just copy files, but some require Steam for at least some functionality (friend list, server list etc.)
Cogmind uses SteamCloud to backup your saved games and for global High Scores list.
Also, Steam detects WINE as WINE, not as Windows. They specifically made it to also count users on MacOS/Linux who use WINE.
You should run Steam ...
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There's a mono port of the engine called Linaria, have a look at that.
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The installer uses Pando Media Booster and suffers from Wine bug 22152 -> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22152
Start the installer as follows:
$ GC_DONT_GC=1 wine ./SDGO_130212.exe
I also advise to use a newer Wine version from 1.5.x branch (check with your distro/google how to get it).
1.4.1 (stable) is very old.
Regards
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There is no direct rule of thumb for all games. Some run brilliantly without any configuration at all, some run reasonably well and some won't run at all.
Theres far too many variables to give a specific answer.
answered Mar 22 '15 at 17:59
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This tutorial works perfectly for me.
I'm playing Skyrim for Steam flawless!
But to run steam you should use the following command:
$ nohup wine "/home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/Steam.exe" &
This will make you terminal free for closing after Steam started.
Or you can just run [Yet, you can make a skyrim.desktop file for this command]:
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PlayOnLinux is just a user-friendly GUI for Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. When you install a game, it creates a virtual drive, which default location is $HOME/PlayOnLinux' s virtual drives/<name of the game>.
In that virtual drive, the folder "drive_c" is just like "C:\" on Windows.
So Skyrim save files are in drive_c/users/<...
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Go to wine > libraries and you must have:
*dbghelp(native, internal)
*msvcp100(native, internal)
If not, just write the name and click add.
I had this error because i had dbghelp disabled.
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Inside PlayOnLinux, go to the "Configure" screen for the RCT2 installation, then go to the "Wine" tab then click "Configure Wine." Once the configuration window loads, click on the "Graphics" tab and click "Emulate a Virtual Desktop."
You can also download the hack that allows RCT2 to be run natively in a window, but this is a far easier solution for Linux.
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