On 29 Jun 2023, at 14:16, Michael D. Setzer II via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
I'm not a gamer, but brother has steam on a Windows 7 machine
that he just got a message that Steam is dropping support for
Windows 7 in about 6 months? Knew that there is steam on Linux,
but have run into problems?
1. I had a similar machine to his windows 7 system, except it just
has onboard video versus his machine that has a $450 video card
he got years ago.
Installed the Steam, and it seemed to install just fine.
Logged into his account, and downloaded one of his games that
required a 60G download.
Then went to play it, and it gives a message about requiring
DirectX 10.1?
Doesn't give any other info. Tried dnf, but it doesn't seem to have
anything about DirectX??
Not a steam user, so not sure if the Steam that it installed is native
to Linux, or if it is somehow linked to wine?
Machine has winehq installed.
Seen a number of pages that talk about Steam with Unbunta, but
I've got 5 Fedora 37 systems, but if that version of Linux is better,
I could rebuild it, but would prefer to use Fedora.
Did find one page that seems to talk about Fedora 38, have issues
with Steam, and that it is being worked on??
Hoping that there is just some package(s) that need to be installed
to get it to work?
Or can the windows version be installed with winehq.
There was a playonlinux package, but it reported lots of issue with
winehq and conflicting with wanting to install wine version 7.xx.
Figure that must be some gamers here that would know what best
option is.
Where did you install steam from? I use the version from rpmfusion.
Games usually need powerful AMD or nvidia graphics cards.
Integrated graphics may not get you very far.
I suspect it is the integrated graphics that lacks the support for DX10.
I think all the DX 10 code is in the Windows emulator that steam installs.
It is called Proton and based on Wine.
What graphics card does your brother have?
Check that it has supported drivers. if nvidia the check the rpmfusion
nvidia docs.
Barry
Thanks.
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