Linux Play Turn Dota2

Dota2 is a popular real-time strategy game, last year the official support for Mac and Linux, for the accustomed to Mac and Linux platform for children, it is almost touched by tears.

Of course, it is also the gospel of the Linux program Ape!

run Dota2 in the same hardware configuration as compared to Win8.1 . The quality of the game and experience is still possible.

It's just some trouble with the installation. This is of course, the main elements installed under Linux are: operating system requirements, memory, graphics card, and libraries.

2014.7.18, a netizen asked to switch the dual-card problem, I tested a bit, found that the original blog some problems, here must do some updates:

in the graphics section : After you switch the dual-card to an Intel card in the nvidia-setting, you cannot cut back the N card.

After the experiment, many kinds of solutions on the Internet are temporarily invalid. So now only n cards can be opened. So need to do a good heat dissipation, the Linux camp need to work ah. Just at least able to play, do not cut Intel card, this is the rhythm of death.

1. Operating System and memory

The official system requirements are WinXP to Win8,Mac OS X Lion 10.7. friend Extension ( that is, one Ubuntu in the most popular Linux distributions) 12.04 or higher. Here I use LinuxMInt17 (equivalent to Ubuntu14.04) 64 bit, memory 4G and better, but 2G can also play, I measured the notebook memory is 2G, swap area 2G.

The processor is generally able to, I am i3.

2. Graphics card

This is the biggest bottleneck of playing games under Linux, the key is that the graphics driver lacks support. No wonder Linus Torvalds will nvida the middle finger.

Take a picture of Linus:

But now things have improved, at least my Gefrorce gt620m standalone graphics card has been successfully loaded with the official driver:

With Intel integrated graphics, it is now dual graphics. To set up using an Nvidia card:

As for bumblebee what I useless, the official driver is OK, other detailed settings to participate in various online paste.

3. LibraryThe library is the most troublesome part. First, the implementation of the DOTA2 to install the steam platform, and then update, there will be a few library dependencies.

The default software source may not be found, so self-Baidu, my change to Sohu source can be installed successfully, generally so OK. 64bit requires a 32bit library dependency and runs the sudo apt-get install ia32-libs installation. It is also possible to install the sudo apt-get install dkms required to drive the kernel module .

Then open steam and find Dota2. Install, wait for the download.

Or you can use steam from windows to back it up and restore it under Linux.

4. Play

Other quality settings for hardware configuration, my slag machine weakness, such as anti-aliasing, highlight decisive off, rendering 85%, texture medium.

Now you can play happily under Linux. Novice said Slag slag operation, the screen is still smooth. start fps at about 50, half-of-the-----well , still can.

hope that the Linux game platform does not die. the desktop system endures, the following show a:

Ignore my middle-to-one novice mode, just write this.

Linux Play Turn Dota2