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 Linux programmers Ah!

compared with Win8.1, running DOTA2 in the same hardware configuration, the quality of the game and experience is still possible.

However, there are some problems with installation, which is of course, the main elements of Linux installation are: operating system requirements, memory, graphics card and library.

1. Operating System and memory

    official system requirements are winxp to Win8, mac OS X Lion 10.7, Friend Extension ( is one of the most popular Linux distributions Ubuntu 12.04 or later, here I use LinuxMInt17 (equivalent to Ubuntu14.04) 64-bit, memory 4G and above, but 2G can also play a turn, My test notebook memory is 2G, there is swap area 2G. The processor is generally OK, 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:

In addition to the Intel integrated graphics, now is the dual graphics card, set up using the NVIDIA card:

As for bumblebee what I useless, the official driver is OK, other specific settings refer to various online bar.

3. LibraryThe library is the most troublesome part. First of all, run Dota2 to install the Steam platform first, and then the update is complete, there will be a hint of some library dependencies. The default software source may not be found, so self-Baidu, my change to Sohu source can be successfully installed, generally so OK. 64bit requires a 32bit library dependency, performs a sudo apt-get install ia32-libs installation, or may install the need to drive the kernel module sudo apt-get install dkms.

Then open Steam, find Dota2, install, wait for the download to be done. 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, the Novice said, slag operation, the picture is smooth. start fps at about 50, half the basic of the very well, still OK.

Hope 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.