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Sorry for the late reply, but why would it look bad for this website? Your Mint is not an outdated distro, is still currently supported so I don't think that would make any difference. The only thing I would check is if is still possible to upgrade to the latest Nvidia driver, if necessary...

I checked the Wikipedia Ubuntu page and it appears that Ubuntu 12.10 (and by extension Mint 14) is supported until April 2014. If you don't have any compelling reason to upgrade (better hardware support for example) I would wait for Mint 17 which should be based on Ubuntu 14.04 and thus...

Yes, Mint 16 is based on Ubuntu 13.10, which will be supported by Canonical only for 9 months. They used to support the LTS releases for 3 years, and the "normal" one for 18 months. From 12.04 the support for LTS versions has been extended to 5 years, and as I said for the others is only 9...

Booman, Ubuntu 13.10 is not a LTS release. Ubuntu 12.04 is one, and the very next will be 14.04.

I always use a virtual desktop. I never really thought about checking the debug; I'll do that as soon as I get home. Having said that, even having to wait a couple of minutes to start, as long as the game runs smoothly I don't see any reason to complain. When I started with Linux, back in...

I meant clicking the "PLAY" button on Steam. There is no delay loading a level. Regarding the mouse look glitch, the first thing I did was what you suggested but it didn't work. That option was very useful with to solve the same problem with Crysis, a game by the way I was able to install...

I can confirm now that the Steam version works well with Wine 1.7.8. There are, however, a couple of glitches: It takes almost 2 minutes to start and this is a first for a Steam game, although I have a similar issue with all four games of the series WRC FIA World Championship Rally (DVD...

Great guide as usual, Booman. I bought this game on Steam a few days ago (it was on sale for a few bucks) and I was trying to download it when I found out about the problem with the updated Steam client we are talking about in another thread. I suppose (well, I hope) it will work also with...

Well, the first upvote you received on Reddit was mine.:D

Well, it worked great in Wine too until a couple of days ago. And by the way, how many computers do you have? P.S.: I think I am almost certain I saw you on Reddit.com (linux_gaming) yesterday.

I believe the crashes occur if Steam inside the single POL prefix has been updated, which of course happens automatically if a particular game is started while being online. My Steam on POL games still work because they were not updated and only used in offline mode, but this obviously is...

Just an update. At PlayOnLinux they are aware of the problem and are working to solve it. On this thread "urbanshadow" wrote basically that they will build a wine git version, whatever that means.:eek:

Yesterday I was trying to install Steam on a new PlayOnLinux prefix but every time, after completing the download, the program crashed. There was a bug reported on Wine 1.7.7 which is now apparently fixed, but this does not explain the crashes which happened to me several times no matter what...

Regarding the Mate desktop and the 3d cube effects, does anyone know why they don't work? After all Mate is a fork of the old Gnome 2 DE, where Compiz worked flawlessly. I am aware Kwin could be used for this purpose, but I really don't like KDE.

I hope you are right, but I am not too optimistic about a Linux port. Despite the fact that Metro Last Light dominated the news on every Linux gaming site for days I have never seen it on the top ten best sellers on Steam, which was really surprising and disappointing to me. So I doubt that...

Thank you for the suggestions. I will have to wait a couple of days before downloading the game (I have a strange network adapter issue at the moment) but hopefully I will be able to post some news later in the week.

I just bought this game on Steam (it is on sale for only 4,99€) and I was wondering if any of you guys have been able to install it using PlayOnLinux. There are a few Youtube videos showing the game running on Linux but without specific instructions; even the WineHQ page is not that helpful...

A big thank you also from me. In my case I was forced to copy the contents of the CD on the hard disk. I also patched the game and applied the no-cd crack. I realized that it was not possible to change the screen resolution from the menu (the game crashed every time) but luckily I found that...

This one is of course a very old game but, IMHO, still very playable and a great fun. I had almost given up on the idea of playing it on Linux because every time I tried to install it, it immediately crashed after selecting setup.exe or autorun.exe. I was seriously considering dumping the game...

Since I had no expectations whatsoever (I had even forgot I owned the game), I was surprised how well it runs. Having said that, my test was so short that I can't rule out future crashes or unexpected problems. I have so many games to play now (63!) that it is highly unlikely I will be able to...