[ale] Wine+Steam works, but no game window

Chuck Balog chuckbalog at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 13:28:59 EDT 2016


Steam does run native. I've got it running on Ubuntu 16.04 as well as
Fedora 24. However, some games aren't released for Linux. Looks like No
Man's Sky is Windows only.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:00 PM Vernard Martin <vernard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/19/2016 10:56 AM, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> > So I have wine installed ( latest ubuntu, 1.9.16 ) and Steam is
> > running fine.  When I start the game ( No Mans Sky ) it reports its
> > running, including the process is visible in my shell ) but the NMS
> > window never pops up nor is it visible in the KDE task manager.
> > Anyone run into this or am I missing something stupid again?
> I thought Steam ran native on Linux these days. or is it that the game
> itself isn't linux compatible so you must run it under Steam under wine?
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