New User - most games on Steam black screen or are missing graphics

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Hi all, I am new to opensuse (less than 24 hours after first install). I have about 4 years of Linux experience as my primary OS, previously on the various 'buntus as well as Fedora. So far I am liking what I have found but I am having issues with Steam.

So I have installed the Nvidia 319 driver using the ‘1 click method’ and installed Steam successfully as well. The client itself works fine and I am able to chat fine with it, load the store, etc. The problem comes when loading games.

Most of the games simply show me a black screen. However, one game in my list, Organ Trail, loads in a windows but is missing alot of graphics. A few other games like Crusader Kings 2 crash on loadup.

I am loving Opensuse thus far, but getting Steam games to work is a must and I don’t want to go back to Kubuntu for it. Help me out ? I couldn’t find anything with my exact issue.

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dmaxwell81 wrote:
>
> Hi all, I am new to opensuse (less than 24 hours after first install).
> I have about 4 years of Linux experience as my primary OS, previously on
> the various 'buntus as well as Fedora. So far I am liking what I have
> found but I am having issues with Steam.
>
> So I have installed the Nvidia 319 driver using the ‘1 click method’ and
> installed Steam successfully as well. The client itself works fine and I
> am able to chat fine with it, load the store, etc. The problem comes
> when loading games.
>
> Most of the games simply show me a black screen. However, one game in
> my list, Organ Trail, loads in a windows but is missing alot of
> graphics. A few other games like Crusader Kings 2 crash on loadup.
>
> I am loving Opensuse thus far, but getting Steam games to work is a must
> and I don’t want to go back to Kubuntu for it. Help me out ? I couldn’t
> find anything with my exact issue.
>
>
Did you add your “user” to “video” group using YaST

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GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

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Well, now that I look around, it seems I was able to solve the black screen problem by disabling the in game community. Now the games load, but with no sound. And I have seen that problem elsewhere. So that means I have two problems -

  1. No sound in game
  2. No in game community!

There is actually a different issue I having with the Nvidia drivers as well unrelated to ‘games’ (the system isn’t remembering my saved dual screen settings after a restart), but I hope this change will allow my problem to be solvable now.

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Yast is a new thing for me. How do I do this?

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Find Yast in the menu start it (needs root password) and follow your nose.

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This chapter (and possibly others) will be of help to you

Chapter

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Hi dmaxwell81,

I had rather the same problems with my ATI card. Crusader Kings2, for example, starts only with a black screen instead of the map.My solution was to add the following command in front of the game start command:

SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulseaudio && force_s3tc_enable=true steam steam://rungameid/88300

This command brought me sound and graphics back.

Hope that helps.

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This worked! Thank you!