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CyberXZT

19 Nov, 2012 @ 5:16pm

How to start Source games under Optimus

These steps are no longer needed as Steam now supports Optimus. Click here for information on Steam's implementation.

Each Source game is launched in a slightly different matter so to make this easy I have made an individual post for each game. At the moment only TF2 is supported but when additional games are supported, I will update this post.

Games:

Team Fortress 2

Have a problem? Post it here.

Also check out this experimental script which adds Primus detection, support for custom paths, and more.

Last edited by CyberXZT; 22 Dec, 2012 @ 10:34am

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CyberXZT

19 Nov, 2012 @ 5:16pm

Team Fortress 2

First, start by launching Team Fortress 2 inside Steam. This has to be done once so that the necessary files are extracted. Next, open a terminal and run the following commands subsituting 'your_steam_name' when necessary:

cd ~/Steam/SteamApps/your_steam_name/Team\ Fortress\ 2/ wget -O hl2-optirun.sh http://cyberxzt.com/files/optimus/tf2-hl2-optirun.txt chmod +x ./hl2-optirun.sh

Finally, to start Team Fortress 2:

~/Steam/SteamApps/your_steam_name/Team\ Fortress\ 2/hl2-optirun.sh

Script[cyberxzt.com]

Last edited by CyberXZT; 7 Dec, 2012 @ 12:47pm

asm0dey 1 Dec, 2012 @ 2:40am

With slight changes in code works for TF2 Beta:

#!/bin/bash # hl2.sh modified for TF2 and optirun # http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/LinuxOptimus GAMEROOT=$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD) STEAMPATH=$(readlink ~/.steampath) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GAMEROOT}"/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH if [ ! -z ${STEAMPATH} ]; then export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(dirname ${STEAMPATH})":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi ulimit -n 2048 export __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 cd "$GAMEROOT" if [ ! -f steam_appid.txt ]; then echo "520" > steam_appid.txt fi LANG=C LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/Steam/ubuntu12_32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH optirun ./hl2_linux -game tf_beta -steam "$@"

Last edited by asm0dey; 1 Dec, 2012 @ 2:41am

CyberXZT

1 Dec, 2012 @ 11:43am

Thanks for the heads up! I finished a script that detects primus support and detects which game is in the folder and plan to post it soon. :D

Crunchy 3 Dec, 2012 @ 4:10am

Wow that would be great! Currently using primus for other games.
Agree that the script works nice for Team Fortress 2.

Last edited by Crunchy; 3 Dec, 2012 @ 4:10am

CyberXZT

3 Dec, 2012 @ 10:34am

Here is an experimental script with support for additional games, custom paths, Primus, etc. THIS SCRIPT IS EXPERIMENTAL! Be sure to check back for updates!

http://pastebin.com/zyx61nAM

Last edited by CyberXZT; 12 Dec, 2012 @ 5:02pm