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linux-steam-integration
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Linux Steam* Integration is a helper system to make the Steam Client and Steam
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games run better on Linux. In a nutshell, LSI automatically applies various workarounds
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to get games working, and fixes long standing bugs in both games and the client.
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In many cases this will involve controlling which libraries are allowed to be used
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at any given time, and these libraries may be overriden for any of the following
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reasons:
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- Security
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- Compatibility
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- Performance
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This project, and by extension the platforms it runs on, are not officially endorsed by, or affiliated with, Steam, or its parent company, Valve*.
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This fork of linux-steam-integration is now being maintained separately from the original project, to suit the cadence and requirements of the
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Clear Linux* Project for Intel Architecture.
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This project will retain backwards compatibility with the original project at the time of forking to alleviate maintainer concerns, whilst focusing
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on improvements to match a wider audience than the original project, and ensuring native runtimes continue to work unimpeded.
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### Linking compatibility
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With LSI, you don't need to worry any more about manually mangling your Steam installation
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just to make the open source drivers work, or manually creating links and installing
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unsupported libraries. LSI is designed to take care of all of this for you.
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Many library names are redirected through the main "intercept" module, which ensures
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games will (where appropriate) use the updated system libraries. Additionally the
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module can override how games and the Steam client are allowed to make use of
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vendored libraries. This will help with many launch failures involving outdated
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libraries, or indeed the infamous `libstdc++.so.6` vendoring which breaks open
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source graphics drivers on systems compiled with the new GCC C++ ABI.
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### Apply path based hotfixes to games
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The redirect module contains some profiles to allow us to dynamically fix some
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issues that would otherwise require new builds of the games to see those issues
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resolved.
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- Project Highrise: Ensure we don't `mmap` a directory as a file (fixes invalid prefs path)
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- ARK Survival Evolved: Use the correct shader asset from TheCenter DLC to fix broken water surfaces.
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### Unity3D Black Screen Of Nope
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Older builds of Unity3D had (long since fixed) issues with launching to a black
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screen when defaulting to full screen mode. This is commonly addressed by launching the
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games with `-screen-fullscreen 0`, and is due to an invalid internal condition clamping
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the renderer size to 0x0 after setting the fullscreen (borderless) window size.
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Note - updating these games to newer versions of Unity will fix this bug on Linux, however
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LSI currently ships a workaround. This workaround will abstract access to the configuration
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file in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.config/unity3d/*/prefs` through the Linux `/dev/shm` system,
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and will provide initial game configuration whilst also masking the harmful fullscreen
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setting.
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Net result - all Unity3D games using this pref path (the older generation) will start
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in windowed mode always. They can be fullscreened from inside the game, and this will
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help with making sure games **actually launch**.
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### Notes
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Note that LSI will not modify your Steam installation, and instead makes use of two
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modules, `liblsi-redirect.so` and `liblsi-intercept.so`, to dynamically apply all of the
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workarounds at runtime, which in turn is set up by the main LSI `shim` binary.
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For a more in depth view of what LSI is, and how to integrate it into your distribution,
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please check the [technical README document](https://github.com/clearlinux/linux-steam-integration/blob/master/TECHNICAL.md).
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## License
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Copyright © 2016-2018 Ikey Doherty
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Copyright © 2018-2019 Intel Corporation
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linux-steam-integration is available under the terms of the `LGPL-2.1` license.
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See the accompanying `LICENSE.LGPL2.1` file for more details
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`data/lsi-steam.desktop`:
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This file borrows translations from the official `steam.desktop` launcher.
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These are copyright of Valve*.
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`* Some names may be claimed as the property of others.`
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