Linux Steam Integration 0.7.2 is now available to download

Dec 19, 2017 19:20 GMT  ·  By

Ikey Doherty, founder and lead developer of the Solus Project developing the Linux-based Solus operating system, released today a much-improved version of the Linux Steam Integration (LSI).

Linux Steam Integration 0.7.2 is now available with several new features and improvements that might worth your attention if you're an avid Linux gamer. These include initial support for Canonical's Snappy daemon Snapd, a workaround for the Unity3D "black screen of nope" bug, as well as enhanced vendoring rules and shim system.

To improve the shim implementation, Linux Steam Integration 0.7.2 brings a new generic lsi-exec entry point used by both steam and lsi-steam binaries. It also includes support for the XDG specification, a more robust environment bootstrap, and various other improvements.

"The new shim architecture shared by the lsi-exec and steam/lsi-steam binary entry points now has support for running within snapd, within the solus-runtime-gaming and linux-steam-integration snaps," explains Ikey Doherty in the announcement. This implementation dynamically supports VDPAU from host NVIDIA files, proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers, as well as host and runtime Vulakan ICD files.

Intercept module improvements, other changes

The Intercept module also appears to have received a bunch of improvements in the Linux Steam Integration 0.7.2 release, including support for OpenAL cross-platform audio application programming interface, support for Fedora's libbz2 library, and modified SDL vendor blacklisting and transmute rules, which now apply only to common names.

Other than that, there's now a Snap version of Linux Steam Integration that you can install on your Snappy-enabled GNU/Linux distribution using the commands listed below. But you'll need to run the Snapd daemon from either Git or the Snappy Edge PPA. Also, be aware that there are some known issues with the Snap so do read Ikey Doherty announcement thoroughly before installing the LSI Snap.

sudo snap install --edge solus-runtime-gaming
sudo snap install --edge --devmode linux-steam-integration