SteamOnLinux

Playing Steam games on Linux is awesome.

1 Sid Meier's Civilization V

1.1 Civilization V crashs randomly on Linux.

Check this solution at reddit

cd ~/.local/share/Aspyr/Sid\ Meier\'s\ Civilization\ 5  
vim config.ini  

Change MaxSimultaneousThreads=8 to MaxSimultaneousThreads=16

1.2 Chinese for civ5 linux

liujingchen/civ5cn-linux. Follow the instruction in Readme.md

1.3 Ingame editor mod

boekkooi/CIV5_IGE_LINUX

2 Left 4 dead 2

2.1 Chines font for L4D2 Linux

Install this font:

sudo apt-get install fonts-wqy-zenhei

Check this solution

3 Steam play don't show

Check this Warn: This solution will remove all your downloaded games! Use this at your own consideration. Maybe it's because your steam linux version is too old.
You can try to remove steam dir and reopen steam to let steam update itself.

rm ~/.local/share/steam
rm ~/.steam

4 Proton for Non-Steam games

1. Right click the added non-steam game in your Library and click on Properties
2. Check option Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool
3. Enjoy it

5 Pillars of Eternity

5.1 Mouse doesn't work under dual monitor

Unplug one monitor, start game and mouse works. Then uncheck Fullscreen to avoid problems in dual monitor situations. Plug the other monitor back and you can play PoE under the window mode.

5.2 Chinese language display problem

If you use Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), there may be a problem displaying Chinese in the game, missing some text or characters for example. This is due to Microsoft Yahei(微软雅黑) font is not installed in your system. Here is a brief instruction to install Yahei font:

1. Get msyh.ttc, msyhl.ttc and msyhbd.ttc from Windows or internet.
2. cd /usr/share/fonts
3. sudo mkdir WindowsFonts
4. sudo cp YourFontPath/msyh*.ttc WindowsFonts/
5. sudo chmod 755 /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/*
6. fc-cache Start game and check if Chinese displays crectly.