Steam for Linux: Team Fortress 2 black screen

[xSCCMx]

Hi,

I am currently having an error where Team Fortress 2 on Steam that recently came out of BETA has launched, played the valve symbol with a blank screen, overlay becomes available and then the program closes.

Could anyone tell me what this is?


Dell Inspiron 1520
Ubuntu 12.04.2 -ish

[Perfect Storm]

Some more info is needed.

More specs like video card, RAM etc.
Which version of Ubuntu do you use and if it's 32-bit or 64-bit.
Eventually have you tried starting the game up though the terminal to check for error output.

[xSCCMx]

Does this help? This is the my system specs according to Steam.
I got lost after I fixed an error when it would not start at all.



Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 1467 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (32 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-38-generic-pae
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11103000
X Window Manager: Compiz
Steam Runtime Version: <Runtime enabled>

Video Card:
Driver: Intel Open Source Technology Center Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM x86/MMX/SSE2

Driver Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x8086
DeviceID: 0x2a02
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1280 x 800
Desktop Resolution: 1280 x 800
Primary Display Size: 13.03" x 8.15" (15.35" diag)
33.1cm x 20.7cm (39.0cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: SigmaTel STAC9205

Memory:
RAM: 2509 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 72609 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 48554 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

[Perfect Storm]

You have an Intel 9xx card.
You may take a look at this, if you haven't already; https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valve#Intel_Graphics

[xSCCMx]

I am still getting a black screen and said problems despite looking and entering those intel commands.

I think my problem maybe this.
I may need an multi arch alternative.
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

[Perfect Storm]

I am still getting a black screen and said problems despite looking and entering those intel commands.

I think my problem maybe this.
I may need an multi arch alternative.
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

If you haven't already installed 32-bit libs to your system:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

This package makes sure you get the 32-bit libs.

[xSCCMx]

I'l take a look at that when I have the chance.

[R33D3M33R]

You should try to run the game with the -novid parameter.

[xSCCMx]

I figured out that my version of OpenGL is not sufficient foe my hardware. TF2 requires version 3 and I have 2.1, unless Valve adds support for 2.1 we are going to be stuck with a black screen, Thank you Mod AI.