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Great Bundle... However King of Fighters 2000 is running veeeery fast for me.

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More than 40hours on STEAM/NVIDIA not a single bug since dayONE...perf is great...tough that at dayone was unplayable...TechLand fixed it 2 months later...

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OMG! Neo Turf Masters is my favorite golf game ever.. I'm on it! w00t!

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I find the description confusing. Can someone confirm that it is possible to download the games? And, is it possible to play with a gamepad?

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Cracking news. Yep get updating devs. ( easy for me to say from the sidelines of course ).

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There is also a Linux version available for the unity editor in beta status:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-on-linux-release-notes-and-known-issues.350256/

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Quoting: BelarriusAmazing news no?! More FPS?

Actually there is a fair change that fps will improve. How much I cannot say,as I am not an OpenGL developer, but there should be some smarter memory management and other optimizations in 4.x extensions, which cannot be done in pre-4.x since hardware is the limitation.
Again I'm not a ogl dev, but by supporting ogl 4.x it might indicate better overall support of ogl - at least thats what I hope :D

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: toorSo… they make you pay for wrapping those game in an emulator?

You pay for the games, mostly.

Legal roms, SDL2 supported (in the one I tested), with a natively built emulator. Pretty damn good really.

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Amazing news no?! More FPS?

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Quoting: toorSo… they make you pay for wrapping those game in an emulator?

You pay for the games, mostly.

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So… they make you pay for wrapping those game in an emulator?

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Quoting: Eikealmost ALL games available for Linux

Frick.

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almost ALL games available for Linux

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Wow this might be fun after all. The hovecraft looks refreshing.

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPL

Quoting: MGOidBugs, bugs everywhere... I bought this in the Black Friday, the game show me a message saying it needs OpenGL 3.3, when I have 4.1 in the free drivers... It keeps crashing no matter what I do to convince it that my hardware meets the requirement... Now you guys say that the multiplayer is broken, so I did the right thing for getting a refund.

This developer is known very its very bugged games, so I will keep away from then. Dead Island still refuses to work with the open source driver. Another case of NvidiaGL for you...

You know, even Valve says that Open source driver is very buggy and OpenGL implementation in Mesa is in many case broken... and writings in wrons specifications. So If any developer porting game and use only official OpenGL spec from Khronos Group, this game can not works correctly in MESA. So developer needed making another tests, wiriting another opengl layer (for mesa) and breaking official specification to support correctly mesa. This is horrible point, even Valve have much issues with this and they not want doing this...

So good point in future is repoting all game beaking bugs to mesa developers. They should fix this.

EDIT: Dead Island for me (Catalyst driver) works like charm, but you need have closed source driver and game installed on ext4 filesystem.

You know, is that situation of finger pointing. Driver developers says the problem is the game implementation, game developers says is the driver.

Looking at the Windows game development, I tend to stay in the driver developers side. Even with all the documentation and tools Microsoft gives to game developers, things tend to go bad (Batman...). So Nvidia and AMD send a engineer (if your game is big enough) to fix things, and even with this help, games still came out with lots of bugs. Since Nvidia have deeper pockets, they have more people to send to game developers, so is common a game developer to say they got more support from Nvidia.

What the free drivers didn't have is a full implementation of the OpenGL specification, but what they have tend to work better than the proprietary drivers. For example, opensource drivers tend to work flawless with DEs like KDE, Gnome and Unity, a thing that even the Nvidia driver have problems in some cases.

What I hear from some developers, the Nvidia driver tend to be more tolerant with bad code, so some developers tend to only care to get things working with the Nvidia driver. It have the majority of users, is what Valve recommends, and is what they can code with the tiny budgets/time they have to make the Linux port of their games.

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It certainly does look like they've done a ton! Good for them for doing Early Access well, albeit for a loooooooooong time now. I certainly hope they're going to get the SteamOS compatibility fixed soon. I've pretty much totally switched to SteamOS because I am really enjoying how it fixes all the vertical sync and controller compatibility problems that have plagued PC gaming (Windows very much included) for me for a long time.

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I have had my eye on this game for a while. I am actually playing through Dreamfall: Longest Journey at the moment. I was considering picking this up on sale at GOG for $14 CAD but would rather wait until I am finished Dreamfall: Longest Journey and give them full price for it.

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Quoting: MaxPower

Quoting: marcelomendesAll I want is a working Co-Op :(

Quoting: shiba87I Bought Dying Light recently and is amazing. It run's smoothly even with my 560 GTX Ti, but the multiplayer is completely broken. It's impossible to play in co-op.
I hope this enhancement includes a patch for this, because this is a game to play while someone else is crying of terror :p

What ???! I bought two copy to do the coop with my wife :( Was waiting for some part to arrive, in order to build my Steam Box.

What is the problem with the multi-player (specifically coop) ?

I didn't try on LAN, so I don't know if it works, but over the internet, co-op mode it's completely broken.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: MGOidBugs, bugs everywhere... I bought this in the Black Friday, the game show me a message saying it needs OpenGL 3.3, when I have 4.1 in the free drivers... It keeps crashing no matter what I do to convince it that my hardware meets the requirement...

Sounds like a problem with your drivers. I'm running a 760GTX and Nvidia's official drivers, and the game runs great for me. Very smooth and responsive, and it plays great with a Steam Controller.

Is a possibility, but the truth is that a lot of developers only code for Nvidia, so if their code is not very OpenGL compliant, it will only work on Nvidia drivers. The free drivers work very well in a lot of games, like the Valve ones, Metro, Euro Truck, etc.

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Quoting: MaxPower

Quoting: marcelomendesAll I want is a working Co-Op :(

Quoting: shiba87I Bought Dying Light recently and is amazing. It run's smoothly even with my 560 GTX Ti, but the multiplayer is completely broken. It's impossible to play in co-op.
I hope this enhancement includes a patch for this, because this is a game to play while someone else is crying of terror :p

What ???! I bought two copy to do the coop with my wife :( Was waiting for some part to arrive, in order to build my Steam Box.

What is the problem with the multi-player (specifically coop) ?

Windows users can join your Linux session, but you will get a hard time trying to join other linux sessions or windows sessions.

To sum up:
Win -> Linux - OK
Linux -> Win - FAIL
Linux -> Linux - FAIL

You can find some info on steam foruns:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/239140/discussions/0/490124466469534967/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/239140/discussions/0/611698195148851544/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/239140/discussions/0/490124466462990275/

I heard it works sometimes, but me and my friend tried several ways, even directly connected to the network with a "real" ip address and now firewalls, but no joy. It seems the network code is broken on Linux build. When you try to join a lobby you get a "disconnect" message and is pulled back to your saved game.

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Quoting: GuestHopefully "Video Filter Customizations" includes the ability to disable the blur and chromatic aberations!

Besides that, new parkour moves sounds cool, but I wish the list included "Linux performance improvements" and "green flashes during loading fixed".

Not very glad about the improved AI as the game was hard enough for me, but I’ll see…

Motion blur can be disabled in the settings menu. And I'm not seeing any green flashes during loading.

However, additional performance improvements in Linux would be nice.

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: DamonLinuxPL@LIAM, could you ask your contact in Techland about fixing performance and graphics issues in Linux with AMD drivers?

Both Techland and AMD released patch/driver that fixed it a while back now

I know, I have big issues with graphics on my AMD and they fix it. But now I come back to game and I see it again...

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Quoting: TheBossI figured out my crashing issue, I did about 5 minutes in it early and basically hit my VRAM limit, no wonder it used to crash so often for me even on my 970. Note: close all programs, or reduce some settings = stable.

Is that the .5gig slow mem hitting us nixers ?

Quoting: DamonLinuxPL@LIAM, could you ask your contact in Techland about fixing performance and graphics issues in Linux with AMD drivers?

Both Techland and AMD released patch/driver that fixed it a while back now

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Quoting: marcelomendesAll I want is a working Co-Op :(

Quoting: shiba87I Bought Dying Light recently and is amazing. It run's smoothly even with my 560 GTX Ti, but the multiplayer is completely broken. It's impossible to play in co-op.
I hope this enhancement includes a patch for this, because this is a game to play while someone else is crying of terror :p

What ???! I bought two copy to do the coop with my wife :( Was waiting for some part to arrive, in order to build my Steam Box.

What is the problem with the multi-player (specifically coop) ?

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From what I know, The Longest Journey does not work in Wine.

There is a start of a TLJ engine for ResidualVM (ScummVM's 3D adventure sister project), here, though: https://github.com/scott-t/tlj-residual , but there hasn't been much work on it in recent years.

Anybody interested in taking that up and continuing developing of that TLJ ResidualVM engine would be welcome, AFAIK.

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPL@LIAM, could you ask your contact in Techland about fixing performance and graphics issues in Linux with AMD drivers?

I would, but my email contact no longer replies, and they dont generally reply on twitter either.

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Quoting: RTherenThe system requirements are killing me.

The CPU I have is too weak :(

Not only the CPU.. The NVIDIA 620M is and old card too... Is an MXM card or is a soldered GPU?

I think this could be another solution for the graphics: http://www.overclock.net/t/983766/discrete-pci-e-graphics-card-adapter-for-laptops-pics

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Quoting: MGOidBugs, bugs everywhere... I bought this in the Black Friday, the game show me a message saying it needs OpenGL 3.3, when I have 4.1 in the free drivers... It keeps crashing no matter what I do to convince it that my hardware meets the requirement... Now you guys say that the multiplayer is broken, so I did the right thing for getting a refund.

This developer is known very its very bugged games, so I will keep away from then. Dead Island still refuses to work with the open source driver. Another case of NvidiaGL for you...

You know, even Valve says that Open source driver is very buggy and OpenGL implementation in Mesa is in many case broken... and writings in wrons specifications. So If any developer porting game and use only official OpenGL spec from Khronos Group, this game can not works correctly in MESA. So developer needed making another tests, wiriting another opengl layer (for mesa) and breaking official specification to support correctly mesa. This is horrible point, even Valve have much issues with this and they not want doing this...

So good point in future is repoting all game beaking bugs to mesa developers. They should fix this.

EDIT: Dead Island for me (Catalyst driver) works like charm, but you need have closed source driver and game installed on ext4 filesystem.

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@LIAM, could you ask your contact in Techland about fixing performance and graphics issues in Linux with AMD drivers?

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Quoting: MGOidBugs, bugs everywhere... I bought this in the Black Friday, the game show me a message saying it needs OpenGL 3.3, when I have 4.1 in the free drivers... It keeps crashing no matter what I do to convince it that my hardware meets the requirement...

Sounds like a problem with your drivers. I'm running a 760GTX and Nvidia's official drivers, and the game runs great for me. Very smooth and responsive, and it plays great with a Steam Controller.

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