Quoting: Mountain ManWhat do you expect them to say? "We're testing the port, and it sucks"? Not likely.

They could have said the usual "The game is mostly running fine but there is still some major issues we need to fix so the release have to be delayed for an undefined amount of time again" that we get quite often for a lot of developers that promised a Linux release but don't deliver.

Also, they did say that the port is in beta, so most of the work is probably done (the game is probably mostly playable) and they are working on finding and fixing issues (which can take quite a long time depending on the game).

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Quoting: liamdaweUpdate: I am finding some frequent crashes the more I play of it, sadly.

Too bad, but they still have time before release to fix these. I do hope they can improve their eON technology so people can stop complaining and enjoy the amazing games that VP is bringing to us.

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I would make a good hunter because I'm a cat =^▁^=

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This game looks like "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons" which is a game I really liked and I think everyone should play.

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Quoting: InokiGraphics: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics]
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Sun LE [Radeon HD 8550M / R5 M230]
Display Server: X.Org 1.17.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)

With this configuration on Windows I can run the game nicely on around 80 FPS, zero lag, full details.

On Linux I have to lower settings below medium and still can't get past 25 FPS on average with terrible lag spikes, frame drops to 1. I even use Xfce for lower resource usage.

I admit that some games run better on Windows, but it's not a lot of them. Well at least if you have a NVidia card, because if you have AMD then, yes most games run better on Windows.

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Quoting: InokiThe lack of proper support creates a huge difference that I see on my system running both Win 7 and Ubuntu. Some of the titles I play are considerably behind in performance on Linux. Some are the same, but for this to be a market worth entering vendors need to cooperate better.

Without examples this argument is worthless.

Quoting: InokiI also forgot to mention, that a lot of unfinished, unpolished, buggy stuff is constantly released because ponies want to "innovate". There's not much enjoyable about innovation if ordinary consumers are left with bugged systems with no foreseeable patches.

The same thing happen on Windows, games are released early because the developers are out of money to continue working on it. I remember from the days when I was playing on Windows that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was a total disaster on release, practically unplayable.

Quoting: InokiMy system is a perfect example, where I can't even launch LibreOffice without crashing my entire session (I already reported an Xorg bug, let's see how long will it take them to fix it. It's taking already more than 6 months.) Then there's the microphone not working and I'm not even going to continue.

At work I've got the reverse of this one, Microsoft Word crashing whenever I opened it and it was all because of a update of Microsoft Lync, took me (after-)hours to figure this out and fix it. I've got Excel macros not working anymore for no apparent reasons. I've got Cisco Anyconnect VPN that I had to restart entirely if I miss my password one time because it says that all subsequent password are incorrect (even if they are correct). I've got the fucking Windows Update that bother me every four hour. And with only five/six programs running and not consuming a quarter of the RAM I have (I've got 32GB) the whole system become slow or hang sometimes without apparent reasons.

And you complain about your microphone, it probably work without problems on Windows because it was designed for it. Try to make a Playstation 3 controller work on Windows and you'll see that's not easy (and you'll probably end up with a virus on your system).

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That was easy. There is a book called "1001: Video Games You Must Play Before You Die", on the back cover there is Lara Croft. It's a Tomb Raider!!!

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What a great idea, I should do this too, I'll make a shitty game and buzz everyone to buy it on release date or else they won't have a chance to play it (and make them believe they might lose their chance to play the most awesome game of all time). On the release date they'll all buy the game before there is any review and when they all realize the game is a scam it will already no longer be on the store. Some people will probably ask for a refund but I would have spend so little time on the game that if only 10% don't ask for a refund it would be profitable. I wonder why no one had ever thought about this one before, probably because it's a little too obvious.

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Quoting: jedidiahlnxThat was the Linux Game Tome and it provided a very useful database of games. It's something that should be replicated by somepony else.

Le Bottin des Jeux Linux [External Link] provide a database of existing Linux games, it used to by only in French and only as an offline database (which is still available) but now it's in English too and online too.

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Great article. I found a few mistakes :

This shader issue is one of the reasons why Vulkan and SPRI-V will be very good for Linux, and without the support of Value and their development of Source 2 it may never have happened.

"Value" should probably be Valve here.

There may be some issues between Windows and Linux such as display mode switching (which WINE is really bad for - alt tabbing and finding your desktop is not in 800x600).

There shouldn't be an "not" here, I think.

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