Quoting: psychodriver

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Quoting: psychodriver

Quoting: ShmerlI suppose it's the reason why GOG rejected Metro games. Companies which don't fix their bugs are jerks.

What bugs were in the Metro Redux ports? The only problem I had was it didn't like my custom alsa setup. I played through both games and was happy with the performance and stability.

The lack of Vsync, the lack of manual resolution configuration and the gray dots...
Indeed, the linux version of both Redux were abandoned...
The linux version of the original MetroLL works better then the Redux version (at least for me)

About this, it seems there is a failure in the communications between Deepsilver's people.

Aha, I had forgotten most of those issues. Vsync actually worked but the flag was reversed (for me anyway on nvidia). If you had it checked vsync was off, unchecked turned it on.

The gray dots would disappear if you turned off one of the graphical options (tesselation?). I guess an option for manual configuration never bothered me.

The grey dots were ambient occlusion's rendering. I just got used to it and it doesn't bother me at all. Actually, running the game with 2x SSAA already attenuates this a great deal (but I haven't got a strong enough GPU for this yet).

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I just sent an e-mail to Techland regarding this. I'll keep you posted on what their reply is.

On another hand, I just spotted something on the Steam forums: some Windows users have been told to contact Techland directly regarding issues with DI: DE. So it makes me wonder: why the heck are they freaking publishers???

Some more on this in a few days, hopefully.

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In fact id software have had the same way of dealing with Linux in the past.
The difference is that the developer behind the ports was TTimo, and he was supporting his own ports on his free time, and was accessible by e-mail.

The problem with Dead Island Definitive Edition is that it is being advertised as a Linux/SteamOS game on storefront.
We know Deep Silver has an awful customer support. But that kind of nonsense is unacceptable... I just wonder what they get their money for. Developers should be careful about this, they could just distribute the game on their own, if the publisher does literally nothing and get paid.

That's dishonest towards the customers, and that's dishonest towards developers too. Those guys need to take their responsibilities. They take money, they do the job.

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It is the only game in my library which has performance issues. It stutters like mad, whatever settings I try. Maybe forcing the game to sync with the screen could resolve this problem, got to investigate. But at the time I am so hooked by other titles that I won't try too soon...

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There's a reason why Apple doesn't dominate the market: the 90s were a terrible period for Macintosh sales, and the failure was such that Mac sales still suffer from this.

On another hand, they almost dominate mobile phones market, on the past 5 years they were tied with Samsung. When you look at how they manage their smartphone business, you clearly see they are not willing to give up on their position as leaders, with a very aggressive communication.

Also some computer marketshares, like laptops, are still pretty much Apple-friendly. When you know a bit about Jobs and other important Apple people, you know Apple is always looking for more audience, and more profits (since around 2004, and the switch to Intel processors). Their failure to do so with computers is not intentional, it was due to poor management. Today it is better handled, but I don't think I'm their target audience any longer. They gave up on the enthusiast market to tackle the luxury market.

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There's a reason why Apple doesn't dominate the market: the 90s were a terrible period for Macintosh sales, and the failure was such that Mac sales still suffer from this.

On another hand, they almost dominate mobile phones market, on the past 5 years they were tied with Samsung. When you look at how they manage their smartphone business, you clearly see they are not willing to give up on their position as leaders, with a very aggressive communication.

Also some computer marketshares, like laptops, are still pretty much Apple-friendly. When you know a bit about Jobs and other important Apple people, you know Apple is always looking for more audience, and more profits (since around 2004, and the switch to Intel processors). Their failure to do so with computers is not intentional, it was due to poor management. Today it is better handled, but I don't think I'm their target audience any longer. They gave up on the enthusiast market to tackle the luxury market.

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Quoting: Caldazar(AMD card? Oh, you're shit out of luck then)

You are quite right in your statements but there are some missing details, and this particular quote requires more care on your part.

AMD has been neglecting their whole *NIX driver architecture for years. From the moment Steam and gaming on Linux became a thing, things started to change. First, they are actively working on their OSS drivers, something no other vendor achieved before them. Yes Intel have OSS drivers, but they've been way behind for many years and AMD was the first to get some OpenGL 4.x support on OSS drivers.

I might even consider switching in the coming years if things look that good.

You can't complain when you see people putting that kind of hard work. It's a matter if time, but things are getting better.

About your comments on Caldazar's GTX 970, I play on a GTX 660 and everything runs in High/Ultra in full HD. Things are bottlenecked but they aren't unplayable. People don't care to play at 130 FPS. Uber geeks do, but that's another matter.

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Quoting: maodzedunUntil the terrible performance difference is fixed, they can port the entire Steam library to Linux and it still won't matter. Drivers with equal performance to Windows. Not close, not acceptable, not almost - equal. And getting rid of OpenGL like yesterday. Until there is performance parity between Windows and Linux, nothing else matter. Still, that's a lot of progress compared to 4-5 years ago, I'll give you that.

In fact, Linux nVidia drivers tend to have slightly better OpenGL performance than their Windows counterparts.

Oh and you're right, let's get rid of OpenGL. But then what do you want to use? Vulkan? Developers are still just getting used to it, and don't know yet how to optimise it.

I think your words are very harsh and irrelevant. If you want developers to put such efforts in their Linux ports, what we need is an audience, and an audience won't exist without content.

PC gaming has proven that people are willing to pay for very bad Windows ports of console games, so the public is not that concerned about performance parity.

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Total Warhammer: Dawn of the Doom Guerilla ^_^

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Unfortunately, I haven't had much time for gaming lately.

I have been playing some Tomb Raider, having a lot of fun. The story is not that great, but the game's overall experience is really enjoyable.

I have been playing some Torchlight - the first one, native, thanks to the Humble Store. It's just the great Diablo-like action we're all craving for ;-)

Finally, I played Dead Island Definitive Edition for one hour and I must say I am satisfied with it. Looking forward to buying Riptide too, as according to many reviewers, it's the one title that shows the most benefits.

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