Looks pretty good to me.
Hope they won't screw it like they screw Myth III.

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I first switched from Mac to PC with Linux because I grew frustrated of :
- Having a limited *NIX environment. OS X made me discover the power of command line combined with a strong OS but didn't offer me the possibility to dig deeper.
- Their shift in target market. I had the feeling that they were no longer targeting users like myself.
- FOSS projects of course. I realised that I used a lot of FOSS software but that there were not enough on this OS.

Then, why gaming on Linux? Because it is my OS of choice. I don't see myself going back to Apple ever, and they proved me right with their increasing closure, limiting users' power over their hardware and software. I also went Microsoft several times and always hated it. That's just the way I feel it.

So yes, I have no technical reasons to explain why Linux more than anything else, it's just that it's the OS that feels the most comfortable to me. It suits my needs. The two other major OS don't.

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I used to send mails to Ryan C. Gordon as a simple user when I was using Mac OS X on my old G4 to ask him about upcoming games and/or updates. He ALWAYS replied in the most friendly way.

This guy is great, no matter what some could have said. Some companies are responsible for their poor Linux support. For example Coffee Stain set the priority on Goat Simulator instead of Sanctum 2, thus explaining the poor progress on the port at the time. But hey, it was advertised as a beta after all. Some others like TripWire simply don't care.

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I got very far into Icewind Dale on the Mac port at the time. I had a good time playing it, but to me the story is much weaker than both Baldur's Gates. Still, the gameplay is a lot of fun if you like D&D game mechanics.

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroGood to finally hear some news on this project, I was wondering what had happened to it. Lets hope they get the porting done so we can have a decent racer to play on Linux.

Isn't Project Cars announced on Linux as well?

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Perhaps they are waiting to see how far can eON wrapper get performance-wise. And that would not be great at all.

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Liam, you can be proud of your work.
I wish you the best.

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Quoting: GuestEdit: I found this benchmark [External Link] that measured TW2 at 63 FPS on my GPU. The game uses almost exactly 50% of my CPU though so I think it’s limited to 2 threads, and the faster CPU used in the benchmark must have helped.

Indeed it tells that it should run at 63 FPS, but they don't tell about the rest of the config... On my computer since last update I'm running it at an average 45-50 FPS at 1920x1080, measured using voglperf, so in fact it's getting closer to the performance reported in this article...

[Edit] Didn't see this article was 2 years old... so yeah CPU usage must still be insufficient compared to Windows. Hopefully they'll continue to improve it.

[Edit 2] This benchmark (in french) was done on the following config:
ntel Core i7 3960X (HT off, Turbo 1/2/3/4/6 cores: 4 GHz)
Asus P9X79 WS
8 Go DDR3 2133 Corsair
Windows 7 64 bits

Here are the results : http://www.hardware.fr/articles/896-20/benchmark-the-witcher-2-ee.html [External Link]

We can see that it runs at an avergae 48 FPS... I'm quite lost now...

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansWhat would help people to gain more perfomance is to plug a better video card in their pci-E cable! lmao!:huh:

Would you send one to me? You're so nice :-)

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Great improvement here. I'm using voglperf to get the FPS count.
On the first Linux build and beta 1, the game ran between 15 and 35 FPS.
With beta 3, it runs between 30 and 40 FPS, which is playable to my standards. I didn't benchmark beta 2, sorry.

In the surroundings of Floatsam, near the forest, in the first build the game could get as low as 14 FPS, now it goes down to 24 FPS, but that's the only exception.

The fact is that the real FPS count is always disappointing when I benchmark this game, as I always feel I get much more than the actual count. With the last build I had the feel that I could get at least a constant 50, but that's not the case...

Also I run this game on a Core i7 4770S, 16Gb RAM, GeForce GTX 660, on "Hi Spec" settings (no uber, no vsync).

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