Quoting: toorbeta code access invalid ='(

Try again and make sure you have no empty space behind the code!

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Quoting: GuestJust curious if you are using a Radeon video card becouse they are known for poor Linux performance and that is the only reason I can think of that the proprietary drivers would be slower or break your Linux system. That is personally why I recommend GeForce video cards but if you prefer something different I understand.

Something as important as a driver must be open source in my book. I don't care whether I don't get PhysX (another proprietary thing), or have 20 fps less, if I can play my games just fine.

And that is - with the one major exception of Guild Wars 2 (and Dead Island :X) - the case. I can play all my 80 games that are available for Linux natively, just fine. For some I have more fps than under Windows, for others I have a little less, but all are very well playable.

For me this is something really important, although I do hope I am not that one guy who tries to evangelise everybody (well, sometimes I am, I guess). I don't use Linux solely because it has better performance and my workflow is much better handled there.

I use it, because it's open source, not because it's free, but because I (being a Software Engineer) can study the code, learn from it and improve.
I use it, because I can monitor exactly what's going on on my system at any point in time.
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I never was a fanboy of any graphics card manufacturer, I had nvidia, amd (even ati back then ;)), a voodoo, a matrox... ;)

Currently I would definitely buy an AMD graphicscard again, because for all the games I play (shooters, rpgs, rts, ...) it never let me down on my favorite plattform even once.

I know that I could get more fps and stuff like physx from nvidia, but to me it would include to much of a sacrifice ;)

If I can't play one game that well, well, I don't really care that much. Decisions must be made and while mine will seem to be a major sacrifice to some eyes, to me it's not. And that's the important part.

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3

Quoting: Sered(*) 1) I get better performance in most other games with the open source drivers
2) I don't need to fear late night kernel updates or x.org updates, when I'm really tired and miss those which would quite certainly break my desktop for a couple of hours, if I'd use the proprietary drivers
3) I tried wine and playonlinux and I can't get the launcher to login. It's a laggy hell that often cripples my entire x-server which leads to a restart of it.

Depending on the distribution, the Nvidia drivers rarely cause an issue (depending on your graphics card of course). For example, in Ubuntu Jockey handles every kernel upgrade etc.

I'm more of the techie guy, really. I switched to Archlinux a while back, because Gentoo would've been too much work besides other work, but I love rolling release, so a kernel update is much more common to me, than to the average linux user who uses ubuntu or mint or anything with an incrementing major version system.

My current graphics card is coming from AMD and it's over 3 years old now. Considering how much I game under Linux (well, it's not that much currently, but compared to Windows it's a whole lot) and how much I love open source and (try to) contribute to it myself (as often as possible, monetary and with code), I would buy an AMD graphics card again.

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Quoting: coesetaThat is great news :)

Quoting: SeredA very funny game. Looking forward to playing it soon again.
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(

Playing Gw2 since beta via wine, have played ~2500 hours so far :P

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: SeredA very funny game. Looking forward to playing it soon again.
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(

Just use PlayOnLinux or Crossover which should set up wine correctly for you. It does work very well for me with Guild Wars 2 on my computer. Let me know if that works good for you too. Here is the links for PlayOnLinux and Crossover playonlinux.com codeweavers.com

I'm glad it works for both of you, I really am.
For me it doesn't and I'm not willing to change my drivers to the proprietary ones for multiple reasons (*), so Guild Wars 2 remains the one game I can't run on my favorite platform ;)

(*) 1) I get better performance in most other games with the open source drivers
2) I don't need to fear late night kernel updates or x.org updates, when I'm really tired and miss those which would quite certainly break my desktop for a couple of hours, if I'd use the proprietary drivers
3) I tried wine and playonlinux and I can't get the launcher to login. It's a laggy hell that often cripples my entire x-server which leads to a restart of it.

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Actually this used to work okayish (30fps, a bit laggy) until a GW2 few updates ago.
Today I managed to run the game again (wine with CSMT patches), but the real problem here is the stupid launcher and the authentication. I have auto-login enabled but I need to verify my ip every time (because I have a dynamic one)

And that's the one reason I need to have a second pc running, authenticate there and then gw2 starts up just fine. I had disabled my authenticator before, because I couldn't enter a code there -.- All that's really bugging me is this stupid launcher. ARGH!

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Mine too. And the lack of time ^^
Guild Wars 2 doesn't run in Wine at all for me. I mean, it runs, lags the X-server to hell and if I manage to stop it, well... can't login or think about playing or anything :(

(But then again, I use the open source drivers in Linux for all my gaming)

But then I don't play it anyway, because I don't boot up windows that often. Actually I only boot it up, when a new chapter of the living story is online and I want to grab that. Kinda ironic xD

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A very funny game. Looking forward to playing it soon again.
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(

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Looks interesting. I nearly bought this game a while back, but I mainly play multiplayer games, hence I skipped it.

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I'm so glad I didn't buy this during the Halloween sale. I thought "looks great and they want to support Linux in the future" but then I was like "Nah, better wait, remember 7daystodie, Contagion and others? Just wait, Sered, just wait." :D

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: SeredFunny, 'cause it's untrue. It says "deutschsprachiger Raum", which means Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. In Austria I can buy the game, it's listed fine in steam, as is the predecessor :)

If you find some public source for that information, I can change the article.

Sorry, I currently have absolutely no time to search for a public source on this matter.

All I can say is, that I am currently living in Austria and I can see all the games just fine in the Steam Store. I can even add them to my cart and there is no warning/rejection until at least the last page of the payment process saying I couldn't buy the game or anything.

But I don't want to buy the game just to prove my point ^^

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: dudeNot available in Germany... does anyone know why?

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Funny, 'cause it's untrue. It says "deutschsprachiger Raum", which means Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. In Austria I can buy the game, it's listed fine in steam, as is the predecessor :)

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