Quoting: Guest

Quoting: EKRboiCrazy awesome news! DLing BL2 right now. I just wish us nvidia users had physx in linux. AMD users say what you want about it, but Borderlands uses it and it's frackin amazing with it. I will be sure to play it on linux for the first 10-15 hours, but I have a feeling that Ill end up switching to windows (Flame suit engaged) after that unfortunately. Would be fan-f*ckin-tastic if we got linux physx by the time The PreSequal drops.

Actually Linux does have PhysX but it isn't on par with Windows yet. Borderlands 2 has it forced to Low as it says here, http://steamcommunity.com/app/49520/discussions/0/616189106749909144/#p2 [External Link] on this thread. Let's hope PhysX gets fully implemented by all parties soon!

Let's hope PhysX dies soon. It's annoying how nvidia promised that it would run on cpus and AMD is always blamed, when nvidia bought the company behind physx and closed it up like it did with everything. :(

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I'm not a (web)designer myself but I could add a FEZ-steam-key to the pot! If you want it just send me a message.

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"It'll run on ATI. We just don't feel like the experience on ATI cards is at a level we can call supported."

From here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/49520/discussions/0/616189106749589459/ [External Link]

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Quoting: SeredJust one little thing I find rather annoying is the main page of the steam store right now:

"Coming to STEAMOS Borderlands The Pre-Sequel!"

"Now on STEAMOS Borderlands 2"

Nowhere is mentioned that Linux = SteamOS or rather that SteamOS is just one distro of Linux. Something like "SteamOS/Linux" would be great :/

Just a small thing, as said, yet annoying to me.

I think we just have to get used to this.
Think of it this way: Linux still *need* Valve to succeed on the gaming field. We are totally dependent on them. So to give their distro a little extra push and spotlight, it's really just fair isn't it?

I'm not saying they should not mention SteamOS, I just wished they wouldn't use it as if it were an entirely different platform. I mean if you want to switch to Linux for any given reason and are totally new to this it sounds like the game only runs on SteamOS and not Ubuntu, Mint or anything a newcomer might try out for other work apart from gaming as well.

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Also, I hope that AMD and Intel DO NOT add anything to their drivers specifically for one game.

We have enough of that bullshit on Windows and I'd appreciate if we would do it the right way and optimize the games for a certain platform and not a driver to a game -.-

Either game devs learn it, or they should go bankrupt (given the premise that the drivers are good enough out of the box!)

Do NOT get me wrong please. If a driver has a shortcoming or a bug of course it should be fixed asap by the vendor. But having drivers being optimized for certain games and having announcements like "New driver 197.20: Improved performance of *AwesomeGameHere* by 150%" is something I do not under any circumstances be part of the openness of my favorite platform!

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Quoting: GuestI'll be waiting to see if it actually does work with fglrx and/or Mesa drivers. Just personally, I don't like the idea of an nvidia-only "release" (public beta is different, but a full release...no).

I also realise this won't make me popular, and I'm sure I'll cop a lot of flak for it, but something smells wrong to me as well. I know AMD's drivers can be very much improved in certain areas (particularly threading), but I'm not convinced that a native (I assume) port couldn't have worked around much of this. Seeing so much else work just fine with both Intel and AMD, or at least to a decent level (even if performance could be increased), I'm going to lay at least some of the blame on Aspyr. That's my opinion, though naturally I'm sure others disagree.

Basically, I'll be watching this closely before I pay any money.

I'm with you all the way. I'll stick with my AMD and the open source drivers. Every other game just works fine so I see no need to switch to Nvidia.

Still I hope they'll come around the difficulties.

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Would love to buy, but I will wait and test if BL2 runs well with my AMD 6950 and the open source drivers. If not I will skip it until I have a new card and can test it out :)

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Just one little thing I find rather annoying is the main page of the steam store right now:

"Coming to STEAMOS Borderlands The Pre-Sequel!"

"Now on STEAMOS Borderlands 2"

Nowhere is mentioned that Linux = SteamOS or rather that SteamOS is just one distro of Linux. Something like "SteamOS/Linux" would be great :/

Just a small thing, as said, yet annoying to me.

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Quoting: lavei think we wont find a consens there, as i disagree with almost all you just said and any quarrel would be pointless. one thing tho:

FOSS drivers are also just fine for gaming

no idea what it is that you consider "fine" but if performance in fps values matter anything to you then - no, just no.

In fact the Open Source drivers give me better performance than the closed ones, at least on my main desktop "beast". And I play quite a lot of FPS games, so I must be doing something terribly wrong/right ;)

The performance is either similar to windows (everything apart from Guild Wars 2, which is unplayable and the Witcher 2) or even better (source engine games)

but okay, I only tested like ~100 games in my library, not all of them.

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I'm really interested in this. Bought Pharaoh a while back on GoG (again)... I still love it, but it has some major problems with resource distribution.

I hope Hearthlands could be my new Pharaoh :)

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