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Quoting: FTW

Quoting: FutureSutureAnother reason for me to feel safe with switching to an AMD GPU soon. Thanks, Valve!

How does that fix AMD's crappy drivers? :/

It doesn't we are on the Linux because we prefer open source software, and AMD leads there. I don't care how crappy their proprietary drivers they understand the power of open source.

So their excuse for providing crappy drivers is because you should use open source drivers? Sound like you just made that up in an attempt to defend their lack of love for Linux, also aren't open source drivers by by their community and not them? I heard they are making some progress though in terms of the propriety drivers, have they changed their mind?

For now I rather stay with Nvidia and Intel, I couldn’t care less if the driver is open source or not, I will just pick whatever has the best performance, compatibility and stability.

Where exactly did he say that that is AMD's excuse for poor proprietary drivers? AMD employs at least 6 full time developers who work on its open source driver and who have made tremendous strides over the past year, making the open source driver close in performance to and far, far more stable than AMD's proprietary driver. The proprietary driver is improving, but the open source driver is improving faster. AMD has even detailed its plan to drop the proprietary driver and go with the open source driver (likely because the proprietary driver is such a mess), instead offering proprietary bits to use on top of the open source driver for game optimisations. When it comes to AMD, performance, compatibility and stability dictate that one should use the open source driver.

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Quoting: berarmaI think Mesa improvements are good for EVERYONE. I'd like Mesa made propietary OpenGL drivers irrelevant and that manufacturers like AMD, Nvidia and Intel just distributed Mesa drivers.

AMD and Intel are on that path, but Nvidia? ;)

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Quoting: Tony

Quoting: FutureSutureAnother reason for me to feel safe with switching to an AMD GPU soon. Thanks, Valve!

There are devs, who claims about their games, which will work only with nVidia or nVidia/Intel HD Graphics GPU accelerator.
AMD still sucks, sadly.

Which developers?

Quoting: fowllWill this only benefit open source drivers?

Since only open source drivers use Mesa, it appears so.

Quoting: FTW

Quoting: FutureSutureAnother reason for me to feel safe with switching to an AMD GPU soon. Thanks, Valve!

How does that fix AMD's crappy drivers? :/

This isn't about AMD's proprietary driver. Couldn't care less about it.

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Another reason for me to feel safe with switching to an AMD GPU soon. Thanks, Valve!

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Quoting: Berillions@FutureSuture : Trine and TW2 are not the same thing ...
It's more difficult to port natively TW2 than Trine. TW2 = AAA, Trine = Indies.

I already tackled that.

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Quoting: DeformalStrange thing. People hope to get on Linux better port, than on Mac.
Nobody don`t want to know about Mac ports. But Linux get port from Metro last ligth of same quality as Mac port. Witcher 2 get equal ports for Mac and Linux.
So if game get bad port on Mac, don`t expect to get good port on Linux because games get Mac os port first.

Metro: Last Light Redux, however, is only coming out for Linux and Windows so the Linux version will not be held back by the Mac OS version this time. Metro 2033 Redux is only coming out for Linux and Windows as well.

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This "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is sooooo old so it made sense to use a wrapper lol" mantra needs to die post haste. Trine and Limbo, both games that already exist on Linux (the former natively, the latter wrapped through Wine), are much older than The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and are getting new, native Linux clients this year, and the developer teams behind them are much, much smaller and therefore much less financially capable.

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Interesting. I am keeping an eye on this as I have always been a huge fan of Heroes of Might and Magic. This looks similar enough.

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Is that the prettiest game on Linux? :O

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So Playdead hired Icculus to bring Limbo to Linux natively at some point in 2014 when the game came out for Windows in July of 2010. That, plus the news about Trine, makes CD Projekt RED seem really lazy considering how The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was handled.

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