Unless you do things differently in Australia, your dates are all wrong. The dates are all 1 day after their respective days.

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This actually looks really interesting to me. The game modes, the game mechanics, cool stuff. I would still like to know if there is any weapon variety, however.

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Quoting: AnonymousNo, I've never updated my drivers on the windows. There is actually statistics about it that show that not many people update GPU drivers on Windows.
I'm updating them whole the time on the Linux since I have AMDs GPU and I'm desperate for performance improvements.

Are you using the open source driver or the proprietary driver?

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Quoting: FTW

Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.

I agree with others, if they go out of bussiness, Nvidia has nothing to worry about, I mean, Intel isn't exactly a beast when it comes to graphics cards.

I say vote with your wallet, don't buy AMD for Linux systems, if the Steam machines kick off they might see that they are loosing some market.

That is the thing, though. I vote with my wallet, and the company I want to vote for is AMD because AMD is the only company to offer an ever improving, gaming capable, open source driver.

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Quoting: storma

Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.

Agreed, The Nvidia open source drivers are heaps better.

Oh, please let this be sarcasm. :'(

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People always complain about AMD's proprietary driver but those same people who complain don't ever seem to talk about AMD's open source driver, almost as if it does not exist to them. These folks do know that AMD offers 2 drivers and that if the proprietary driver doesn't do it for them, they should first try the open source driver before flipping out and switching to Nvidia, right?

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Paradox has got to be the most supportive publisher of Linux right after Valve.

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings should have been done by Feral who has plenty of experience with OpenGL and an excellent reputation on Mac OS, not by some company using an unproven, untested wrapper for what is arguably the biggest release for Linux to date.

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Quoting: edgleyUsing wrappers like Mono and Valves DX to GL calls is a far superior way of dealing with ports than using Wine.

Wine is reverse engineering of closed source libraries. If you rely on that for your game to run, you are going to have a bad time.Not to mention Wine, even in "bottle" format, requires a much larger overhead than almost any other compatibility layer. You are saying, "I need all of the Windows compatibility to run this one library which I'm using".

I've seen reports from people actually stating Windows games ran in Wine have at times worked better for them on Linux than they did in Windows and hearing that has actually become more common.

Source? With a properly configured Windows XP or Windows 7 install (on the exact same hardware) I have *never* had this. Many games run okay in Wine now, thanks to the countless number of man hours invested in the Wine project from individuals, for free (and some not for free, but companies paying people to develop open source projects is a different matter entirely).

The issue isn't with the intended implementation, but with the attitude surrounding it.

If developers to continue to use closed source products like Direct X, you are essentially allowing companies like Microsoft to continue to control who can and can't access said products. This conflicts (not completely though, of course) with the general principals behind Linux and has potential to cause serious abandonment of alternative open source projects. If a developer can cop out and use DX, why wouldn't they?

This issue seems to be almost entirely driven by two groups of people, gamers and those like Canocial.

I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't switch to Linux just because I have a tight wallet. I come from a gaming heavy background, and this has moved to Linux. But I would rather keep my principles and never play a (computer) game again than give them up to play the latest CoD.

For the sake of programming slack, I don't see any reason to say this is acceptable; though berating a developer because they do not want to support your platform of choice is equally not acceptable.

I do hope that whoever GOG hires can make that clear to GOG as well.

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I never bought Metro: Last Light as I was strongly hoping that Metro 2033 would come to Linux as well at some point. I could then start with the first game in the series and work my way through the second after, just as intended. Deep Silver is now much more likely to get my money, especially if these native ports run on par with their Windows counterparts.

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