Quoting: PeciskI suspect they just don't care much about SteamOS - or they are very careful and not want to poke gamer's nest regarding SteamOS which might come up as sour subject. Either way I agree but I don't think that was deliberate. They just don't know how to handle us yet.

It's a big corporation. There is no "they", unless you mean the shareholders, and they only care about lining their pockets. This is probably just a case of one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing. Finance probably crunched the numbers and declared a Linux port feasible and passed it along to PR.

Then at some point, someone in management was probably supposed to commission a port but was never told by finance. The person in finance who got the ball rolling in the first place might not even know what SteamOS or Linux are. They might not know anything about games in general.

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Color me skeptical until I see some type of official announcement. Anyway, for those of you who disliked the sparsity of tombs in the 2013 game, it seems Rise of the Tomb Raider tried to get back to that. Since the first game was a reboot of the series, they were trying to tell the story of how Lara Croft became a tomb raider, and they focused a lot of the gameplay on survival (rather than cover shooting as one person mentioned; there really wasn't all that much combat compared to an actual shooter). It is definitely a survival game, somewhat like Far Cry in third person.

Rise of the Tomb Raider begins with a tomb to explore very early on and is supposed to get Lara back to doing what she does best. I would have been very surprised if they ported it to Linux right after its "exclusive" deal with Xbox One concluded, seeing as how it is not even on PS4 yet. It could easily be another year or two before it comes to Linux, if ever.

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What exactly does "our vendor via Valve" mean? To me it sounds like a financial issue rather than a technical one.

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The only issue I had with these games was some stuttering when loading areas. Disabling cpu multithreaded rendering fixed it for whatever reason, even though I have a quad core system.

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Quoting: sigz

Quoting: adolsonIsn't this a browser game?

it's not

What engine is it using? I thought it was using Chrome.

It uses NW.js, which runs in chromium, from what I understand. It seems to be a pretty capable engine judging from the way the game plays. I'm actually surprised they haven't made a Chromebook version yet.

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I've been playing it for a while. Xinput controllers work fine. The Steam Controller support is broken, but the workaround is to hold a button while the game is starting; then it works. The main problem is that Steam Overlay doesn't work, but since it's still Early Access, it might still get fixed. It's a very fun game, especially with friends.

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This game is well made, runs well and is good fun. This is the way Linux ports should be, even if they take longer.

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I'm having a good time with this. I even grabbed some of the texture and mesh mods. Thanks for reminding us it existed.

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Quoting: CitirollerThis may sound strange, but I have no performance problems at all.
The game never goes below 40 fps and up to ~110 fpsat some points. It's smoothly playable all the time.
The port even supports cross platform steam cloud sync and I could play with my end game character and have some fun in Steelport ;)

It doesn't sound strange. You just have low expectations about what constitutes a performance problem. I'm happy for you. For some of us, however, dropping down to 40 fps is not pleasant. For me, a game that doesn't have a smooth framerate can be almost nauseating. Maybe I'm just more perceptive or sensitive to it, or maybe I'm just so used to playing at 60 fps.

At any rate, this will just add fuel to the fire of PC gamers who are looking at SteamOS as a joke and saying they're going to stick with "fast and reliable" Windows.

Quoting: KryukoItaliaunixcomOk, now there are my settings on gtx970 4gb / i7-3770 / 16gb ddr3 1600mhz cl9.
With all maxed outh i'm between 29 and 70fps, but with my new settings i'm between 60+ and 170fps

Can you translate into English please?

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It's a shame. Up until now, VP's ports had been getting better each time with near-Windows performance. This one is seriously low by comparison, almost back to the Witcher 2 levels. Even a GTX 650Ti should be able to maintain 60fps on this game. Remember, this is a "last gen" console game with only a few settings improvements (like better textures) for PC. Very disappointing.

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