Quoting: FredOThis looks fantastic. Any information about the engine used - UE3 again?

Yes, a "heavily modified [External Link]" version of Unreal Engine 3.5.

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The way I see it, there are at least two ways this could play out:

1. After seeing all the big-name titles coming to Linux, AMD improves their drivers and everyone lives happily ever after.

2. Steam Machines become successful, and Nvidia corners the market on them in the same way that AMD did with Xbox One and PS4, effectively making Nvidia the default graphics company for Linux. That might lead to better performance for Nvidia Linux users but would be very bad for AMD users.

A third possibility of course is that nothing happens and nothing changes.

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I just read that this is a "PC exclusive". That means it will be on Linux even before the consoles (if it comes to consoles at all).

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Quoting: liamdaweI just hope Feral don't bite off too much. They have a lot of ports in progress.

I wonder the same. Hopefully Feral can offer great support despite all the ports it is doing, otherwise support will be its poorest port yet.

What issues do you have with their existing ports? I haven't run into problems. In fact, their ports, along with Aspyr's, are some of the best we've got.

None. I haven't managed to buy a game ported by Feral yet. I am simply saying that with Feral porting all these games, support may be stretched rather thin.

Thanks for the concern! We've been porting multiple Mac games for years before we entered the land of Penguins so we're used to working on more than a couple of games at once. :)

Are we getting busier on the Linux side of things? Yeah we are but that's a good thing right?

Anyway I better go we have a LOT on and that's just the stuff you all know about ;)

LOL You tease more than a...OK, I better keep it clean, but you tease a lot.

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Maybe GamingOnLinux could compile a list of trusted porters with good track records and make sure game companies are aware of reliable options. I doubt any developer wants the negative attention that comes with a port that is no longer supported.

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I agree that it's very confusing. It looks like it's just part of the "SteamPlay" logo rather than something separate. Having said that, however, a good marketing campaign could convince people of just about anything. It will be up to Valve to do that and also convince people that they want/need Steam Machines.

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I used to love Terminal Velocity. I thought the graphics were so amazing. ^_^

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Fun game. It works very well with my old trusty GTX 660. I would still be playing right now, but my hands were tired. :)

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Maybe it's just me, but I've experienced some stuttering even on native games with the Unreal Engine 3 (Borderlands 2, Xcom: Enemy Unknown, etc). I doubt it's my hardware, since I also dual boot into Windows and don't experience the same problem.

The one thing that has helped me some is disabling my second monitor completely when I play. That reduces but does not completely eliminate the stuttering. For Spec Ops, however, it didn't really help much. Disabling ambient occlusion did help a little, though. It's now limited to checkpoint saving / new area loading.

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Sheesh! 80% off? I was actually going to pass on it for a while, but now...

Evil evil Steam.

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